Prospects 14 February, 2008
- 14 Feb 08, 10:25 AM
Dan Kelly is today's programme producer - here is his early email to the production team. But what do you want to see covered?
Good morning. Happy Valentine鈥檚 Day.
Matt Frei has an interview with George W Bush - the first 大象传媒 interview for many years. The pitch for the interview was to speak about Africa on the eve of Bush's trip there - fortunately for us Darfur, and the role of China in Sudan has become a very big issue this week. We could do a discussion off the back - who would you like on?
Lotfi Raissi, wrongly accused of training pilots involved in 9/11, should be allowed to claim compensation the . The judgement was very critical of the CPS and the Home Office for granting an extradition request from the Americans.
A review into Britain's space programme is launched today - and the prospect of a British manned mission is now very real. Is this the right direction, or a huge waste of money? Which guests could we get on?
We have a film from Kosovo by Allan Little, ahead of the expected declaration of independence this weekend.
We should keep an eye on Beirut. What else have you seen? What guests would you like to see on?
Dan
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I would suggest Tessa Jowell - but it is unlikely she would be willing to face the press. And I suspect Andy Burnham would be less than ecstatic at going for a hat-trick of being exposed on the Beeb as being totally out of his depth.
My other suggestion would be Sebastian 'Lord' Coe - if only to have his smug, sanctimonious pomposity punctured by having to face up to the fact that the Olympics don't mean a hoot if the people organising it are overlooking basic human rights. And that the protestations about keeping the Olympics above petty political squabbles mean very little when they are clearly being used for political power games by those closely involved with them.
Go on, invite him on - if only to see the look on his face when he is asked to utterly condemn the Chinese over the Darfur situation. Will it shame the Chinese into action ? Probably not, but they have clearly been a bit rattled by George Clooney and Steven Spielberg shining a torch into an are a they would rather were left in the dark....
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For the space item, why not try the Scottish Astronomer General (John Brown) - and perhaps ask him about
threatened UK job cuts in particle
physics and astronomy. Without the scientists space remains the final frontier .... He can also do magic
tricks as regular views of The Sky
at Night will remember ...........
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