INTERVIEW: Dave Clarke's seminal 'World Service' was released on this day in 2001. A couple of years back, we caught up with the Baron himself to discuss how one of the most influential techno/electro mix CDs came together. #daveclarke #techno #electro #worldservice
#worldservice
#politics #eu #uk #reset I know, #nerdy but I've always maintained the closest #truth you're lilkely to hear is #worldservice #roundup #westminstertoday #faemingtoday all #bbcsounds #radio4 . Before 6 a.m & not after 7...(for truth), the sub editors get in by 6.45 . #age & #experience
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Having risked my life in war zones for the #bbc I know this: cuts to the #WorldService will be disastrous, by
Martin Bell, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/14/bbc-world-service-cuts-risked-my-life-martin-bell
fwiw, I think this is stupid.
The BBC has been cutting back its news and journalism offerings with reckless abandon for years now, with the World Service having faced already swathing cuts through the Tory years.
The wisdom of trading foreign aid for defence spending has some worthwhile nuance to it, but allowing the World Service to decline at a time when it's most sorely needed is monumentally stupid.
The World Service is in many ways a jewel of British media and highly influential across the world.
But having been sliced and diced by the Tories, Labour have asked bystanders to ‘hold their beer’. It is not just a matter of the philistinism exhibited by Labour, it is the gross fucking stupidity of this maladministration.
#UkPolitics #BBC #WorldService #Vandals #LabourIneptitude #Stupidity
#cymru #cymraeg It's well difficult. A German friend of mine learnt English by listening to #USAF #Radio and the #BBC #WorldService. I thought I'd give #RadioCymru a try. I'm getting the phrasing / rhythms but can't make head nor tail of the vocab. #JustSaying 💖 🏴
#Trump #USA #uspol #uspol #Geopolitics #Ukraine Woke early #BBC #WorldService reporting #Trump suspending military shipments to the #Ukraine . Give me strenth & time to process this.
#geopolitics #US #Russia #EU #NewWorldOrder heard "From our own correspondant" #BBC #WorldService The unintended consequence of the #Zelensky affair. #Trump sees the #EU as at best a threat to #US hegemony. #Putin hates the #EU & wants us gone. Result #USA & #Russia 'rule the world' the #NewWorldOrder . I 🙏🏽 that this #realpolitik does not come to fullness. @RejoinEU 👍🏽 ? Palky
#KarlPopper #Karl_Popper "The #Open #Society & it's #Enemies"
I don't sleep well, lol (fck #Pembroke #Health),. In the early hours I listen to old school #BBC #WorldService . How wonderful to hear some intelligent voices discussing one of the greatest #philosophers of the modern era. Fortunate man studied in the same #School and same #Department 1970's #LondonSchoolofEconomics #LSE ✊ #solidarity
The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
Human rights groups say the evictions are forced, illegal and target families who've worked the land for generations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026904
#HistoricMonuments #Tourism #Cambodia #Exploitation #WorldService
This day in 1932 John Reith opens the BBC's Empire Service (now World Service). Famously concluding "As for programmes they they will neither be very interesting nor very good". My Dec 2022 blog post offers a potted history https://bit.ly/4gjhliz #radio #WorldService
From 42 years ago an edition of the Sandi Jones Request Show on the BBC World Service. More about the show and how this recording came to be kept in my latest blog post #radio #WorldService https://bit.ly/4gDd5tX
Mishal Husain: BBC News Boss Says His Team “Made Efforts” To Find Top Presenter Another Role At Corporation
#News #BBC #BBCNews #BBCWorldService #JonathanMunro #MishalHusain #WorldService
https://deadline.com/2024/11/mishal-husain-another-job-bbc-news-jonathan-munro-1236189414/
With everything else going on these past weeks, it’s quite possible some may have missed the BBC World Service “In the Studio” report on Tehran-formed Black Metal infidels TRIVAX.
Reporter Sahar Zand deftly places the band’s emergence on the international stage in context with the Iranian “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. A people tyrannised by decades of religious subjugation, protesting against the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini and many others.
Recalling authoritarian adversity faced in both Iran and Syria before relocating to the UK, members Shayan and Sully intersperse the usual interview answers with troubling tales of personal oppression. A reminder that freedoms taken for granted are anything but universal, and empowerment is a duty of all artists who can speak.
Zand follows the band to Helgi’s in London, where elements of their incendiary ‘Against all Opposition’ video were filmed. We are also taken to the Cart and Horses gig where the band evoked their visceral Eastern Death Magick in support of DIOCLETIAN.
It was a great honour to enable that tour, despite the setbacks, and I absolutely stand by the band’s right to express their truth in word and deed. Freedom is the highest of ideals and will always win, but the fight is seldom straightforward.
It is rare that our little subculture is treated fairly by mainstream media. Although the BBC Sounds site requires registration, it’s well worth logging in to listen.
- BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5tlj
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FzcuRBaoJas3rO33awgFj
https://heathenstorm.com/2024/11/13/infidels-to-the-world/
#bbc #blackmetal #diocletian #freedom #helgis #inthestudio #iran #mahsaamini #metal #music #protest #saharzand #syria #trivax #womanlifefreedom #worldservice
#BBC #WorldService’s retreat ‘helping #Russia and #China push #propaganda’
Director-general #TimDavie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast ‘unchallenged’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/13/bbc-world-services-retreat-helping-russia-and-china-push-propaganda
@amarchivepub For #UK #MastodonUK @everybody@everybody We neglect #Radio at our peril. I don't own a T.V, it smacks to much of '#BigBrother. For news I rely on #BBC4 #BBC #WorldService For #Sounds #BBCSounds. 🎶 🎵
I was listening to discussion on #BBC #WorldService about how global product margins have gone from 17% to 59% since the 1980s. That’s actually quite ridiculous and rather sad. Not only does it mean pulling more money from consumers but most of gains were going to a few large beneficiaries. Smaller companies are not seeing the same benefits, and in some cases producers are actually getting less per unit.
David Livingstone was a Congregationalist minster and medical missionary. Here he says if full horror of lives lost to slave trade were known, it would be stopped “at all risks”.
Nowadays, don’t we cower in fear of the risks of opposing slavery? Gotta support pro-slavery theologians if they only had one other, good religious idea; reject a good textbook if “comprehensive accounts” might offend?
How can you take risks for dignity today?
Estonian's eloquent PM Kaja Kallas well worth a listen on #BBC #worldservice
#ukraine #russia #estonia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4p80
John Simpson, senior #BBC journo, now on #WorldService sneering over US govt plans to on-shore battery production as ‘typical Democrat Keynesian stuff’ and asking ‘what will next Republican president do about it?’
Later he vibrates with frustration that ‘environmentalists’ (read: scientists) have ‘coincidentally’ discovered 5000 species in Clarion-Clipperton Zone ‘just as’ corporations apply to mine the seabed.
Casual right-wing bias and climate-denial disinformation is BBC editorial policy.
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