Britain | Worse service
The BBC World Service shuts several foreign-language radio services
BBC Arabic has gone off air; the Persian service is among those next to go
On the hour for 85 years the chimes of Big Ben have sounded across the Arab world, a rare certainty in a region rife with war, revolution and repression. And then the sonorous tones of the presenter, saying “Huna London” (“This is London”) at the start of each news bulletin.
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