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Ms Marson was already an experienced writer and journalist by the time she joined the BBC in 1939.Her first role in the corporation was working at the Alexandra Palace television studios. When war broke out and the BBC’s TV services were shutdown, she transferred to radio to work both behind the scenes and on air.Ms Marson later joined full-time as a programme assistant in the “Empire Programmes” department, where her interest in poetry led her to elevate authors from the Caribbean. She also broadcasted messages from servicemen and women in England to their friends and families in the Caribbean, in…

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The US has launched strikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq in response to Sunday’s drone attack on a US military base that killed three soldiers.The US military’s Central Command says its forces conducted airstrikes against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.The BBC’s analysis editor Ros Atkins explains the Iran-linked targets. Source link

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