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Declan Curry | 12:51 UK time, Wednesday, 8 October 2008

We tore up our regular programme first thing this morning. And we've just torn it up again.

We decided early on to devote the to the . It's £50billion and we're all paying for it, so unsurprisingly you've had some tough questions about it. Like - where is the money coming from? What will the banks do with it? And what about those multi-million pound bonuses for the banks' top bosses?

We'll ask as many of those as we can - and keep them coming. Email us at working.lunch@bbc.co.uk

But then at midday, borrowing costs were cut around the world. It's a sudden, surprise move by the global central banks to boost spending and borrowing. Here at home, it means half of 1% off the rate the Bank of England sets.

So all change again on the programme. We'll ask if it will do the trick. And we've not forgotten that most of you are savers who will lose out from the cut.

As I type, I'm keeping half an ear on the Chancellor's briefing to MPs in the Commons; if he says anything new of note we'll tell you.

Meanwhile there appears to be smoke coming out of Naga's keyboard as she's typing so quickly, the director is demanding that we get to the studio and the editor Tracey is standing by my shoulder for no real reason. See you at 1.30....

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