Climate change debate
As usual on Fridays, I shall leave you in the more than capable hands of my co-presenter Anita Anand.
If you've been tuned in this week to the emergency Copenhagen conference on climate change you'll know that there've been some dire predictions on the state of the planet.
In fact you may be sitting at home thinking we're all doomed!
If you've missed it all... environmentalists have warned sea levels are to rise faster than anyone thought, that the Amazon rain forest is in trouble.
In fact they wrapped up the conference yesterday by issuing a desperate plea to politicians to act now before the planet becomes unrecognisable.
They argued their worst-case scenarios are already becoming a reality.
Prince Charles summed up those fears yesterday in a speech in Rio when he he warned we have "100 months to save the planet".
We'll be exploring just how bad things are and whether politicians here can push a green agenda in the midst of an economic downturn.
Also today, G20 finance ministers meet in Sussex as the Chancellor calls for new `backstop' powers to further regulate banks and stop them overextending.
Ahead of the G20 there's tension between countries over whether more fiscal stimulus is needed or greater regulation. We'll have the latest.
And also today - are there dangers for the Prime Minister as Labour MPs increasingly flex their muscle over issues like better conditions for temporary workers and plans to part-privatise the post office.
Nearly 150 Labour MPs have signed Lindsay Hoyle's motion on the agency workers which is in the Commons today.
We'll be talking to a former chairman of the Parliamentary party Clive Soley about his colleagues rebellious tendencies.
With me throughout the show today will be the Daily Mail's Anne Leslie - and one of Tony Blair's former speech writers - Phil Collins.
It's Friday and Giles is back - so he'll be here with his regular run down of what you've made Top of the Political Pops.
Don't forget you can check all the latest on the programme on our website or come for a Twitter. Join us at noon on BBC2 or later on the BBC iPlayer.
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