The programmes are in more than forty languages including Arabic, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Romanian and Spanish and they are listened to by about 150 million people. The only time that the service has stopped was in 1985 when BBC workers went on strike. The strike was because the British government had wanted to ban a documentary which included an interview with a member of Sinn Fein (the political party which wants to unite Ireland).

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The programmes are in more than forty languages including Arabic, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Romanian and Spanish and they are listened to by about 150 million people. The only time that the service has stopped was in 1985 when BBC workers went on strike. The strike was because the British government had wanted to ban a documentary which included an interview with a member of Sinn Fein (the political party which wants to unite Ireland).