Chris Patten promises to protect BBC World Service in face of cuts

MediaGuardian - Radio - on 12/6/11
BBC Trust Loading... chairman says he will lobby William Hague Loading... over plans for Foreign Office funding to end in 2014The new chairman of the BBC Loading... Trust, Lord Patten, has committed the organisation to an international and apparently multicultural future, in the face of government-imposed funding cuts. He stressed the importance of the World Service and described the corporation's Arabic, Somali and Hindi network...
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BBC Trust chairman says he will lobby William Hague over plans for Foreign Office funding to end in 2014.

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Chris Patten, BBC World Service, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, BBC, Sunday Telegraph, BBC Trust, William Hague, Guardian Media Group, The Guardian

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