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the ´óÏó´«Ã½ of "taking the axe" to the radio drama department "which nourished Stoppard, Pinter, Gielgud and Dench".

The if David Beckham will now become a TV pundit for the World Cup, after his Achilles heel injury, and if so will it be for ITV or the ´óÏó´«Ã½?

The that Sheila Hancock accuses theatre critics and actors of being "snooty" about musicals. She's one of the judges in the new ´óÏó´«Ã½ Andrew Lloyd Webber show, searching for a Dorothy for The Wizard of Oz.

David Cameron's ITV interview attracted only 1.7m viewers, far fewer than Gordon Brown's ITV interview with Piers Morgan (though that one inherited a large audience from Dancing On Ice) .

But the the pre-show publicity about "SamCam" has boosted the Conservatives' polls showing.

Should a levy on Google and BskyB be used to help fill the gap in funding for rigorous journalism? A Carnegie Trust inquiry into the future of "civil society" thinks so .

The row in the music industry over the proposals in the Digital Economy Bill to curb illegal downloading was investigated by Radio 1's Jo Whiley for Panorama.

And the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Rory Cellan-Jones' asks in his blog where the Dot.com millionaires are now, ten years after the peak of the dotcom bubble?

The analysis that the European Commission's warning that Britain is not doing enough to cut its deficit.

Links in full

Jo Wiley | ´óÏó´«Ã½ | Panorama
Rory Cellan Jones | ´óÏó´«Ã½ | UK dotcommers: Where are they now?

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