12/07/2009
News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
After hearing that the Radio 4 programme Farming Today was showing off honey from its own hive at the last ever Royal Agricultural Show, in Stoneleigh, Paddy appears before a judge with a jar from the BH beehive. Which one is deemed the best?
The man credited with inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee, speaks to Broadcasting House on the 20th anniversary of its birth.
The fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square is being adopted by members of the public in what the artist, Antony Gormley, calls a respresentation of themselves and of humanity. We hear from the journalist Anna Minton, author of the new book Ground Control, who claims that this is sanctioned public expression, in contrast to the array of rules that govern many public, yet private, parts of our cities.
The Sunday newspapers are reviewed by Richard Stilgoe, musician and the chairman of Youth Music, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, international businesswoman, and Neil Hannon, one half of the musical duo The Duckworth Lewis Method.
The answer to the quiz was the passenger who came forward to fix a passenger jet when a technical fault prevented departure from Menorca to Glasgow. Erica Davies is the winner.
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