Dateline Warsaw – Civic Platform after Tusk

In the studio with me Peter Gentle and back from their summer hols are Warsaw Dow Jones central and eastern European bureau chief, Marcin Sobczyk, and freelance journalist Aleksander Nowacki.

In the show: it's the Polish migration to Western Europe story: this time though, it's Donald Tusk leaving his post as prime minister of Poland in Warsaw to become president of the European Council in Brussels.

But what will life be like for the ruling Civic Platform party without Tusk and with Ewa Kopacz as new PM?

Also in the show: the British establishment spent most of Thursday night, Friday morning, chewing their nails down to their elbows as they waited for the results of the extraordinary Scottish referendum. An over 300 year-old union was under threat. Scotland might have lost the right to use pound sterling, and England might have lost the inventors of penicillin, the radar, the steam engine and the recipe for Mars bars deep fried in batter.

On the line we talk to David McGirr, managing-director of the English language Krakow Post and campaigner for a 'Yes' vote during Thursday's so-near-but-so-far referendum for an independant Scotland.