Guests

• Eve Pollard, a former editor of the Sunday Express and the Sunday Mirror. She has co-authored several novels, one of which - Splash! - is about Fleet Street.
• Vanessa Feltz, a broadcaster and columnist. She was a contestant in the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother and is currently on television in Celebrity Fit Club.
• The Labour MP Gerald Kaufman is a former political journalist. He chairs the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
• Peter Tatchell, one-time gay rights activist. His work now includes highlighting international human rights abuses.
• Julia Langdon, a political journalist and biographer. In her long career, she's written for both tabloid and broadsheet papers.
• Joshua Rozenberg, the Daily Telegraph's legal editor. Former BBC legal and constitutional affairs correspondent. He's just written a book, Privacy and the Press.
• Tessa Mayes, an investigative reporter. She's edited books on press freedom.

Next week Michael Portillo's guests will discuss whether or not we need to fund the arts.

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