Happy Anniversary, BBC World Service!
From Wikipedia:
The BBC began as the BBC Empire Service in 1932 as a shortwave service.[3] Its broadcasts were aimed principally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire, or as George V put it in the first-ever Royal Christmas Message, the "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them."
On 3 January 1938 the first foreign language service, Arabic, was launched. German programmes commenced shortly before the start of the Second World War and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages.
The World Service gained a special position in world broadcasting during the Second World War as it broadcast news to a wide range of audiences. The German Service, created on 29 March, 1938 and discontinued in 1999, played an important part in the propaganda war against Nazi Germany.
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