Google fails to remove rip-off ads - a podcast by BBC World Service

Google has failed to remove adverts for websites that charge for free government services. The BBC's Chris Fox explains how a number of adverts found among search results go against Google's own policies prohibiting fees to change information such as driving licence addresses, despite a pledge from the search engine to remove them. And we get reaction from Gareth Shaw, head of money for the UK consumer organisation Which? Also in the programme, we examine the future of music and arts festivals, as the industry hopes it can bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Trendell of music magazine NME talks us through the thinking of festival organisers about what sort of events might proceed this summer. Rasto Pruzinec organises the Uprising reggae and world music festival in Slovakia, and tells us how difficult it is to plan his event in August, when the scope of government restrictions that will be in force then is not yet clear. And Grace Barrett of the Telluride Bluegrass festival in Colorado discusses how the pandemic will make this year's event a very different experience to before. Plus, our regular workplace commentator Stephanie Hare considers the implications of the pandemic for how we eat at work.

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