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yes, do you need to...? take your jacket off. hello, im john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. hes known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies, like life is sweet and happy—go—lucky, a...

hello, im john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. hes known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies like life is sweet and happy—go—lucky, and historical stories, including mr turner and ...

this cultural life. lets take you to the beginning. whats your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, iwas exposed to pantomime, live theatre of various thoughts, circus, the circus was a big deal, variety, live variety, descendants of the music hall, including at the age of nine a trip to the ardwick hippodrome to see laurel and hardy live on stage on the famous tour, which i later realised was the famous tour, and the two important things about that were one, two extraordinary t...

thats the statement from huw edwards�*s wife, coming very shortly after the metropolitan police issued the statement... so that is the statement they are from the metropolitan police. im joined now by laura trant from the bbc news room. we also heard from the south wales police, didnt we? we have, weve had a statement from south wales police who say they first received information about this in april this year regarding the welfare of an adult, saying that no criminality was identifi...

connection we have with that person. whilst im making no allegations whatsoever against any of the individuals and this must be investigated with rigour and fairness, the absence of any criminal charges is very, very significant. so the bbc must investigate, and must investigate whether huw broke any of the editorial guidelines or any of the principles of the bbc�*s employment contracts under which he works. i hope the bbc will do that thoroughly and rigorously and i hope they will a...

where we are hearing a briefing on the very latest on those allegations made against president biden. there was a report published into to present biden�*s handling of classified documents. as part of that report, special council question president biden�*s memory, accusing him of forgetting key dates. of course that has raised questions about his fitness and suitability to run in this years presidential elections. that is the scene at the white house. we will stay right across tha...

the turning point in america is bill, is cruciaa turninl andy will look back on it and say, did america fail itsely did f? e >> the border bill is finally here. prime time.. >> read it and we cant stop laughing. i believe the united states has no right to exist. yall are the villains weve been trying to end. yall get free air. >> what happens at a woke kindergarten? not a lot of learning. the butterflies, eating my donut. s eating apple goggles have hit the streets. 3500 bucks for a hi...

the presenter — what next? here is the news from bethan holmes. the bbc director—general — tim davie — is to face questions for the first time since an unnamed bbc presenter was accused by the sun newspaper of paying tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager for explicit photos. mr davie will answer questions at the unveiling of the corporations yearly report. a lawyer representing the now 20—year—old at the centre of the story says the allegations are "rubbish" — but the...

welcome to this special edition of jesse waters on a friday on a fr night.s im pete hegseth. and we start tonight with a fox news alert. >> the u.s. military has just ag launched retaliatory attacksd against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. >> u.s. central command says over 85 targets were struck.st these strikes come just days the after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly droneon attack the b on the border in j. >> for the latest, lets bringet in international co...

talked to them about that weeks ago and they said they were going to do that and they are doing that. but i will continue to emphasise and i know secretary blinken and president biden will continue to emphasise the importance of addressing the issue of the palestinian people. its critical and, you know, we are doing more but were doing enough. time for a few more. _ more but were doing enough. time for a few more. lets _ more but were doing enough. time for a few more. lets go _ more b...