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	FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 22.30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM GAVIN ESLER Hello, Thought for the Day: "Debt has been this government's biggest growth industry" - Sir John Major. On tonight's programme: International rescue There are big hopes for the G20 summit but imagine a party where the host hasn't turned up. Leaders of the world's superpowers are gathering in the States to attempt to sort out the world's economic problems but the man of the moment, Barack Obama, won't be there. So what can the G20 achieve this weekend without the next leader of the world's economic superpower? Will Gordon Brown be able to convince the rest of the world to follow his model of fiscal stimulus? Paul Mason is in Washington and I'll be speaking to leading politicians from the summit. Baby P The torture of the toddler known as Baby P has provoked uncomfortable questions about the safety of the most vulnerable children in our society. Today it became apparent that a Haringey social worker flagged up concerns to ministers about the risk of a repetition of the Victoria Climbie case six months before Baby P died. What happened next clearly wasn't enough to save Baby P - so how did the authorities respond to the warning? Join us 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 On Review at 11pm I'll be joined by David Aaronovitch, Natalie Haynes and Michael Gove MP to discuss fiction forged from antiquity, the recent past and the present. Body of Lies International cultural conflict has been a pressing concern for director Ridley Scott who, after Black Hawk Down and Kingdom Of Heaven, returns with a third film in which Western forces do battle with a Muslim foe. I'll be asking Ridley Scott whether he intended Body of Lies - which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a CIA agent in the Middle East and Russell Crowe as his Washington handler - as the final part of a trilogy. And I'll be asking our panel whether 'geopolitical thriller' is a contradiction in terms. Gethsemane David Hare is another artist who likes to get his teeth into the big issue. In the 90s his 'state of the nation' plays tackled the Church, the judiciary and the Labour Party. More recently he's borrowed real-life characters and phrases to discuss railway privatisation and the war in Iraq. His latest play Gethsemane is about political fundraising and the betrayal of ideals. There's a rock-fan prime minister, a Cabinet member whose husband is up to his neck in dodgy deals abroad, and a party fundraiser who made his money in the music biz. It may all sound familiar but according to David Hare Gethsemane is a work of "pure fiction". Yeah, right. Babylon It was once the greatest city in the world, a towering metropolis in which spectacular gardens may (or may not) have hung. After the invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam, the ruins of Babylon were turned into a military base, incised with deep trenches. The desecration of one of the original wonders of the world is a sad coda to a series of amazing historical and mythical tales retold at the British Museum exhibition Babylon: Myth and Reality. Survivors In the early 1970s, just as I'd stopped hiding behind the sofa when Dr Who came on, along came another scary television thriller from the pen of Timelord writer Terry Nation. Survivors imagined a deadly plague wiping out most of the world's population. Now there's a contemporary take on the scenario, a series in which flu results in more than a shiver and a sniffle. Hope you can join us at 11pm. Click here to join in the Review debate on the blog: 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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