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Is anyone at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ listening? This week we'll be talking to John Humphrys about whether liberal bias at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has put it out of step with public opinion, and whether anything is changing. And there's a tale of sabotage and sacrilege in a Lincolnshire abbey.

In an interview with this week's Radio Times, John Humphrys admitted the ´óÏó´«Ã½ had, in the past, been wrong in its coverage of immigration and Europe. "We weren't sufficiently sceptical - that's the most accurate phrase - of the pro-European case. We bought into the European ideal". And he went on to say that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has been "grotesquely over-managed". Roger Bolton asks John what has changed and whether ´óÏó´«Ã½ presenters should criticise their employer.

Roger's also been brushing up his Welsh this week to speak to the Editor of Programmes for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cymru, Betsan Powys. Following a dispute with Welsh musicians and a fall in listener figures, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cymru, the only national Welsh language radio station, decided it needed to start listening to its audience. After months of conversations with listeners, Radio Cymru has re-launched with a dramatic shake-up to its schedules. Will it work? And will they still be listening now they've made the changes?

And our quest to find the very first bells broadcast on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ takes us to a small town in the Midlands to hear a listeners' fascinating tale of a nefarious plot to foil the broadcasters.

Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4.