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Media Talk: Lionel Barber, and BBC drama row

On the latest Media Talk, Matt Wells and the team discuss Financial Times editor Lionel Barber's comments that the age of the free internet will be over within 12 months. Are you prepared to pay for your online news fix? Do you have any idea what's in the Hamburg declaration? The chaps at Google have certainly taken notice.

Also in the podcast, Maggie Brown fills us in on the row over BBC drama. Are you satisfied, sweetie darling, with the output? Or is the department mired in a culture of 'totalitarian micro management'?

Finally, Steve Ackerman, managing director of Somethin' Else, gives his thoughts on the yoof-tastic shakeup at Radio 1, and the impact of this week's report about non-tweeting teenagers.

Post your comments on the blog below, find us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter (assuming you're in your thirties). And if you haven't yet heard our live show or the latest edition of Media Talk USA - then we politely insist that you do.

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