John McCarthy

On Pick of The Week this week:

Mark Steel makes the good folk of Fleetwood take a long, hard and very funny look at themselves.

How Hip Hop reflects and inspires revolution in the Middle East.

A modern day forty-niner miner; Panning for gold in California.

Life in the Quiet Zone, a place where mobile phones are banned.

The extraordinary influence of the Y chromosome..

And Tax avoidance - it's been going on for centuries..