On Broadcasting House this week, we hear calls for a 'financial spring.' The Baby-Buster generation will have the endure the longest and deepest fall in living standards since modern records began. But are they really poorer than their Baby-Boomers forebears? As a new prize is launched for literary titles, we name and shame Great Bad Books. What did you plod through that was a good read and a real slog? And we rejoin our Derry Diary in the week that its UK City of Culture office was target ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BH: With Paddy O'ConnellApocalypse News is a diet of doom and gloom for you and the economy - we'll debate whether things are as bad as they seem. There’s also some worm shaped good news, and in the week that the PM told us that it's the fight in your dog that counts, Ed Stourton's best friend ate Paddy’s microphone. The newspapers were reviewed by Crawford Logan, the actor currently in Radio 4's detective drama 'Paul Temple', Megan Murphy, investment banking correspondent for the Financial Times and Ion Trewi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BH: With Paddy O'ConnellTen years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, we hear about President Karzai's role as part of a Mujahadeen delegation to Disneyland. As Songs of Praise celebrates its 50th anniversary, the famed atheist Sir Jonathan Miller explains why we all love a hymn and we update Beatrix Potter for the modern world. The newspapers were reviewed the former star of the Apprentice and patron of the Bright Ideas Trust, Margaret Mountford, the guitarist Steve Hackett, and the political scribe Michae ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
BH: 25th September 2011 - The Euro in CrisisAs George Osbourne announces that we have just 6 weeks to save the Euro we take a closer look at the long term options for Europe. Plus is your garden fit for the Olympics? We head to Newham to hear how guerilla gardening is helping to spruce up the borough. Reviewing the papers we have author Andy McNab, historian Kate Williams and The Guardian's political correspondent Allegra StrattonListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website