05/07/2009

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

Including a discussion of the rise of the Australian intellectual.

John Humphrys and Jonathan Dimbleby talk about political honesty.

In a week that saw a 12-year-old rescued from the Indian Ocean after a plane crashed killing everyone else, Julianne Kopcke, who was the sole survivor of a plane crash at the age of 17, talks about survival and recovery.

The papers are reviewed by the singer Paul Nicholas, adventurer Ben Fogle and Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy.