5 live Breakfast - 26/05/2010

English schools are to be offered the chance to become academies and take control of their own budgets - Education Secretary Michael Gove explains his reasoning. Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith discusses the notion of directly elected police chiefs - an idea she had to back off from while she was in government. The Faces were one of the great seventies rock bands - and Simply Red weren't. So, can Mick Hucknall fill Rod Stewart's winkle pickers as the group reforms? And should prospective parents be allowed to chose the sex of their unborn children? Lord Winston holds forth ahead of a discussion between a professor and a medical ethicist.