The Simpsons star Harry Shearer joins John Plunkett for this week's Media Talk. He tells us about his new Sky Arts show about Richard Nixon and much else besides, including why it would never have got off the ground in the US.
Dan Sabbagh looks forward to the return of the Leveson inquiry next week, where James and Rupert Murdoch will be giving evidence, and back on a week in which two books made rather different headlines – Tom Watson's Dial M for Murdoch and Tom Bower's Simon Cowell biography Sweet Revenge.
Plus, Vicky Frost is here to talk all things small screen, including Smash (the new Glee?) and The Bridge (the new Killing?). Answers: no, and a bit. Maybe.
