Show notes: China censorship, crunchy food and Cleese
Those of you who gathered around the gently glowing valves of the wireless this Saturday, or indeed those of you currently enjoying the show online while dropping sandwich crumbs over your desk will have encountered the following items on this weeks multi-platform audio experience:
- A look back at some of the stories you've helped us cover including Communications data, crime maps, pot-holes and speed-cameras
- Mixed views from within China on the issue of internet censorship and the way the west reports it. We heard from Sima Nan, Isaac Mao, Jeremy Goldkorn.
- Next week (or the week after) we plan to look at the National Identity Card scheme. Particularly the extent to which tax payers may end up footing a big bill if the scheme is cancelled. Listener Martyn Thomas has already helped us with this. Do have information that may help guage the scale of the problem? Drop us a line, in confidence ipm [at] bbc.co.uk
- Another Minister appears on iPM - The Minister of Silly Walks - John Cleese. You can hear him talk about his favourite websites here
- A look at the Malaria Atlas Project. It's a global online map of the disease showing the prevalence of malaria.
- And finally, well almost, are your shopping habits changing because of the credit crunch? Listener Anna Christensen told us about a kind of credit crunch - Supermarket Sweep
As ever iPM thrives on your ideas, which are (nearly) always better than ours. We meet every Tuesday to discuss your stories. We read every email and blog comment, even if we can't use all of them.


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I'm surprised the length of time given to the shopping piece (fresh items reduced) - is this news?
I worked in a supermarket 10 years ago and this was going on then. Indeed your own journalist mentions the reducing of breads, cakes, etc many years ago.
I have always visited that section of the store as many items can be frozen and eaten within a month just like if you'd got it at it's most fresh.
The real story here is that many stores actually DO NOT discount things as much as they used to as they know people know about this and they only marginally reduce things during the day tempting different level of bargain hunter in during the day.
It may have been news to one of your listeners but I doubt to many.
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