| Thursday 16 September 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Emily Maitlis "It's marvellous to know" remarked Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie at the papal reception in Holyrood, "that humour is alive and well in the Royal Family". It was in response to the Duke of Edinburgh who, she later revealed, had asked her if she wore tartan knickers. One of the less choreographed exchanges of the day's events. The day, as it happened, was bathed in sunlight and mellifluous harmony as crowds turned out to line parks in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the pontiff's visit. It was also the day that a minister asserted the new government would "defend people of faith" or, "dare I say" she added, "do God". Is Baroness Warsi right to assert people of faith are more likely to do more for their communities? The humanists don't think so. We'll be talking to her tonight. And we'll be hearing Steve Smith's latest thoughts on the "big society" ( read more about that here). After the EU justice commissioner accused France of thinking the unthinkable in its expulsion of the Roma people we compare the fortunes of Roma here in Britain. And Bernhard Schlink - author of best selling novel, The Reader (which became an Oscar-winning movie) - talks to us about guilt, forgiveness and what the Pope should do about wrongdoing within his own Church. Join me, Emily, at 10.30pm on BBC Two. |