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A global catfish scam and a Somalian woman’s adolescence make for two gripping World Service shows, while Sheffield’s finest still sound good on the dancefloor

Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy will announce how Labour would look to reform the Foreign Office if it wins power.

The BBC needs to save a further £285 million in response to the announcement in January 2022, that the licence fee will be frozen

Richard Sharp said the Government needs to look at ‘taking back control’ of funding the service.

The BBC will ring in its centenary in November this year with a packed-out schedule

As the BBC turns 100 we should celebrate its extraordinary history as a public service broadcaster bringing news and other programming to audiences around the globe. In 2020-2021 the BBC announced that its World Service achieved its highest-ever audience, with an average of close to 500 million listeners globally each…

Removing radio broadcasts in several languages will severely damage Britain’s ability to promote its priorities and values

BBC has announced that it will close BBC Arabic radio after 84 years among other radios due to cost, inflation and licensing fees. Nearly 400 staff at BBC World Service will lose their jobs as part of a cost-cutting program and move to digital platforms, the broadcaster announced on Thursday,…

Cost-cutting plan to move staff from London to Bangkok will put them at risk of abduction, reporters say

Around 382 job positions are likely to be scrapped in the BBC World Service as the network has proposed several changes, including the closure of “some radio services” in Arabic, Bangla and Persian, Reuters reported.

The BBC Arabic and BBC Persian radios will also close