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Now, its time for welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There are writers of world renown whose reputation rests on one great book. There are others who write more prolifically, but always in the same territory. And then theres my guest today. Margaret atwoods Output Fizzes with energy, diversity and experimentation. Shes best known for her novels, the handmaids tale, the blind assassin, oryx and crake. But shes written poetry, blog fiction and, this year, a Superhero Comic Book, too. She has a worldwide legion of fans. So what keeps her creative juices flowing . Margaret atwood, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Ijust referred to your prolific and diverse output over many years. But youve just done something youve never done before. Youve taken on adapting shakespeare. And youve always said shakespeare is pretty much your favourite author. So how daunting was that . Ver ....
And power and ardent remainer, you should now be happy, that we have a president who looks optimistic and positively at the path that we are set on. You may dislike donald trump oi set on. You may dislike donald trump or many other reasons and those reasons may be valid but on this it is good fry country that it happened, and went the way that we did. Do you see this as some British Press sees it, as a danger that a Prime Minister gets too close to an american president. It was said that tony blair got too close to george bush and that lead us into the mess of iraq . When i watch the Press Conference, i thought the Prime Minister came out of that exceptionally well and if you think about anyone whos policy positions changed, it was trump, not may. One week ago he w ....
Mustapha karkouti of gulf news and jef mcallister, an American Writer and broadcaster. A British AmbassadorTo Washington once told me as we awaited the first meeting between the then british Prime Minister and a new american president that they were fated to get on wonderfully well. He meant that whatever the personal chemistry or lack of it the totality of the relationship between the uk and us was so important that it had to work out. But how well does that work with theresa may and donald trump . It seems to me the most interesting thing about it is that it took place within the first few days . Yes, i think its good that we were the first foreign head to be in to see the american president. I think the quote from your former ambassadorfriend i think the quo ....
Mustapha karkouti of gulf news and jef mcallister, an American Writer and broadcaster. A British AmbassadorTo Washington once told me as we awaited the first meeting between the then british Prime Minister and a new american president that they were fated to get on wonderfully well. He meant that whatever the personal chemistry or lack of it the totality of the relationship between the uk and us was so important that it had to work out. But how well does that work with theresa may and donald trump . It seems to me the most interesting thing about it is that it took place within the first few days . Yes, i think its good that we were the first foreign head to be in to see the american president. I think the quote from your former ambassadorfriend i think the quo ....
He meant that whatever the personal chemistry or lack of it the totality of the relationship between the uk and us was so important that it had to work out. But how well does that work with theresa may and donald trump . It seems to me the most interesting thing about it is that it took place within the first few days . Yes, i think its good that we were the first foreign head to be in to see the american president. I think the quote from your former ambassador friend is right. These are two countries that need to work hard to get on and i dont think there is any secret that we struggle somewhat under president obama, who is not as well disposed to the british interest as the now president seems to be. I suppose my point is this whether you agreed with brexit or not, that is now the directional travel that our country is on. President obama and his preferred successor Hillary Clinton set themselves square against that. So even if ....