Westminster hours
On tonight's Today in Parliament, at 11.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4: the backbencher you can't avoid on Commons Fridays, why the next Parliament may be the most Eurosceptic since Britain joined Europe, and a cunning plan to reform the House of Lords... a bit, anyway.
And tomorrow morning on Radio 4, a real gem. The Week in Westminster, which is almost certainly the world's longest running political programme (unless, of course, you know different), celebrates its 80th anniversary.
Woman's hour?
Originally, it was aimed at women - the programme makers hoping they would listen on a Wednesday morning "while they had their cup of tea".
Now it is broadcast on a Saturday morning at 11am and presented by political journalists. Tomorrow, Peter Oborne will be digging through the archives to tell the story of its birth and development.
Its presenters have ranged from Nancy Astor to Boris Johnson, while one of the producers was the notorious Cambridge spy, Guy Burgess.
I'm Mark D'Arcy and I'll be writing about what goes on in the chambers and committee rooms at Westminster.
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