FROM KATE MCANDREW, PROGRAMME PRODUCER
Hello,
After the right Royal rumpus over Prince Harry's fancy dress outfit, we look at the power to shock.
An enduring symbol of terror, the swastika remains the symbol of modern anti-Semitism - daubed over Jewish cemeteries, flaunted by neo-Nazis and ultra right-wing groups across Europe -as much as a reminder of a war in which millions lost their lives.
Yet television comedies have found humour in Second World War settings. And 'The Producers', Mel Brooks' comedy based on the ultimate in bad taste, a musical about the Nazis, is currently going down a storm in London's West End.
In the 21st century, as Europe tries to build a new future, how potent is the past? And despite the subject being taught extensively in our schools, is a new generation increasingly unaware of the reality behind the symbol of the swastika, the paraphernalia of the Third Reich? When does the past lose its power to shock the present?
The Prime Minster has taken his first step out on the hustings with a trip to the key-electoral county of Kent.
Careful not to tip off the Tories with the location, or the press with an actual election date, the PM kept it broad brush. Over the coming months he promised we'd be hearing about what a third-term Labour government would be doing for old people, the unemployed, first-time buyers, lower income groups, the economy, business - the list was long.
But he stressed, Labour would have to earn that third term. Martha Kearney was with the PM in the pretty dock-side town of Chatham as he set out the election's key themes.
A witness in one of the Rwandan genocide trials, taking place at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, testified in court today that he saw French military instructors training militiamen who subsequently took part in the mass killings in 1994.
It's more controversial fallout from a genocide which also spawned millions of refugees and sparked several wars throughout central Africa.
Not the best subject, you might think, for a computer game. But a school in Edinburgh has become the first school in Britain to pilot a screen-based educational computer programme designed to help sixteen-year-olds learn about decision making. The students play the role of a UN commander trying to stop the killing.
The BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle was in Rwanda covering the genocide 11 years ago and was curious to find out more.
And with the Iraqi elections just over 2 weeks away, we speak to Dr Muthanna Al Dari spokesman for one of the most influential Sunni groups, the Association of Muslim Scholars, who are urging a boycott of the elections.
Dr Al Dari says if the elections are held this month they won't be free and won't reflect the will and aspirations of the whole Iraqi people.
We'll be asking whether by not taking part in the elections, the group gains nothing and potentially reduce their influence.
And we've just heard that Mark Thatcher's on his way to London. More on that too.
Hope you can join us at half past ten.
Kate McAndrew
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