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Media Talk podcast: BBC triumphs at London 2012

Just a few days left of London 2012 – and soon the baton will be passed to Channel 4. Will it be able to sustain the pace?

Maggie Brown and Olly Mann join John Plunkett to discuss the BBC's coverage and what lessons could be learned by NBC.

The Sunday Times was the biggest winner of the broadsheets, selling an extra 70,000 copies on the second Sunday of the Games after Golden Saturday. But what happened to the tabloids?

This week News Corporation posted losses of $1.6bn for the last quarter after plans to spin off publishing assets, including the Sun and the Times, were announced this year.

Paul Lewis gives the background story as to why BBC2's docudrama The Riots – In Their Own Words was kept off air by a judge in Birmingham.

Plus Chris Moyles is given John Peel's place in the schedule and we play a little Media Monkey quiz.

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