Seeing in the New Year across the UK with a special recording of Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne may be a poem that is over 200 years old but it continues to be a feature of celebrations around the world on New Year’s Eve. This year we’ve created a special spoken recording of the poem that includes some of the BBC’s radio voices to showcase the range and diversity of our services across the UK and around the globe.

The BBC is reaching and serving an ever more diverse audience - operating in over 30 languages andwith radio services reaching over 150 million people in the UK and around the world every year.

The video is designed to be a simple celebration, so only a fraction of the BBC’s radio services are included.



The voices include presenters from our UK language services:



BBC Alba and BBC Cymru - CathyMacDonald and Aled Hughes)

BBC Scotland - Bryan Burnett

BBC Wales - Eleri Sion

BBC Northern Ireland - Kerry McLean

BBC Newcastle - Alfie Joey

BBC York - Richard Stead

BBC West Midlands - Adrian Goldberg

BBC Hindi - Neha Bhatnagar

BBC Arabic - Adel Soliman

BBC Chinese Service - Howard Zhang.

Radio 1xtra - A. Dot

Radio 4’s - John Humphrys 

The BBC is proud to be able to serve and represent such a wide and diverse audience. New Year is traditionally a time when people come together to celebrate and this video seemed a perfect way to do that.

Ken MacQuarrie is Director, Nations and Regions