Friday, July 24, 2009

Tonight on Newsnight and Newsnight Review

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Friday 24 July 2009 - 22.30 BST - BBC TWO
Presented by Gavin Esler



From the Web Team:

Tonight we'll be dissecting the result of the Norwich North by-election. It's a terrible result for Labour but we'll be asking whether the by-election could have been avoided altogether if the party had handled the expenses scandal more deftly.

We'll be asking Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw how Labour recovers from this. We'll also be joined by a senior Conservative, as yet undecided, to ask whether David Cameron has done enough to "seal the deal" with the voters ahead of next year's general election.

We'll also be discussing how much impact the expenses scandal still has on our perception of politics.

Newnsight Review follows.

Here's Martha with the details..

The image was a shocking one - a book being burnt on a British street. It was twenty years ago that angry Muslim protesters set fire to Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Tonight we'll explore how the fatwa has affected freedom of expression, and the relationship between culture and religion.

That's a theme explored in a new play at the National Theatre adapted by Hanif Kureish, from his novel The Black Album which is set in 1989 at the height of the protests.

I'll be discussing that and other questions of race and identity raised in a new film Skin starring Sophie Okonedo. She plays a black girl born to a white South African family.

Do join me and my guests Ekow Eshun, Germaine Greer, Kenan Malik and Tariq Madood.

Martha

So join Gavin and Martha from 10.30.

And on Monday we are presenting a special Newsnight - The NHS: At What Cost?

We would like to hear your views. Do you think money could or should be saved in the NHS?

What reforms might make the NHS more efficient?

Have you any first hand experience of waste in the NHS?

Tell us what you think on our special blog.










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