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What the BBC World Service can teach us at home
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WHO is the most famous person in Britain? Gordon Brown? The
Queen? David Beckham? Stop someone in the street in West Africa and
they are likely to tell you it is Elizabeth Blunt. Elizabeth who?
Ms Blunt is a BBC journalist who broadcasts on the World Service.
That may not sound spectacular but then you are not one of the
billion people who live in Africa and rely for their news mostly on
the radio rather than television, newspapers or the internet. And
the radio with the most comprehe...
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