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	FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 20.00 AND 22.30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM GAVIN ESLER Hello, Quote for the Day "As you can probably guess, I'm not so much a lame duck now as a dead duck" - Robert Tuttle, US Ambassador to London. Obama.....It's the economy.... In fact some of us are hoping the new ambassador might be Oprah Winfrey, though I doubt if we will hear any news on that key appointment for a while. What we are expecting is Barack Obama's first news conference since being elected President and it is the economy that is expected to dominate. There was more evidence today that the US is in recession. The unemployment rate has reached a 14 year high and the car giant, General Motors, has said it may run out of cash next year. We're hoping to speak to a key member of Obama's transition team Rates Cut The banks have finally agreed to pass on yesterday's rate cut, so have they given into government pressure, or are they just responding to a welcome fall in the Libor rate? Brown Bounce Labour held on to their seat in Glenrothes dealing a big blow to the hopes of the Scottish National Party. Does this mean Gordon Brown is bouncing back? And do the circumstances of Scotland - where the threat to Labour is the SNP - replicate themselves in the rest of the country, where the main threat of course is the Conservatives? Georgia vs Russia After Tim Whewell's exclusive report from South Ossetia, Tim now has an extraordinary follow up. One of the former OSCE staff in Tbilisi says that Georgia did launch an indiscriminate attack on the town of Tskhinvali, and claims that he tried to warn his organisation that Georgia was building up forces in the area. So why was he apparently ignored? I'll interview the Chairman in Office of the OSCE. And finally my thanks to Newsnight viewer Sean Naylor for the following Joke Fit For a Recession: Q: What is the definition of optimism? A: A banker ironing five shirts on a Monday morning? Newsnight -- with plenty of freshly ironed shirts -- is at 10.30pm on BBC TWO And don't forget to scroll down for Newsnight Review at 11pm Gavin
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	PRESENTED BY JOHN WILSON Join me for Newsnight Review at 11pm when my guests - Ian Rankin, Julie Myerson and Sarfraz Manzoor - will be discussing age and wisdom, guilt and humility and dynastic struggle. King Lear Pete Postlethwaite's turn as Shakespeare's mad monarch has been billed as one of the starry highlights of Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture. It's also a sort of homecoming for Postlethwaite who - despite being born in Warrington - is regarded by many in the city as an honorary Scouser. In the foyer of the Everyman Theatre on Hope Street, there's a 1970s photograph of the rep company in which he's pictured alongside the likes of Julie Walters, Alan Bleasdale and Willy Russell. This week he returned to the Everyman as a Hollywood star, three decades older and with a massive specially-grown beard. Alastair Campbell To misquote King Lear, a man more sinned against than spinning? The former No.10 communications chief may want us to think so - he's written a novel about guilt and humility. No, really. All In The Mind tells the story of a top psychiatrist, Professor Martin Sturrock, who's in need of the sort of counselling he dispenses so brilliantly to his patients. Easy Virtue Old English manners are challenged by loud-mouthed modernity in this feisty new version of an early Noel Coward play. Director Stephan Elliott - best known for The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - has given the piece a musical twist, with Cole Porter classics sharing the soundtrack with jazz-age versions of Car Wash and Sex Bomb. Hollywood starlet Jessica Biel is glamorous American racing driver Larita, Ben Barnes is her foppish new husband; as the family matriarch, Kristin Scott Thomas is on hand to raise her eyebrows with haughty disdain at the vulgarity invading her corner of England. And the dog gets what he deserves. The Devil's Whore Peter Flannery created a masterpiece with his television series Our Friends In The North. Fans of Tosker and co. may well recognise the themes of fractured friendships and shifting political allegiances played out in Flannery's new Channel 4 drama The Devil's Whore. Set during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell (The Wire's Dominic West) and his more radical friend Thomas Rainsborough (Michael Fassbender from new film Hunger) vie for power as they plot a republican England. John Simm is a mercenary who begins to follow his morals, not just the money. Andrea Riseborough plays the fictional character Angelica Fanshawe, who has visions of the devil. The Review pundits will be here with their verdicts at 11. Do join us. John Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch the latest programme online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE
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