1. What do we learn about musicians today?

a) Musicians have more control over their music than in the past.
b) Labels still keep most of the profit their artists make.
c) Today’s musicians have less power over their music rights.
d) Musicians don’t need to promote themselves as much as in the past.

2. Which of the following is not mentioned as a benefit of GM (Genetically

Modified) foods?

a) They are better for our health

b) They help in developing new medicines
c) They will aid in fighting climate change
d) They will allow for more stainable agriculture

3. How have people been killed by the group Boko Haram?

a) Through attacks on churches and firefights
b) Using car bombs
c) By poisoning
d) In vehicle accidents

4. Which clothes have becomes less popular since dress codes became less formal?

a) T-Shirts and Jeans

b) Jackets, Trousers and Ties
c) Sports shoes
d) Leather clothes

5. What was important for women factory workers?

a) That the factories were close to their homes so they can balance work and family
b) They wanted very high rates of pay
c) They needed to have children with them at work
d) The work had to be easy and non-physical
1. Musicians today

Doing what you have to do, for a lot of artists today, means a lot more effort spent
promoting yourself, something labels used to do on the old checklist. Thirty-seven
percent of the musicians surveyed by the Future of Music Coalition felt they were
spending more time doing promotion, and less time making music. Madi Diaz is a 25-
year-old singer-songwriter.

Madi Diaz: Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that in-the-day-
to-day - the Twitter and the Instagram - be able to kind of like, turn off and take a break
and actually, you know, be an artist.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

Sydell: But she also feels lucky she's been able to cobble together a full-time living
from selling songs for commercials, writing music for other people, and playing shows.

Sydell: One question that the Future of Music Coalition study could not answer was
whether musicians are better off today than they were when the record industry was
ascendant. There weren't any studies of how musicians were doing back then, but the
coalition's Casey Rae-Hunter says the labels often kept a lot of the profits. Today,
musicians can call their own shots.

Rae-hunter: You have the ability to retain all of your rights, if you want to.

2. Genetically Modified (GM) Food

Tom Heap: This is typical of a new generation of GM products with popular appeal
sold as good for our health, better for wildlife, feeding the poor or even fighting climate
change. We'll look at some in greater depth later, and ask if it's a real change or just
better hype. The boss of the John Innes centre, Dale Sanders, is convinced that he has a
new tale to tell.

Dale Sanders: Well, I think that GM (Genetically Modified) offers substantial benefits
to the consumer at the level of healthier foods or has the potential to do so. It has the
potential also to generate a more sustainable agriculture. I've been director of the John
Innes centre now for about 18 months and it was one of my real desires to reignite the
GM debate in an informed way in which we could use evidence-based approaches to
discuss with the public about the future of this technology.
3. Nigeria's Boko Haram Group

But if Nigeria's communal violence was not bad enough, a new and perhaps even more
frightening phenomenon has now emerged. A radical violent Islamist group called Boko
Haram. In the past year alone hundreds of people have been killed in either Boko Haram
attacks on churches or firefights between the Islamists and the Nigerian police. On one
occasion the insurgents even mounted a deadly bomb attack on the United Nations
building in the heart of the capital Abuja.

(sound of door opening)

I visit the home of a man in close contact with Boko Haram, but Sheh Hussaini is also a
respected member of the establishment. He helped organise the closest thing Nigeria has
had yet to talks between the government and Boko Haram.

4. Dress Codes

Since the rebellious and undeferential decade of the 1960s, dress codes have been
becoming ever more informal across much of the western world. For it wasn't only
among rioting students that jackets and trousers and ties and short hair were deemed to
be "out", while jeans and t-shirts and long hair were welcomed as being "in".

And for those who wish to appear without a tie, but well dressed in a style that would
become known as "radical chic", there were the high-collared jackets made famous by
Narou or Matsi Tung, or the turleneck sweaters popularised by senator Robert Kenedy,
that could be worn instead.

Coffee Cups and Lids

Dr Carl: Now, the old coffee cup has got some people going, and [erm], Charlie in
Glasgow says an upright cylindrical container is a cup only if it doesn't have a lid. I've
got cups with lids.

Dr Rod: Yes, they're normally for little children - "drink up your drinky now Rod don't
spill it again".

Dr Carl: Well they're also of course for drivers, you know the American thing of
drinking a cup of coffee while you're driving and they put these lids on.
Dr Carl: Well makes sense, especially if you've got a long drive, and having your cup
of tea there, an it keeps you alert and it's better to be alert than tired when you're
driving.

ANSWERS
1) A.
2) B.
3) A.
4) B.
5) B.