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13/03/2011

This week Lord Patten, the new chairman of the BBC Trust, faced a grilling from a parliamentary select committee. Did he impress? Roger Bolton asks Jocelyn Hay of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer and the chairman of that committee John Whittingdale MP for their assessment.

Twelve-year-old schoolboy Jojo Baidoo, beat the stage school darlings to become the leading man in this week's Book at Bedtime on Radio 4.

BBC Radio 7 is poised to relaunch as BBC Radio 4 Extra, offering among other things 500 archive episodes of Desert Island Discs. But many of you are still unconvinced by the sound…

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