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Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
Section ( pl, Sekcja polska BBC) was one of the foreign-language services of the
BBC World Service. It existed between 1939 and 2005.
History
A decision to establish the BBC Polish Section was made on 3 September 1939, after Great Britain declared war on Germany. First programme was broadcast on 7 September 1939.
Programmes consisted of news, press reviews, commentaries, reports and interviews, and were also used for transmitting coded messages and orders to the
Polish Underground
The Polish Underground State ( pl, Polskie Państwo Podziemne, also known as the Polish Secret State) was a single political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Gover ...
using prearranged selection of songs and code phrases.
After
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Easte ...
, a decision was made to continue broadcasting in Polish. Like other broadcasts from behind the
Iron Curtain, BBC Polish-language programmes were
jammed and, in the 1950s, listeners on occasion would be persecuted as enemies of the people. Jamming stopped in the 1970s but was reintroduced in 1981 as the authorities clamped down on political freedom (see
martial law in Poland). Jamming finally ended in 1988. During the post-war period, while still concentrating on impartial and uncensored news, programming was expanded to culture, technology, social matters, British life and daily
English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...
lessons.
In 1996, the office in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
was opened.
On 25 October 2005 it was announced that 10 foreign-language services, including Polish, will be closed to free resources needed to start a new
Arabic
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-language television service. The last broadcast in Polish took place on 23 December 2005.
Key personnel
Heads of Polish Section
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Robin Campbell (1939–?)
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Michael Winch (?–1942)
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Gregory MacDonald (1942–1945)
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Evelyn Zasio (1945–1953)
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Józef Zarański (1953–1960)
*
Stanisław Faecher (1960–1966)
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Zbigniew Błażyński (1966–1973)
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Jan Krok-Paszkowski (1973–1980)
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Krzysztof Pszenicki (1980–1988)
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Eugeniusz Smolar (1988–1998)
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Marek Cajzner (1998–2005)
Heads of Warsaw Office
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Robert Kozak
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Leszek Jarosz
External links
History of the BBC Polish Section(Polish)
50 years of the BBC Polish Section(Polish)
This Is London: The Wartime Story of the BBC Polish Section
1939 establishments in the United Kingdom
2005 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Polish Srction
Radio stations established in 1939
Radio stations disestablished in 2005
Poland–United Kingdom relations
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