These guys are money, as many of you know. We are so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. Tonight, we welcome our two guests. Westra,lls, and kayla of the Minnesota West Community and technical college, the coauthors of great wartime escapes and rescues. Ill start by saying they had me in grade school. I was a fourthgrader when hollywood released the great escape, starring Steve Mcqueen and james garner, richard. And borough, and charles bronson, among others. It quickly became a tv staple all of the guys in my class fell in martinsburg, missouri fell in love with it. We played it out in recess. All of us wanted to be mcqueen. I think i ended up with the attenborough role. Get executed at the end of the movie. Of course, mcqueen survives. What we didnt realize then and what we probably didnt care about was that the movie was based on a true story, the escape of 76 allied soldiers and in 1944. From germany the film pretty much gave us the reallife tragic ending to that s
Yours we meet with global news makers and tweek about the stories that matter just 0. In the stream today a look at a new series that celebrates the history of black hollywood and in the age of oscars so light and bafta so white why is it so difficult to acknowledge the chief creative tell us what you think on twitter at. How much the oscars have changed in the past 90 years. Yeah they have you know and not back in 1929 there were no black acting nominees no 2020 we got what. Adam mayes ingrate. Comedian steve multiday and chris rock at the oscars on february the 10th in the new doc hes serious theyve got to have us british photographer Simon Frederick examines the pivotal moments in black film history the pay for the way for for todays African American and british actors but uses and directors to achieve mainstream success. There was only one kind of story that would get me dog number 2 slaves to the house literate basketball players. We have evolved and changed cinema over the oscar
State of the business good to have you with us and we start with a look at the markets asian shares are down today and all prizes have spiked after u. S. Airstrikes in iraq killed a top iranian commander heightening geopolitical tensions markets were quick to react after news broke that the head of the elite acquits force and a top Iraqi Militia commander were killed early on friday the broad to m s c i asia pacific index fell from an 18 months high why individual markets in Shanghai Hong Kong and tokyo were down up to one percent crudest up almost 3 percent. Or more lets bring in our Financial Market correspondent only bods who is standing by for us and frankly it only obviously markets show very dramatic reactions their stock markets europes odd open yet but what traders worried about. I think theyre worried about this conflict flaring up further escalating the spike in the oil prices shows this the worry isnt such an extent though the people see this as a necessary consequence that
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