A campaign against plans to bring the BBC's much praised World Service under the centralised control of its domestic programme managers has won support from hundreds of British political and cultural figures as well as the Dalai Lama Archbishop Desmond Tutu former Commonwealth Secretary General Sir Sridath Ramphal former Ambassador to the United Nations David Hannay violinist Y ehudi Menhuin and Nigerian writers Chinua Achebe Ben Okri and Wole Soyinka...
