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In this week's issue of The Big Picture, Louis Cotgrove welcomed Alexander Fitzgerald, Elliot Johnson, Seb Bench and Joesph Todd to discuss one of the week's major breaking stories: the revelation that many of the UK's biggest firms have exploited loopholes to pay little or no tax - in the case of Starbucks, none whatsoever. Although the evasion is legal, the panel were critical of the ethics of the practice given the state of public finances and the economy, and called for widespread reform of tax legislation.

In this week's edition of The Big Picture, Michael Gaffney welcomed a panel consisting of Alexander Fitzgerald, Sebastian Bench and Elliot Johnson. The debate began with a discussion of the crisis which has enveloped the BBC, with false allegations made against a Tory peer leading to the resignation of the Corporation's Director-General. The panel questioned whether the BBC's national and international reputation had been damaged, and speculated as to how the organisation can recover.

This week the Big Picture focused on the US Presidential Election, with the contest to decide the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth making for some of the feistiest debating that we've seen on the panel this year.

Here's the link to our podcast of today's show: http://urn1350.net/podcast/28. Topics include the UK's energy policy, the impact of the very-nearly-hurricane Sandy upon the US Presidential elections, and the cost of education for the Student Loans Company.

If you enjoy tonight's show, then listen in next Tuesday (November 6th) for our pre-election special. From then on we revert to our usual timeslot, every Wednesday from 6pm until 7pm.

In this week's edition of the Big Picture, Michael Gaffney, David Hayes, Sebastian Bench, Robert Smith and Louis Cotgrove discussed the repercussions of Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell's resignation, the ongoing civil war in Syria, and the upcoming Nottinghamshire Police Commissioner Elections.