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BBC Two. Original release. 11 March. ( 2011-03-11) –. 1 April 2011. ( 2011-04-01) The British at Work is a four-part BBC Two documentary series, broadcast in 2011. It is presented by Kirsty Young.
Work with the BBC. From 1926 to 1940, Lloyd James was the honorary secretary of the BBC's advisory committee on spoken English and was instrumental in establishing a standard broadcasting pronunciation for British English, familiarly referred to as "BBC English". In 1938, he was given the title of "Linguistic Adviser to the BBC".
BBC Learning English. BBC Learning English is a department of the BBC World Service devoted to English language teaching. The service provides free resources and activities for teachers and students, primarily through its website. It also produces radio programmes which air on some of the BBC World Service's language services and partner stations.
The founding of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English was due in large part to John Reith, who was the BBC's first managing editor. [3] Reith wanted to narrow down on-air pronunciations on his network, and in turn created this committee in an effort to set the standard. [3] The committee's first declarations of pronunciation Dos and Don ...
Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century, there has been argument over such questions as the definition of RP, whether it is geographically neutral, how many speakers there are, whether sub-varieties exist, how appropriate a choice it is as a standard, and how the accent has changed ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
12 December 1954. ( 1954-12-12) (see text) Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed ...