"..it astonishes me to hear the apologists for Roman Polanski...Polanski may have our sympathy but he also committed an abusive act and that has to be accounted for, otherwise the law to protect children from sexual predators means nothing."
Writes a listener to the PM programme.
She wrote after hearing our report last night about . Listen again to the item:
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Lord Mandelson obviously thinks adopting is a good one. But does the underdog ALWAYS get our support? And when does an underdog become a lame duck anyway...
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What else am I on about today? Yes....if you have other tales of going to Uni..feel free to share them here. Alternatively, just look at Mr Mantovani and remember him.
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Your stories are the stuff out of which iPM is made. This week, PM Listener Julie emailed in to say, "I try to listen to the radio weather forecast but find my attention drifting away so I often miss our region. Should I switch to tv forecasts?"
We asked if Julie was alone in this, and a hailstorm (with sunny patches) of comments followed. We broadcast comments from listeners Paula Walker, Roy Freeman, John Oats, Luke Ritchie, Gareth Jameson, Janice Betson, John Saunders, Jill Makinson-Sanders, Isabelle Devereux, Gloria Calloway, Matthew Bentley, Mary Jane and Justin Gray, but the final word went to listener Denis McKeown who is a cognitive psychologist researching auditory memory at the University of Leeds. You can hear the whole thing in the player below:
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