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The BBC radio feature, originally influenced by the documentary film movement, combined music and sound with speech that at first was scripted, later recorded on location, along with 'actuality'. This paper will ask 'whose speech?' A memorandum from BBC Director General, John Reith, in 1924, had insisted that "only those who have a claim to be heard above their fellows on any particular subject… should be put on the programme". Nevertheless, from the 1930s onwards, there was a continuing effort on the part of more politically-minded producers to extend the range of voices heard on the air. The BBC's North Region, where it was easier to escape Reith's centralising control, led the way. Pioneering initiatives used the cumbersome recording apparatus of the time to reach into people's homes and work-places to capture working class voices. After WW2 this example was followed in other regions, until, belatedly in the late 1950s, the BBC began to accept the use of portable recording. By this time a Europe-wide culture of radio feature-making had developed, influenced by the French exploration of musique concrète and the flourishing German Hörspiel, and fostered by the Prix Italia and the International Features Workshop. British features producers contributed to this movement and won some success with highly-crafted, aesthetically innovative features. The paper concludes by examining examples of the voices heard in BBC radio features in the last decade of the 20th century.

"Responses to Economic Crisis in Africa" published on by Oxford University Press.

Nigeria's recent electoral season marked an important departure from the familiar trajectory of politics in that country. Departing from Nigeria's history of flawed elections and oligarchic control, this most recent balloting offered a broadly credible and competitive exercise across most of the country. Yet the outcome of the presidential contest, though seemingly decisive in numerical terms, has also sharpened sectional tensions that could upset Nigeria's fragile political equilibrium. Political initiative, economic strategy, and the changing nature of social movements will determine whether or not Nigerians can successfully navigate the risk of sectional conflict.

Near-term prospects for the region's economies are encouraging when one considers the enormous shocks of the recent crisis and the depth of the global downturn.

Lewis offers an innovative review of Lagos Wide & Close: An interactive journey into an exploding city, itself an innovative new media project by Rem Koolhaas and Bregtje van der Haak (The Netherlands: Submarine DVD, 2006). Adapted from the source document.