BBC World Service radio

September 29, 2023

BBC WS radio’s ‘The History Hour’ recycles 2017 inaccuracy

Previously we looked at five editions of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Witness History’...

December 14, 2022

BBC mainstreaming of the ‘apartheid’ smear continues

In February 2014 BICOM published a study by Professor Alan Johnson called ‘The Apartheid Smear’ ...

February 14, 2022

BBC responds to a complaint from CAMERA UK on Temple Mount reports

Last week we documented issues arising from two BBC Jerusalem bureau reports – filmed and radio â€...

December 10, 2021

BBC rejects complaint on accuracy in report on Jerusalem terror attack

Previously we discussed an item in an edition of the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshourâ€...

July 12, 2021

Down the BBC Complaints procedure rabbit hole

As we all too often have cause to note on these pages, the BBC’s editorial guidelines on impartial...

July 20, 2020

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ recycles an inaccuracy previously acknowledged and corrected

In February of this year the BBC’s response to a complaint from CAMERA UK acknowledged that the PL...

May 25, 2020

BBC News reports from the Israeli courts it claimed are closed

In late March we noted that viewers of the BBC News channel had been wrongly informed that Israel’...

February 9, 2020

BBC Complaints invokes ‘common parlance in the media’

The BBC will "remind editors" of a PA envoy's "actual title". ...

September 1, 2019

BBC WS radio corrects inaccurate claim of a ‘siege’ on the Gaza Strip

Following a complaint from BBC Watch, BBC World Service radio has amended a programme. ...

November 25, 2018

BBC issues correction to inaccurate Jerusalem elections claim

BBC Watch has secured a correction to an inaccurate claim made in three radio programmes. ...