Presented by Jon Sopel and Tim Marlow
From Jon Sopel: What else do you expect to see but murk when it comes to whether Binyam Mohamed was or wasn't tortured before he washed up in Guantanamo Bay detention camp? However, today, perhaps, a little shard of light. An MI5 official visited Morocco three times during the period when Mohamed claimed he was being treated none too kindly. The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera will be reporting for us.
To parley or not to parley? The history of live televised debates between British party leaders in election campaigns is - err - short. We have never had one. Yes, the subject comes up, there is a brief glimmer, and then it fades away. The normal pattern is for the opposition leader to call for it, and for the incumbent prime-minister to poo-poo it. But Lord Mandelson this week has given the subject real air. So will it happen and would it be good for democracy?
And one of the giants of football, Bobby Robson has died. He has seen football move through all its different stages - from the 'noble' working class game watched on packed terraces with players taking public transport to the ground. Through the dark days of soccer hooliganism - the skinheads and the skirmishes, to its current incarnation as a game played by Ferrari-driving millionaires and watched by the prawn cocktail-munching, Chablis-drinking middle classes, and paid for by millions of satellite TV subscriptions. Gabby Logan and Arthur Smith will be with me to consider his contribution and the changing face of football.
Join me at 10.30pm with your rattle and scarf.
From Tim Marlow: Tonight's Review looks at the life story (both human and simian) as inspiration for a recent spate of books and films, and will try to explore how art and fiction enlightens or clouds biographical fact.
The Booker longlist was announced this week and included two very different biographical novels. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is an epic account of the life of the Tudor enforcer Thomas Cromwell , while four hundred years later Me Cheeta chronicles the life journey of a chimpanzee captured in Liberia who becomes a Hollywood star.
Our panellists are film historian and broadcaster Matthew Sweet, biographer Kate Williams and actor and writer Kerry Shale.
We'll also discuss two new French biopics -Coco Before Chanel and Mesrine: Killer Instinct. Aside from the blurring of fact and fiction, we'll also be considering why the biopic is such a staple of the film world.
So join us on the purple sofa at 11pm for a mixture of crime, punishment, political scheming, elegant simplicity, psychological contradiction and some monkey business to boot.
From the web team: And finally... a little Newsnight project for your weekend! What is happening now where once there was lightbulbs, pick 'n' mix and children's clothes? Send Newsnight photos of your local Woolworths.
More details here.
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