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This week Philip Morne talks to Ali Smith,

the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize.

I talked to Jason Cowley about what's happening with Ed Miliband

and Ian Stedman and I discussed how to land a probe on a comet that's traveling extremely fast.

But first up, Phil chairs a discussion between me and Jason about the woes and pitfalls of being

Labour Leader. So Helen, how did we get to this point? What's happened to Ed Miliband?

Well I think the thing that we've really learned from what happened with last week's issue in the

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