BBC PLANS TO AXE DRAMA PRODUCTION FOR BBC WORLD SERVICE

If your answer to any of the following questions is in the affirmative, YES, please do sign this petition using the “Sign Our Petition” form HERE to register your support for the continued existence of the BBC World Service Drama and for the above authorities to reconsider their decision to axe such a strategically important service as of 1st April 2011:

Do you love listening to radio drama, including those produced for an international audience?

Please sign HERE

Are you a literary writer, dramatist or playwright whose works have been accessed internationally through radio drama?

Do you believe that axing BBC World Service Drama will cause a considerable loss to the

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international literary landscape?

Do you believe that such a loss will create a major gap between those literary works deemed suitable for Radio 3 or Radio 4’s target audience and those deemed for an international audience only (eg. productions labelled “world-centric”)?

Are you concerned that cultural diversity is represented in mainstream radio drama?

Do you believe that drama is a valuable vehicle for communicating and sharing different life experiences and realities?

Do you consider the BBC World Service Drama an iconic world heritage?

Would you gravely miss the BBC World Service Drama if it is axed?

Does the BBC World Service Drama have a special place in your heart?

Do you believe that BBC World Service Drama has such an international strategic role in the advancement of the literary work from more culturally diversified experiences that its existence should be ensured and ring fenced by the British