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Good afternoon and my name, susan poser. Im the president of hofstra university, and i welcome you once again to hofstra and this very interesting president ial conference this plenary executive policymaking in the Obama Administration will focus on evaluating the nature and success the obama team and its policy ideas from different perspectives from a former cabinet member, from journalists as. We continue our assessment of the presidency of barack obama. I will provide very introductions of our panelists who are joining us this conversation today. They dont really begin to scratch the surfac...

hello, i'm john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. he's known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies like life is sweet and happy—go—lucky, and historical stories, including mr turner and peterloo. i spoke to him in one of the many radio studios in bbc broadcasting house. mike, welcome...

this cultural life. let's take you to the beginning. what's your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, iwas exposed to pantomime, live theatre of various thoughts, circus, the circus was a big deal, variety, live variety, descendants of the music hall, including at the age of nine a trip to the ardwick hippodrome to see laurel and hardy live on stage on the famous tour, which i later realised was the famous tour, and the two important things about that were one, two extraordinary things, one was it was in colour — they were in colour — and two, that oliver hardy com pletely...

house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think that's what it was, really, it had become me in a serious way and because the teachers took me seriously and trusted me, that was quite a fanta...

hello i am john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in bbc broadcasting house. tracey, welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run all the way through your are right but when did the art start? yet they make the art then took off at school because i missed so much skill. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and had to go back a...