Friday, March 6, 2009

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FRIDAY 6 MARCH 22:30 GBT - BBC TWO
PRESENTED BY GAVIN ESLER

Hello,

"You made some comments about my deputy, and I have to say that I won't hear a word against him - I think he's fast on his way to becoming a national treasure."
Leader of the Commons Harriet Harman on her deputy Chris Bryant MP.

Is the Prime Minister on his way to National Treasure-dom? It's been a week in which he has taken huge risks, backing the Bank of England's decision to pump up to £150bn into the economy, and made a big speech to the US Congress. He has also met Barack Obama and begun laying the groundwork for next months G20 summit in London.

So, can Gordon Brown rebuild his premiership, along with the economy?

Or is he, as some commentators believe, inevitably doomed? We'll debate.

Plus we'll have more on the data protection issues raised amid allegations of a "blacklist" of construction workers. Peter Mandelson and some green custard could also make an appearance...

That's Newsnight tonight at 10.30pm. Scroll down for details of tonight's Newsnight Review.

Gavin




newsnight review
PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK
Tonight on Review, everything is history and history is everything, from the new film The Young Victoria, to The Kindly Ones, a shocking novel about The Shoah, written by a young, Jewish author. The book's narrator is a former SS Intelligence officer looking back on the war. He describes in horrifying detail the murder of the Jews and conducts a discourse with the reader about the nature of, and the blame for, the Holocaust.

In The Young Victoria, Emily Blunt takes the role of the 18-year-old monarch who had to battle to get the throne and who is feisty and passionate. Paul Bettany is Lord Melbourne, the scheming Prime Minister who is apparently after her hand, and Rupert Friend plays Prince Albert, with whom she falls in love. Does it matter that Julian Fellowes' screenplay is not entirely faithful to history? That's for our guests (novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones, Kate Williams, author of a book about the youthful Queen, and artistic director of the ICA Ekow Eshun) to discuss.

They've been to see a dance piece about a cross dressing, 18th century spy. It's the product of a collaboration between dancer Sylvie Guillem, choreographer Russell Maliphant and director Robert Lepage.

They'll also be reviewing Gordon Brown's address to Congress, with its paean of praise for America's recent past, and its invocation of history as the key to the future, and an altogether darker, alternative vision of the last American century in the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' cult classic comic series Watchmen.

If you're a Watchmen fan, or even if you're not, you can watch Ekow Eshun and cult musician Jeffrey Lewis discussing their different reasons for loving it here.

Join us at 11pm.

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