BBC's global audience rises to 239 million

Director of BBC global news says viewers flocked to Arabic and Persian services for coverage of unrest last year The BBC has said its global weekly TV, radio and online audience rose by 6% – to 239 million – in the past 12 months on the back of the Arab spring uprising. Peter Horrocks, the director of BBC global news, said in a blogpost on Wednesday that viewers had flocked to its Arabic and