In the american state of louisiana, where there are warnings of life threatening floods. Novak djokovic is one set up in the final of the mens singles at wimbledon this is live from centre court, where Roger Federer is seeking a ninth title. Bill murray and Adam Driver Team up to rid their town of zombies. Find out what mark kermode made of that and the rest of the releases in the film review. Good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. The mail on sunday has published more leaked diplomatic correspondence from britains former ambassador in washington, defying warnings from Scotland Yard that Media Organisations could be prosecuted for doing so. In one of the cables, Sir Kim Darroch suggests that President Trump pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Deal last year to spite barack obama. Our Political Correspondent Helena Wilkinson reports. May last year, Boris Johnson as foreign secretary goes to washington and meets his us counterpart. His mission, to persuade the us president to soften his sta
My is e tammy kim and im a writer at the new yorker and the cohost the podcast. Time to say goodbye. Today i have the luck of talking to china mieville, a writer of uncommon breadth integrity and precision work ive admired for a long time. Many of you know china as the author of speculative fiction with beautiful novels such as perdita street station, the city and the city and real sea. You may also know his nonfiction, which ranges from scholarly work on International Law and stylish esthetics. Essays in the quarterly journal to the book oct from 2017, which tells the story of the russian revolution. Were here today to celebrate his latest nonfiction book, a specter haunting on the communist manifesto published by haymarket. A specter haunting part critical companion, part literary exegesis. The book proceeds in six chapters elegant, economical then reproduces the manifesto and its many prefaces over time and space. I confess that until reading this book, i had not looked at the commu
My is e tammy kim and im a writer at the new yorker and the cohost the podcast. Time to say goodbye. Today i have the luck of talking to china mieville, a writer of uncommon breadth integrity and precision work ive admired for a long time. Many of you know china as the author of speculative fiction with beautiful novels such as perdita street station, the city and the city and real sea. You may also know his nonfiction, which ranges from scholarly work on International Law and stylish esthetics. Essays in the quarterly journal to the book oct from 2017, which tells the story of the russian revolution. Were here today to celebrate his latest nonfiction book, a specter haunting on the communist manifesto published by haymarket. A specter haunting part critical companion, part literary exegesis. The book proceeds in six chapters elegant, economical then reproduces the manifesto and its many prefaces over time and space. I confess that until reading this book, i had not looked at the commu
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Once upon a time in the world of online journalism, something extraordinary happened. In 2014, BuzzFeed was the rising star of Silicon Valley, having established itself off the back of listicles and weird news that proved virally popular with under-25s. But just as it got a grip on the most valuable and elusive audience in the online news business, BuzzFeed announced it was going to do something that made no sense whatsoever: it was going to invest heavily in serious reporting.
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