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Scaremongering or top notch investigative journalism? We hear your views on the BBC's horsemeat coverage. Also this week: Can you make jokes about Jimmy Savile on the BBC? And how do you (temporarily) replace Humphrys and co. when industrial action takes the usual news programme off-air?

Why is the Archers message board to close? And why was The World at One not at 1 o'clock? Also this week, we join Just a Minute fan Pete Cross who, on his seventh attempt, obtained tickets to be in the audience. Plus, how should the BBC report the horsemeat scandal? And the recent Radio 4 dramas and comedies that have thrown out the rule book - tragic or epic?

Did Sir Paul McCartney and family advertise their products on Radio 4? And can you curate music? Whispering Bob says yes. Plus is iPlayer Radio out of tune with its users? We put your issues about iPlayer, listening online, podcasts and all things on demand to the man in charge - Daniel Danker.

The Radio 2 Controller meets your criticisms head on. We talk quotas for women journalists with the head of the BBC Newsroom. And Plugwatch returns.

Too fast - and you're furious. We hear from listeners who scrambled to buy tickets to CarFest - the festival brainchild of Radio 2's Chris Evans - only to have their efforts thwarted by a technical hitch. Also female experts - should BBC radio be redressing the balance? Plus, we correct a Feedback 'oops'. And who would you appoint as Radio 4's Writer-in-Residence?

BBC Belfast gets a visit from Roger to look at the coverage of recent violence. Surprising statistics on gender imbalance. And a listener challenges a BBC Director on book plugging. Plus suicide and responsibility.

We hear what you make of the exodus of well-known voices from BBC Radio. Roger Bolton tackles the complexities of reporting on climate change. And, can local radio save your life?

Is the BBC too interested in its own problems? We hear your views on the week's coverage. Also, Feedback goes to the Radio Festival in Salford to participate in a session about the relationship between programme makers and their audience. And was Radio 4's comedy The Golden Age satirical or offensive?

Digital radio on the move: is it worth converting the car? BBC East's The Naked Scientists get the chop. And listeners restore missing gems to the BBC's archive.

Too few females on the Today programme? Ruairi disappears from the Archers. And Producer Jon Naismith talks about why I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue is an exception to the BBC policy of not charging for tickets to programme recordings.

How do you make a programme in a prison? Plus your views on the BBC's Savile coverage.

Chief political correspondent Ben Wright takes us behind the scenes at BBC Westminster and answers your questions about the dark art of political reporting. Plus too much cricket on long wave?

A Presenter says sorry. Plus what listeners can expect from the new Radio iPlayer.

Just how combative should a political interview be? We get a response from the Today programme and also get some insight into the art of the political interview from Radio 4's Week in Westminster presenter, Steve Richards. And was it worth flying to New York for an interview? The BBC's disability's affairs correspondent Peter White, presenter of No Triumph, No Tragedy, explains.

Your views on the BBC and the Queen. And did music enhance The History of the Future?