Conversations With the World

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The BBC World Service broadcasts to the entire world in 37 languages. In its 57 years, it has built up a global audience estimated at 120 million listeners per week, and a reputation for trustworthiness and independence.Since becoming Managing Director of BBC World Service in 1986, John Tusa has addressed a number of related issues in speeches and articles. These include the nature of propaganda, the balance between public policy and public service values in international broadcasting, the evolution of broadcasts to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the glasnost era, the clashes over broadcasting to Iran during the overthrow of the Shah, and the rationale for broadcasting to Western Europe.In Conversations with the World, John Tusa considers such topics in essay form, and also includes three eyewitness pieces from his recent travels as Managing Director. These offer an unusual perspective on the historic Solidarity Elections in Poland, the emergence of Uganda from chaos to a modicum of order, and the debates in Pakistan about backing the Afghan Mujaheddin for a military victory following Soviet withdrawal.