Host will you for your politics is anyone. I think marsha left would be the easiest way to summon up. P. J. i was a leftwinger but, i did not make enough sense to actually be a communist or anything like that. Host when did the transformation occur. P. J. it was gradual. There is a book coming out, i just about this. Its coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this. It is called why i turned right. This is to rebut a bunch of us who went right. It is a long story in a motel it will give you the short version. I was a radical left. Very much in favor of some sort of socialist thing in america. I got a job. And i get the job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york. That was a lot of money as far as i was concerned. I was living down in the lower east side. I was very broke. I get paid every two weeks. I was really looking forward to that 300 bucks. And so was my landlord mistake. In my drug dealer. Among other people. I got my first paycheck and i got down to 178 or so
From an astronauts perspective, absolutely not. They are all trained to do theirjobs correctly and properly, and are all very, very capable of doing that. There is no difference in their abilities. I think what you see sadly is still this difference in the media interest in it. You go back to the early days when sally ride flew into space, along with the first woman to do a spacewalk all the women astronauts, all the questions they got asked had nothing to do with being able to do theirjob. The questions being asked to man where, hows your hair going to be . Hows your makeup . All sorts of weird questions. And that is an indication not of the jobs they are doing, but the media. Its great that there is this interest in today and it is certainly a milestone, one im really happy to see reached. But i look forward to when this isnt something that we comment on, and men and women are able to go about their business without comment on their gender. Life to the International Space station the
Samba, jump on it and well ask if mikes hip thrusting take on the samba is enough to see him through to next weeks strictly. The weather today isnt looking too bad at all. For most of us some sunshine on offer and the forecast for the beginning of the week is not looking too bad either. Good morning. Its sunday the 20th october. Our top story borisjohnson has responded to his brexit setback by sending a letter to the eu, asking for an extension to the uks withdrawal date. But hes refused to sign the document and sent a second letter warning against any further delay. Mrjohnson was legally obliged to ask for an extension. Thats because mps voted yesterday to withhold approval of his brexit deal, until all the necessary legislation was in place. Heres our Political Correspondent jonathan blake. Another decision and without further delay. Mps voted yesterday to hold off approving boris delay. Mps voted yesterday to hold off approving Boris Johnsons delay. Mps voted yesterday to hold off a
Marseillaise when its on. With a glass of french red wine, of course. Thats it for the papers tonight. Dont forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. Its all there for you, seven days a week at bbc. Co. Uk papers. If you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. Thank you, henry and benedicte. Next on bbc news, its the film review. Hello, a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. And as ever, mark kermode is with me and has had his fill of films. What have you been watching this week, mark . Its a week of sequels this week. Yes. We have maleficent mistress of evil. Poor thing. Hell recover. Zombieland double tap. And a shaun the sheep movie, farmageddon. Oh, i love shaun the sheep i cant even pronounce the title of the angelina jolie. I dont know why i struggle with it so much but there we go. This is why you are here. Maleficent mistress of evil. In the first maleficent, which kind of revisited Sleeping Beau
Separatist leaders. Its a huge weekend for the home nations at the Rugby World Cup. England face their arch rivals australia in the First Quarter final this morning before ireland take on the defending champions the all blacks. Wales play france tomorrow. Another changeable day on the way today, worth taking your umbrella. Still some showers in the forecast but gradually through the weekend, we will see fewer and fewer showers. Its saturday the 19th october. Our top story. Its a momentous day at westminster, as mps vote on borisjohnsons new brexit deal. Parliament is sitting on a saturday for the First Time Since the invasion of the falklands in 1982. Lets take you through what will happen today. The Prime Minister will present his agreement to mps at 0930, theyll debate the details annd then will start voting on it this afternoon. The result is too close to call between now and then, borisjohnson still has persuade enough mps to back him in order to take the uk out of the eu, with a d