hello there. we start here in the uk, where we are about to find out if the economy has fallen into recession that s defined as two quarters in a row of negative economic growth. we already know the uk s entire economic output, or gross domestic product, shrank in the three months to september by 0.3%. injust over an hour, we get gdp figures for october to december. anotherfall would mean the uk is officially in recession. let s talk to melanie baker, senior uk economist at royal london asset management. her group managing funds worth over £150 billion. melanie, what is your prediction? for what we will hear today? fellow consensus is for a flat figure today so the economy having stagnated and i ve pencilled in the small increase but lost the forecasters expect a small fall in output and i think either way, it s not the healthiest place for the uk economy to be. ideally, you want an economy to be growing brusquely quarter on quarter and that isjust brusquely quarter on qua
look into there. thank you so much for coming in and - look into there. thank you so | much for coming in and taking us through that. finally, if you are a music fan, you will know that tomorrow night it s the brit awards the uk recording industry s annual event celebrating the most successful british and international music. the brits scrapped their best male and best female artist categories last year in favour of a gender neutral best artist award. problem is when this year s nominations were announced the shortlist was all male. critics say it points to a lack of equality in the industry where more than 80% of signed artists are male. vick bain is president of the independent society of musicians. where does this gender imbalance stem from? we have, what i call, we are emerging from a thousand year musical patriarchy. the musical industry is exceptionally male dominated and i don t think people realisejust dominated and i don t think people realise just how bad it is. people