This week you’ll hear one of the few interviews with the US Olympic torchbearers . . . we’ve got Majora Carter, who on a regular day works as Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization she founded, which works for environmental justice in the South Bronx. But this was an unusual week for her: she tells us what it was like to carry the Olympic torch through crowds of protesters this week in San Francisco. Plus – hear what happened when she pulled the Tibet flag from her sleeve...

And, we’ll be joined by conservative columnist Robert George, from the New York Post, reporting on his view of the week’s news, plus Avis Jones-DeWeever, of the National Council of Negro Women, shares her views on how everyday people are coping with what many now admit is our economic recession.