Best of the Week - 11 November 2011

Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 11 November. This week .... will politicians take poverty seriously this election campaign, does the government need to partially privatise state owned assets and the power of TV in election debates, scientists "tell us a story", volunteering at the Rena oil spill in Tauranga, how Eddie Izzard preps for a new show, the joy of chickens, fireworks fun in the 70s, celebrating Diwali, a teenage eyewitness to the 1943 Battle of Manners Street and How to Survive the Titanic.