#bbcworldservice — Public Fediverse posts

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of BBC Afrique (May 10, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-bbc-afrique-may-10-2026/

#BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of the BBC Emergency Radio Service (April 30, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-the-bbc-emergency-radio-service-april-30-2026/

#BBCEmergencyRadioService #BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of BBC’s Emergency Radio Service (April 29, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/05/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-bbcs-emergency-radio-service-april-29-2026/

#BBCEmergencyRadioService #BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #EmergencyRadio #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of BBC’s Emergency Radio Service (April 28, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/04/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-bbcs-emergency-radio-service-april-28-2026/

#BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of the BBC Emergency Radio Service (April 27, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/04/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-the-bbc-emergency-radio-service-april-27-2026/

#BBC #BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

DUPLICATE – Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Vatican Radio & BBC (April 15, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/04/duplicate-carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-vatican-radio-bbc-april-15-2026/

#BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio #VaticanRadio

BBC Interval Signals – Then and Now

https://swling.com/blog/2026/04/bbc-interval-signals-then-and-now/

#BBCWorldService #BBCWorldServiceIntervalSignals #DanGreenall #IntervalSignals #Nostalgia #RadioHistory #ShortwaveRadio

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report Special Edition: Africa (PDF)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/03/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-special-edition-africa-pdf/

#BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #RadioELWA #RadioFranceInternational #RadioMali #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio #VaticanRadio

HFCC A26 Transmission and Programme schedules / BBC World Service’s Internet Focus “backfires”

The HFCC have published their global B25 A26 shortwave plan, taking effect mostly on March 29 (with some likely exceptions in North America). The organization says it seeks to eliminate "inaccuracies and ‘reserve’ frequency requirements from the global schedule database".

The HFCC global shortwave plans are among the most meaningful reference points to find or identify broadcasts on shortwave, arguably along with Eibi Space, and the BDXC’s frequently updated DX Guides.

While shortwave usage is indeed shrinking, international broadcasters may sometimes jump to premature conclusions. Recent reports suggest that the BBC World Service’s shift to online media has "backfired". Shortwave isn’t mentioned in particular here, but the BBC had been warned:

As transmitters can’t go on strike or lobby politicians, they can be cut with the promise of the internet. There are many pros for internet services and streaming in general, such as ease of implementation, low running costs and less need for specialized technical staff,

RedTech’s Ruxandra Obreja wrote in February 2023, adding that

However, the most important attribute of shortwave, beyond its free availability, is the anonymity it offers listeners. This may not be so important in, say, Britain or the United States, but it is significant in authoritarian states like China or Myanmar. The truth is that millions of people still rely on free-to-air radio in the car or at home for news, information, entertainment, education and the increasingly essential emergency warnings.

There may be a bit of a silver lining now, for the BBC:

[t]he BBC World Service will see funding increased by an additional £33 million over the next three years, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper

was expected to confirm last week, according to the "Independent".

After decades of BBC-bashing by Labour and Tories alike, March 2026 seems to become BBC appreciation month.

Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of BBC (March 13, 2026)

https://swling.com/blog/2026/03/carlos-illustrated-radio-listening-report-and-recording-of-bbc-march-13-2026/

#BBCWorldService #CarlosLatuff #ShortwaveArt #ShortwaveRadio

Tim Davie Warns of Funding Cliff for the BBC World Service

https://swling.com/blog/2026/02/tim-davie-warns-of-funding-cliff-for-the-bbc-world-service/

#BBCWorldService #InternationalBroadcasting #MarkHirst

UK voter concerned about #journalism ?
Ask your MP to sign EDM 793: Funding for the BBC World Service, calling for sustainable funding for the World Service as a vital source of accurate and trusted journalism to audiences worldwide
#BBCWorldService #NUJ

Dismayed to hear an extended press release from #Microsoft on #BBCWorldService just now. (Switched to #BBCR4 and it was all about their failure to self-censor coverage of a music festival)
What's going on? #journalism #newsagenda

The #BBCWorldService radio is available worldwide via the bbcsounds app.

If you would like to unpick some of the complexities of the current situation in the Middle East, here are two highly recommended episodes of #TheGlobalJigsaw on Iran's Axis of resistance
The home front - #IRGC , #Quds force, the #Basij militias
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6qpb
The groups supported by #Iran in #Lebanon , #Syria , #Iraq , #Yemen and #Gaza https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0htcwzj
#Hezbollah #Hamas #Houthis #BadrBrigades #PMF

#BBCNews on #BBCWorldService :
Two of the most high-profile Russian dissidents freed as part of yesterday's prisoner swap said they refused officials' demands to plead for mercy from president #putin to secure their release. Vladimir #Karamurza and Ilya #Yashin were speaking alongside Andrey #Pivovarov at a news conference in Germany. They said they considered the #Russian president a tyrant, a murderer and a war criminal. Mr Karamurza said he wouldn't ask for a pardon when he wasn't guilty

I was listening to #BBCWorldService and a programme about the #diamond industry. I learnt #DeBeers has created a #blockchain based system, #Tracr, to track the source of diamonds and store immutably. This could be a great use of the tech. However it seems to be a completely proprietary system and does not run on top of one of the large blockchains. So what guarantees immutability? If nothing else, De Beers themselves can take down or change data?

Difficult to find any real information.

And some #Israel - #Gaza war related news from the #BBCWorldService bulletin:

A Gaza health official says that 31 premature babies have now been evacuated from Al-#Shifa hospital. The dir gen said 3 doctors and 2 nurses accompanied the babies to leave Gaza via #Rafah. Earlier, intnl doctors visited al-Shifa hospital, describing it as being like a death zone, with signs of gunfire and shelling and a mass grave at the entrance. (cont.)

The banking giant #HSBC says its #profits have more than #doubled as it benefited from rising #interest #rates around the world. Europe's largest bank reported profits before tax of almost $22 billion - up nearly13 billion dollars on the same time a year earlier. The lender also saw its profits further boosted from its purchase of the UK arm of the now-defunct Silicon Valley Bank, which it bought in March for just over a dollar.
#BBCWorldService news

#BREAKING South #Africa 's president #Ramaphosa has confirmed that Vladimir #Putin won't attend the #BRICS #summit in Johannesburg in August. The #Russian president is #wanted by the #ICC for #war #crimes in #Ukraine. #SouthAfrica as a #signatory to the court would be expected to arrest him if he would travel there
#BBCWorldService

Trillions of microbes live inside our gut. What impact do they have on our body?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4y3x

#CrowdScience #Gut #Microbes #HumanBody #Science #Biology #BBCWorldService #BBCSounds #BBC

Great to be out at #JodrellBank this afternoon to record for the #BBCWorldService #CrowdScience programme with presenter Marnie Chesterton and producer Phil Sansom. The weather played ball, so we were able to record outside. However, the #woodpeckers were determined to be heard! The program, on the #DrakeEquation and the possibility of life elsewhere in the #Galaxy, should appear in mid April on the BBC World Service and on BBC Sounds.

Good morning from a frosty and foggy London. Top news on #BBCWorldService:

British doctors have for the 1st time ever #successfully #treated an #incurable and aggressive form of #leukaemia with a #cell #engineering technique: They used #genetically #modified cells that are able to target and kill cancer cells without damaging healthy ones. After the experimental medicine the teenage patient was able to receive a bone marrow transplant restoring her immune system. She is now free of cancer.

#unspunworld provides an unvarnished version of week's major #global #news stories. #BBC’s world affairs editor, #JohnSimpson, brings his experience+expertise to bear on the most #important #international #stories. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of #experts across the world, he uses their unique #LocalKnowledge to go beyond the headlines to get to the unspun #truth. Next #episode 7.12.22 #bbc2 23.15, then #BBCIplayer+#BBCNewsChannel, #BBCWorldService

Where do we go when the seas rise?
2nd of two #BBCWorldService #CrowdScience series by @amsterdammed on #SeaLevelRise from #Greenland and #Antarctica + all the small #Glaciers.

Some fantastic in depth #ClimateAdaptation stuff from #Colombia, #India, US + Greenland as well, worth a listen...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct3j7s