@fulelo

I despair. Why has the World Service to provide a return, extend influence or promote anything other than good journalism?

Cost of everything, value of nothing.

The BBC does it because it is unique, because it is good and because it can. The UK is going Trump. Sure, the news agenda already seems slanted and BBC impartiality appears weakened, but we'll never get it back once it is lost.

And there are plenty put there who know it. It's time to support and fight to keep what we have.

#BBCWorldService

Will the call for the PKK to disarm bring peace for Kurds? - a visualised version of #TheGlobalJigsaw podcast from the #BBCWorldService
Part 1 on the history of the Kurdish issue and Turkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0wENcia-pM&list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fK2XXqsOE-zcX_7R7gOklU&index=3
Part 2 on the KRG and Rojava:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-24SIsnQaKE&list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fK2XXqsOE-zcX_7R7gOklU&index=2
Part 3 on the Kurds' leverage and the deals in Turkey and Syria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75D1aGTg99Q&list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fK2XXqsOE-zcX_7R7gOklU&index=1

Ps: latest UK news is not encouraging either for the #BBCWorldService
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/11/ministers-demand-bbc-world-service-plan-for-cuts-as-aid-budget-slashed

A recommended listen from the #BBCWorldService - Defeated: How ordinary Germans experienced the end of World War Two
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l3nk2s

@opethminded the war is comprehensively and continously covered on the #BBCWorldService radio, especially on Newsday prog, in the mornings, avail globally. But yes, i hear you. We on #TheGlobalJigsaw did this before the first anniversary https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hq5c5s

Morning, all,

#BBCWorldService reports that J.D. Vance is hoping to meet the Pontiff at the Vatican in Rome.

Presumably he wants to ask the Pope how many divisions he commands?

H/t #IosifVissarionovichDzhugashvili

Good Morning, all

for those of us who listen to Aunty's wireless channels (namely #BBC #Radio4 #R4Today and #BBCWorldService) who the Beeb clearly thinks are either too thick or too triggered by the naming of obscure chemicals, #SkyNews reports the names of these chemical indicators of the possible presence of extraterrestrial life (i.e., Life-As-We-Know-It) on an exoplanet:

#K2dash18B #DMS #DMDS
#BBCNews
#DimethySulfide #DimethylDisulfide
https://news.sky.com/story/strongest-evidence-of-life-yet-found-on-planet-beyond-solar-system-scientists-say-13350295

Exciting news from BBC World Service this spring! Dive into exclusive interviews with global leaders in The Interview, and uncover inspiring sports tales in Not by the Playbook. Plus, fan favorites like Untold Legends and Dear Daughter are making a comeback. Stay tuned for stories that inform and inspire!

#BBCWorldService #NewShows #PodcastPremieres #Spring202

https://thepodcasting.org/bbc-world-service-spring-2025-new-shows-returning-favorites-announced/

My interview tonight on #BBCWorldService 'Weekend' programme with Julian Worricker. Excerpt with Andrea Sella (University College London) and me discussing the impacts of the Trump cuts to U.S. science capacity, particularly with respect to climate research 🌏🧪 soundcloud.com/corey-bradsh...

Professor Corey Bradshaw inter...

About to do a live interview with the #BBCWorldService on the Trump threat to climate science (based on this article I wrote: theconversation.com/trumps-war-o...)

Trump’s war on climate science...

Still here: Radio Taiwan International

While Voice of America may be gone forever – it’s too early to tell for sure -, Taiwan’s media are running an uofficial Radio-Taiwan-Appreciation year. A book on the broadcaster’s history and present age has been published, the author has related some of her stories to a wider public, Central News Agency (CNA) has reported about it, too, and last month, "Taiwan Panorama", a publication in Chinese, English, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese, has added an English translation of its story in Chinese to the press. The general theme of these reviews, just as of the book itself, is "Shortwave Era", or 短波時代 in Chinese. And as far as Radio Taiwan International is concerned, that era is by no means over.

The insights shared are usually rather anecdotal. German-language listeners tend to be insightful and rational, for example. Some of them have traveled to Taiwan and have taken the opportunity to visit RTI. Veritable Taiwan buffs, they can chat with you about Taiwan easily for a couple of hours. Despite their serious air, German-speaking listeners are in fact full of warmth and enthusiasm. Or， in Chinese, they may be cool on the outside, but warm on the inside (外冷內熱).

Granted, there is an apparent atmospheric contrast between Indonesian and other listeners‘ meetings.

Radio Taiwan International emphasizes its transformation from a role in the former dictatorial Kuomintang’s psychological warfare to "a voice of peace". That’s a fair point, and this message is probably directed to their Chinese audience, rather than to listeners in other languages. That said, Beijing doesn’t seem to agree. Radio Taiwan International’s Mandarin transmissions on shortwave remain relentlessly jammed by Chinese interfering transmitters, while Fu Hsing Radio – a military-owned station after all – is usually left alone on its frequencies.

Xu Chenggang, a Stanford senior research fellow and a VoA columnist, has a long memory, too: "I listened to Voice of America and BBC the most. I also listened to Radio Moscow and NHK from Japan. I didn’t listen to Taiwan much," he told Yuan Li in her podcast published last Monday. "The reason why I listened less to Taiwan is that they were more head-on in their propaganda against the Chinese Communist Party. I felt rather offended by them."

Given that at the time, Taiwan simply served as a base for Chiang Kai-shek, a dictator who remained focused on "regaining the mainland" (i. e. China) until his death in 1975, one can imagine that what was "The Voice of Free China"*) under his rule didn’t endear itself to China’s revolutionary "volunteers" of the 1960s and 1970s.

But while VoA may have been an acceptable source of information for young revolutionaries in the 1970s, it has always been an intensely hated competitor for Beijing’s China Daily publishing house, and not least for its „Global Times“ who celebrated the (likely) demise of VoA as the end to "Washington’s carefully crafted propaganda machine" with "a notorious reputation".

(I don’t want to find out what they’d write if RTI were closed down.)
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#AsiaPacific #BBCWorldService #broadcasting #China #RadioTaiwanInternational #Taiwan #VoiceOfAmerica

Good discussion of SUVs in this episode of The Climate Question, which I’m slowly working my way through. It is worth listening to if only for the car industry’s own description of “who drives an SUV” at 12 minutes 20 seconds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct0xb9

#TheClimateQuestion #BBCWorldService #BanSUVs #BanCars #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Surprised + delighted to hear #AmyLiptrot reporting from #FaroeIslands #BBCWorldService
Remote, or strategically located?
#journalism
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5sk6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

BBC - World Business Report
(World Service Radio)

Last few days have had interesting takes on the US/Russia mayhem. Worth a listen.

#BBC #BBCWorldService
#Trump #Putin #Zelensky #Ukraine #Russia #US #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism #Europe #EU #Kompromat #Krasnov #Oligarchy
https://www.bbc.com/audio/series/p02tb8vq

#BBCWorldService is saying that #Europe now sees #Trump’s #UnitedStates as an #adversary & not an #ally. #USPol #auspol #Ukraine #Putin

Is #BBCWorldService #radio in #Berlin on 94,8MHz FM dead?!? But why? Noooo... #bbc

Update: Reception problem on my end or technical fault at the transmitter? Never mind, it's working again now! ♥️

With Putin on the move permitted by Trump this is not the time to cut back on the BBC World Service

#Putin #Trump #BBCWorldService

World Radio Day 2025: Celebrating Nuxalk Radio’s Mission to Revive Language and Culture

https://swling.com/blog/2025/02/world-radio-day-2025-celebrating-nuxalk-radios-mission-to-revive-language-and-culture/

#BBCWorldService #DavidGoren #NuxalkRadio #WorldRadioDay #WorldRadioDay2025

if you are a #BBCWorldService listener these are the progs you might have to say good bye to:
Africa Daily, Business Matters, Science in Action, The Forum, The Cultural Frontline, The Explanation, Pick of The World, Over to You.