| Tuesday 16 November 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC 2 Presented by Gavin Esler Prince William is to marry long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after proposing on holiday in Kenya last month. Tonight Stephen Smith will ask how significant an event the 2011 royal wedding is likely to be in the political and cultural life of Britain - are there really any parallels that can meaningfully be drawn with 1981? And how have we and the royal family changed since then? Also, we consider how the Coalition may hope to harvest any goodwill for political ends, and what kind of ceremony will be appropriate in these austere times. We will be joined live from New York by journalist Martin Bashir, and in the studio by historians David Starkey and Simon Schama. Our Economics editor Paul Mason will bring us the latest from Brussels where Europe's finance ministers are holding talks this evening. There is intense speculation that debt-stricken Ireland may be forced to use EU money to resolve its financial problems and avert the possibility of a Greek-style sovereign debt crisis. And we have a film from Rupert Wingfield Hayes - who has come to end of his spell as the BBC's correspondent in Moscow - about the 'new Russia' President Vladimir Putin claims to have created since coming to power ten years ago. That and more at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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