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	FRIDAY 6TH FEBRUARY 22:30 GBT - BBC TWO FROM KIRSTY WARK Dear viewers, The protests that started the week are over. The Government stood firm and condemned the unofficial action, but at the Lincolnshire refinery Total promised 100 jobs for British workers. What brought the thousands of workers out? Was the Total protest simply the manifestation of deep-seated fears and tensions? Is there an increasing disconnect between the problems facing the working class and the policies being pursued by the government? We have spent the day talking to people near the construction sites for the London Olympics where hundreds (thousands) of workers from other European countries are employed. And we hope to discuss our film with the Communities Secretary Hazel Blears and Bob Crow, leader of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union. At the moment we are trying to set up an interview with Rachel Reid, the researcher for Human Rights Watch in Afghanistan who claims that the MOD are guilty of a "vicious slur" on her character. A senior British army officer, Colonel Owen McNally has been arrested under the Official Secrets Act, reports say for allegedly passing classified information to a human rights worker in Afghanistan. Rachel Reid denies receipt of any such information on civilian casualties and moreover is furious that her name has been connected with the story, and that there have been insinuations that she and the officer were "close". In fact, she says that they only met twice, both times at Nato military HQ in Kabul. Caroline Hawley will be attempting to unravel this fascinating and complex tale. There's been saturation coverage of the snow this week, with extraordinary pictures of children sledging and tossing snowballs, to bleaker images of stranded motorists and abandoned cars. We've all, it seems, been glued to our screens. We've always been obsessive about the weather... but this? Steve Smith will be pondering the snow magic, mayhem, and gloom. Do join us at 10.30pm. And don't forget to scroll down for Newsnight Review at 11pm.
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	PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK I'll be joined by my guests Marina Hyde, Richard Coles and Ann Leslie and we'll explore the curious life of Benjamin Button, as told in David Fincher's Curious Case of Benjamin Button, who I'll be talking to. Its technical wizardry (which defeated several other big name directors) puts Brad Pitt's head on various bodies so that we can see him live his life backwards in the company of Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett) who is living hers the right way round. The screenplay by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) was embroidered from a slight fantasy tale by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and is a peculiar love-story-meets-Boys -Own-Adventure. And it's won 13 Oscar nominations. If Spring Awakening sounds like the title of a joyous frolick, it is anything but. It's a Tony Award winning Broadway musical based on a dark story of sexual repression, rape, abuse and suicide, and it started out as a play by the German playwright Frank Wedekind. Such was the explicit nature of the material and its portrayal of sexually ravenous teenagers it was banned instantly in Britain and Germany when it was published in 1891. Now an indie-rock musical, the director Michael Mayer has brought the US production to London, but has cast British actors. Lily Allen's second album It's not Me, It's You is full of pop songs about drugs, failed lovers, older men, and ... George Bush, in her trademark mockney, chatty voice. It sounds like the soundtrack to her life at the moment, or at least the life we know through her command of MySpace and her frequent appearances in the tabloids. It has some great tunes, and funny lyrics - she's a bit like a young (rich) Squeeze. Meryl Streep is on a roll, with the frothy The Devil Wears Prada, the apparently irresistable Mamma Mia, and now an Oscar nomination for her part as Sister Aloysius in Doubt, directed by John Patrick Shanley from his screenplay of his 2004 Pulizter Prize winning stage play. Set in the 1960s in The Bronx, the formidable and forbidding nun is in charge of a church school, but is discomfitted when a charismatic priest arrives, played by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. She hears the suspicions of a young nun that the priest is engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a young boy and sets out to destroy him. Is she right, or wrong? I'll be talking to Meryl Streep and we'll be talking about the question of Doubt... Do join us at 11pm. Missed Newsnight? Catch the latest programme on the BBC's iPlayer
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