With Samira Ahmed, Kerry McCarthy (MP for Bristol East) has the verdict on Armando Iannucci's new comedy; Veep. Comedian David Baddiel and biographer Nicola Beauman reappraise Elizabeth Taylor's written work. New Generation Thinker Charlotte Blease, examines historical and contemporary deceptions in medical practice. And Curator Brigitte Schultz, the historian Timothy Stanley and Wouter Vantisphout of Delft University in the Netherlands discuss the phenomenon of the modern empty city with reference to a new exhibition of photographs currently on display in Berlin.