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What can BBC World Service Do More?

Is it time to bring comedy back to the World Service output? Listeners from around the world give their direct feedback to the Controller of BBC World Service English.

The second edition of the listeners' open conversation with the current controller of BBC World Service English, Mary Hockaday. Members of the global audience are given the opportunity to identify what may be missing from the World Service English output. Questions are raised over the network's Middle East coverage, the dominance of news reporting compared with the variety of the output and whether a sense of humour could be injected into the network.

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10 minutes

Last on

Mon 3 Aug 201501:50GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sat 1 Aug 201517:50GMT
  • Sun 2 Aug 201509:50GMT
  • Mon 3 Aug 201501:50GMT

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