{"id":2888,"date":"2012-03-01T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2012-03-01T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:19:03","slug":"adam-long-of-the-reduced-shakespeare-company-reduced-history-of-the-bbc-world-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/adam-long-of-the-reduced-shakespeare-company-reduced-history-of-the-bbc-world-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Long of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Reduced History of the BBC World Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy this very witty and accurate take on the history of the BBC World Service:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38369625&amp;show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAdam Long of the Reduced Shakespeare Company wrote this, the Reduced History of the BBC World Service, to celebrate the World Service&#8217;s 80th anniversary. It was a special commission for the BBC Newshour debate on the future of global broadcasting broadcast 29th February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy this very witty and accurate take on the history of the BBC World Service: Adam Long of the Reduced Shakespeare Company wrote this, the Reduced History of the BBC World Service, to celebrate the World Service&#8217;s 80th anniversary. It was a special commission for the BBC Newshour debate on the future of global broadcasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3,288],"tags":[929,932,930,931,4082],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-adam-long-of-the-reduced-shakespeare-company","tag-history-of-the-bbc-world-service","tag-reduced-history-of-the-bbc-world-service","tag-reduced-shakespeare-company-reduced-history-of-the-bbc-world-service","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-KA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42113,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/sky-news-bbc-could-be-forced-to-sell-radio-stations-in-massive-pruning-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":2888,"position":0},"title":"Sky News: &#8220;BBC could be forced to sell radio stations in &#8216;massive pruning back'&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"February 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Sky News via Dan Van Hoy) The number of TV channels could also be reduced, the website scaled back and stars banned from taking well-paid second jobs. 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