The BBC World Service has announced the winners of this year’s International Audio Drama Competition, following a huge ...

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If you’ve ever owned a shortwave radio, you’ve probably listened at least a little to the BBC World Service. After all, they are a major broadcasting force, and with the British Empire or the ...

The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18, 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the ...

BBC World Service is expanding its news offer with the launch of a pilot Polish-language news website, BBC News Polska, and its content on social channels. Going live from June 24th, the website will ...

BBC World Service is returning to Hungarian and Romanian-language journalism with the launch of two new digital news offers ...

BBC World Service announced the launch of new digital news services in Romanian and Hungarian next month, expanding its global journalism offering to audiences in Central and Eastern Europe. The new ...

In September the BBC World Service (BBCWS) announced significant service cuts and “around 382 post closures,” or job losses, as the once-powerful global shortwave radio broadcaster copes with its ...

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has written to the Government to ask for reassurances over the future funding of the BBC World Service, following reports of potential ...