Tag Archives: World Service

The Tower of Babel

Posted on July 24, 2021 by blogmywiki

Back in the 1990s, the BBC World Service had a newsroom computer system called EDiT. This was the World Service version of a system called BASYS which had a bit of an interesting past. It was widely used in TV … Continue reading →

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My life in the Bush of ghosts

Posted on April 11, 2015 by blogmywiki

Yesterday, thanks to the kindness of Wanda Petrusewicz in remembering me, I was able to look inside Bush House, straddling Aldwych and the Strand in London. It was the home of the BBC World Service from 1941 until 2012, and … Continue reading →

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Green Continuity

Posted on May 11, 2012 by blogmywiki

Green Con was where the main World Service English language network was put on air. The announcer sat on this side, and the Studio Manager sat on the other side of the glass on the right (now a TV studio) … Continue reading →

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Farewell to Bush

Posted on February 29, 2012 by blogmywiki

I had no idea this film was being made until today – Thomas Hannen and Owain Rich have made a beautiful sequence of images using some of the voices I and others recorded for the radio programmes John Tusa and … Continue reading →

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