For the 'Free to Speak' season and to mark the relationship between listeners and the people who have made radio programmes over the last 75 years, we are collecting stories about BBC World Service.

Write your stories and match your listening memories to a time line with Memoryshare. Click here to use Memoryshare.

Using the link above you can tell us your significant memories of listening to BBC World Service, but also:

• Were you listening to the World Service as major world events unfolded, such as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001? How did listening to the news affect you?



• Have you lived in a region where BBC World Service been one of the few impartial news sources available to you? Did you know, for example, that former Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev listened in to BBC World Service during the 1991 coup?



• The BBC set up an emergency broadcast service during the genocide in Rwanda. Have you listened in to one of BBC World Service's lifeline broadcasts? How did it help you?



• Has BBC World Service been a source of comfort to you, as it was for Terry Waite, John McCarthy and Brian Keenan when they were hostages in Lebanon?



• Have you ever worked for BBC World Service, what did you do and what struck you about working here? Discover stories from former BBC staff

To contribute and to read through personal stories click through to BBC World Service Memoryshare.