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 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/05_may/26/africa.shtml


 * Reviews of two Live Aid shows on BBC 2 and Out of Africa. Live Aid shows were "fun in a nostalgic kind of way, but far too long". Out of Africa: "some brilliant stuff in this show", "but the film-makers tried to cram too much in" and "it felt a bit like one of the Channel 4/Five list shows: The 100 Best Black People Ever"

Writing in The Guide, Andrew Mueller was more critical, describing the documentary as "silly" and its premise "foolish". He remarked: "The least interesting thing about any of these remarkable people is their skin colour."


 * Africa Lives comprised 2% of BBC Two's developing country factual programming that year


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 * Africa Lives worked puposefully to "experiment with ways of bringing the developing world onto TV screens"


 * Goal was to "help coverage of Africa break out of stereotypical images, and out of established niches in news and current affairs"; critical response was positive: Stephen Lambert was positive, Dorothy Byrne was negative; over five million watched The Girl in the Cafe;


 * Seetha Kumar, executive editor of Africa Lives on the BBC spoke positively about the Holby City episode


 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/africa-highs-drnf6bsh23f
 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/television-saturday-june-18-95hzv6xl7vz
 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/backstage-at-the-gig-of-the-century-ckr6d5tq6pf
 * https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jun/20/mondaymediasection3 (Review of season as a whole)


 * https://web.archive.org/web/20051112175623/http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/africalives/about.shtml
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/03_march/15/1spring.shtml
 * https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/26/broadcasting.bbc
 * https://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-african-school-taste-the-continent-events
 * https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/radio-choice-0td53nrx3kc


 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/40793819

Find review of Out of Africa in TV guide in 18th June 2005 issue of The Guardian