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Rana Mitter talks to Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics and an influential chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Stiglitz's controversial new book, The True Cost of the War in Iraq, argues that far from being good for the economy, the conflict has done significant damage to both the US and global economies.

And sound recordist and sonic installation artist Chris Watson talks about his new project in Newcastle, Whispering in the Leaves, which aims to convey to listeners the surroundings of the tropical rainforest.