10/02/2012

The latest from the suburb of Baba Amr in Homs after another day of bombardment by troops loyal to the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. Omar, an opponent of the regime, pleads for help from the US and UK after what he describes as the worst day of his life.
As workers in Greece start 48 hours of strike action, the former deputy director of the International Monetary Fund Desmond Lachman pours cold water on new plans to sort out the country's economic problems. Artemis Gause is a copywriter in Athens. She says the ordinary people of Greece have lost the will to fight.

And Up All Night celebrates the birth 200 years ago of author Charles Dickens with a phone-in celebrating his greatest works.