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'They have offered you a gold robot. I’ve turned it down.' Credit: Film Stills Fifty years ago, I began my acting career playing Puck in a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rada. In the years since, I have appeared in BBC productions of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, in hit series such as Doctor Who and Birds of a Feather, and not quite made it into the Star Wars franchise. Most recently, I played Oberon in a Globe production of Dream, giving a nice bit of circularity to a career that has had its ups and downs.

Zoom calls can be very revealing. On last Monday's Ireland AM, Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan appeared from her flat in London to discuss the new Netflix show, Bridgerton. The Galway-born actress had some nicely festive decorations on her mantelpiece, and a trim little Christmas tree tastefully decorated, together with a picture of David Bowie on the wall. The day before, on the same programme, Chris de Burgh had been interviewed against a wall festooned with gold records - his own, presumably - shining more brightly than the sun. Every day must be like Christmas in the De Burgh household w...

Back to the airport. at least one eyewitness said they saw smoke coming from the plane before it went down. i want to bring in peter bowles right now. you're involved in this. >> yes, they've sent a team that will get there tomorrow morning and they'll start working with the ethiopian officials right away. >> so how quickly, if they've been able to find these two recorders, the black box and the voice recorder, how quickly will we maybe have some answers? >> even if they're damaged, experts will be able to get crucial data off the boxes, and they should be able to get it within 24 to 36 hours ...

Max flight crew is watching their aircraft very carefully as well. >> i don't know if that's enough comfort, peter, for some people. >> well, i think it's premature to ground the whole fleet, but i think it's certainly an item that's on the top of everyone's agenda, and if there's any indication out of -- in the next 36 hours that says there was a flight control issue that these pilots couldn't handle, you'll see the fleet come down. there's about 300 of them worldwide. >> very good point. peter goelz, thank you. really thankful for you to break this down for us. she was the first to speak o...

The important thing is the firefighters seem to have gotten on the scene, jon, very, very quickly, and actually, what happens from here, to answer some of those questions, we have peter bowles with us, former managing director for the ntsb, and peter, i wanted to ask you this question, because it's interesting, when you see these pictures and you see the flames now getting under control, but they were tremendous, engulfing this building, and there were reports the entire front part of this structure collapses and people were working inside, although the evacuations are underway, how much infor...