The article implies that there is one language called "pidjin". This is cobblers.

There are many pidjins. The word comes from one of the pidjins' word for "business", being a pidjinised version of that word. Pidjins are more or less artificial languages designed for doing "business" originally between colonial incomers and the natives. They are made by taking simplified gramnar and vocabulary from the incomers" language (the "substrate" and adapting it around grammatical features and words from local languages for the purpose of easy learning.

The best known example of a pidjin is probably Tok Pisin, which is an English substrate creole spoken in Papua New Guinea. A creole is a pijin that has changed and developed in its own right, and this happens quickly and easily. Therefore, there are not many real pidjins left as they have mostly all creolised now.

Tok Pisin is totally analytic (no noun declension), has only two prepositions - "bilong" which means "of" and "long" which is used for any other preposition; a particle "i" which precedes any verb to mark it as transitive, and a particle "-pela" which makes plurals and multiples rather like a classifier in Chinese but also makes demonstrative, articles, dual and trial numbers, and so on. This is the Lord's Prayer in Tok Pisin.

Papa bilong mipela
Yu stap long heven.
Nem bilong yu i mas i stap holi.
Kingdom bilong yu i mas i kam.
Strongim mipela long bihainim laik bilong yu long graun,
olsem ol i bihainim long heven.
Givim mipela kaikai inap long tude.
Pogivim rong bilong mipela,
olsem mipela i pogivim ol arapela i mekim rong long mipela.
Sambai long mipela long taim bilong traim.
Na rausim olgeta samting nogut long mipela.
Kingdom na strong na glori, em i bilong yu tasol oltaim oltaim.
Tru.

In this particular creole the word "pisin" means "business" (see above) and "pigeon, bird". Phonological simplification leads to many homophones.

Our licence fee actually pays for this sh*t.

They claim it doesn't, but it comes from our taxes one way or the other and is stupidly expensive.

BBC World Service received further funding of £291m until 2019/20 from the UK Government to launch 12 new language services: Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Serbian, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. This additional funding is not part of the licence fee.

Indeed. I am eagerly awaiting one of the usual suspects to trot out the obligatory 'But it only works out at 12p a day'

I knew of half of them, the aforementioned plus the Nigerian and Indian dialects, and the obvious Serbian. I still have no idea why were paying to produce content in those languages though.