How Jeremy Hunt became the prey on this week's radio Hooray, it's May. New leaves on the trees, summer clothes in the shops and, let's hope, the last bad cold of this endless winter. On Sunday, as gales blew down so much scaffolding it closed the main road outside, I reached for the cough syrup and, as the rain rattled every window, decided to look on the bright side. At least I wasn't waking up in Jeremy Hunt's shoes. Double Take, Radio 5 Live's Sunday morning news review, wondered whether the story of Hunt's dealings with the News International empire will change forever the relationship between politicians and the media. It also covered the arrest of murder suspect James Allen, and mentioned offensive chanting at football matches, but Hunt was the show's main item. This is an unusual current affairs programme because it is co-presented by two women, Anita Anand and Sam Walker, with (this week, at least) a woman newsreader and the lead reporter on the news bulletin also being a woman. This is not tokenism. Women are better represented on this network than any other, in sport as well as news, on air and off. What this presenting team brings is a breezy quizzicality, well shown this weekend as Anand discussed the big story with two commentators, Chris Mullin, former Labour MP and Blair minister, journalist, playwright and brilliant political diarist, and David Banks, a former editor of the Daily Mirror, former assistant editor of The Sun, a Radio 5 Live regular. Anand asked whether Hunt has to go. Mullin replied "not necessarily," adding "he's the fall guy." There followed a briskly managed discussion of the week's revelations, brief accounts of the building of bonds between successive governments and the Murdoch media, an agreement that this was a seminal moment of change, a few sharp anecdotes for illustration. Banks revealed he kept a confidence for John Prescott for 15 years. Mullin recalled John Major, wanting to bring down Murdoch but saying, "I'm not interested in any blow that isn't fatal." It sounded conversational, informal, Mullin a bit more hesitant than might have been expected, Banks genially cynical. Cumulatively it was fair, relevant, useful and, through Anand, lightly but skilfully controlled. Profile (Radio 4, Saturday) was also about Jeremy Hunt. Fellow Secretary of State Michael Gove sang his praises generally, unexpectedly finally revealing Hunt to be an ace ballroom dancer especially skilled at the lambada. Professor Stewart Purvis, who is working on the implementation of Hunt's plan to build up local TV services, said most people think the project is "bonkers." Our own Neil Midgley had a few incisive comments on Hunt's political principles. Mary Ann Sieghart presented, knowingly. She sounded as if she could say a lot more, but not to the likes of us. Not all broadcasters give that impression. Hermione Lee and Julian Barnes, excellent co-presenters of Alain-Fournier's Lost Estate (Radio 4, Thursday), take for granted we will know at least the bones of what they're on about and will follow as they skip between text, author, sites, conjectures. Their subject was Le Grand Meaulnes, what and who inspired the novel. As they talked to each other we heard traffic or Parisian cafe noises in the background, connecting their now to their subject's then. In the second of two episodes about the book's origins, they conjured 1905 and a tall blonde girl, seen from afar by Alain-Fournier aged 18. She wore a big hat with roses, black shoes. As she turned to give him "a long cool gaze" her eyes were enormous, bright blue. He wrote it all down, became obsessed by her. She inspired the central figure in what was to be his only novel. He had other, deeper romances, taught TS Eliot French, saw Le Grand Meaulnes published to acclaim in July 1913, was killed in action in the first months of the First World War. Wireless Nights (Radio 4, Thursday) has been more conspiratorial, four trips with Jarvis Cocker pretending we are out with him at night, part real, part fantasy. He is wonderful company, but so was Bob Dylan when he did this kind of thing on Radio 2 and so is Garrison Keillor (still a joy on Radio 4 Extra on Saturdays). Dylan and Keillor didn't have BBC Radio's first-rate features team at hand to find good stories and talkers for them, recording them so artfully you'd almost believe you were in the car, on the street, behind a closed door with them. Cocker links for us a taxi driver on foggy Merseyside, a private eye in Nottingham, a bunch of London street skaters, the concept being he is there to take us into strange places, meet people with secrets, and all in the dark. The thing is, much as I love Jarvis, I am quite used to radio letting me do this for myself. Still, it was quite a thrill when he offered me an imaginary sweet.