Channel 4 turns 25 this week, we celebrate with Maggie Brown, author of a new history of the network. It has been a difficult year for the 'Jekyll and Hyde' channel, as she calls it, and its history can be seen as a series of very different ages.
Ann Widdecombe tells us why the BBC should be more concerned about the declining standards of grammar, as she sees it, across its output. The BBC should appoint a language chief, she says.
However, professor of linguistics David Crystal says that such measures are not necessary - as long as pronunciation remains standard.
Africa may soon have a round-the-clock news network to call its own. We speak to the man behind the venture, Salim Amin.
Also this week, a claim by Reporters Without Borders that Mexico is second only to Iraq in terms of the danger faced by journalists going about their jobs. The Guardian's Jo Tuckman reports from Mexico City. Matt Wells is the presenter; guests are Emily Bell, Jeff Jarvis and Maggie Brown.
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