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The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has details of its programme schedule to the centenary of World War I. It is almost 2,500 hours of new TV and radio shows. These will be from 2014 to 2018, to the one hundred years since the war. It is the biggest plan in the BBC's history. Tony Hall, the head of the BBC, said the programming would be, "a chance for us all to something new about a war we think we know well". A BBC spokesman said: "We are out to people's understanding of the war, to commemorate and those who were up in it, and to tell both well-known stories from fresh perspectives and original stories so far untold."

World War I (WWI) is also as the First World War. It was a global war that mostly place in Europe. It on 28 July 1914 and until 11 November 1918. It was the "World War" or the "Great War" until 1939, when World War II started. More than 9 million soldiers were in WWI. This makes it the fifth-deadliest conflict in human history. Over 70 million people in countries all over the world. The United States the fighting in 1917. After the war ended, many countries changed and many new nations were . There were also revolutions in a lot of countries. There was a lot of unhappiness in some countries. This lasted for many years and one of the causes of World War II.