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Shakespeare can survive a little chipping away at his 400-year reputation.
Home page of the BBC News Pidgin website.
BBC News Pidgin
West African pidgins are unique, showing that they have come to stay no matter what some say or feel about them.
Earth: One Amazing Day – the first film completed under the Sino-British co-production agreement.
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After a co-production treaty was signed in 2013, a vast new market is beginning to open up.
Sir Cliff Richard: what BBC did was an abuse of free speech.
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Judge’s decision means the media cannot identify a suspect until they are arrested. This may be challenged on appeal.
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The public broadcaster tries to cater to all views, but sometimes that’s a dangerous strategy.
The Empire Windrush, photographed a few years after its famous journey from Jamaica to Tilbury Docks.
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Windrush passengers became frequent guests on the BBC after their arrival 70 years ago.
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Wonder why Nigel Farage is on so often? Maybe because he’s very willing to turn up.
Anti-apartheid cleric Trevor Huddleston, centre, with South African liberation struggle icons Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in 1991.
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Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
Forward thinker: Tessa Jowell in 2007.
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Years before ‘fake news’ was a thing, Jowell saw media education as a crucial life skill.
Flamingoes dance on a lake in South America in Planet Earth II Live in Concert.
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Planet Earth II Live fuses footage from the BBC series with live orchestration. Despite some narrative flaws, it’s a stirring call to look after our environment.
All for one?
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Big new accountancy survey highlights the limitations in UK government’s approach to pay gap reporting.
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Mostly seen in bit parts and stereotypes, Wales and its people are struggling for BBC screen time.
Aphrodite of Menophantos, Praxiteles (4th century BCE). Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy.
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Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.
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Hollywood has long had a problem with diversity. But thanks to services like Netflix women have found a place for their stories, compelling Tinseltown to change.
Still on top.
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Even as the news market transforms, BBC News is still the dominant force. Why?
Sean Bean plays a Catholic priest in the new BBC drama, Broken.
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The public broadcaster wants to encourage greater literacy and promote equal coverage of all faiths, including humanism.
Why let George Osborne have all the fun?
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Scotland’s former first minister has sparked outrage in the UK with his latest move.
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Five decades after its launch, BBC Local Radio faces an existential crisis and needs energy and vision to secure its future.
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Three minutes of bland and uncontroversial radio which doesn’t reflect the passion and complexity of religion.
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Gunpowder, treason and plot: historical consultants to BBC drama explain their role on the show.