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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Matt Wells

Media Talk for Friday June 29

We have a podcast of all the talents this week. Former Sky boss Dawn Airey and broadcaster Andrew Neil give their verdicts on Tessa Jowell's time as culture secretary, while Emily Bell, our director of digital content, remembers a telling anecdote about her successor, James Purnell. Owen Gibson, the Guardian's media correspondent, makes his podcast debut in a show that also hears theatre critic Michael Billington plead guilty to AA Gill's charge of attending West End shows with a carrier bag.

Regular listeners will be pleased to know that we don't mention Channel 4 once this week, but unfortunately we have a feature on the legal and privacy implications of our new obsession, Facebook. (Remember to join our Facebook group - unless, of course, like Jason Deans you think it's waste of time.)

Plus, Gareth McLean is here to answer the questions we posed on Organ Grinder earlier in the week.

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