excog · @excog
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BBC Arabic Radio shut down after 85 years along with Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, and Urdu radio services.
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https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/bbc-arabic-radio-closes-after-eighty-five-years
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Nasser was interviewed by BBC Arab Radio.
As a young boy in Baghdad, it was the voice of Nasser on Voice of the Arabs Radio after the 1953 revolution, picked up on Dad's Zenith Trans Oceanic solid-state radio, that my mind now goes back to.
Annabel · @annabelb
128 followers · 19 posts · Server mastodon.onlineFunny to revisit the old BBC News website too...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1287611.stm
#oldskool #bbcnews #bbc #bbcarabic #radio #tv #web #trimedia #notanymore
#notanymore #trimedia #web #tv #radio #bbcarabic #bbc #bbcnews #oldskool
Annabel · @annabelb
128 followers · 18 posts · Server mastodon.onlineHuna London #bbcarabic
Well.
BBC Arabic's last radio broadcast and, with it, fond memories of a tri-media (world) first, Friday 20 April 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1287611.stm
#bbcarabic #bbcnews #bbc #radio #tv #web #trimedia #hunalondon #thisislondon
a #first and a #last
#last #first #thisislondon #hunalondon #trimedia #web #tv #radio #bbc #bbcnews #bbcarabic
