Today - 23/06/2008

With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Presented by John Humphrys an Evan Davis. Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan Tsvangirai, has confirmed that it will not contest the election because of the way its people have been terrorised by President Mugabe's supporters. Zimbabwe's Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu says Mr Tsvangirai has "chickened out" of the election. Oxfam launches its 10-year manifesto for tackling global inequality. Head of research at Oxfam, Duncan Green and Michael Spence, an economist and Nobel Prize winner, discuss whether the route out of poverty is the empowerment of the poor. We tend not to associate the Neanderthals with sophisticated tools. But archaeologists working at a site called Beedings, in West Sussex, have made some interesting finds. Dr Matthew Pope runs the team from University College, London that has been doing some of the work. Thought for the day with Dom Antony Sutch, a Benedictine monk. Peter Biles reports from Johannesburg and Lord Malloch Brown discusses what can be done now to ensure fair elections in Zimbabwe. Former England footballer, Graeme Le Saux and the former Downing Street press officer, Lance Price discuss how to make the most of a short temper. Moscow correspondent James Rodgers reports on plans to restore the Narkomfin building in Moscow, an experiment in Stalinist living, begun in the 1920s. A company that prints Robert Mugabe's banknotes is being urged to stop supplying them to Zimbabwe. The MP Nigel Griffiths is tabling an Early Day Motion in Parliament condemning the German printer's continued involvement with the Mugabe regime. What, if anything, could Nelson Mandela do for Zimababwe? Dr Vincent Magombe of Africa Inform International and Dr James Sanders who worked on Mandela's authorised biography discuss.