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BBC World Service
Weekdays at 1 p.m., 5 p.m. & 9 p.m. and Weekends at 4 p.m. on KPR2
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting news, speech and discussions in 28 languages to many parts of the world. The World Service was reported to have reached 188 million people a week on average in June 2009. It does not carry advertising, and the English language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.