Friday, January 30, 2009

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FRIDAY 30TH JANUARY 22:30 GBT - BBC TWO
PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK

Hello

"British jobs for British workers" was Gordon Brown's rallying call in 2007.

Today, as thousands of workers staged unofficial walkouts across Britain in protest at the use of an Italian workforce to fulfil a contract at an oil refinery in Lincolnshire, the Prime Minister was warning against protectionism in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos. So how do we square the prospect of mass unemployment with the employment of migrant workers?

In Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai has agreed to join a unity government next month with President Robert Mugabe. He has already been criticised by some for taking a reckless gamble. The decision comes against a worsening health and economic crisis in the country. The World Health Organisation today said the cholera epidemic, which has already affected more than 60,000 people is spreading, and the health system is unable to cope with the crisis. So what does the future hold for Zimbabwe?

Join us at 10.30pm.

And don't forget to scroll down to see what is in store on Newsnight Review.




newsnight review
PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK
I'll be joined by Lionel Shriver, John Harris and Marcus du Sautoy. We'll enter the suburban hell of Revolutionary Road, adapted from Richard Yates' dark novel and directed by Sam Mendes (who last explored this territory in American Beauty). Kate Winslet is reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio and they play young, 1950s couple April and Frank Wheeler, who find their dreams of a bohemian artistic life snuffed out by their move to Connecticut to raise their family.

We review artistic responses to the Middle East conflict too. At London's Barbican Theatre a Tel Aviv theatre company's drama, Plonter (Hebrew for "Tangle") explores the everyday realities of the Israel-Palestinian conflict with a cast of Israeli Jewish and Arab actors.

At the Saatchi Gallery in London a new exhibition "Unveiled" features the work of young Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian artists working in their home countries or abroad. We'll look in particular at how conflict is portrayed in the work.

Complicit, a new play by Joe Sutton premiering at the Old Vic, explores the relationship between journalist and government post 9/11. Benjamin Kritzer, played by Richard Dreyfuss, is under pressure to reveal the source within government that told him about "black sites", secret CIA prisons. Will he go to jail, his journalistic integrity intact, or will he give her away?

Andrea Palladio wrote the first rules of architecture in the 16th century based on his study of ancient Roman buildings, and created a vocabulary that has informed architecture ever since, from Inigo Jones to the modernism of Mies Van Der Rohe. The Royal Academy in London (which itself had a 9th century Palladian makeover)has mounted an exhibition to celebrate 500 years since his birth. There are drawings, letters, writings, fragments, models of his most famous buildings (including the Villa Rotunda) and a computer-fly though.

Do join us at 11pm.

And check out the Review website for our discussions about the last two works of the late great John Updike by clicking here




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