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|Article=BBC World Service

|Description=This is 1 minute and 28 seconds of audio from the BBC World Service, which consists of an announcement that it is the BBC World Service, the Westminster Chimes, then an announcement that Big Ben would be heard at "Midnight Greenwich Mean Time", followed by 12 bell strikes indicating midnight.

|Source=Recorded from their Internet transmission 00:00 GMT on 1 January 2009.

|Portion=1 Minute 28 Seconds

|Low_resolution=Sampling frequency reduced from 48 kHz to 32 kHz, and bit rate reduced from 126 kbps to 51 kbps

|Purpose=The purpose of this is to demonstrate the sequence which occurred at the start of the hour and the start of 2009, and show how it was played in the BBC World Service.

|Replaceability=There is no way to demonstrate the sound used without reproducing it

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