BBC World Service has revealed that it has 163 million weekly listeners in 33 languages.
According to the BBC the figure has been arrived at through
independent surveys around the world and is up 14 per cent on a year
ago. The BBC claims the figure is 50 per cent more than any other
comparable international broadcaster.
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