Now on bbc news, this cultural life whoopi goldberg. Whoopi goldberg is one of the very few people to have won all four of americas big entertainment awards. Whoopi goldberg . Emmy, grammy, 0scarand tony, for her work in film, theatre and television. Lovely to meet you. Thank you. Please take a seat. Brought up by a single mother in a new york housing project, she first made her name with a solo comedy show onstage before turning to dramatic acting roles, starting with her movie debut in The Color Purple. Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble. Since then, shes made around 100 films, including ghost and sister act. Shes hosted the Academy Awards several times and has forged a career as an outspoken and Controversial Television personality. The craziness of whats going on in this country at the moment. Lets mic you up. In this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals herformative influences and experiences. Just come on under th
Now on bbc news. This cultural life whoopi goldberg. Whoopi goldberg is one of the very few people to have won all four of americas big entertainment awards. Whoopi goldberg . Emmy, grammy, oscarand tony, for her work in film, theatre and television. Lovely to meet you. Thank you. Please take a seat. Brought up by a single mother in a new york housing project, she first made her name with a solo comedy show onstage before turning to dramatic acting roles, starting with her movie debut in The Color Purple. Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble. Since then, shes made around 100 films, including ghost and sister act. Shes hosted the Academy Awards several times and has forged a career as an outspoken and Controversial Television personality. The craziness of whats going on in this country at the moment. Lets mic you up. In this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals herformative influences and experiences. Just come on under th
to this cultural life. thank you. on this cultural life, i ask my guests to reflect on the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity. you were born and raised in chelsea in new york city in the late 50s and the 60s? yes. what are your earliest cultural memories as a child? you re talking about a little kid, i m a little kid? the most important thing to me was that the people around me, again, the people around me never said, you can t do this. so you want to know what the inspiration was? it was my mother. cos my mother said, if that s what you want to do, sure, let s find out how to do it. what about school? what sort of pupil were you? i was not a great pupil. i was dyslexic. i am dyslexic. but didn t know at the time? at the time, no. they just thought i was just being lazy. my mum didn t think i wasjust being lazy, shejust didn t. she said, i don t know what it is, but, you know, it s ok. and so she didn t allow people to ca
yes. what are your earliest cultural memories as a child? you re talking about a little kid, i m a little kid? the most important thing to me was that the people around me, again, the people around me never said, you can t do this. so you want to know what the inspiration was? it was my mother. cos my mother said, if that s what you want to do, sure, let s find out how to do it. what about school? what sort of pupil were you? i was not a great pupil. i was dyslexic. i am dyslexic. but didn t know at the time? at the time, no. they just thought i was just being lazy. my mum didn t think i wasjust being lazy, shejust didn t. she said, i don t know what it is, but, you know, it s ok. and so she didn t allow people to call me stupid or any of the words that lots of people had to deal with. i know i m talking a lot about my mum, but i. i was very blessed to have the woman that i had as a mother because she was just odd enough to recognise the oddity in her child. and that w
Bingo fuel meaning hes almost dry. Youve got allgaunt pilot saying hes funning out of fuel. There will be a window of opening in about 20 minutes for landing. Yeah i dont have 20 minutes. This is 426, roger, and thats unless it is an emergency, there is grand Forks Airport which is 70 miles to the north. Yeah, listen. Were bingo fuel here in about probably three, three to four minutes and i got to come in and land. This is 426, roger. All right. Youll have to like i said declare an emergency for that with the Minneapolis Center and then we would coordinate to get you in. Okay, im going to give them about an another three minutes to see if we can set 3358894. Then ill see if we can get this coordinated prior to i get down to having to do that, ill do that. Thank you for that. This is 426 roger. Your company dispatch should have been aware of this for a number of months. Okay. Yeah. Its just well follow up on that. It was a very calm conversation, phil lebeau between a pilot and an air T