I miss those dreary days in the jungle of Borneo in the early 1990s when my small SW radio was my window (fastest source of news)to the world. BBC World Service was a constant companion. The Colombia disaster, The Iraq War, Bosnia, 911 - heard them all first on BBC WS radio.

The iconic lillybulero signature tune and This is London (radio call) will always give goosebumps in a positive to those who were a part of listening SW bandwidth across the world! My favourite was Radio Moscow World Service (English service) for two reasons first one of their iconic signature tune (Moscow nights) and the music!! Thank you for posting this document it was delightful to hear the distorted analogue radio broadcast from a bygone era! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!

every human on this planet may have good memories with the bbc. i used to listen to bbc in arabic.

That was amazing and really interesting. I listen to the World Service every day now, fascinating to see its earlier days

Broadcast on BBC1 Wednesday 8th December 1982

The sooner they bring back "This is London" and a Full Blast of Lillybulero the better...Iconic ..rather than the boring generic replacement that could be any station...I hope somebody in power has the sense to do it!!

those were the days. used to listen to the wild service often in the 1980s. on short wave radio.

I love shortwave radio.

The best part of the BBC

Listened to the BBC WS in Belgium during the 1980s on shortwave. Was an important part of my day. "BBC World Service. The news, read by Pamela Crighton." "This is Tommy Vance with Rock Salad. Music on the heavier side." -Or something to that effect. How about those endless lists of local sports match scores? Tide listings? "The Brotherhood of Brass" 😊

Wow, I can't imagine allowing smoking in a studio let alone opening a mic without cans on.

wow! I remember hearing this voice on the BBC growing up in the 90s!

Thank you this for this upload David. Wonderful!

....... and Bruce Hamel was the BBC1 continuity announcer!

If anyone's wondering the Russian announcement music is the prince of denmarks march, specifically Wood's version, and the radio newsreel intro music is a march called "Imperial echoes".

This is amazing!

Such a shame THAT BBC is no more.

bbc is history. very good memories.

Used to listen to Readio Moscow, Iran Radio Moscow used to treport how many tractors were made that day. 1960 70s pure gold

am sad that they stopped the service in arabic. its very sad.

1:10 wow to finally put a face on my favorite continuity announcer !

We all like wow smokeing indoors

BBC is also broadcast in Soviet Union.

I wonder if Douglas Muggeridge is any relation to old Malcolm.

Really interesting piece of film

Am I right to believe the announcer at the beginning is Keith Bosley? I remember when he retired on air in the realy 90s.

Good information

Amazing Nuastalgic

I miss John Tidmarsh on Outlook.

Can anyone help me out with this tune at 2:52 my childhood memories are embedded in this.

Is the monitoring station still operational.

Wow bbc world 🌎 make people from all the world what to come to the uk 🇬🇧

Is 'Doug' the son of 'Malc'?

I thought that was a young Ragety Omar @ 2:52

4:55 what are you talking about? We no speak English 😂

I used to love the Beeb, but now I know how corrupt it all is I hate it with a passion.

"One man's gorilla is another man's freedom fighter" lol what?

Everyone looks tired and dirty