BBC Worldwide is a commercial enterprise, set up to make money from BBC productions; the UK government may like the perception of the UK it creates abroad, but

BBC Worldwide is a commercial enterprise, set up to make money from BBC productions; the UK government may like the perception of the UK it creates abroad, but that's not its explicit purpose. The explicit propaganda arm of the BBC, the equivalent of Voice of America, is the BBC World Service, which until last year was directly funded by the UK Foreign Office.