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Friday, October 16, 1998 Published at 19:14 GMT 20:14 UK
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Europe
Eurosceptics present a bleak view of the UK's future, while the foreign secretary considers a new supranational European body. |
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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. |
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The Town Hall
The government wants a new relationship between local government and the people. Matrix of Power examines the proposals. |
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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. |
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Treasury
Matthew d'Ancona examines the role of a department whose power seems to be growing to rival that of the prime minister's. |
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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. |
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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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