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Track eighteen.

One.

The BBC is known all over the world for its fair and informative reporting. In the UK, BBC Radio and TV is paid for from the listeners and viewers license fees. However, the World Service, which is broadcast to almost every country in the world, is funded by a government department, called the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Despite this, the World Service has editorial independence, which means the government can't control what is broadcast.

Two.

In addition to news, the World Service broadcasts drama, sports and educational programs. The programs are in more than forty languages, including Arabic, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Romanian and Spanish. And they are listened to by about one hundred and fifty million people. The only time that the service has stopped was in nineteen eighty-five when BBC workers went on strike. The strike was because the British government had wanted to ban a documentary which included an interview with a member of Shin Fein, the political party which wants to unite Ireland.

Three.

In countries around the world where the news is tightly controlled or censored, the BBC is trusted to be honest and truthful. Some governments try to stop their people listening by either blocking the radio signals or the BBC website.

Four.

World Service radio programs are broadcast twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is also used to send emergency messages to British people overseas. For example, in nineteen seventy, a message told British listeners in Jordan to evacuate the country immediately. More recently, when the tsunami hit Asia on the twenty-sixth of December, two thousand and four, programs were extended to bring the latest news to the people in the disaster areas. Within hours of the tragedy, online sites were giving information to the victims and their families. And the message boards were looked at by more than two million people.