Steven Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster, tells us why he thinks why the former BBC1 controller Peter Fincham should not have been forced out of his job. This week's panel, Steve Hewlett and Janine Gibson, disagree, and think that Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, has made things even harder for himself as he tries to persuade the staff and the BBC Trust that he needs to make thousands of staff redundant. Plus, we have an intriguing revelation about the travel plans of Mr and Mrs Thompson.
Also this week, the Guardian's Martin Wainwright reports from Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the town is preparing for its analogue TV signal to be switched off in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Plus, we hear from the lawyer who acted for the investigative journalist Graeme McLagan in his successful appeal in the Bent Coppers case. And Stephen Brook leafs through the Evening Standard's list of the 1,000 most influential Londoners.
