Only two or three others here will remember WW2 news bulletins. 'This is the BBC Home Service. Here is the news. Allied forces are... '
The received English pronunciation then used by announcers and other broadcasters sounds pinched and pretentious to a modern ear, but quite a lot of people talked like that in those days. I can't help being sentimental about the BBC because it's been right there, all my life.
It does seem to have become a bit overblown with perhaps a channel or so too many. Some recent dgs may have had a touch of folie de grandeur. And I so despise trashy game shows and 'reality' programmes that I don't think it ought to do those at all. 'I'm a talentless exhibitionist, please please please keep me in here.' Tchah!
I do remember that foreign hacks encountered in Africa often had their transistor radios tuned to the World Service.
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