Caption: The left panel plots the nuclear, circumnuclear, and radial-strip optical spectra; the observed spectra are shown in grey and the best-fitting stellar continuum fit is overplotted in black (see \S\ref{sec:ispec}). The right panel shows the size of the circumnuclear ({\em blue square}) and radial-strip ({\em red rectangle}) spectroscopic apertures, overlaid on an optical DSS image of the galaxy. The dashed purple ellipse indicates the optical extent of the galaxy (see Table~\ref{table:properties}), and the dotted yellow rectangle shows the spatial coverage of the \emph{Spitzer}/IRS radial-strip long-low spectrum obtained as part of SINGS \citep{smith04a, smith07a}. \label{fig:spectra_first.}