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FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO
FROM GAVIN ESLER

Hello,

Today's Quote for the Day comes from the playwright and commentator Keith Waterhouse on the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell and the policy of liberalising the gaming laws: "She really doesn't know one end of a roulette wheel from the other."

Tonight on Newsnight:

Titan. Yep, we're going out of this world with the European Space Agency's Huygens probe which has landed on Saturn's moon Titan early today. Fingers crossed. We'll have the latest pictures and analysis and the first interview with any little green men. Or women.

The Volcker inquiry into the UN oil for food programme allegations of fraud is due to report by the end of this month. We'll ask who is likely to take the blame.

And you will have seen celebrities and politicians wearing coloured ribbons to show they support various causes and charities. The Prime Minister himself wore a white ribbon to support the end of world poverty.

Well, if you can't remember which colour goes with which cause, do not fear. You are not alone. David Grossman will have Newsnight's Complete Guide to the Colours of Compassion.

All that - and who could ask for more? - on Newsnight at 10.30pm on BBC2.

Gavin


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FROM KIRSTY WARK
Hi there,

Tonight: Jeanette Winterson, John Harris and Germaine Greer, the woman who went into the Big Brother house with her eyes wide shut only to flee five days later, talks about the power of reality TV.

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In the long tradition of boxing movies - Rocky, Raging Bull, The Champ and Homeboy among them - this packs a different punch.

Be bedazzled and bejewelled by the new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London: Turks. Not one but four empires from the 7th century to the 15th, has left us the most extraordinary artistic and cultural legacy - with Baghdad and Mosul at the heart of learning.

This timely exhibition truly is an Aladdin's cave of carpets, sculpture, ceramics, architecture, jewels and manuscripts, encompassing places as far apart as Budapest and the Western edges of China, each Turkish conquest adding a new artistic dimension to the empire.

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I hope you'll join us at 11.00pm.

Kirsty

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