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Many people must agree with me that for about twenty years, no media corporation covers the world events like the BBC world service. At any part of the world, someone can listen to the BBC world service on radio to be enlightened on the happenings around the world. Program like news hour at 12 hour and 20 hour GMT brings in-depth analysis of world event for good 60 minutes. Other programs were focus on faith, talking point, international question time, outlook, learning zone and so on. The presenters of these programs have unique ways of presentation that make then programs very interesting.
When I was in my final year in secondary school as at 1996 and even some years after, my favorite broadcasting station was the BBC world service on radio. Internet was not readily available for everyone as at then. I followed the BBC world service closely and I knew which program was coming next. I followed the story of then the six years old Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez whose mother died at the coast of Florida when trying to bring him into America from their country home Cuba. I also followed the story of Timothy McVeigh the guy responsible for the bombing of the federal secretariat in Oklahoma 1995, in which 168 people died. I followed BBC World service programs from the year 1996 to 2005 closer than I do these days.
The first I time browsed internet, the website I visited was the BBC world service website searching for information and educative programs I had listened in the world service on radio. It was more enjoyable for me to find detailed analysis on the program I had listened on air. After some years, BBC made some changes in their programs on air and online that denied me access to the web pages I used to get information from. I later realized that I had news letters sent to my email box by the BBC world service through which I used to go to those web pages by clicking on the links in my email massages. I realized that there is the need for us to look into archived information in other to understand some recent remembrance of some stories in the news like that of Michael Jackson.
At emmabod there is a page that contains BBC world service archive which I click right away to watch some of the video coverage in the news. You can also have access to them for more enlightenment through the BBC world service links in the web page, and I guess you will enjoy it.
