Broadcasting House - 17/05/2009

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Kevin Connolly In the light of the MPs' expenses scandal, Lord Salisbury, the Bishop of Durham, Tony Benn and Patience Wheatcroft discuss how they would design a new parliamentary system if we had to start all over again. Has Ikea done more for European unity than the European Union? Paddy makes a guest appearance from the Eurovision Song Contest, and after Ann Widdecombe said that MPs were now in a contest to see 'who had the hairiest shirt', we look into the history of hairshirts. Historian and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser, songwriter and broadcaster Tom Robinson and journalist Andrew Pierce review the papers. The quiz answer is 'the gravy train' and the winner is Susan Grossey.