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Hell's Kitchen: 19 April 2009

Watching Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner lord it over Jody (Lip of Shameless) as he persevered with his abject apologies, and they kept refusing to accept them, was almost enough to make me vomit. Not quite, fortunately, but Jody, if she ever wants you to apologise again please don't do it - remember the nation is watching and you are our spokesman. Courage mon brave.

The Apprentice: Week Four 15 April 2009

The challenge to create and sell bath products proved too much for ... whatsername ... Paula. Well, Siralan fired her because he thought she should be able to do sums if she wants a job in business. I would have put money on one of her two costings experts, Ben or Yasmina, getting the heave ho, but they survive to embarrass themselves for another day at least.

The North-South Divide: 9 April 2009

This programme had a difficult agenda to fulfill because while John Harris was demonstrating there is such a thing as a north-south divide, where those in the north have a comparatively worse standard of living, he also wanted to show it isn't that grim and places like Hull are worth investing in.

I wish he'd have gone further, though, and asked why there is such a striking difference in numbers in people going to higher education in some parts of the country than others, and why some areas are always at the bottom of the education league tables. I couldn't help wondering if he'd been given a remit to be temperate rather than angry especially as he refrained from shouting out those southerners who think all the 'talent' of the country is or should be concentrated on the periphery of Cambridge.