PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK
Hello viewers
"A comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan" was President Obama's stated aim today in the face of what he described as an increasingly perilous situation. The goal he said is to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Much of the speech was focussed on Pakistan, and the carrot was there as well as the stick, $1.5bn in direct support to the Pakistani people each year for five years. So, will this pave the way for more US military action within Pakistan's elastic border with Afghanistan? And is the deployment of a further 17,000 US troops to take the fight to the Taliban, and a further 4000 troops to train Afghan security forces really an acceleration of the exit strategy? Mark Urban gives us his assessment.
And on the eve of the start of the planned protests leading up to the G20 we discuss the anger that is driving the protests. Anger against the bankers, the politicians, and globalisation. And more broadly, are more of us just mad as hell. And, if so what is fuelling this emotion? How destructive is it and what will dissipate these feelings? We hope to be speaking to Daniel Hannan, the Conservative MEP
who let rip in a sustained verbal attack on Gordon Brown in Strasbourg this week, a huge YouTube hit, and one of the people taking part in tomorrow's protest. If you're angry tell us what about
here. And then on Review, Rosie Boycott, Sarfraz Manzoor and Andrew Roberts consider two books which might help you manage or "channel" your anger. Ayn Rand's classic 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged is selling like hotcakes. In the book a number of "capitalist commandos" forsake American society in which the government is pursuing increasingly interventionist policies, to firefight economic meltdown. And in The Storm, Vince Cable analyses the present crisis (which he predicted) and gives his pro interventionist solutions. I wonder which you would pick?
Still on the theme of economic crisis, there is a new adaption of Gogol's The Overcoat by the physical theatre company Gecko. A lowly clerk is angry and frustrated about the preferment and consequent prosperity of his colleagues, and lusts after an overcoat to impress a colleague after whom he lusts even more.
And anger is just one of the many complex emotions which dominated Brian Clough's 44 day hell as manager at Leeds United FC, and imagined in a novel The Damned United by David Peace (he of the Red Riding trilogy). Now Peter Morgan has teamed up with Michael Sheen for the third time (Blair, Frost) with a loose adaption of the book as the starting point of an exploration of the triangle that dominated those days (Clough, his deputy Peter Taylor and Don Revie). Director Tom Hooper weaves in wonderful archive in a very restrained way, and Michael Sheen finds the essence of one of the most famous faces in football. He tells me he has never felt such pressure to get a character right! The former footballer Pat Nevin joins the panel to give us his verdict on The Damned United.
Do join us for all this tonight.
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