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70 years on, the World Service reaches out to 150 million listeners
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IF YOU lie awake at night listening to Lilliburlero, or you can
name the characters in the soap West Way, then today is a special
birthday. Seventy years ago, at precisely 9:30 am GMT on the morning
of 19 December, 1932, the world's first international continuous
broadcast news service took to the airwaves. Like the advent of CNN
in later television days, this radio station would transform the
political world by delivering instantaneous factual information
unfettered by local censorship. The newcomer was the BBC Radio World
Service (originally known as the Empire Service).
The first great ...
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