This is London   First broadcast   During the Cold War   Speaking to the Arab world   Reporting from the front line   The future of broadcasting		In the beginning... The BBC made its first regular overseas broadcast on 19 December 1932. From the outset it insisted on the same freedom from Government control as the BBC’s domestic services. During World War II parts of what is now the World Service moved into Bush House. The historic building in the centre of London remains the organisation’s radio headquarters today. By the end of the war, the BBC was broadcasting in 45 languages. Listen to the BBC’s former India correspondent, Sir Mark Tully as he looks back at the early years of the Empire Service and how, during World War II, the service rapidly grew to meet the challenges of the conflict.

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