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World Service,13 Sep 2001,13 mins

September 11th Attacks and BBC Website

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Concern that the BBC website couldn't cope when the September 11th attacks happened. Questions about Jazz and programmes being moved around the schedules without broadcast times being given. Controller Penny Tuerk responds. A look back at early transmissions including 'Twenty Questions', a popular quiz programme from the 1950s in response to a letter from a listener who has tuned into the World Service since 1942.

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