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Media Talk: Putting the 'Da' into the Evening Standard

Press correspondent Stephen Brook's in the hotseat this week - and so it's serendipitous that he's able to preside over the biggest news to hit Fleet Street for decades.

With the London Evening Standard about to be sold to former KGB spy and current oligarch Alexander Lebedev - we discuss the editorial implications of the sale. Meanwhile, Moscow correspondent Luke Harding fills us in on Lebedev's friends, fashion sense, and business acumen.

Also in the show, Maggie Brown gives her take on the last desperate scramble for government money as Ofcom prepares to give its final set of recommendations about the future of public service broadcasting. Will there really be a merger of Channel 4 and Five?

Plus, Paul Robinson analyses the return of Nicky Campbell to the Five Live phone-in.

And finally, Gareth McLean gives his verdict on the revamped Countdown, and asks, is BBC3 controller Danny Cohen himself up for the chop as its announced one of the channel's great hopes for the new season is a search to find the nation's best young butcher?

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