{"id":20727,"date":"2016-08-22T06:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20727"},"modified":"2016-08-22T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:55:46","slug":"bbc-monitoring-a-tour-of-caversham-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/bbc-monitoring-a-tour-of-caversham-park\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Monitoring: A tour of Caversham Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HalliDial\"
\n(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

A tour of Caversham Park before it closes – the home of BBC Monitoring – a historical BBC World Service department which has been monitoring some of the world\u2019s most seismic events for 75 years<\/p>\n

Caversham Park became the BBC Monitoring Headquarters in 1941 and in light of recent news that, due to a \u00a34million pound funding cut, it\u2019ll be closing its doors for good, Rajan Datar visits the iconic building.<\/p>\n

Coordinating Editor, Chris Greenway gives a tour of the building and a sense of its history, while Lina Shaikouni gives a taste of what the service provides today.<\/p>\n

Over to You – The Home of BBC Monitoring
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p044jj9h<\/a><\/p>\n

First broadcast on Saturday, August 20 the podcast should now be available at
\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p002vsn8\/episodes\/downloads<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nhttp:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/5\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download-low\/proto\/http\/vpid\/p04564tj.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC) A tour of Caversham Park before it closes – the home of BBC Monitoring – a historical BBC World Service department which has been monitoring some of the world\u2019s most seismic events for 75 years Caversham Park became the BBC Monitoring Headquarters in 1941 and in light of recent news that, due […]<\/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":[56,960,3],"tags":[104,5255,5383,580],"class_list":["post-20727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-monitoring","tag-caversham-park","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5oj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32657,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/bbc-witness-podcast-features-caversham-park\/","url_meta":{"origin":20727,"position":0},"title":"BBC Witness podcast features Caversham Park","author":"Thomas","date":"June 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBC World Service via Julie M) For 75 years the BBC ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home. 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