Special features and in-depth analysis have been a central part of the BBC's Caribbean programming across the years. During and after World War II, the BBC Talks Department commissioned several talks on West Indian history introducing a global and British audience to the different territories of the then British West Indies. After World War II, increasing analysis of the West Indies' literary tradition led to the programme Caribbean Voices which nurtured some of the great names of West Indian literature in the 1950s. When the BBC's Caribbean Service was re-established in 1988, this time with a brief to produce news and current affairs programming, Caribbean Magazine came into the Service's programme stable and took up the mantle of focusing on the human face of the news, current affairs, and cultural developments. After Haiti's devastating earthquake in January 2010, the Caribbean Service worked with BBC News to produce the award winning Connexion Haiti, a lifeline programme for Haitians in the month following the earthquake.