Another problem has beset this year's rather accident-prone Awards For World Music. This in from organiser Hélène Rammant. In a subsequent phone conversation I gather that the BBC powers-that-be are very touchy over anything to do with the integrity of competitions and the public vote after all the various scandals and adverse publicity recently
This is to inform you that we have had to withdraw the Audience Award.
There have inadvertently been some misinterpretations of the voting procedures which had been sent to nominees in April. We believe that this may have led to some unfairness between the nominees, which could have adversely affected the overall integrity of the vote. For this reason we have unfortunately decided that we have no choice but to withdraw the Listeners' Award for this year.
We know that this will be a disappointment and we are very sorry that we have had to take this course of action.
We are posting a note of explanation on the website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/ ... ward.shtml