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THE Nigerian Guild of editors has adopted a new constitution at its convention which was held at the Airport Hotel, Lagos, [detalii...]

The Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of editors (NGE), the International Press Institute (IPI), the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) and the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) have condemned the arrest of four editors and three non journalist employees of The Nation [detalii...]

FOUR senior editors with Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation were yesterday arrested by security operatives from Force CID, Alagbon, [detalii...]

Amb.Oladapo Fafowora delivered this paper at the All Nigeria editors Conference of the Nigerian Guild of editors in Benin City last [detalii...]

The SA National editors Forum condemns the treatment meted out to Sunday Times reporter Mzilikazi wa Afrika by the police while he was in [detalii...]

No fewer than 300 Nigerian editors from the print and electronic media converged in Benin on Thursday to refocus the nations media for social consciousness and [detalii...]

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South African National editors Forum (SANEF) and Parliaments Portfolio Committee on Justice on Wednesday agreed to adjourn their talks on the proposed Protection of Information Bill pending further [detalii...]

SOUTH African editors yesterday vowed to resist attempts to institute a state-appointed media tribunal and rejected legislation that they said restricted public access to [detalii...]

The trial of the Daily Monitor editors, who allegedly doctored President Yoweri Musevenis letter, failed to take off on [detalii...]

Government communications head Jimmy Manyi is to blame for rapidly deteriorating relations between the media and the state, SA National editors Forum (Sanef) chairman Mondli Makhanya said on [detalii...]

The African editors Forum (TAEF) and the African Union Commission, held a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday in the context of the Year of Peace and [detalii...]

Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has received a prestigious award from the African editors Forum for the free environment her government has provided the media to operate since she took office January 16, [detalii...]

The leadership of the South African National editors Forum (SANEF) and Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane have agreed that they will take steps to improve relations between government and [detalii...]

Newspaper editors Serge Sabouang of the bimonthly La Nation and Robert Mintya of the weekly Le Devoir were freed provisionally yesterday after more than eight months in Yaoundes main prison, [detalii...]

The SA National editors Forum (Sanef) welcomes the majority decision of the Constitutional Court in upholding the Citizen newspapers appeal in a defamation case against former Ekurhuleni Metro police chief, Robert McBride as a victory for freedom of expression and freedom of the [detalii...]

Government is planning a meeting with senior editors to discuss perceptions that it is intent on limiting media [detalii...]

Court on Wednesday fixed a new hearing date of a case in which two Daily Monitor editors are accused of forging president Musevenis [detalii...]

Prompted by a Twitter discussion with journalist Jonathan Ancer (jonathanancer) earlier this week and a comment by Business Day editor Peter Bruce (Bruceps), who urged more South African executives to join Twitter, I decided to track down some of South Africas top editors and compare how they were faring in the world of [detalii...]

As the seventh edition of the Guild of editors conference kicks-off today in Benin City, Edo State, the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, who received members of the Guild led by its President, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, at his palace, appealed to the Federal Government to find lasting solution to the problem of insecurity in the [detalii...]

The South African National editors Forum (SANEF) at its Annual General Meeting in Johannesburg on 24 - 25 July 2010, expressed its strong rejection of renewed proposals for a state-appointed tribunal and a growing slate of new legislation that is hostile to the free flow of information to South [detalii...]

AS the 7th Edition of the Guild of editors Conference kicks off tomorrow in the ancient city of Benin, the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, who received members of the Guild led by its President, Mr Gbenga Adefaye, at his palace, appealed to the Federal Government to find urgent solution to the problem of insecurity confronting the [detalii...]

The World editors forum ahead of its annual conference in Vienna from 12th through 15th October, 2011 has said with optimism that editors around the world can use social media tools including Twitter and Facebook to reach larger [detalii...]

The 2010 Africa editors enviable Freedom of The Press Award went to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for being the first sitting president in Africa to legalize the citizens unhindered access to public information. It is nearly a full year now since then; but it is still being debated whether the editors had not been hasty. Panelists at yesterdays World Freedom Day celebration were divided over the range of press freedom in Liberia, notwithstanding the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act and constitutional guarantees. The Analyst, [detalii...]

Former Labor Minister Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe has called on Liberian journalists to exhibit high degree of professionalism in the discharge of their assigned task. According to Cllr. Gongloe, the maintenance of peace and stability in Liberia primarily lies in the hands of the media, and henceforth, it must do all it can for Liberia to move forward. He made these comments last Friday when he served as one of the panelists at an editors forum organized by the Liberia Media Center (LMC). The editors forum was one of the many activities in commemoration of the LMCs 6th [detalii...]

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The WASH Reporters & editors Network of Liberia has successfully ended series of Interactive Discussions with Legislative and Presidential candidates in four selected Counties of Liberia. The discussions held in Montserrado, River Gee, Maryland and Grand Kru Counties were successful in that all the candidates interacted with, described the initiative by WASH R&E as significant and in the interest of ensuring access to clean and safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene. The candidates pledged their unflinching support to the Liberian WASH Sector, and promised that when elected, they will prioritize safe drinking water and better sanitation at both the District, County and National Levels, in the interest of a healthy [detalii...]

A Harare magistrate has ordered an investigation into the conduct of police for their unjustifiable 24-hour detention of Nevanji Madanhire, editor of The Standard last [detalii...]

IN AN unprecedented move, the media yesterday forced Parliament to halt a committee meeting about the renewed crisis in the SABC that it was determined to hold in [detalii...]

The government is seeking to meet media owners and senior editors urgently in a move designed to dispel the perception increasingly held that it intends to seriously limit the freedom of the [detalii...]

Government and senior editors from various media on Saturday agreed to put measures in place to address the challenges that have led to frosty relations between authorities and the [detalii...]

Several months ago I wrote a piece on marital rape in Kenya. Two editors working with a respected Kenyan newspaper refused to publish [detalii...]

Vision Group has appointed a new team of mainly young journalists to editorial management positions to further strengthen the newspaper as Ugandas leading [detalii...]

Whereas nobody can gainsay the fact that during its peak years, Transition set standards that have arguably not been equalled in African magazine-publishing journalism, it was not all smooth sailing for its pioneering [detalii...]

AllAfrica editors note: A cable, published by WikiLeaks, concerning the former United Nations special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari. A Nigerian, Gambari was replaced in December [detalii...]

Today Sports Illustrated and CBS News unveiled the results of an unprecedented investigation into the backgrounds of college football players. More than a dozen reporters, writers, researchers, editors, producers worked on the [detalii...]

The SA National editors Forum (Sanef) on Tuesday added its voice to those condemning police for arresting two journalists while they were carrying out normal reporting [detalii...]

AllAfrica editors note: The following statement has been issued by the UN Development Programme in response to a report in the Herald, Harare, headed UNDP Delays Global Fund [detalii...]

Surely if the responsible authorities do not intervene in the high numbers of sexual harassment cases which have just been reported by young female journalists aspiring to penetrate into the mainstream media industry, very few of them will realize their dream of becoming editors one [detalii...]

The Southern African editors Forum (SAEF) said countries should embrace self-regulation as a mechanism to promote media [detalii...]

The owner and the editor of Summit Business Review magazine have been arrested and detained by the police over the publication of a cartoon of President Museveni holding a [detalii...]

Newspapers used to have a standard response to outsiders criticisms: "We stand by our story." editors were expected to defend their reporters to the rest of the world, even if inside the newsroom they chewed them out for getting something wrong. As a young reporter, I always felt greatly comforted by that [detalii...]

The SA National editors Forum, Sanef, on Saturday expressed its support for the Sunday Independent after a court order was granted to stop the newspaper from publishing information on appointments in the crime intelligence [detalii...]

Government was concerned about negative foreign coverage of its perceived attempts to place restrictions on the press and was seeking to meet senior editors to discuss clashing views on its plans, government spokesman Themba Maseko said on [detalii...]

Reporters Without Borders is appalled that an enquiry ordered by the president into a journalists death in prison last April has come to exactly the same conclusions as to the cause of death as the explanation originally offered by the [detalii...]

Unknown criminals broke into the offices of the independent newspaper "Newsday" in Harare on 25 April 2011 and stole the editors laptop, hard drives and other components from computers used by senior editorial [detalii...]

Gambian media laws pose a threat to press freedom, said publishers and editors of various newspapers in this [detalii...]

The South African National editors Forum (Sanef) yesterday announced a coalition, made up of media, civil society and big business, to lobby the government to reconsider limits on media [detalii...]

AllAfrica editors note: The following statement has been issued by the UN Development Programme, disputing the report headed UNDP Delays Global Fund Disbursement.JOINT STATEMENT BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH & CHILD WELFARE AND [detalii...]

editors Note: In Ellen Johnson-Sirleafs Liberia, women and girls have increasingly come to realize that only the sky is the limit. As they broaden their horizons new challenges arise. In an interview with Africa Renewal, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee assesses progress made by women in this [detalii...]

The Sudanese government has announced it is suspending the BBCs license to broadcast in Arabic on local FM frequencies in four northern cities, including the capital, Khartoum. Security personnel also informed editors in recent days that journalists who had not completed an extensive government questionnaire would be detained, journalists told [detalii...]

Three editors of privately-owned daily, Le Noveau Courier newspaper detained by the Ivorian authorities for refusing to reveal their sources of information over a July 13 publication will appear before the Plateau Magistrate court in Abidjan, the capital on July [detalii...]

The Plateau Criminal Court in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Cote dIvoire, on July 26, 2010 convicted three detained editors of the privately-owned Le Nouveau Courrier newspaper over a charge of an "administrative [detalii...]

The South African governments assault on media freedom over the last 18 months has emboldened other African states to further clampdown on frees speech said South African National editors Forum chair Mondli [detalii...]

In the wake of the intimidating arson attack and threats against the media, the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) says it is inviting all media owners, managers, editors, talk show hosts and former practitioners to a crisis meeting on Tuesday, October 18, [detalii...]

As re-elected Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State settles in for the bracing task of moving the state to the next level, he took time off to field questions from some editors recently. He provides some insights into his conception of governance, victory currently being challenged by opposition, proposal of inclusive government, developmental priorities and other topical issues. Louis Achi was there. [detalii...]

Following a meeting between the Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the South African National editors Forum (SANEF) this afternoon, the DBE has announced that the results of 2011 National Senior Certificate will be published by all accredited [detalii...]

Comments on the decision of 229 ANC members of Parliament to vote in favour of the Protection of Information Bill on Black Tuesday have come from both the South African National editors Forum (SANEF) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), while KovsieFM, the Bloemfontein youth radio station, mourns the decision with 24 hours of dead [detalii...]

The African editors Forum joins the Gambian Press Union (GPU)A  in marking four years since the disappearance Journalist Chief Ebrima Manneh on July 7 2006. At the time of his disappearance, Chief Ebrima Manneh was a senior reporter with the Daily Observer newspaper in Banjul, [detalii...]

The future of 31 million Nigerians between the ages 10 and 19 is currently at risk. Prof Pai Obanya, the chairman of the presidential Task Force on Education, made this known at a workshop organised by the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) for health reporters and editors in Benin, Edo State. He speculated that the uncertainty facing the Nigerian adolescents (pre-teens and teenagers) were the result of the countrys gloomy economic outlook and the intergenerational transmission of [detalii...]

Three managing editors of privately-owned newspapers in Lome, the capital of Togo will on June 9, 2010 reappear before a Magistrate Court over criminal charges relating to "false publication" and "criminal [detalii...]

Many in Liberia risk attracting the HIV-AIDS virus unless the government and anti-AIDS institutions redouble their efforts to educate those at high risk - mainly young people - about prevention. The Anti-AIDS Media Network (AAMIN), in partnership with the Lutheran Church in Liberia (LCL), alarmed about the situation at a workshop conducted in Monrovia this week. AAMIN is a conglomeration of media practitioners comprising reporters and editors. Their goal is to promote anti-HIV programs in the [detalii...]

The imperial undercurrent of African leadership culture has often put Africas democratic governance on collision course with the media. On this course, the suppression of the media through intimidation and imprisonment of journalists and the enactment of draconian laws to circumvent freedom of speech have become the norm rather than the exception. It has been so since the emergence of independent Africa in the 1960s. Now with international relations favoring good governance, the picture is changing: moderate governments are eliminating restraining laws as they enact media friendly laws. Liberia is at the head of that moderate pack, making President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the trailblazer, according to the African editors Forum (EAF), which met last week in Bamako, Mali. The Analyst, [detalii...]

Press Complaints Commission chair claims she would have told papers not to publish story if approached by footballerThe Press Complaints Commission chair, Baroness Buscombe, has claimed the organisation would have helped stop publication of allegations that Ryan Giggs had an affair with a former reality TV star.Buscombe told BBC2s Newsnight that if Giggs had asked for the PCCs help it would have stopped newspapers publishing the story. She was speaking late on Monday after an MP used parliamentary privilege earlier to name Giggs as the footballer identified on Twitter as having secured an injunction to prevent publication of allegations regarding his private life.The injunction remains in place, despite the media reporting that MP John Hemming had named the footballer in the Commons. On Monday evening, shortly after Hemming had spoken in parliament, Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled in the high court that "this is not about secrecy this is about intrusion".Tugendhat added that even if the level of protection now offered was limited, it was still potentially worthwhile: "If a court can stop one person or five people [from harassing the player] - not 50,000 - is there not something to be achieved?"The Newsnight presenter, Gavin Esler, questioned the authority of the PCC, the newspaper industrys self-regulatory body, and said to Buscombe: "You couldnt have helped Ryan Giggs."However, she replied: "We could have ... If hed come to us, as people do every day. We have people coming to us all the time to ask us to stop information being published. We have an almost 100% success rate in that."Weve had a desist notice going out this evening. I cant give you the details of that. The press will not publish what weve asked them to refrain from in tomorrows press."Esler added: "But I still dont understand what youd have done for Ryan Giggs, would you have told them not to publish and theyd have agreed?"Buscombe said: "Yes. Yes and thats what we do. They do agree all the time ... and that is something where maybe in the past the PCC has not been good enough at explaining itself."Esler then said: "You are telling us the Sun would not have published this story because the PCC would have told them not to?"Buscombe responded: "No. The whole point is we would have talked to them about the whole issue of public interest. That is what is so important in all these cases. We stop the press if we think theyre interfering with peoples privacy where the bar of public interest has not been met we stop them ... intrusion into grief, health issues."A spokeswoman for the Sun declined to comment on whether or not it would have agreed not to publish if the PCC had requested it.When Esler said it was a good day for the press, Buscombe responded: "The truth is that we exist, the Press Complaints Commission, to respond to these kinds of issues. We deal with privacy all the time."However, former deputy prime minister John Prescott - whose affair with one of his secretaries was exposed in the press in 2006 - challenged the PCCs usefulness on Newsnight.During a heated exchange with Buscombe, he said: "Instead of the judges making a decision about what is the right of privacy and public and freedom its the editors. Who the hell are the editors to make that judgment and attack the judges for doing that ... and youve got no control over the editors ... youre useless."Buscombe replied: "Were not useless. Weve helped you."She added: "The whole point about the PCC is were a fast, free service for the public. Our focus is on the public and were more active on privacy issues."Buscombe said the newspaper industrys self-regulatory body has sent out around 100 desist notices within the last few months.The PCC received "well over" 7,000 complaints from celebrities and members of the public last year, according to its annual report, published earlier this month.However, Esler challenged Buscombe again: "If Ryan Giggs has access to some of the brightest lawyers in the country and he chose to go down this route, thats a vote of absolutely no confidence in you because otherwise he wouldve used you."Buscombe responded: "Many more people are using us than are going to the courts. We dealt with 600 privacy complaints in the last year."Esler then said: "If theres someone worried about a kiss and tell issue tonight and they contact the PCC itll all be fine?"Buscombe replied: "It depends on the whole issue. Most of the time when we get issues like that coming to us we send out a desist notice and we say to the press, Look, theres an issue here, you may be in breach of the code, you got those photographs by harassment, youve got an issue to do with the privacy of that family, hold back and they do."But I cant talk about those cases because theyre private and we actually are being effective where the law is failing at the moment ... David Cameron has just been talking how effective we are."The prime minister reiterated his belief that one potential way to deal with the issues surrounding privacy and freedom of speech would be to "look again at the Press Complaints Commission", in an interview broadcast by ITV1s Daybreak on Monday, before Giggs was named in parliament."If people can have more confidence in [the PCC] then we can have less of this current approach," Cameron said.Any move to beef up the PCCs role is likely to focus on the editors code of practice, which the self-regulatory body enforces and journalists are expected to abide by. The code has sections on privacy and harassment.The privacy guidelines state editors "will be expected to justify intrusions into any individuals private life without consent. Account will be taken of the complainants own public disclosures of information".The code is reviewed periodically by the editors code of practice committee. The committee is independent of the PCC and is made up of editors from national and regional newspapers and the magazine sector and chaired by the Daily Mail editor, Paul Dacre. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editormediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook.Press Complaints CommissionNewspapers & magazinesNational newspapersNewspapersMedia lawPrivacy & the mediaSuperinjunctionsRyan GiggsTara Conlan guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

I reported last week on the lack of official passes for local newspapers to cover next years Olympic Games in London.Publishers and editors were told that the Press Association would do the job.Since then, the Newspaper Society has been active, as have sympathetic MPs. They have urged the British Olympic Association (BOA) to relent. Now, the sports minister, Hugh Robertson, has explained the criteria involved in the allocation of some 400 press passes. And it appears, according to a Press Gazette report, that "negotiations are underway to create a pool of 12 regional press journalists to provide shared material from the games."Source: Press GazetteOlympic Games 2012Regional & local newspapersPress AssociationNewspapersBritish Olympic AssociationRoy Greenslade guardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

Some sports journalists fear that next years Olympic Games will mark the termination of the Reuters sporting operation in London.They point to two indicators: the departure of three senior London staff, and an advert for a global sports editor that offers the option of a New York posting.I cant say I share this belief on the basis of the "evidence" in a posting on the Sports Journalists Association (SJA) website. But perhaps they know something that isnt clear from what they have published. Anyway, here are the indicators: The current global sports editor, Paul Radford, is to stand down in 2012 and will manage a transition to his successor while supervising the agencys coverage of the London Olympics. Sports production editor Kevin Fylan and deputy sports editor Jon Bramley are going off to work on the Volvo round-the-world yacht race.Then there is the sports editor job advertisement, which was posted here two days ago. It states:"The successful candidate will lead a global team of specialist sports correspondents and editors and work with our wider bureau network to guarantee the scope and quality of our internationally recognised sports news-gathering team. The editor will be expected to contribute directly to the file through reporting, editing and analysing major sports stories and themes...Based in London; we will consider New York for an exceptional candidate. Local terms, no relocation."According to the SJA writer "such a move [to New York]... would comprehensively shift the focus of Reuters internationally regarded sports coverage, with a New York office operating in a time zone five hours or more behind Europe."Reuters, which was founded in London in 1851, was merged with the US-owned Thomson Corporation in 2008. But its headquarters remain in Canary Wharf.It is renowned for its sporting coverage. Some 300 reporters, editors, photographers and support staff are expected to cover the coming Olympics.The SJA posting says: "The Reuters sports editor has always carried massive influence in sports media matters." It points out that Radford has served on the International Olympic Commissions press commission for more than 10 years and was chairman of its working group at the Beijing and Vancouver games.It adds: "Reuters has also carried much weight in negotiations between media operators and other sports events, such as the football, rugby and cricket World Cups."Whether that would change, and Reuters sports coverage alter to focus more on NFL, NHL, Nascar and the like if they were run from New York is difficult to assess."All interesting speculation, of course, but its hardly conclusive proof of a transAtlantic switch. And Reuters, incidentally, is keeping its counsel.Sources: SJA/ReutersReutersNews agenciesThomson ReutersLondonOlympic Games 2012New YorkRoy Greenslade guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

National newspaper editors do get to have fun. Heres the Financial Timess leading batsman - sorry, editor - Lionel Barber about to receive six balls from former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan.It was a relaxed conclusion to a harrowing day in which Barber had been touring, by helicopter, the flooded areas north of Islamabad.Imran, now 57 and a politician and philanthropist, has raised prodigious sums for the flood victims. He no longer plays or watches cricket, but Barber persuaded him to turn his arm over just one more time.Barber, kitted out with a new cricket bat, new pads and new batting gloves - courtesy of Farhan Bokhari, the FTs Islamabad correspondent - writes about the result of his batting efforts in tomorrows issue of the FT magazine. His conversation with Imran also touches on politics, cheating at cricket and charity. The dog, by the way, is Imrans female shepherd, called Sherni (Lioness). And, yes, he was positioned at short leg.Financial TimesLionel BarberCricketPakistanGreenslade on AsiaRoy Greenslade guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

Local newspaper publishers are upset about the unlikelihood of its journalists receiving official passes to cover next years Olympic Games in London.They will be expected to rely instead on syndicated material from the Press Association.Several editors from the London papers published by Newsquest/Gannett are lobbying MPs and London Assembly members to demand a review of the decision.Andrew Parkes, Newsquests London managing editor, said: "The so-called local games will have no local media presence. The people who rely on us for their information will be told nothing about the event taking place on their doorsteps."A British Olympic Association (BOA) spokesman explained that 3,000 applications had been received from press organisations across the world for the 400 available passes.He said: "The Press Association has been appointed as the host for national news. With that role comes all coverage of Great Britain sporting events."Last summer, the body that represents local and regional newspaper publishers, the Newspaper Society, urged the BOA to provide access to local journalists.Sources: HoldTheFrontPage/BOARegional & local newspapersOlympic Games 2012LondonNewsquestGannettNewspapersPress AssociationBritish Olympic AssociationRoy Greenslade guardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

The American has made almost as much of a splash with his trousers as he has with his golf at St AndrewsThe favouritesCherry bombMolto fierce, as they say on the Milan catwalks. Animal print is a fashion classic. Channel Dolce & Gabbana and clash these with another print for the ultimate in OTT chicPazeltineStraight from dandy Italian label Etros back catalogue. Giant lilac and yellow is ludicrously outre for most. All the more reason that these are the perfect trousers for, say, a parents eveningPurple & GoldHow Andre 3000 are these? These trousers say ironic country gent par excellence. What they really need is a bow tie, a waistcoat, a walking cane and a golfbag-full of hey-ya attitudeThe definite no-nosPole PositionTotally confusing. Are we at the Le Mans finish line or the 18th hole? Or are these catering slacks? Golf chic dictates that trousers should be loud, yes, but inappropriate and tame, noDisco BallsTragic. Looks like the sort of thing an optician might show you to see if you were colour blind. If the theme is disco ball, at least make them metallic or somethingThe HamptonsAre these left over from some church halls production of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? Or did Chris Evans leave them behind in the TFI Friday studio at some point in the mid-1990s? Shocking.The OpenGolfImogen Fox guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More [detalii...]

This weeks podcast goes sporty. We head off to Lords cricket ground to quiz fans about the books they enjoy, while in the studio were joined by Anthony Bateman, one of the editors of the new Cambridge Companion to Cricket, who takes Guardian cricket correspondent Andy Bull through 300 years of the games history. They discuss why it has produced more literature than almost any other sport - not all of it good - with aficionados ranging from Siegfried Sassoon to CLR James, George McDonald Fraser to the Indian cricket historian Ramachandra Guha. Then we cycle off down a London canal to hear from Bella Bathurst about the bicycle "tribes" she discovered while researching her latest book, about the 19th-century invention that has become the 21st centurys great transport success story.Reading list:Flashmans Lady, by George McDonald Fraser (HarperCollins) Tom Browns Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (Oxford) The Flower Show Match, by Siegfried Sassoon (Faber) Beyond a Boundary, by CLR James (Serpents Tail) Anyone But England, by Mike Marqusee (Aurum) A Corner of a Foreign Field, by Ramachandra Guha (Picador) The Magic of Indian Cricket, by Mihir Bose (Routledge) Start of Play, by David Underdown (Penguin) The Bicycle Book, by Bella Bathurst (HarperPress)Claire ArmitsteadAndy BullBella BathurstTim MabyRichard [detalii...]