[Swprograms] BBC World Service 75th anniversary programming

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's quite a few BBC World Service 75th anniversary
programmes already previewed at the BBC Press Office
advance programme information site, these two in
particular I thought would be worth making a note of
in list members diaries, can't find anything as yet
on the BBCWS website itself:

How Free The BBC?
Saturday 15 December
5.30-6.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
Ray Snoddy, one of the country's most respected media
commentators, takes a candid look at the relationship
between BBC World Service and its funders, the UK
Government. He asks whether a broadcasting
organisation funded directly by £246m a year
grant-in-aid from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
can remain editorially independent. The programme
features an extensive interview with Nigel Chapman,
Director of BBC World Service, responding to the
questions raised by Snoddy's
analysis.
Presenter/Ray Snoddy, Producer/Penny Vine

BBC World Service Publicity

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



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