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Edition of hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur and today im joined by an audience here at the Bbc Radio Theatre to celebrate 20 years of hardtalk interviews. Who better to have on our birthday than sir ian mckellen . Whether you think of him as richard iii or gandalf, he has won hearts and accolades around the world. Not just for decades of work on screen but his passion of public campaigning, particularly on the issue of gay rights. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to ian mckellen. Appl...

Edition of hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur and today im joined by an audience here at the Bbc Radio Theatre to celebrate 20 years of hardtalk interviews. Who better to have on our birthday than sir ian mckellen . Whether you think of him as richard iii or gandalf, he has won hearts and accolades around the world. Not just for decades of work on screen but his passion of public campaigning, particularly on the issue of gay rights. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to ian mckellen. Appl...

Daughter, who is a fully out, gay character at the beginning of the show, i mean, also groundbreaking that you would have a black, out character supported by her family, not talked about, not discussed, not a plot point, not a story point. she just is. >> whats really cool is that comic book characters really kind of go one of two routes when it comes to television, right? you have the live action success, like "black lightning," while other characters go on to become iconic characters. >> there...

A black out character supported by her family, not talked about, not discussed, not a plot point, not a story point, she just is. - hey. - whats really cool is that comic book characters really kinda go one of two routes when it comes to television, right? you have the live action success like "black lightning", while some other comic book characters would go on to become iconic, animated series. - the 90s and early 2000s actually had a ton of very successful animated shows. there was "the fanta...

Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is the first movie version of the comic book characters since the two live-action films nearly a decade ago. The Heroes in a Half Shell have had an off-and-on relationship with movies, but Mutant Mayhem is shaping up to be one of the better received incarnations. Not only has it been receiving high marks from critics and social media, it’s reportedly shaping up to earn $43 million in North America.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a big hit with audiences and critics, with an Australian animator instrumental in bringing to life one of the film's most talked-about characters.

I think of folks like sarah weddington, the twentysomething year old lawyer who won roe v. wade and brought abortion rights to this country. that wasnt so long ago, it was a case one in texas. i think of the voting rights act, which president biden just went and celebrated as he crossed the bridge. that was signed into law by a texas governor. certainly not a perfect president, but somebody who just didnt sign the voting rights act, and also the civil rights act, also the fair housing act, who a...

Twentysomething year old lawyer who won roe v. wade and brought abortion rights to this country. that wasnt so long ago, it was a case one in texas. i think of the voting rights act, which president biden just went and celebrated as he crossed the bridge. that was signed into law by a texas governor. certainly not a perfect president, but somebody who just didnt sign the voting rights act, and also the civil rights act, also the fair housing act, who also brought us medicaid and had a start. my ...

Its not like trans people saw that and were like, finally some representation as the joker. you know? >> as a villain. what representation that would have been. which it wasnt. one last question. >> go ahead. >> sorry. i was going to say, its not just the dishonesty that gets me, its the hypocrisy. the right, as you and i, know loves to accuse democrats and liberals are being triggered easily, but how much more snowflake he can you get vent freaking out over the genders a fictional comic book ch...

Special needs students at all Sumner County High Schools were made into superheroes thanks to the nonprofit comic book company "Epic Starfish".