raghuram rajan, thank you very much. thank you.rge chunk of the country, particularly central and eastern parts of england. and tuesday really could become quite oppressive as temperatures hit the mid—30s in some areas. now, if we look at the satellite image you can see this huge clear area across europe. this is where the heat will be building over the next two or three days. and, as you might expect, the heat‘is coming in from from algeria, from morocco, spreading across spain, into france, and temperature records could tumble. now, the july record, july for the uk, is 36.7, set in 2015. we may be approaching those values come thursday. in the short term, the weather's fairly quiet out there. some rain in the north—west of scotland. some clouds in western and southern areas. but very warm in the morning. 17 degrees there in cardiff, 16 the lowlands of scotland. and once some of that low cloud in the west and south clears away it's pretty much unbroken sunshine all through the day. strong sunshine beating down on us and raising th

raghuram rajan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me.hat quote from you — "better to be a doer than an advisor" — what is it that you want to do? what i wanted to do that time was really turn around people's view of india. i thought there was a lot of potential for growth. there were reforms that were easy that we should have done and we proceeded to do it, when i was central bank governor. so that was the doer part of it then. and in being an economist, is it the same thing more widely, is it improving people's lives, what is the doing? well, i think that is the aim, should be the aim of every economist, right. you should be able to persuade people that there is a way to improve their lives. often it means undertaking reforms which are not so obvious. sometimes which are painful. but, in the long run, i think history suggests that we sort of broadly know how to go forward and make people's lives better. there is a job in which you could do again, which is that of being the governor of the bank of england and you are being talked of as o