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Hello. Imjohn wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, the radio 4 podcast in which i talk to leading creative figures about the key moments of their life and the most important cultural works that have fired their imagination and had a profound impact on their own art. My guest is carlos acosta, the cuban born ballet star who, over a 30 year career, is now regarded as one of the greatest dancers of all time. He became the first black principal of the royal ballet and set new standards of grace and athleticism in theatres around the world. Having retired from the classical stage, he set up his own cuban dance company, acosta danza, and is also director of the berlin royal ballet. Of the birmingham royal ballet. Welcome. Lets start in cuba, with your family, your upbringing. A happy childhood . Very happy, i must say, although in the 80s in cuba, still, our family was on the. I would say it was poorer than most families, but still there was a big, big sense of community. It was a good ti ....
They will most likely still lose i polling is any indication, we dont know. They could lose by a historic margin to a front runner, who, lets be, clear has spent more time in court attending His Civil Fraud Trial this week than he has in the state of iowa. Even if now it feels inevitable weve come to this, it was not inevitable. It really wasnt. There was a time in winter 2020, one after january 6th, when donald trump was being impeached for inciting the capitol insurrection, his Approval Rating hit an alltime. Low it looked like very well be sent to do a period of political exile. Then he came back, the 2022 midterms, the elections worked out poorly for most trump endorsed candidates. He backed losers in a ton of winnable races and there seemed to be a daunting wherein us in the Republican Party that he was po ....
naples. the lazzerona. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. naples. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4, napoli secured the italian football championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title for azzurri in 33 years the first since diego maradona. take six neapolitans, the class of 23, and view the achievement through their eyes. in naples, football is everything. it sjoy, it s love, it s fun, it s sadness. it is important to us to win against teams from the north. we are pending for this- moment since a long time. so we just feel this . power, this emotion. this year, all of the opponents fall down inter, milan, juventus with their problems. we have to think about the future. we have this great future we re on our roads. to be neapolitan is a dream. i say every time we are firsti of all neapolitans, and then italians. the 2022 23 season wasn t expected to pan out this way. napoli, under head coach lu ....
naples. the noisy, the chaotic the effervescent one. the one which in the sun smells of the salt in its sea, and in the shade, odours of the dampness of its alleyways. naples. the modern, the experimental, the iridescent one. the naples of mount vesuvius, as seen by andy warhol. the city of the prog rock and blues of pino daniele and napule e. the polychrome naples. the melancholic and syncopated naples of liberato. naples. the lazzerona. the popular. the naples of diego. the city owned by its people. naples. which usually loses, but occasionally manages to win. on may 4, napoli secured the european championship with a draw at udinese, a first serie a title for azzurri in 33 years the first since diego maradona. take six neapolitans, the class of 23, and view the achievement through their eyes. in naples, football is everything. isjoy, is love, is fun, is sadness. it is important to us to win against teams from the north. we are pending for this- moment since a long ....
[dramatic music] narrator youre the accidental president. Leader of a nation in mourning. Now youve got to make the tough calls, confront your demons. Outwit your enemies. And prove youve got what it takes. To be the leader of the free world. President s car now turning onto elm street, and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trade mart. Itit it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route. It was definitely the president s car. We were traumatized. It was in a sense like what happened to us after 9 11. President kennedy has been assassinated. Its official now. The president is dead. It was incredible that our president , this beautiful man with this beautiful family, could be just eliminated just like that. Theres only one word to describe the picture here, and thats grief and much of it. Narrator kennedys Vice President , Lyndon Baines ....