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6pm. Temperatures on the cool side where the rain is. The best of the weather is Northern Scotland and Northern Ireland not doing bad. Through this evening, lots of clear spells. A nice sunset, pretty colours and interesting clouds. Tomorrow morning, it starts off sunny. Then the showers get going and some of them will be heavy and possibly thundery. Goodbye. This is bbc news. The headlines. Boots chemist has apologised, saying that the company is truly sorry about its response to calls to cut t...

Now on bbc news talking books. Welcome to hay festival, now celebrating its 30th year. Hay brings together scientists, historians, novelists, musicians, all of them here to discuss their latest ideas and stories. Today im interviewing the multi Award Winning author elizabeth strout. Her six novels, all of them have received critical acclaim, but it was Olive Kitteridge that received the prestigious pulitzer prize. Born and raised in small towns in New Hampshire and maine, her latest book Anythin...

These other issues that i do. Caller base for being of voice for conservatives. I have been intrigued to of that doctrine in state to bed jewish approach of natural blonds. Guest that is a tough question because i dont hate you can add to that extent from the natural state of the world it doesnt provide a moral guide its with the good eddie will coming space to beecher the only law that is the survival of the fittest that is what stolid believed. Host thank you for your time. Author of the Ten C...

His wife sent me a note saying, i miss him more even now. I miss him more. And i was struck by that comment because here we are almost at the second anniversary of john rehms death, and i find myself missing him even more now. I think in that immediate aftermath of the death one is i was so busy readjusting my life and so busy with so many things that i threw myself into work. And as elmer cliff says in the book, i ran as hard as i i could from grief. Just trying to keep busy. So i think now tha...

Festival. We will be Getting Started with this event in just a minute. The session is being broadcast on cspan booktv so we ask you to please silence your cell phones and remain quiet during the discussion. I want to get to immediately introducing our panelists. First, my name is beth ann, i am a book reviewer and writer. I have a panel at 1 30 about the books that changed my life, my recent anthologying, and thats one of the reasons i get the privilege of being here today, because i interview a...

She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and...

Tomorrow a recap of the results of the indiana president ial primary and a look at what is next in the president ial race. Live coverage from the American Enterprise institute at 8 45 a. M. Eastern time. Later, we will go to the Hudson Institute for discussion about internet privacy and security. Watch it live at 1215 eastern here on cspan2. Fortyeight hours of nonfiction authors every single weekend. It covers a wide array of things from nonfiction, books on history, biographies, science topics...

We have had amazing achievements thats country. Tend to come out were just this great enlighted people and america is wonderful, the end. Its that when we have had great struggles over the worst aspects of american history, america was the largest slaveowning nation on earth, and what happened is we had this huge war, which revolved around the issue of slavery, that led to the abolitionist slavery and within a few years, a nonracial definition of citizenship, in which africanamericans were votin...

So hard to believe way back then john rehm said to me, someday youll be host of that program. So he dreamed for me. He saw ahead for me in ways i could not see for myself. Now, contrast that with what we talked about earlier, the tension, the difficulties in marriage. I mean, its so complicated. Marriage is the hardest job in the world next to parenthood. [laughter] thats very true. I have a couple of smaller questions, but since you just spoke about john rehm again, one of the things i wanted t...

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