Your comments - Friday April 14
We started the programme talking about the movie United 93 and whether it was too soon to turn the events of September 11, 2001, into art.
We were joined in the studio by MC Riz and heard some of his song Post 911 Blues. You can hear it on , and find out about Riz. Some members of the team were very impressed and keen to have him back on the programme. We'll see...
Anyway, opinion was divided on the film - some people felt it was too soon but others thought it was good to remember.
Pavanjeet in Malaysia said that it depended on the audience and the victims - he'd heard jokes about the Asian tsunami on US TV that people seemed to find funny.
But most of our callers gave good reviews to Riz's song.
We're having some trouble with our text messages at the moment - hopefully we'll be receiving them again on Monday - so just emails today. Here are a few of them.
After living here in the US for many years I have seen many tragedies. I have seen people united after tragedy to later see many americans making money from tragedy. I felt disgusted after 9/11 when some american were trying to make money from fellow americans by selling them from american flags to tape for their windows (to protect against a biological attack). The bitter feeling I felt when people were making money by selling pieces of the Space Shuttle just hours after killing all the crew members is just the same as the one I felt when they announced the flight 93 movie. This movie shows that in this country we have a lot of opportunist who will do money out of tragedy without any shame.
Jose, California
I would like to refer to another movie that, I believe, received awards in the USA recently and which was unapologetic about its focus - Palestinian terrorism. Wouldn't you agree that this movie was as much in bad taste as the movie about the doomed flight that you are discussing now?
Mr.J.Friedler
What about the films impact on Bush's ratings? His approval ratings have plummeted yet each time 9/11 has been refreshed in peoples memory, by any means, his approval goes up. Any coincidence?
Tomas, NY
Please note that ALL of the family members of the victims of Flight 93 have signed off on the Flight 93 film's appropriateness. It was a condition of either the studio or the director (I'm not sure) before the film went forward. These are under 50 families, though, and do not, of course, represent the whole of the thousands of collective victims' families from New York and Washington D.C. There is also a difference that the story of these relatively few victims is one of the few "uplifting" stories of 9/11...a story of heroes who sacrifice their lives for a greater good. It would be different if it was a Twin Towers or Pentagon film, I think it would be different. We need to be reminded that with all of these villains in the world (Mr. Moussaoui is front and center here in the States now) there were heroes, too -- not political heroes, not war heros, but genuine heroes.
Ben, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA
The film is certainly too early. Just making money. Sometime down the road, with clearer facts, and a generation that needs reminding, that would be ok.
KEN, LAGOS
We also went round and about on US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's relationship with military generals with some bloggers and discussed sectarianism in Scotland, which is centred on the two main Glasgow football clubs, Rangers and Celtic. And in the second hour we went to the Chadian capital to here about the situation there.
