And scattered showers in the north, but still fairly chilly for the time of year. All the details coming up on bbc breakfast. Good morning. Its saturday, 27th april. The governments being urged to take action to stop unpaid carers unwittingly racking up thousands of pounds of debt. Carers are entitled to nearly £82 a week in benefits, but only if they owned less than £151 in take home pay from otherjobs. As a result, many end up owing money after being inadvertently overpaid. Our reporter Dan Whitworth has the details. Unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incrediblejob. Often unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incredible job. Often 2a hours a day, seven days a week, with very few breaks. There lies dedicated to caring for someone else. Of the nearly 6 million carers across the uk, just under1 million receive carers allowance, with about £80 a week. 175,000 of them also have a job, but there is an earnings limit of £151 take home pay a week. Go above that limit
To performance can be as if not more powerful backstage than it is on stage. Its that anticipation of performance where anxiety can really hit. And this helps us tailor our training to make sure were not only preparing them for what happens on stage, under the lights, in front of the audiences eyes, but also how theyre coping backstage. How do they manage that anxiety . How do they get themselves physically and mentally into a place where theyre ready to walk out on stage and give their best performance . The parallel to that in the surgical world would be allowing surgical i students to go through the process of gowning up, washing up, Doingl A Preoperative briefing with their team and making sure that theyre all on the same page. And once the students are on stage, George Waddell can control everything. He can change the venue. He can change the reaction to make the night go as well or as badly as he wants. The Performance Laboratory is running in unreal engine, the video game softwa
It looks like the migrants who did get onto that boat are in trouble. But as we watch, we have no idea that people on board are dying, including a seven year old girl. Andrew harding there. But did the bbc team have any impact on what happened on that beach on Tuesday Morning . Andrew smith thought so. Meanwhile, Linda Draycott had. Well, some insight into those questions was given by another reporter who was also on a beach in Northern France on Tuesday Morning tom symonds. He spoke to newscast later that day. This is a 70 kilometer coastline here. Its very hard to know where these boats are going from. And we just got lucky. So the boats did come and people ran across and jumped into it and the police seemed to come at us and say, you knew that this was going to happen. And they took our ids and they were quite angry, really. And so i think they were thinking that somehow wed done a deal with the migrants to film them leaving. We absolutely didnt. And we wouldnt do that. We wanted to
this week, we re revisiting the tech that we ve seen used in and around the world of art. and the first question i have is, what is lara thinking right now? do i like it? does it make me feel happy, sad? ammie s gone to town to test the newest, oldest cameras we ve seen for a while. paul heads to florence to see how tech is revealing a 17th century artwork. and we re on the stage helping musicians get used to what it feels like to get a standing ovation, or a slow clap. how did it do that? the v&a london, home to 145 galleries of works from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here to see how our brains react to what we re seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it s time for a way of quantifying that. so we re just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be
the v&a london, home to 145 galleries of works from across the globe, spanning 5,000 years of art. museums like this are always looking at new ways to engage audiences. one idea here to see how our brains react to what we re seeing. we often talk about how art makes us feel or what it gets us thinking about. well, today it s time for a way of quantifying that. so we re just going to put this on your head here. 0k. just goes behind your ears. this muse headset, which would more commonly be used as a meditation device, has been repurposed to translate brain activity into a real time 3d visualisation. and this has four eeg sensors. that s right, four sensors that are on your forehead and picking up the electromagnetic activity off your brain. 0k. and what does that mean its going to learn from me? it s going to take this raw data right off your headset. 0ur set up processes it in lots of different ways, which kind of indicate sort of what your brain s doing when you re looking