The BBC World Service (heard on many public radio stations) is a British government propaganda operation. Until 2010, it was funded directly by the Foreign Office, the equivalent of the US State department. The World Service is different than the domestic radio and TV that is funded by a yearly tax on owning a TV
Perhaps provoked by the instability around the world, the British Government just voted to restore direct government funding of the World Service
Part of the reason is that when people watch “TV” on their computer, there is no TV tax revenue. Taxing every device that was potentially able to stream video was not acceptable. Guess what happened next…