Editing BBC World Service (section)

===Opening tune===
[[File:BBC World Service Top of Hour.ogg|thumb|A previous BBC World Service signature tune and an example of a top-of-the-hour announcement]]
The World Service uses several tunes and sounds to represent the station. A previous signature tune of the station was a five note motif, composed by David Arnold and which comprises a variety of voices declaim "This is the BBC in..." before going on to name various cities (e.g. [[Kampala]], [[Milan]], [[Delhi]], [[Johannesburg]]), followed by the station's slogan and the [[Greenwich Time Signal]].<ref name=signature>{{cite web | title = What is the BBC World Service signature tune? | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2009/03/000000_ws_sig_tune.shtml | publisher = BBC | access-date = 4 September 2010 | archive-date = 9 February 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110209040114/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2009/03/000000_ws_sig_tune.shtml | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=music>{{cite web | title = Audio Identities | url = http://imagedissectors.com/article/46 | author = Robert Weedon | date = 16 December 2009 | access-date = 4 September 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100922192529/http://www.imagedissectors.com/article/46 | archive-date = 22 September 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref> This was heard throughout the network with a few variations – in the UK the full service name was spoken, whereas just the name of the BBC was used outside the UK. The phrase "This is London" was used previously in place of a station slogan.

The tune "[[Lillibullero]]" was another well known signature tune of the network following its broadcast previously as part of the top-of-the-hour sequence.<ref name=music/> This piece of music is no longer heard before news bulletins.<ref name=signature/> The use of the tune gained minor controversy because of its background as a [[Protestant]] marching song in [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name=signature/><ref name=music/>

The ''[[Prince of Denmark's March]]'' (commonly known as the ''Trumpet Voluntary'') was often broadcast by the BBC Radio during [[World War II]], especially when programming was directed to [[occupied Denmark]], as the march symbolised a connection between the two countries. It remained for many years the signature tune of the BBC European Service.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.orbem.co.uk/grams/grams_5.htm | title=BBC Station Idents and Interval Signals | access-date=17 July 2020 | archive-date=28 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128103855/http://www.orbem.co.uk/grams/grams_5.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/uk-bbcws.htm | title=Interval Signals Online - United Kingdom (BBC World Service) | access-date=17 July 2020 | archive-date=18 July 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718010028/http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/uk-bbcws.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:BBC World Service Big Ben 1-1-2009.ogg|thumb|left|The BBC World Service announcement and the chimes of Big Ben at midnight GMT, 1 January 2009]]
In addition to these tunes, the BBC World Service also uses several [[interval signal]]s. The English service uses a recording of [[Bow Bells]], made in 1926 and used a symbol of hope during World War II, only replaced for a brief time during the 1970s with the tune to the nursery rhyme "[[Oranges and Lemons]]". The morse code of the letter "[[V]]" has also been used as a signal and was introduced in January 1941 and had several variations including [[timpani]], the first four notes of [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Fifth Symphony]] (which coincide with the letter "V"), and electronic tones which until recently remained in use for some Western European services. In other languages, the interval signal is three notes, pitched B–B-C. However, these symbols have been used less frequently.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}