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The entire UK diplomatic budget is about £1.4 billion a year. That’s pretty much precisely 0.1% of government spending.

BBC World Service is about £0.25 billion (it should be higher), or 0.02%.

These are rounding errors on rounding errors. Double each and public expenditure wouldn’t twitch.

Mad.

I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die

Fixing the BBC The corporation faces threats from inside and out. We asked a panel of past and present BBC voices how it must change to survive

These are bad times for the BBC: Trump is suing, its leaders have resigned, GB News snaps at its heels. In our winter issue, @aiannucci.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall.com, @sophiasgaler.bsky.social and others suggest how it could change.

any sign of funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung?

And in today's Sunday Times

Our latest production and the Telegraph's Pick of the Day. Hats off to producer @markburman.bsky.social

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”

John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:

Birdsong Film following Irish ornithologist Seán Ronayne’s mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that's nearly 200 birds.

'Birdsong' - a portrait of ornithologist and sound recordist @seanronayne.bsky.social who's made it his mission to record every variety of bird in his native Ireland.

A quiet gem of a documentary.

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God bless her. Really has swung me over.

CALLING ON AUDIO STORY CREATORS ACROSS EUROPE!! The time has come. We’re putting together Round 02 of THE ECCO. For more info check out www.theecco.org/round2-sprin...

Submissions for Sound of the Year Awards 2024 are now open!

From the sounds that encapsulate the past 12 months to the year’s most innovative technology, SOTYA celebrates sound in all its forms.

Head to soundoftheyearawards.com to submit the sounds that best captured the spirit of 2024! #sotya2024

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Sounds of Wild Poland, Dawn An adventure in nature recording with Izabela Dłuzyk.

This is well worth a listen. An evocative 5 part Essay series, first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in July this year, produced by Monica Whitlock.
Headphones a must.

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