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Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, funda...

Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use hist...

>> welcome to london where we have a spectacular view of the city on this historic urination day. countdown to an event that many of us will be seeing for the first time in our lives. and will not soon forget. moments ago, we saw king charles iii and queen camilla arriving at westminster abbey, where they operate a start of ceremonies, officially counting them as the new monarch. -- we expect to see charles and camilla very soon, kicking off this remarkable celebration. dignitaries including first lady joe biden have been gathering at westminster abbey, whether coronation will be tak...

hello and welcome to the programme. i'm luxmy gopal. we start with the news that the australian comedian barry humphries, best known for his character dame edna everage, has died at the age of 89. he'd been receiving treatment at a hospital in sydney following hip surgery. barry humphries was a leading figure on the british comedy scene with his many satirical characters. his family said he never lost his brilliant mind and unique wit. our arts correspondent, david sillito, looks back at his life. dame edna everage! hello, possums! dame edna always said she was born with a priceless ...

to protect the endangered species. hello. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk — as well as the united states, france and china — are to be evacuated "in the coming hours". these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan's military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadc...