Incommunicado
Dec 30th, 2008 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsThe BBC had one of those special moments yesterday morning, of which only the BBC is capable. Today the flagship programme of Radio 4 had a guest editor, the novelist Zadie Smith. As well as editing the programme, Ms Smith presented a feature piece she had made on life in Liberia. For anyone with even the slightest sense of humanity, it made depressing listening, Liberia it concluded was “a failed state”, nothing worked, there was no safety net for people like the blind children who attended a special school, but …