Soft Power; The Media Show; Last Orders at the Spinning Disc; Exile of the Stones | Radio review

The World Service gets to grips with national charm while the future of newspapers is under debate on Radio 4 and Radio 2 weighs in with a couple of really decent documentaries on music, writes Miranda SawyerHave you heard of soft power? Me neither and yet the phrase was coined in 1989 by Clinton aide Joseph Nye, to mean a nation's cultural influence, or at least the influence it has that isn't economic or military. In the World Service's documentary of the same name, the first of two half-hours...

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