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BBC World Service does not lack depth

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'Witness, Assignment and Newshour, BBC World Service news and current affairs programmes, have all won Radio Academy awards.' Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC via Getty Images

Richard Gott writes (Letters, 4 November) of the BBC World Service that “the English-language service has been replaced by a 24-hour diet of trivia and endless sport, with an almost total absence of expert analysis”.

I wonder when Mr Gott last listened to the network that brings audiences in the UK and around the world a raft of award-winning programmes? Witness, Assignment and Newshour – a twice-daily in-depth news and current affairs programme broadcast 365 days a year – have all won Radio Academy awards, the highest accolade from the UK radio industry. None of the BBC World Service’s 1.3 million UK listeners or more than 40 million worldwide would accuse them of lacking depth or expert analysis.
Lucy Walker
Editor, daytime news programmes, BBC World Service News

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