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[hunglee2]

yes indeed I do, BBC itself started for PR purposes, I believe BBC Worldwide retains it as its core purpose

[Angostura → hunglee2]

The BBC was started with the core mission to 'Inform, educate, entertain.'

The BBC World Service - funded by the Foreign Office, rather than from the core BBC license fee funding, did indeed have soft-power as part of its remit.