This week, I'm joined in the pod by press correspondent Stephen Brook, and Robert Freeman, the Guardian's head of video. We hear from Jonathan Watts, our East Asia correspondent, about the media crackdown in China following a fortnight of bloodshed in Tibet.
Also in the show, writer Gordon Burn describes why the headlines of summer 2007 provided the backdrop to his latest novel - and how the media creates, manipulates and often fictionalises the news. Elsewhere, we analyse the findings of the Byron report and Laura Ling from current TV tells us about the channel's latest strand of vanguard journalism.
Finally, we deliver the verdict on Sir Alan Sugar and the new series of The Apprentice. They may be the most attractive-looking contestants so far, but is there class war ahead?
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