
Friday, October 16, 1998 Published at 19:14 GMT 20:14 UK


 |  |  | Europe Eurosceptics present a bleak view of the UK's future, while the foreign secretary considers a new supranational European body. |  |
  |  |  | The Cabinet In the fifth programme in the series, Donald Macintyre examines the powers of the cabinet in an era when the prime minister seems all powerful. |  |
  |  |  | The Town Hall The government wants a new relationship between local government and the people. Matrix of Power examines the proposals. |  |
  |  |  | Lords Reform The government is to get rid of hereditary peers. The fourth programme in the series looks at last-ditch opposition and hints about a new method of nominating life peers. |  |
  |  |  | Treasury Matthew d'Ancona examines the role of a department whose power seems to be growing to rival that of the prime minister's. |  |
  |  |  | Parliaments The second of BBC Radio 4's ' Matrix of Power' series examines what could be the most radical of the government's constitutional reforms - devolved assemblies. |  |
  |  |  | Number 10 Michael White, the political editor of the Guardian, finds out whether Tony Blair really is concentrating power at the centre. |  |




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