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BBC World Service
The UK does like to reduce its ‘soft power’ with ill considered cuts. With impeccable timing…
‘Some language services that were moved to digital-only distribution saw overall audiences fall 63 percent, while their digital reach also dropped 39 percent. In Nigeria, audiences were hit after social platforms deprioritized news content, further cutting visibility for BBC material’
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/bbc_world_service_digital_pivot/
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It looks like (relative) good sense has broken out at the Treasury, a likely deal on a in real term's neutral (which is to inflation adjusted) budget agreement for the BBC World Service.
Given its centrality to the UK (dwindling) soft power, alongside the Govt's professed interest in maintaining (or at least not further damaging) UK influence in the world, this prospective settlement looks as good as it would likely have got in the current fiscal circumstances.
#WorldService #politics
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Today:
#BBC #WorldService Radio - NewshourInterview with Marina Lacerda who was abused by Epstein from ~14yrs old.
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Worth your time - the BBC WS interview today (playing now but available for some time). Audrey Tang: bringing digital diplomacy to the world
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct8c45
The Interview
Zoe Kleinman speaks to Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital ambassador at large about her life and career: aligning big tech with community#ai #GenAI #taiwan #digitalliteracy #academia #academicchatter #bbc #worldservice
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#BBC #BBC_Audio #WorldService 'Over to you'. Weasel words. "We have heard the concerns of our overseas listeners and are reviewing the functionality of #BBC.com and the app" = 'Kicking the can down the road' . Tin hat time (flying pigs).
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#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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fwiw, I think this is stupid.
The BBC has been cutting back its news and journalism offerings with reckless abandon for years now, with the World Service having faced already swathing cuts through the Tory years.
The wisdom of trading foreign aid for defence spending has some worthwhile nuance to it, but allowing the World Service to decline at a time when it's most sorely needed is monumentally stupid.
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#cymru #cymraeg It's well difficult. A German friend of mine learnt English by listening to #USAF #Radio and the #BBC #WorldService. I thought I'd give #RadioCymru a try. I'm getting the phrasing / rhythms but can't make head nor tail of the vocab. #JustSaying 💖 🏴
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#Trump #USA #uspol #uspol #Geopolitics #Ukraine Woke early #BBC #WorldService reporting #Trump suspending military shipments to the #Ukraine . Give me strenth & time to process this.
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#geopolitics #US #Russia #EU #NewWorldOrder heard "From our own correspondant" #BBC #WorldService The unintended consequence of the #Zelensky affair. #Trump sees the #EU as at best a threat to #US hegemony. #Putin hates the #EU & wants us gone. Result #USA & #Russia 'rule the world' the #NewWorldOrder . I 🙏🏽 that this #realpolitik does not come to fullness. @RejoinEU 👍🏽 ? Palky
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#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity -
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity -
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity -
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity -
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity -
The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
Human rights groups say the evictions are forced, illegal and target families who've worked the land for generations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026904
#HistoricMonuments #Tourism #Cambodia #Exploitation #WorldService
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Mishal Husain: BBC News Boss Says His Team “Made Efforts” To Find Top Presenter Another Role At Corporation
#News #BBC #BBCNews #BBCWorldService #JonathanMunro #MishalHusain #WorldServicehttps://deadline.com/2024/11/mishal-husain-another-job-bbc-news-jonathan-munro-1236189414/
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With everything else going on these past weeks, it’s quite possible some may have missed the BBC World Service’s “In the Studio” report on Tehran-formed Black Metal infidels TRIVAX. Reporter Sahar Zand deftly places the band’s emergence on the international stage in context with the Iranian “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. A people tyrannised by decades of religious subjugation, protesting against the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini and many others.
Recalling authoritarian adversity faced in both Iran and Syria before relocating to the UK, members Shayan and Sully intersperse the usual interview answers with troubling tales of personal oppression. A reminder that freedoms taken for granted are anything but universal, and empowerment is a duty of all artists who can speak.
Zand follows the band to Helgi’s in London, where elements of their incendiary ‘Against all Opposition’ video were filmed. We are also taken to the Cart and Horses gig where the band expressed their visceral Eastern Death Magick in support of DIOCLETIAN. It was a great honour to enable that tour, despite the setbacks, and I absolutely stand by the band’s right to express their truth in word and deed. Freedom is the highest of ideals and will always win, but the fight is seldom straightforward.
It is rare that our little subculture is treated fairly by mainstream media. Although the BBC Sounds site requires registration, it’s well worth logging in to listen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5tlj
https://heathenstorm.com/2024/11/13/infidels-to-the-world/
#bbc #blackmetal #diocletian #freedom #helgis #inthestudio #iran #mahsaamini #metal #music #protest #saharzand #syria #trivax #womanlifefreedom #worldservice
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#BBC #WorldService’s retreat ‘helping #Russia and #China push #propaganda’
Director-general #TimDavie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast ‘unchallenged’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/13/bbc-world-services-retreat-helping-russia-and-china-push-propaganda -
@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
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@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
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@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
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@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
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@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
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I was listening to discussion on #BBC #WorldService about how global product margins have gone from 17% to 59% since the 1980s. That’s actually quite ridiculous and rather sad. Not only does it mean pulling more money from consumers but most of gains were going to a few large beneficiaries. Smaller companies are not seeing the same benefits, and in some cases producers are actually getting less per unit.
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David Livingstone was a Congregationalist minster and medical missionary. Here he says if full horror of lives lost to slave trade were known, it would be stopped “at all risks”.
Nowadays, don’t we cower in fear of the risks of opposing slavery? Gotta support pro-slavery theologians if they only had one other, good religious idea; reject a good textbook if “comprehensive accounts” might offend?
How can you take risks for dignity today?
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On the #BBC #WorldService in about 30 mins (19:32 GMT): #CrowdScience seeks an answer to the question "Is anybody out there?" The program features me among others discussing the #DrakeEquation and the prospects for finding #alienlife https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4y3v
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Some classic lazy reporting on the #BBC #WorldService #News about #TikTok and the #EU removing the app from their phones.
“All social media apps mine their user data, that’s why they’re free”
All? Really? Hmm.
I don’t think so.
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“The best work divides the audience” If you're creative in any way, this int w music producer Rick Rubin is stellar https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dd83 I heard it only thanks to #WorldService #ArtsHour which is never promoted. #NikkiBedi is a terrific host & good person - and yes, I am on the link below, but it is a showcase of consisent global relevance - artists you haven't and have heard of https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct3911
