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I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what you need to know.

The controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer, is to leave the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to become head of St Peter's College, Oxford. He will take up the post in October, after six years running Radio 4 the . During his time, the audience has risen to 10 million a week and in 2008 it was named UK Station of the Year in the Sony Radio Awards.

Gordon Brown has joined the calls to save 6Music. The that he told the Radio Times the ´óÏó´«Ã½ "should not have succumbed to pressure" to axe some of its output. He said: "I don't think politicians should make that decision about what the ´óÏó´«Ã½
produces." The Conservative arts spokesman Ed Vaizey has already said the ´óÏó´«Ã½ should save the station.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Worldwide has confirmed that it is to seek a partner for its magazine business, which includes Radio Times and Top Gear magazine . Talks with other publishers will begin shortly but ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust approval would be needed for any deal.

The that the Labour election manifesto promises to bring in libel law reforms to encourage freedom of speech.

The first regeneration of Doctor Who was modelled on a bad LSD trip, according to a 1966 memo from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Archive, now published online. A audience research reports show an attempt to inject humour did not go down well with viewers.

The day's papers are dominated by reaction to the launch of Labour's election manifesto as .

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