The Big Link Up
Wednesday 19 December
Throughout the day BBC WORLD SERVICE
BBC World Service celebrates its 75th birthday today with live outside
broadcasts throughout the day, linking audiences around the world in a
global debate on freedom of the media. The debate echoes the themes of
programming in the World Service's Free To Speak season that has
marked the anniversary over recent days.
Linked outside broadcasts spread across the world – in East Asia, from
Mongolia to Australia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa and the
Americas from North through Central America to the South – mark the
actual date of the World Service's launch 75 years ago. Regional
link-ups featuring panels of experts and audiences interact with
internet cafés, local radio stations, newsrooms and other meeting
places around the globe.
"We want to reach right around the world and use the new ways people
are communicating with each other to do this," says season
commissioner Sara Beck. "Connecting with people in places we don't
always report from will give us the chance to dissect the world
afresh, to look at how the globe is being reshaped by technology.
We'll also explore new frameworks for freedom of expression, the
effects of competition and the challenges of these new responsibilities.
Presenter/Various, Producers/Various
BBC World Service Publicity
The great lady of SWL has been a major force in SW broadcast history
One shining example is the BBC broadcasting during the genocide in Rwanda
Broadcasting during the attack on the WTC 9/11/2001
Even Gorbachev has admitted to listening to the BBC during an August 1991 coup on his government
and one of things I think about when I listen to the BBC is the fact that the Beriut hostages in the 80's listened to the BBC
Happy Birthday to you BBC World Service!
73, Jack K4SAC
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