This week we focus on two Michaels: Michael Foot and Michael Ashcroft; we also contemplate ethics and consider who will come out top in the televised party leaders' debates.
To do this we've got Madeleine Bunting - she's pioneering a new project to strengthen personal ethics iin both everyday and political life. Madeleine is joined by Cambridge don David Runciman.
From there it's a short hop, skip and a jump to the Lord Ashcroft affair and what it suggests about the ethics driving the modern Conservative party. Madeleine thinks not a lot - looking to the ethics of the political classes is a fool's errand, she says.
We also say goodbye to Michael Foot. Listening to some of his soap-box speeches, David has been struck by the shrieking Foot went in for - a reminder that this man came of political age in an era before microphones, and to be heard at the back of the local Labour party meeting you had to shout.
Very different from today's politicians, a difference on show when the three party leaders do their much-hyped TV debates: three debates in total lasting 90 minutes each. Both David and Madeleine wonder how many people will last the distance.
Plus we hear from Harvard professor Michael Sandel on Madeleine's ethics project and also Mike White and Simon Hoggart reminiscing over the Michael Foot they knew.
