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Media Talk podcast: Robbie Williams is the new Status Quo

Unlike Radio 1, we play Robbie Williams' number one single Candy on this week's Media Talk and ask whether the station was right to exclude the former Take That man from its playlist.

Also this week, we ask what's gone wrong with The X Factor and whether Nadine Dorries deserved all that flak for going on I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

Plus, Vicky Frost talks to The Killing star Sofie Gråbøl ahead of the third series coming to BBC4 and we catch up on all things print with Dan Sabbagh.

John Plunkett is also joined by Popjustice founder and music journalist Peter Robinson and former Radio 1 head of music Trevor Dann.

Last, but by no means least, we go to the Guardian Student Media Awards, where Josh Halliday talks to Kat Bannon, editor of publication of the year, Newcastle University's The Courier

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