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The BBC at 100: the corporation’s 20 most defining moments

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The BBC at 100: the 20 most significant events for the organisation

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The BBC was established in 1922, the same year the Soviet Union was established.

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While the USSR may have had the greatest influence on the development of world history in the 20th century,

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Another organisation also failed in 1989, yet the BBC is still going strong today.

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Who is to say which will have a greater lasting impact, in other words?

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It would have been difficult to predict when Lord Reith was tasked in 1922 with creating a strategy for the nation.

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forming the company as a collaboration of British wireless service providers.

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The BBC has evolved over the last century from a modest radio station to a major news agency.