The BBC World Service is front and centre of that debate. Today it remains the most trusted international news provider around the world. Across 43 languages, it’s thanks to the World Service that BBC ...

It began in 1932 as the “BBC Empire Service” — making radio broadcasts via globe-girdling shortwave to the far-flung territories ruled under the British Crown. Subsequently, what is now the BBC World ...

Marie Gillespie receives funding from the AHRC and ESRC. The BBC World Service is well-known to insomniacs tuning in to Radio 4 in the middle of the night, intrepid travellers, expat Britons and ...

UPDATE 03:46 a.m PT: The BBC has confirmed the relocation of some of its World Service journalists away from the UK as it gets set to introduce a digital-first model that will see a net loss of around ...

The NAO assessed the World Service’s progress with implementing its savings programme. The BBC thanks the NAO for its report which recognises the BBC World Service “plays a vital role across the globe ...

While the BBC World Service has achieved savings primarily through closing TV and radio platforms, it has experienced a fall in audience numbers and it has not yet achieved its aim to switch audiences ...

The BBC thanks the NAO for its report which recognises the BBC World Service “plays a vital role across the globe at a time where there is an increasing amount of misinformation and curtailment to ...