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a cold start to the day in highlands, temperatures overnight falling to three degrees but for many of us it will be dry with some sunny spells, just a few showers around, and into the weekend it all changes as we start to see some rain. it's wednesday the 31st of august. our main story. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war and is widely considered one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute, with president biden d...

primary defeat, saying she's thinking about running for president. the congresswoman is one of donald trump's fiercest critics, and lost to a candidate hand—picked by mr trump. she says she'll make a decision in the coming months. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital. this city buzzes with creativity. now artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today...

so what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i've got a sore neck, which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop, but i work every day. i haven't worked today yet, but i looked at what i'm working on. let me take you right back, because i'm always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away fro...

many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating...

welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i've got a sore neck which someti...