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The financial pressures facing ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service English

Despite an increase in grant-aid from the UK government, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service has announced a number of programme cuts. We hear listeners’ responses.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service says that despite a recent increase in grant-aid support from the UK government, the extra cash is not enough to maintain all its English language service programmes.
As a result some shows are facing the axe later this year.
We’ll tell you which programmes are involved - and also hear listeners’ reactions.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Whistledown production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service

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