Shereen: Papers, Politics and Predictions
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| 16:45 UK time, Monday, 18 July 2011
Week two of the story that keeps on giving and it's been a struggle to keep up with developments. Needless to say my panel of , , and were well across all the twists and turns of the phone hacking story. Much discussion about the murky and increasingly blurred relationships between journalists, politicians, and the police, with more allegations in the Sunday papers.
The team took great relish in going through all the freebies and giveaways being offered by the tabloids trying to grab the News of the World's lost readers. Everything from grow bags to free copies of The Dandy. No prizes for guessing which paper was offering that one.
This week's special guest was writer whose novel "Go to sleep" draws on her own experience of being driven to the brink of insanity by a baby who wouldn't sleep. If you're thinking of having children perhaps this isn't the book for you. If you're a parent it will be all too familiar. As a non parent, I didn't expect to enjoy it but it's actually a real page turner - listen to the interview below.
Paul, Lyndsay , and I are all big Apprentice fans so we had a go at predicting tonight's winner. By the time you read this Lord Sugar will have uttered the words "You're hired" so listen again to see if we got it right. Needless to say David "I Only Watch Politics Programmes" Torrance is not a fan. He thinks it represents "the downside of capitalism". One day I'm going to get him drunk and force him to watch back to back episodes of "".
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