{"id":18852,"date":"2016-05-18T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:21:51","slug":"from-the-bbc-archives-the-first-21-years-of-the-world-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/from-the-bbc-archives-the-first-21-years-of-the-world-service\/","title":{"rendered":"From the BBC Archives: The first 21 years of the World Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBC-AT-WAR\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Andrea Borgnino<\/a>, who shares a link to the excellent archived radio documentary,\u00a0The first 21 years of the World Service<\/em><\/a>, via the\u00a0BBC World Service<\/a>‘s\u00a0online audio archives.<\/p>\n

The recording\/broadcast dates from\u00a0December, 18 1953.\u00a0Here’s the description of the recording:<\/p>\n

The first 21 years of the World Service: how it began in 1938, its important role in WW2 and its aftermath, including historic moments as they were first broadcast by Churchill, de Gaulle, Eisenhower.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to listen to the documentary via the BBC World Service.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

VOG Interval Signal<\/h1>\n

I learned an interesting fact in this documentary<\/a>:\u00a0I had no idea<\/em> that the BBC used the Greek radio\u00a0interval signal for their Greek language service while Greece was occupied in WWII. After liberation, the BBC Director General “solemnly” handed the famous interval signal–“the sound of shepherds’ pipes mingling with the bells of their flocks”–<\/em>back to Greece. Amazing.<\/p>\n

The Greek radio\u00a0interval signal is one of my all-time favorites. Indeed, my mobile phone’s ringtone is the VOG interval signal<\/a>:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ringtones\/VOG-Ringtone.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

If you would like to add this ringtone to your mobile phone, check out this post from 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Andrea Borgnino, who shares a link to the excellent archived radio documentary,\u00a0The first 21 years of the World Service, via the\u00a0BBC World Service‘s\u00a0online audio archives. The recording\/broadcast dates from\u00a0December, 18 1953.\u00a0Here’s the description of the recording: The first 21 years of the World Service: how it began in 1938, its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,305,288,43],"tags":[104,1360,327,1816,2937,4508,676],"class_list":["post-18852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-history","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-world-service-shortwave","tag-bbc-wwii","tag-wwi-radio","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4U4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3713,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/recording-radio-history-the-queens-diamond-jubilee-via-bbc-world-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":18852,"position":0},"title":"Recording Radio History: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee via BBC World Service","author":"Thomas","date":"June 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Ten years ago, my wife--then fianc\u00e9e--and I lived in the UK, and were fortunate enough to attend The Queen's Golden Jubilee celebration on the vast lawn at Buckingham Palace. 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