The music was top too, from the never-less-than-ace Emmy the Great. The first instalment was fun, well crafted, charming, beautifully scripted (you can read the transcript on the website, though I donвЂ™t recommend you do until youвЂ™ve heard the show). She will be out and about, travelling, talking to people, getting them to chat.

As last weekвЂ™s was the first show, we donвЂ™t quite know what each mystery will be, though she promised that none will be the kind that can be solved through a few online clicks. Mystery Show features the fabulously named Starlee Kine taking on a different real-life puzzle every week. ItвЂ™s extremely difficult to bring art alive on the radio: Sooke managed it admirably. His unscripted, intelligent descriptions of her art вЂ“ вЂњOh, IвЂ™ve just realised,вЂќ he exclaimed at one point, вЂњthatвЂ™s an enormous erection!вЂќ вЂ“ and his informed but empathetic interviewing technique brought us very close to Lucas and her work.

Sooke, who is a properly excellent presenter, took us from this yearвЂ™s Biennale, where Lucas had a raucous two-woman band playing in the British pavilion, back a few months to when she was making the work. LucasвЂ™s art is born of and kitchen sinks, of scruffy, drunk, anti-establishment rebellion. One of the underlying narratives of the Blatter programme was вЂњthe British against the worldвЂќ, and this was also a theme of Alastair SookeвЂ™s excellent Radio 4 documentary about the artist Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale. There is, indeed, only one Sepp Blatter and who knows where he will end up? Weaving in exclusive recorded interviews with informed discussion, this was a fascinating programme about a compelling character, released just when we needed to hear it. Why would he support anyone else? As an aside, there was an interesting point made: when does altruism вЂ“ helping less fortunate countries with coaching programmes, support and facilities вЂ“ turn into bribery? Blatter had always ensured that he got those funds. What he cared about was getting Fifa money so that he could fund the electricity needed for pitches and buy team kits for the under-20s. That representative didnвЂ™t care which country would host the World Cup: his own would never qualify. One of the speakers mentioned visiting a small country in Africa and talking to the top football representative there. вЂArt born of and kitchen sinksвЂ™: Sarah Lucas at the Venice Biennale.

When he talks to you, said his daughter Corinne, he makes you feel important, because heВ listens. He has visited almost all of FifaвЂ™s 209 national associations. OnceВ in power, Blatter made it his business to bring smaller, less influential, but still football-mad nations in from the cold.

We heard how his predecessors effectively locked out any footballing nation that wasnвЂ™t in Europe or South America shamefully, one of BlatterвЂ™s predecessors, Stanley Rous, Fifa president from 1961 to 74, supported the apartheid regime in South Africa. The British stance on Blatter is that heвЂ™s a charlatan and a вЂ™nana, so it was refreshing to hear why such a man is so powerful the reasons why heвЂ™s popular, at least outside the UK. Fraud investigations have tapered out, those caught pocketing money have been sacked, but Blatter has never been touched. But then, as the 5 Live programme made clear, Blatter is far too impressive to be caught doing anything directly dodgy. Imagine the gnashing of BBC teeth if the raid had happened 24 hours later.Д«latter, of course, wasnвЂ™t charged with anything, despite having been FifaвЂ™s boss for the past 17 years. And on Wednesday evening, 5 Live had a programme scheduled entitled ThereвЂ™s Only One Sepp Blatter. On Wednesday morning various Fifa big boys were gathered up from their hotel suites in Zurich byВ SwissВ law enforcers working with the US and whizzed off to be charged with fraud and corruption. Timing isnвЂ™t everything, but it can definitely help in journalism, and BBCВ 5 Live hacks must have broken into a Mexican wave when the FBI chose Wednesday to sort out international football.

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