Media Brief
I'm the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
she was never drunk on her early morning Radio 2 show, which she left earlier this month. She admitted she had done a bad edition in early August, during which she had sounded slurred, but put it down to not having slept the night before. A Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú spokesman said: "It was Sarah's decision to leave the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú."
The King's Speech, starring Colin Firth as King George VI, has won the main prize at the Toronto Film Festival, reports the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. The film also stars Geoffrey Rush as the king's speech therapist, and Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother. It was part-funded by the UK Film Council, which is to be closed by the Government.
that the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's treatment of children's radio has been shameful, in her review of Radio 4's The Reunion, which brought together the team behind Play School. Even so, she thinks a statement from commercial radio calling on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú to do more about children's radio is "a bit rich".
The [registration required] for the business secretary, Vince Cable, to investigate News Corporation's proposed takeover of BSkyB, arguing that there is a "clear public interest case for doing so". The that this follows a letter to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt from media analyst Claire Enders urging against the takeover.
The Liberal Democrats party conference makes the headlines, as the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú newspaper review shows.
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• Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú | Firth movie lands Toronto Film Festival prize
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• Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú | The Reunion
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• Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú | Newspaper review.
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