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10 years of the Internet on the radio: Going Digital and Clicking My Fingers
Bill Thompson
Head of Partnership Development
Tim Berners-Lee (right) being interviewed by Bill Thompson. During June and July 2001 I helped some friends in the BBC's Radio Science Unit with Go Digital, a new technology programme that had been commissioned by the World Service for their English language service, where it would sit wi...
Peter Horrocks' somewhat smaller world
Roger Bolton
Spare a thought for the BBC's newish Director of the World Service Peter Horrocks. No sooner has he sat down in his seat in Bush House than his paymaster, the Foreign Office, announces an unprecedented cut of 20 per cent in its funding. No sooner has Mr Horrocks announced the inevitable closur...
Painful day for BBC World Service
Peter Horrocks
Director, BBC Global News
Editor's note: Peter Horrocks is director of BBC World Service. This blog post, published on the BBC Editors Blog, explains the cuts to the service announced today - SB It's been a painful day for the BBC World Service and the 180 million audiences around the world. This morning I announced a f...
Sir Michael Lyons on the new licence fee settlement
Roger Bolton
In this week's edition of the BBC's in-house newspaper 'Ariel', the main feature is about the heavy workload the BBC's chief operating officer, Caroline Thomson, now has as a result of the recent cull of executive board members. One of her three main responsibilities, it said, was preparing for ...
