Today - 27/11/2008

Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Rahul Roy-Chaudhury and MEP Sajjad Karim discuss the terrorism attacks in Mumbai. Mark Hutchings and David Miles, chief UK economist at Morgan Stanley, discuss how the housing market can recover. Administrator for MFI Phil Duffy says the stores are remaining open and will be trading. Security correspondents Jonathan Beale and Frank Gardner discuss the response of world leaders to the terrorism in Mumbai. Thought for the day with Dr Elaine Storkey, president of Tearfund. Chief executive of the RSC Dr Richard Pike and the director of the National Science Learning Centre, Professor John Holman, discuss the standard of science examinations. British High Commissioner to India Sir Richard Stagg describes the extent of the devastation in Mumbai. Britain is running out of mycologists (people who study fungi in all its diverse forms). Environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee reports. City economist David B Smith discusses the drying up of the mortgage market with George Magnus, a senior economic advisor at UBS Investment Bank. Rahul Tandon gives a graphic account of the human loss in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Lord Robertson discusses whether the diplomatic strategy in Afghanistan needs to be changed. Britain should not engage with 24-hour news in the way the United States has, a new book suggests. Author Charles Feldman discusses whether rolling news leaves no time to think with the controller of the BBC News channel, Kevin Bakhurst. Chris Morris gives the latest developments on the hostage crisis in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai.