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Lots of emails this week from listeners angered by BBC radio\'s lack of coverage of what was claimed to be a 50,000-strong demonstration against the coalition\'s cuts - even though it started just outside Broadcasting House. Was it, you wondered, evidence that the corporation\'s news coverage isn\'t as impartial as it claims?

Also under discussion - the "N word". Is it ever acceptable to use it on the air? Roger talks to the producer of Radio 4\'s Archive on 4 documentary A History of the N Word and Radio 4\'s Editor of editorial standards, Roger Mahony.

Elsewhere in the programme, the truth behind the story that Jack Dee threatened to resign from Radio 4\'s I\'m Sorry I Haven\'t a Clue; the release of a report on the quality and impartiality of BBC coverage of rural affairs; and the shipping forecast - beloved of Radio 4 listeners, but is it still used by those in peril on the sea?

Producer: Will Yates\\nA Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.