This Is the BBC

1/17/2025

If you're remotely interested in the development of broadcasting, this is a must watch. Yes, much of it is dry as a bone but somehow it rather effectively sums up the BBC I recall as a child. A formal and stuffy place populated by folks in suits or frocks with plummy South Eastern England voices behind the microphone and some 'Arry and Fred types doing the leg work. It was an organisation producing content for domestic consumption around the UK, but also provided content around the world that was relied upon as an impartial interpretation of global news by many national broadcasters elsewhere. It starts off at the BBC External service where stories are transmitted in the native languages of many countries amidst an array of complex dials and valves. What follows now takes in a range of job