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Having recovered from the Edinburgh television festival, we're back in our usual home and back up to our customarily high technical standards for this week's podcast. With the launch of giveaway evening newspapers for London, our press columnist Kim Fletcher and Guardian Unlimited's editor-in-chief Emily Bell ask whether the future is free - although I'd also commend you Roy Greenslade's counterveiling view which suggests the freebies are in trouble too.
Johnny Webb, the programme director for Bravo, Trouble and Challenge is on hand to analyse Charles Allen's contention that Channel 4 has strayed too far from its public service remit. And if you didn't have chance to hear it in person, we replay Allen's best joke.
Jeff Jarvis calls in from the US to talk about the New York Times' attempts to withhold from British internet users its investigation into the airline terror plot inquiry, and Gareth McLean claims he's behind the theft of the rushes of the forthcoming BBC blockbuster revival of Robin Hood. But then, he claims he killed JonBenet Ramsay too, so I wouldn't believe a word of it.
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