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The producer fell ill this week, giving me a headache... no one to order around and bark instructions at... all those things that the alpha males do so well. Still I hear she is struggling in tomorrow. What a trooper. In her absence a programme of sorts has been arranged so it's probably worth listening in. And it seems more of you are doing just that, according to the latest audience information. Anyway, here's the plan.

We will ask some questions of the Labour leadership in Scotland. Like: Where is it? Iain Gray is going, or is he? Nobody at Holyrood has definitely said they will stand to replace him. There is only one candidate and he's an MP who says he's flushing out other MPs. Could an MP (Tom Harris) really lead for Scotland if they are not inside the Scottish parliament? Henry McLeish (ex MP and MSP) says not.

This looks like Labour's constitution coming back to haunt it. What used to be a strength - money and power from London - now looks like an anachronism. Perhaps it's even an analogy for Unionism as a whole. What is more disturbing surely is that there is virtually no open discussion about who should be leader or who shouldn't.... Not even a debate about the role of the party. Is it really at such a low ebb that nobody cares? Where is the passion? Maybe everyone is waiting for the to report next month, but since when did Labour activists shut up in deference to a leadership-ordered review? We hear from and .

Whoever becomes Labour leader won't quite match the status of the . He is a kind of God to his Tibetan countrymen. (I'm hearing myself say: Welcome to the programme Your Holiness Tom Harris, earthly representative of the People's Party). Anyway he is keeping his spiritual role but has given up his political function in favour of a replacement (the Dalai Lama, not Tom Harris) so what will the Chinese make of all this? I speak to a man who is writing the history of the Dalai Lama from the 17th century on. Isn't it fascinating that someone actually does that for a living?

of the Herald is hoping to be in Tripoli and if he is and has access to a sat phone, we will try to speak to him for the latest on the ground in Libya followed by a discussion with and and wondering just how much of this rebellion is truly Libyan as opposed to run by military experts from Third Countries. We will expand beyond Libya into the wider movement across the Arab world.

We'll have more interesting stuff too if I can whip the producer into shape. Sick or not, there's no slacking on Newsweek... Join me tomorrow at 8.