EUROPEAN NEWS SERVICE.

HC Deb 14 May 1941 vol 371 cc1203-4

35. Captain Dugdale

asked the Minister of Information the languages in which the European news service is broadcast?

Mr. Cooper

I will circulate in the Official Report particulars of the 25 European languages in which the B.B.C. now broadcasts.

Following are the particulars:

In the European service, news bulletins are broadcast daily in the following languages:

• Albanian.
• Bulgarian.
• Czech.
• Danish.
• Dutch.
• English.
• Finnish.
• Flemish.
• French (including a bulletin primarily intended for Belgium).
• German (including a bulletin primarily intended for Austria).
• Greek.
• Italian
• Magyar.
• Norwegian.
• Polish.
• Portuguese.
• Rumanian.
• Serbo-Croat.
• Slovene.
• Spanish.
• Swedish.

In addition, news is broadcast in Icelandic (newsletter once a week), Slovak (irregular broadcasts in Czech bulletins) and Luxembourg patois (newsletter once a week). A weekly newsletter in Maltese is included in the B.B.C.'s Empire service.