Fantastic pictures of foam in the papers today. At first glance it looked like Blackpool had been hit by a snowstorm. You might want to amuse yourself today with a flick through the BBC's UK news photos of the year, it being December 30th and all that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16267241
We've got an interesting take on the official papers released as always at this time of year under the 30 year rule.
It's not about Margaret Thatcher's ironing board, but about spooks, the government, the BBC and Panorama. Here's how our correspondent Gordon Corera explains it:
The BBC Director General personally intervened to censor a Panorama programme on Britain's intelligence agencies, official papers reveal. The then Director General Sir Ian Trethowan was put under pressure by government to deal with rising concern over a programme broadcast in 1981. According to the papers, Trethowan told the press that no one from the government had seen the film and that there had been no pressure from the government on the BBC, something which the papers make clear was not the case.
We'll be talking to the reporter on Panorama at the time, Tom Mangold.
Also this evening:
*the latest of Eddie's interviews with people for whom 2011 was unforgettable. He hears from a prominent member of the Occupy movement.
*we explore the debate about gender-based marketing of toys - remember the toyshop Hamleys decided to stop the practice of having separate floors for girls (pink) and boys (full of trains and tanks).
* and after a darts player blamed an attractive woman in the front row for putting him off his game, we're thinking of doing more on "great sporting excuses of our time. "
And we look back at the best of "Previously on PM" over the past year.
Join us if you can at 5
Carolyn
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