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Doyle for Vaughan at Capital?
Word reaches me that the Jonny Vaughan era at London music station Capital, mockingly re-christened erm…Crapital, is about to draw a close. As listeners desert the station for Jamie Theakston on Heart, the man Capital bosses are lining up to replace him could be the station’s Saturday morning host, Craig Doyle. Watch this space.
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The Uneven Battlefield of Ideas
This weekend (28/29 Oct) sees journalists and pundits flooding to debates at the Battle of Ideas at London’s Royal College of Art. The Times is one of the event’s sponsors. Join the debate anyone? The weekend calls itself a freethinking festival and it attracts some serious people to step up on to its many platforms.…
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The World Tonight
Look out for Adam Holloway MP who visited Afghanistan recently, and City’s own Professor Stewart Purvis – former ITN CEO – talking about ITN and the MoD on BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight at 22:00 UK time. You can listen online.
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Tali Telly Ban
Ok, apologies for the dreadful headline. Reporting both sides in a conflict does seem to invite political criticism, as CNN has discovered. Here’s the BBC attracting flak from the Conservative Party’s defence spokesman, Liam Fox. He said: “I am disgusted that the BBC should broadcast an interview with a Taliban ‘adviser’ while our troops are…