The voice of protest
As usual on Fridays, I shall leave you in the more than capable hands of my co-presenter Anita Anand.
The pension arrangements of , fomer chief executive of RBS,
'Fred the Shred' has refused to pay back any of his pension pointing out that the government approved the .
But the Treasury say that they thought they were contractually obliged to pay the pension.
We will be discussing if there is to get the money back.
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown will be in Washington next week to have face-to-face talks with Barack Obama.
Top of their agenda will be how to co-ordinate their attempts to rescue the world from total financial meltdown.
They will be hoping to formulate a cunning plan to put to the other members of the G20 when they meet in .
But not everyone thinks that governments have the answers.
Since the recession started to bite riots have swept across Europe as many people with mounting anger blame the politicians for getting us into this mess in the first place.
So just what can we expect in April? With mass protests planned the police have already warned that the growing recession could provoke riots.
We will be talking the deputy mayor of London in charge of policing, .
One group of people who are already protesting are Britian's sheep farmers. A little-known European directive has ruled that by the end of the year every single one of the 30 million in an effort to track all individual sheep in the wake of the epidemic of 2001.
The farmers claim the , which they will bear, will force them under. We will be talking to the leader, .
And in a week when politics stood still we will be looking back at the extraordinary events in Westminster following the of the death of .
With us for the whole programme will be the commentator and the Financial Times' .
Join us at noon, or catch us later on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer.
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