INFLUENCE OF MELODY FM NIGERIA GO BETTER, A PIDGIN ENGLISH RADIO PROGRAMME IN CREATING DEVELOPMENT AWARENESS IN WARRI, NIGERIA

The study investigates how radio has been used as a carrier of development information to create awareness on development issues among people of Warri, Nigeria. The study builds on what researchers have recognized as the strength of radio in spurring peoples’ interest and participation in development matters. The study adopts the cross-sectional research method to sample the views of 240 respondents drawn from Warri population. The graduated data derived from a Likert scale were statistically analysed using percentages. The findings reaffirmed the rationalized position of scholars on the use of radio in the direction of development. The sustainability of the programme and the quest for future capable hands to continue to run the programme however remain a worry to the people and are recommended for action.

Topic Modelling Extraction of “Mann Ki Baat”

The purpose of this study is to give an insight about Textual Data analytics and its application in the analysis of unique public relations campaign”Mann Ki Baat” that was initiated by incumbent Prime Minister of India,honourable “Mr.Narendra Modi” which was initially aired on All India Radio Programme on Vijaya Dashami on October 3rd , 2014 followed by second on November 2nd, 2014 of the same year till December 2019. In this paper, an analytical framework is designed using a powerful technique of textual data analytics “Topic Modelling based on LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)” to accomplish the study. The proposed framework is applied to the corpus of 60 episodes(October 2014 to December 2019) of Mann ki Baat gathered from PMindia website and was analyzed in greater detail. The terms used frequently and recurrence of the topics spoken in his popular monthly radio address program were determined and analyzed from both in statistical and dynamic perspectives.In this context the present study is a first approach of application under the conventional technique “topic modelling” on Mann Ki Baat.Further, this is the principal endeavour to excerpt the themes discussed in radio programme using statistical modelling.

GARY CARPENTER (b. 1951)Love’s Eternity: Five Songs of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2006)

This chapter studies Gary Carpenter’s Love’s Eternity (2006). Carpenter admits that this work is quite different from anything else in his output. It was first conceived as part of a radio programme about Robert Browning’s final days, and the knowledge of Browning’s affection for Schumann’s music had a subliminal influence on the style. Carpenter’s sensitivity to sound quality is exceptional: timings and tessitura ensure the complete audibility of the texts. The singer stays comfortably on the stave for the bulk of the piece, and the voice is allowed to cruise evenly through limpid lines that feel entirely natural from the outset. The music rises and falls in logical patterns, often repeated, in an unaffected, tonal idiom. Deep feeling is conveyed simply and directly without bombast or over-dramatization. Moreover, piano parts throughout have a strong stylistic unity. Their rich textures, often covering a wide range, contribute strongly to the expressive impact, providing warm sonorities and added colour to the plainer vocal lines.

Women in extraordinary times: the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers

This article examines the impact of external jolts on professional women’s careers. Although scholars have begun to address the role of context in career, little research has addressed the effects of unexpected and uncontrollable events. This is regrettable, particularly in the light of the current pandemic that appears to be impacting on us in hitherto unimaginable ways. We draw on the accounts of women professionals who appeared on the iconic BBC radio programme, Desert Island Discs. Our study culminates in two contributions: the first relates to the interplay of structure and agency in women’s accounts of jolts and their response. The second argues that jolts trigger changes in the career imagination, and potentially in professional landscapes themselves.

When the dial goes Dylan: ‘premium’ radio, hybrid authenticity and Theme Time Radio Hour

This article explores the construction of hybrid authenticity by Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour, an XM Radio programme that aired between 2006 and 2009. Dylan's foray into radio presents compelling questions about the role of his star image in advancing a corporate strategy of premium radio that requires subscription access. Through narration and curation, a performed freeform radio format and fragments of radio history, Dylan's celebrity, voice and status as a vehicle for understanding the ‘American song tradition’ are solidified within the context of subscription satellite radio. In advance of the dominance of subscription streaming listening that companies like Spotify are now known for, Dylan's radio programme and recorded music of this period contribute to XM Radio's efforts to distinguish the satellite service from ‘traditional’ commercial format radio and to entice music listeners to become subscribers.

Scripting the radio interview: Performing Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs reveals much about the BBC’s early approach to the radio interview. The radio programme calls for its audience, the host and a ‘castaway’ to engage in a fantasy where guests are invited to preselect musical records to accompany them on a fictional desert island. This concept acts as a vehicle in which the host asks questions or makes statements about the significance of these records, in order to unearth the private motivations of a public figure. This has proved itself as a predictable, reassuring and innovative format that all parties must commit to. This article addresses the first decade of the programme, where all interviews were scripted. Studying the origins of this series allows us to cast some assertions on the ways that scripting was used to communicate and mediate a host’s persona and an interviewee’s past and personality. The use of scripting was intended to create a sense of informality, humour and theatrical drama. Contextualizing these types of scripted exchanges further informs our understanding of the radio interview within our mediated cultural heritage.

Jon Gotzon's syncretic bilingual parody: Pushing the boundaries of ‘authentic’ Basque

In normative, academic, and informative works on Basque there are constant debates on the boundaries of what is meant by ‘authentic Basque’ and, alongside that, by ‘authentic Basque speaker’. In the current Basque media, these tensions are often addressed by means of creative practices, as in other minority contexts, by means of satire and other forms of humour, especially parody. In this work my subject is the character Jon Gotzon, who engages in parody on the radio programme Gaztea. Jon Gotzon is a hyperbolic and parodic stylisation of a new Basque speaker. He challenges ‘authentic’ and ‘native’ Basque-speaking styles in his syncretic bilingual stylisation and parodic discourse. In this research, I study the way this parody takes advantages of carnivalesque strategies in order to question fixed ideological hierarchies on Basqueness, and I explore the ideological positions Jon Gotzon's parody reveals, especially with respect to hybrid identities in the Basque community. (Parody, stylisation, authenticity, minority media, Basque, humour)*

The self-defining period in autobiographical memory: Evidence from a long-running radio show

This study is the first to demonstrate that a self-defining period (SP) for personally relevant music emerges spontaneously in a public naturalistic setting. While previous research has demonstrated that people tend to have better memory and preference for songs from their teenage years, the theoretical relevance of these studies has been limited by their reliance on forced-choice methodology and a confinement to contemporary popular Western music. Here, we examine the record choices of famous guests ( n = 80; mean age = 61.6 years) interviewed for Desert Island Discs, a long-running popular radio programme on BBC Radio 4. Half of all choices were shown to have been most important between the ages of 10 and 30 years, and the most popular reason for their relevance was the song’s link to memories of a person, period, or place. We suggest that music is a defining feature of the SP, intrinsically connected to the developing self.