Worldwide radio service. Originally founded as the BBC Empire Service for English speakers across the British Empire.
In 1938, foreign languages were introduced, and the name of the station was changed to BBC Overseas Services. In 1965 it became the BBC World Service and currently (2022) transmits in 40+ languages.
While the plaque is in Market Place the building occupied by the BBC also had the address 200 Oxford Street.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
BBC Overseas Services
{Next to the BBC crest with the motto, 'Nation shall speak peace unto nation'...
Actor. Born Irene Joan Marion Sims in Laindon. Essex. She first appeared on stage in the early 1950s, and in 1958 was cast in 'Carry on Nurse'. She became a stalwart of this film series, initially ...
Actor. Born Shirley Broomfield in Bolton, Lancashire. She started her career as a glamour model. Laurence Olivier chose her to play the prime female role in the film 'The Entertainer' and she also ...
Actor. Born Derbyshire. Played Captain Mainwaring in 'Dad's Army', 1968 - 1977. Collapsed in his Birmingham dressing room and died in a nearby hospital. In 2007 a statue was erected in Thetford,...
Actor, songwriter. Born London. Wrote that Cliff Richard hit 'Marianne'. Played Compo in 'Last of the Summer Wine'. Died Westminster.
Actor. Born Frederick John Inman in Preston Lancashire. He made his stage debut at the age of 13. First appeared on television in the 1960s and achieved fame at home and eventually worldwide as the...
We'd give odds that most Londoners have never heard of Princes Circus but it's there on the map, at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue, S...
London County Council Stéphane Mallarmé, 1842 - 1898, poet, stayed here in 1863.
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