Queen's House, WC2

The former English-by-Radio department of the BBC World Service was established in 1943 taught English as a foreign language on radio from a building called the Queen's House in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Familiar to listeners the world over, the unit produced programmes in English and in a bilingual format.

Queen’s House was the creative hub of the operation, and was to be joined by a TV production wing in the early 1960s. Radio programmes were broadcast from studios in Bush House, whilst TV programmes were made in a variety of BBC and non-BBC studios and sold internationally.

Although no longer in the Queen's House, the service is now online and known as BBC Learning English.