As an ex-pat living overseas, you probably miss the UK television service, which is known to be second to none.
BBC World is one of my favourite channels. The BBC has embraced the whole digital revolution by making their flagship new channel, BBC World, accessible from just about anywhere on the planet.
In the olden days of the British Empire, the BBC World Service was that radio channel that you could pick up from any continent, using a Shortwave radio, and often on Long Wave, Medium Wave and FM too. World Service is still around, but in the modern Internet era, we now have BBC World as the defacto Flagship channel for the British Broadcasting Corporation. BBC World helps promote the British, Anglo-Saxon agenda, and for an expat living overseas, without direct over-the-air access to British Television, it's a god-send.
BBC World was available for a while only on Cable Television, such as Foxtel in Australia, and on the various cable and satellite networks in the US and Asia. Now we have BBC World flirting with YouTube, and YouTube is certainly available anywhere that there is broadband internet service, which is just about anywhere these days.
My favourite way, however, for accessing BBC World, is to use Livestation. Livestation is a little program that you can download for your MS Windows or Mac OS X operating system, that basically streams in a select bunch of channels, mainly news, to your desktop. Beware however, because this uses a lot of bandwidth, 200k/hour according to the Livestation team. That can be an issue if you're using a Wireless plan with a monthly quota, or you live in a country where you're saddled with a quota-ADSL service, such as Australia.
