The stalled economy
As usual on Fridays, I shall leave you in the more than capable hands of my co-presenter Anita Anand.
There is further gloomy news on the economy.
Figures out this morning show that car production in February slumped by over 60% on the year. It has got so bad even next year's Motor show in London has been cancelled.
But all is not lost. Coventry is to hold its very own version of the motor show.
We will be looking at the bleak outlook for the car industry with former Minister Geoffrey Robinson. He is also the Labour MP for Coventry North West, where the Jaguar car plant is located and he just so happens to be a former chairman of Jaguar as well.
This all comes against the backdrop of unemployment busting through the 2 million mark.
The financial sector, in particular, has been badly affected. More than 100,000 jobs were cut in the financial and business service sector in the last three months of 2008.
But the public sector is growing. So are bankers finding refuge in the public sector, and in teaching, in particular? We will be investigating and talking to one financial analyst who has made the leap into teaching.
The former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has tabled an amendment to a bill going through Parliament to enshrine in law that people who help terminally ill loved ones to die abroad will not be prosecuted.
Assisted dying is illegal in the UK and anyone convicted faces up to 14 years in prison.
But at the end of last year, the parents of Daniel James, who was paralysed in a rugby accident, were told they would not face charges over helping him to end his life in Switzerland even though he was not terminally ill.
We will be discussing the rights and wrongs of assisted dying.
And we will be looking back at the political week and at the appalling story about the lack of care given patients at Stafford Hospital.
With us for the whole programme will be the Conservative blogger, Tim Montgomerie and Chuka Umunna from the think-tank, Compass.
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