On this Amistice Day, Suzanna Reid read the latest news headlines whilst journalist Sarah Sands, writer & broadcaster Carol Thatcher, and novelist Will Self reviewed the Sunday news papers with Andrew Marr. The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone talked to Andrew about his support for Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair in light of guilty verdict in the court case and the damming report by the IPCC. In tribute to Norman Mailer who died this week, Andrew showed again part of his interview with him from five years ago. Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Jock Stirrup talked to Andrew about various military operational issues such as Iraq, Afghanistan, support for troops when they return home, faulty equipment, housing for soldiers in the UK, aging Nimrod aircraft and is the government making enough resources available to the armed forces. Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, talks about the First World War poet Wilfred Owen and read one of his poems to commemorate Remmembrance Sunday.
—Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>