that s no stranger to incidents of this kind. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone for a 30 am. a very good sunday morning to you. now on bbc news, click. lara: this week, we re - celebrating music from video games, orchestral style. spencer: in which i get to play in the wind section. high and low notes. then we ll spin more tunes whilst we press some green vinyl that s hopefully not limited edition. and the records aren t the only thing skipping. just look at that majestic, gymnastic, well coordinated. all right, stop it! i don t know about you, but this is how i spent my time growing up. while laura was out with friends, i was exploring the universe in my cobra mkiv spacecraft. excuse me. i was a pretty good bmxer in my time. still can t ride an actual bike that well, but as long as i was steering with a keyboard, i was a totally rad rider. 0fficial terminology there, i m sure. definitely. 0k. look, gaming became really important to a whole generation in the 1980s.
another result of the amount of time that video gaming has been around is the way it s permeated into other areas of our lives. yes, and equally it s started to draw on and draw in other parts of our culture and that includes music. prodigy s firestarter plays. the first time i realised that games decided to take their music scores seriously was when i played wipeout 2097 and realised that the accompanying soundtrack was not random plinky plock, it was firestarter by the prodigy. and in recent years it s been recognised as a major art form. well known hollywood composers like hans zimmer and michael giacchino have turned their hands to writing scores for games. and that s why this week videogame came to the uk s best known celebration of classical music, the proms, and pokemon took over the albert hall. so let s give it a go start from the top. i m at the bbc s maida vale studios for the final warehouses of the first ever gaming prom, called rehearsals of the first ever g
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
Our principal rival in that race is china. As far as simply the facts, the quantum spy is a novel that imagines the characters involved, the battle to see who can steal the other secrets about world changing technology, principally the story of my hero, american of chinese descent who was a cia officer, asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learns about himself and the cia and how the world works shake him to his foundations and we see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Service not so familiar to readers of spy fiction, we have been with carla, the russians by world is your to us so one of the pleasures for me if it takes us into the world of state security, very secretive Chinese Intelligence Agency that is the principal antagonist in this book. Host how much of it is true . I always say in the prefaces to my books they exist in an imagined world, if you take any book i write and think it is a recipe for how to bake a cake you are going to end
Washington journal. Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stated there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how to donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. I saw it the same way. Weve all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is rare to have it from the same person within th