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The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programmes and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world.

talkSPORT is the world’s biggest sports radio station and is the global audio partner of the Premier League. The station is the official broadcaster of the Premier League, the FA Cup, England football internationals and the EFL Cup and was the official broadcaster of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In August, the network launched its GameDay coverage, with live and exclusive games at 12.30pm, 3pm and 5.30pm and over a quarter more Premier League games for the 2019/2020 season. talkSPORT’s international arm broadcasts across the world in five different languages – English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic and now Swahili. talkSPORT was named Network of the Year at the 2019 Sports Journalism Awards. talkSPORT 2 is talkSPORT's sister station. Together the stations have an audience of over 3 million. talkSPORT 2 concentrates on live sport broadcasting including the network’s award-winning cricket coverage. Rights partnerships also include broadcasting live rugby union, rugby league, tennis, golf and La Liga, as well as an exclusive Premier League fixture every Saturday as part of the network’s GameDay coverage. You can listen to talkSPORT 2 via DAB, online, via the app. talkSPORT's expert on-air team of presenters and commentators features legends of football, cricket and rugby alongside some of the most experienced sports broadcasters in the country. These include Alan Brazil, Laura Woods, Ally McCoist, Reshmin Chowdhury, Darren Bent, Hugh Woozencroft, Danny Kelly, Adrian Durham, Darren Gough, Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs, Jim White and Natalie Sawyer, Stuart Pearce, Georgie Bingham and Faye Carruthers

Classic FM remains the UK's most popular classical music station with 5.2m listeners every week. John Suchet now reaches 2.7m people each week, adding 200,000 listeners in the past quarter.