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Politician on this scale has been done before Mr McDonnell is keen for an ally of Jeremy Corbin to take over as leader to make sure the party continues in a similar direction he tell it to the shadow business secretary Rebecca long Bailey is a strong candidate but Labor critics accuse the party leadership of burying their heads in the sand something Labor has moved too far to the left and wanted to return towards the political center ground others like the Wigan m.p. Lisa Nandy think it should do more to reconnect with voters in its former Harlan's she said today she was seriously considering brought in to be leader we have to think seriously about how we rebuild that coalition that has propelled us into power 3 times in the last 100 years Lewisham is on the lease and how you speak for both I come from one part of that coalition I've lived in and represented another part for the last decade it will be the new year before the formal contest for the Labor leadership gets under way but it's clear the fight for the soul of the party has already begun senior ministers have said the government intends to bring back legislation in the coming days paving the way for Britain to leave the e.u. By the deadline on the 31st of January the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi soon act said the government had been given an overriding mandate to get breaks it done for delighted that we now with the majority we have can can make progress on that and we will leave the European Union in a matter of weeks by the end of January our intention is to bring the withdrawal bill the legislation back to parliament but it's for Christmas Scotland's 1st Minister Nicolas Sturgeon who said it's fundamentally not democratic for the u.k. Government to block a 2nd referendum on Scottish independence the conservatives have insisted that the vote in 2014 must be respected and they won't allow another one but Mr Jim said the s.n.p. Success in the election winning $48.00 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats that are given her a mandate for. A new referendum you cannot call Scotland in the union against its will you cannot just lock as in a cupboard and turn the key can and hope that everything goes away if the union if the United Kingdom is to continue then I can only be by consent and if Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union then he should be confident enough to make that case and a low people to decide. The longest u.n. Climate summit on record as ended with a compromise deal after 2 extra days and nights of negotiations in Madrid the agreement fall short of the concrete proposals on greenhouse gas emissions the many delegates it hopes for and the scientists say a needed the u.n. Secretary General Antonio Good Head Rush said the international community had lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition to tackle what he called the Climate Crisis our science editor David Shukman has been following the talks which tested the stamina of the negotiators imagine the president would you give us just a few minutes one would and we want to look at the documents but we are lost in the website terribly sorry Madam President we can't find the document we are kind of lost Ok confusion and fatigue among delegates in the final hours of a marathon set of talks some arguments for technical over how to account for carbon emissions which proved so difficult they were put off to next year other disputes were more fundamental over commitments for deeper cuts in emissions as demanded by the latest science but resisted by some of the biggest polluters including Australia the us and Brazil for the most vulnerable developing countries the outcome was disappointing Tina's teenager is an envoy from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific right now and it's asked if I feel like much much more could have been done I'm thinking about how I'm going to go home and explain that this is a really really challenging process at the same time the thing that we fight the hardest for we've got and minimum of that but we got that and with that I can work as things stand there's a range of promises by many countries to take action on climate change but even if they're fulfilled they would still lead to dangerous temperatures in the coming decades and all the time emissions keep rising it's now up to the u.k. To handle this process taking over the chair ahead of the next big summit which will be staged in Glasgow next November ministers and official. Faced the task of trying to persuade the world to change course or risk another week outcome a British man shot and killed during an attempted robbery in Argentina has been named locally as Matthew good bad his stepson Stefan zone is author thought to have been shot but survived the men aged 50 and 28 were taken to hospital after the attack in the exclusive put a Madero area of the capital want to series and his Crawford reports Matthew Gilbert was a successful businessman who lived in Northamptonshire it's thought he just arrived in Buenos Aires with his stepson Stephens zone and other members of the family c.c.t.v. Footage shows the 2 tourists getting out of a minibus in front of a 5 star hotel but as they start to unload their luggage they're attacked by 2 men Mr Give Arda Mr zone can be seen repeatedly fighting off their attackers at one point they wrestle them to the ground but one of the assailants then pulls out a gun and appears to shoot the older man in the chest before turning a weapon on the younger one the robbers then escape on a motorbike the Foreign Office says it supporting the dead man's family and helping the author a tease police have yet to make any arrests violent attacks by men using motorbikes known locally as Moto charts are not uncommon in the city a man's in a critical condition in hospital after being shot by police on one of the busiest roads in Hull armed officers were called in the early hours of this morning following reports of a man carrying a gun on his all road no one else was hurt the incident has been referred to the police watchdog Deputy Chief Constable Chris Rowley from homicide police told a news conference he didn't believe there was any link to terrorism of course with the man and also those officers who were involved in these events incidents like this of us have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult seconds. It's racial or community that incidents like this are very rare. We have offices in the area and if anyone has is concerned are encouraged to speak to his police and demonstrators have for pitched battles in parts of the Indian capital Delhi during protests over a new law that allows migrants from neighboring countries to claim citizenship but not if they're Muslim tens of thousands of demonstrators across North and East India since the legislation was passed on Wednesday 6 people will be killed Sen Rajan reports from Delhi The demonstrations against the citizenship law turned awhile into Delhi as protesters towards the buses and fire engines police used to tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd a large number of riot police have been deployed outside the germy a 1000000 Islamia university in the heart of the city several demonstrations have been held in other parts of India against the law which will allow non Muslim refugees and illegal immigrants to apply for citizenship the Hindu Nationalist a b d b government argues that it will accommodate those who have fled religious persecution from neighboring Bangladesh Pakistan and Afghanistan which are Muslim majority critics say the law goes against the whole idea of a secular India but the government denies any religious bias China's state run television c.c.t.v. Has dropped plans to show live Premier League match involving asked no in retaliation for critical remarks by one of the team's star players message who's ill the German midfielder his muslim attacks Beijing for its treatment of China's week of Muslims this afternoon game has been replaced by one featuring asked news business local rivals Tottenham from Beijing his Stephen McDonell on social media. Describes the wiggers of western China as worries who resist persecution and condemned the silence from many Muslims in the face of a crackdown by the Chinese government and Shinjiro hundreds of thousands have been interned in camps which Beijing says a 4 boat. Ational training Charice is moving against radical Islam but it's been criticized by human rights groups which on its Football Association said remarks had hurt the feelings of fans here asked or has tried to distance itself from its players comments posting on Chinese social media that this was entirely his personal opinion and that the club didn't get involved in politics it will be hoping for a speedy end to this crisis in order to avoid being locked out of the lucrative Chinese market they've already been calls for a boycott of arsenal by Chinese nationalists earlier this year the u.s. Basketball team the Houston Rockets lost sponsorships and televised games in China after its manager supported Hong Kong's protesters on Twitter message has been in action for ast new in their match against Manchester City Katie Smith has more on that and the rest of the day's sport yes he's just been substituted off at the Emirates where also occur only 3 nailed down in the 2nd half against Manchester City in the Premier League it was 2 goals for Kevin to broaden and one for Raheem Sterling both coming in the 1st half Tottenham climb to 5th in the table with a 21 win away at Wolves manager a marina is that he was pleased to inflict the Premier League defeat almost for just the 1st time since September I'm very proud and has to be also very proud of their records that are very difficult opponent technically very strong difficult to play against them physically very strong so we knew that the game was going to be difficult like it was Manchester United are a point below Spurs in 6 after they could only manage a $11.00 draw against Everton in the Scottish Premiership there were 2 no wins for both Celtic and Rangers it means Celtic maintain a 2 point lead at the top of the table in the women Super League also be evidence 3 want to stay top Manchester City's 5 nil win over Brighton move them up to 2nd above Chelsea who drew 11 with Liverpool in rugby union x. To move to within touching distance of the Champions Cup quarter finals with a bonus point victory against sale. Director of rugby rollbacks to says he's happy with how his players handled their back to back games against Sale who put him under a bit of pressure by saying there were there's a lot of people got the wrong specially if you were away from home or if you've done the hard part the double header and we actually talked the pros bars or so we don't know as I'm too as it were and in boxing Tyson Fury has parted ways with Traina Ben Davis and after 2 years together the British heavyweight has a rematch with American w.b.c. Champion Wilder scheduled for the end of February Katie Smith people across the u.k. Will tonight choose the B.B.C.'s Sports Personality of the year from 6 men and women representing a wide range of sporting success voting will be open during a special program on b.b.c. One starting at 7 o'clock and coming from Aberdeen event also aim to demonstrate sports wider role in tackling stigma as our sports correspondent Joe Wilson reports the vote belongs to the public but the trophy has been one man's responsibility Gareth Thomas the former rugby player with 100 appearances for Wales who was h.i.v. Positive he's been transporting it by bike from Cardiff to Aberdeen to raise money for sports relief and in his words to break the stigma still associated with the likes of mental health and sexuality and for the nominees Lewis Hamilton is now the 6 times world Formula One champion Dean rushes Smith sprinted to $200.00 metres gold in the World Athletics Championships where Catherine Johnson Thomson won the hap toughen rain Stirling starred for Manchester City Ben Stokes excelled for England's cricket team while Alan when Jones led Welsh rugby to the 6 Nations Grand Slam the Danish French actress and a car owner who is one of the stars of French New Wave cinema in the 1960 s. Has died of cancer aged 79 she was an important inspiration for the director Johnny Gaddaar to him she was briefly married starring in 7 of his films and a car and also had some success as a singer recording the hit soulis exact I'm all with Sarah's goals book paying tribute to her the French Culture Minister said cinema had lost one of its legends . Taylor Swift has announced been announced as one of the headline acts for next year's Glastonbury festival it's found Michael Eavis said he was delighted the American pop star agreed to make a debut at the event the headlines again Labour's leadership has apologised for the disastrous general election results while continuing to blame breaks it and the media marathon un climate talks in Madrid have concluded with an agreement that's been widely criticized as too weak a British tourist who was shot and killed by robbers in Argentina has been identified as a businessman from Northamptonshire b.b.c. News and the news was read by Tom scientists. Now ready for it's time for Pick of the week where the writer and photographer Johnny Pitts are at all. The travel to Africa. Was a relief effort. Some would like to put it in this cold windswept even in a like to invite you to stay indoors and welcome in the winter darkness by turning the lights off maybe lighting some candles and joining me for of storytelling music arts philosophy and photography I want you to get cold as he then but not too cozy as we take a trip not just into the literal ball so the figurative darkness and use our time together as we enter the end of this long long decade for some collective introspection we're keeping it deep dark and soulful tonight as a way to connect within and with each other across race faith gender in generations a start with some Don less we'll be hearing more from his 6 Music Show culture clash later but now an Arctic ghost story could see if Michelle paver read by Lea Ingleby dark matter that 1st sighted and a blow to the hot the desolation the beauty. A fierce sun blazed in the sky of astonishing blue. Links now capped mountains and closed the Wide Bay dotted with icebergs the water with a still sky mirroring the peaks of the eastern end of the bay cliffs the color of dried blood with thronged with seabirds the climate mute distance of the Western and shining pavements of pewter rock sloped down to the sea. And strain glinted and the tiny ruined hurt huddled among the boaters choco beach was littered with silver driftwood and the giant ribs of while. Behind it greenish grey slopes rose towards the harsh white glitter of the ice cap. Despite the cries of goals there was a stillness about it a great silence caught that light for a moment I couldn't speak I turned to Mr Erickson he nodded and sucked in his breath like a gasp. Grow can 7th of August group of this morning we've finished unloading the ship every night Mr Erickson and the crew go back to the ship to sleep but we're going to take possession of crew who can so we've pitched Ah pyramid tent on the beach at the head of the bay I was a bit put out to learn that there had been others here before us Gus found the ruins of a small mine on the slopes behind camp he brought back a plank with what looks like a claim roughly painted in Swedish to make the beach safe for the dogs we had to clear a tangle of wire and gaffs and some large rusty knife all of which we buried under stones and as that hunt crashed among the bones as in a blizzard of bones asked Mr Erickson about it so whether trappers had to get the miners who left all the bones the Norwegian hesitated Chapa 1st miners later. And after them no one I said Mr Erickson did not reply I'm going to say the relations with him have improved and he and his crew have worked like demons daubers set up camp almost just remarked as if they have a deadline to meet and maybe their have with every day that passes the midnight sun dips nearer the horizon in a week on the 16th it will disappear for the 1st time I will experience our 1st brief night Mr Erickson calls it 1st dark. Well Alan departs and might well have been a great person to have on the isolates invites to the North Pole with Mr Erickson as he joined Matthew Price in the beyond today pod casts a convincingly argue that we might use periods of solitude to look within and there is the dark times rather than the good times that offer the best opportunity to get to know ourselves and forge friendships Why is it so hard to be on your own without a phone without music without anything we had to drink because you might confront feelings of regret or frustrated ambition of anger shame all these things threaten to come to us and that's why introspection is so hard and that's why it's so tempting to get drunk to eat too much to exercise manically all is a way of shutting out the news from the inside started by tonight news the most important things you need to know the most important news is from inside you. Will tend to research every last aspect of historically news out there before we go when on a minute do I have anything to say to me. So if it's normal that we all fail anxious. Sad well able to cope often and Pope Yes confused Ok let's put it out there yeah I feel like quite a lot sure you do totally 100 percent exactly present fine now said it by the way this is the beginning of friendship what exactly is being French Oh and we don't know how to do that we don't know we don't know what friendship is an extraordinary people still think the point of friendship is to get together and describe the good things going on in your life that you know well Ok so I tried this experiment a few years ago when I met people and they would say Hey how are you an od say if I was having a bad day not very good today actually stops them in the tracks they don't want to talk about that. That pains me and saddens me because I think in my experience a lot of people all of us are actually dying to have that sort of conversation but we don't know how we're kind of waiting for the other person to start it but the moment as a group of married people get together to cover marriage is actually quite hard isn't it rigorous yet true it is actually a great time holidays fantastic sister you know so I didn't give it another go I don't despair I think there's a way of you know what we're talking about being vulnerable and the odd thing about friendship is that I think we have this idea that that you the people want to know you and want to be friends with because you're successful and your sort things are going well for years of swell person and that's what attracts people but I think beyond simply beyond certain age those people become quite nightmarish the boosters and the self promoters ultimately what you want is kind of solace and communion around the dark facts of life. From the dark facts of life to the dark room next on Tuesday I was mesmerized by his journey through the world of young female photographers who were challenging the very male notion of hunting for the picturesque although with fresh and sometimes alternative approaches that remind us the best photographs of both windows and mirrors here's what seems to me to be a great example of building communion around those dark facts of life exposed I think that will allow him. To use very definitely like a label pinko to say and then we've got some sort of Mukasey textures going on and then looks like Hoff eaten there Fareed she kind of makes you see materials and she makes you see smell somehow. So awful I've left it from starts to congeal that's what I find a way more interesting. Photography kind of enables me to own all those things I just wouldn't be able to physically own in my own life. Let's see him smiling it's a way of kind of having these things controlling Nolan taming. I think filthy should just be used for lies not for truth to make this fantasy world just get everybody Carol tell the truth it's not how people really see thing. It's so refreshing to hear Macy reminds us that photography is subjective and highly constructive and that contrary to popular belief the camera very much can and does . I would say honesty is entitled to my practice you know as a document of real life so I never want to stray too far from da. Safety green as a 28 year old documentary I'm portrayed photographer in 2015 she won the Magnum graduate photographers award and more recently the creative review site guys toward she's produced 2 books and her work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery twice as part of the Taylor Weston Portrait Prize. I volunteered for the charts according tides and it connects people in communities with older people rather than just toss a lot they link mail with Doris and she's such an amazing lady she's 94 and I thought it would be really nice take a picture of her for her daughter Brenda. Doris and Sophie to go for walks and props historicism ability exercises in the front room of her terrorist has already watching our whole thrice but today Doris has agreed to let say if you bring her Tama and despite the rain she's wearing her best summer dress now I just say Ok let's crying thinking. Oh this is all let's see your boxes. Oh I like this right one yet maybe we could do a double skull but Kwan an orange and the girl in the Blue Moon. Talking in such an important part of the photographic portray because the level of interaction the you have before picking the camera up can provide so much information and you also questions about the person and you learn about them and and you see the way that they naturally carry themselves and that always inspires a picture. Listening to exposed reminded me of a brilliant program from 28 scene about a writer and photographer who paved the way not just for young female photographers but also for music journalists culture commentators and visual artists everywhere and as somebody who likes to mix words with photography certainly for me if we just heard about for 2 graphs that captures smells the in comparable vowel Wilma absolutely captured sounds with a camera some of those photographs they are much as people look at them and that watch as a. Chick is one of the Corys. She has an unacknowledged national treasure. Hello in your family found yes Valerie here is how I was christened but type prefer foul. You know it to people always fall back on cliches and so they when they see me and they want to ask me so there was I was it like being a girl then you know but they don't really know what they're asking or what was it like being a white girl in with all those black men and so on and. I find it tedious really it was when I was coming along women were supposed to take a backseat for everything you didn't have any place in the world sit around wait to get married and then leave the rest their lives as housewives. But you know you learn on the why you do what you do. It was very unusual still is to find a woman writing in Cho's publication in a mostly said. Male stump collectors like me it's traditionally a male claim I was a girl and I was treated badly because I wasn't boy everywhere I went when I was a woman it was the same thing you know told you can't do this and you know you can and want to count you but you can't because you're a girl. Can you understand why I'm annoyed. With the point about my 950 s. When I was doing my g.c. a Revision for my own level exams and of course I was in the kitchen on my own and I put the radio on the table so to foot by choice talk of radio with a dial it had all the different stations on shortwave and everything was not supposed to be listening to it I'd started listening to radio not some of. The number it's always in lateral something in a sense just Alec Ross and suddenly I hear the sound over the writers. And it is the most arresting dramatic sound I've ever heard. As a piano for ice. And I know exactly who it is because I've been reading my medical Nika and it's right Charles Sinner's Prayer very. Loud hammers they all mean it's just a total rawness of a tone you know and we had grown up singing nymphs and shepherds in the school will hold it. For minutes and shepherds to sing this prayer is quite some late. And he just he is so when he is. The head. Of the. I mean if it all it's like he's exposed his in the most feelings. I think to the feeling of loss and misery is so universal that doesn't really need any explanation. Radio 3 za portray a valid will by their vailable from b.b.c. Sounds now I'm fascinated by how loss and grief can last to be had in some time strange and abstract ways that can take surprising forms I think you hear about that Sarah fire an Australian film babytalk about grief on dealt with that has to show itself as a monster before anyone realizes there is always empowering then when such troubling things find form in a piece of music or work of our or is about to hear from Stephen sexton in short cause a classic eighty's computer game. Level 2 so I started writing about Mario I thought it would be really silly if somebody would write a book of poems that followed exactly every single level of Super Mario World you know the silliness this idea of mischief gave me so much energy that I wrote loads of them but when I kept writing about Mario is world and how it's like mine I ended up thinking about childhood and when I was thinking about childhood I started thinking about my mother who in the years between had died I mean she was the person who made this world for me and I n. a Strange way at least she gave us access to me and my brother so I became surprised to find that I was in fact writing about grief when I thought I was writing about Mario and that these 2 became intertwined in a way that I I feel I had little to do with but I made a choice too to say well keep thinking about Mario and and see if the other story starts to come through. Cookie mountain. Now that the cancer has been excised the clouds are almost meaningless. Sparrow's not a metaphor for shipping out on walkies seems there's no creaking in the hives. So I crush biscuits going to back out sugar and golden syrup raisins he leaves the mass in a tray. One of my fondest childhood memories was when my dad got a job in the Japanese tour of Starlight Express in the late 1980 s. That it was sponsored by numb Co a company who made some of those Super Mario games when Japan looked like it was going to rule the world until recently I didn't know why but I've been shooting photographs of Japan on the old family camera using film they expired back then photographs full of glitches it's only now that I realized the work was about my dad which is who died last week and would have celebrated his 81st birthday today the work was a way to deal with the mortality of a man who to me as a child seemed as invincible and superhuman as all those Power Rangers and robots from eighty's Japan. Back in 2015 I was lucky enough to present something old something new this Radio 4 project still available on b.b.c. Sounds explored my dad's extraordinary journey from Brooklyn boy raised by a single mom before the struggle for civil rights to Northern Soul Star and West End actor. I think this is it is kind of a semi derelict carpark I'm entering at the back of some residential property in what's really the traditionally Caribbean area of pics more in Sheffield back in the sixty's and 7 is though everyone from Stevie Wonder to Benny King and Jimi Hendrix performed here and now demolished building that was a string follows legendary King mojo club. But this is also where my dad an African-American musician met my soul of in Sheffield mom for the 1st time my name is Johnny Pitts and I'm a Northern Soul baby he's. Not your run for you you probably know very well if you listen or a. Good run around Mr Religion. And. The music you know the family. That this is my dad Richie Pitts in the fifty's you know do what music or singing singing on a street corner is joy the girls Yes that's right. Reese knew that in the cafeteria sing in Frankie Lymon song a song where a group called them. The song my. Dad was born and bred in Bed Stuy Brooklyn New York until he found fame as one of those any great musicians who became a hit on the northern soul scene with his group the fantastic sea played at the world for. Amos Wigan casino was even on top of the Pops in 1971 with a hit song something old something new. 'd or that was my late dad Richie Pitts who would have celebrated his 81st birthday today. I always envied how dad who would talk about life for the Boys High School in Brooklyn where he when Norman Mailer and Man Ray were former students and though Brooklyn was a tough place when Dad grew up there he seemed sustained by a neighborhood where black history was encoded in the streets that surrounded him so many black kids have a very different experience woven out of a 1000 details anecdotes and stories school friends find out which is why I was captivated with the 1st of a 2 parter as Naomi back with revisiting her old school poses and seeks to answer a valuable question so many people tend to think that black history starts with the civil rights movement but how. And this is why we're posing the question what if if my textbooks were black and the question I'm asking everyone starts with the preface really and that is there's a presumption that. Black history is primarily for black people oh no it isn't history it is history our history has just been omitted from their textbooks they don't want to know history they don't want to know prior to the transatlantic voyage over here there were black people and black civilizations doing extremely well in Africa they just look at just go ball history and the influence of the African trades in Asia Minor and some of those other areas even before coming to this country as slaves its history is not restricted to black people it's a global Pan American kind of history an African is a kind of history. It's touching to see Mr Green again I think as a child I took for granted the benign discipline directed at me and my peers from adults in my life but I came to realize how motivated and energized he was by simply instilling a sense of self-worth into young people his service to the world was to educate young African-Americans like me Thomas Greene was born and raised in Chicago and he was taught by some equally energetic and passionate teachers I was looking for something to show you my 8th grade teacher one of the teachers was Madeline Stratton she brought the black history curriculum to the Chicago public schools in 1941 I didn't have in 1901 I wasn't even born but this is near the end of her life she was my history teacher and she always incorporated black history suits phenomenal. You know Mr Green mentions it almost in passing but that was a really crucial moment his teacher was responsible for getting black history taught in Chicago's classrooms and that was before the height of the civil rights movement . When I was obviously learning all this amazing black history I had no idea that as soon as I was going to leave that school black history would no longer be part of my formal education anywhere else. Black history lessons were unusual they still are. It's not taught in other states it's not taught in a they they've eliminated they've eliminated the civil war in some of these other states they don't even talk they don't even talk about it in these other states. Why were they are it's important to integrate into the curriculum because the. I think that makes you. A better person I think it broadens horizon it gives you some . Divergent thinking and creativity you need that creativity and the spontaneity and expression it always. You have to have arts you have to have the music the visual arts the Performing Arts the plays the programs the dance programs it's us to create things it's a spirit it's something that can always be found in books. Well that's something that can always be found in books would be what the sociologist Paul Gilroy who we heard earlier in the fall Wilma documentary might call block the not kill a culture and culture clash on 6 Music this week Don let's play the James Brown truck sums this up a James Brown yell more eloquently expressed in the inexpressible suffering of the African-American experience than any textbook mixed up Chuen aimed at politicians this is James Brown live 970 s. Talking loud and saying nothing. James Brown's music often provided the soundtrack for the Pan-African movement highlights and on Radio 3 thinking here the writer and historian line up for the arts I am talks about her novel godchild which deals with the god name notion of the visible and the invisible world seen as one she's living with quite mundane life in Germany as a gun and girl in a white society and she has all these stories that are quite magical which her mother tells in this quite realistic way and then cogito arrives when she's about 8 years old and he brings all these stories to life and kind of embodies the cagers both an actual god child but also a God John Lewis magical sent to let's hear a short reading there's a book called I said a book Our grandfather need there would come a time when all our secrets would be forgotten when the young would no longer want to learn from the old he was a member of a society of Algiers from across a wild in the same way he turned into a cat he take on this cloak he learnt from them how to guard the mess sacred wisdoms so that one would only have to look at them for power to be restored he tried to teach this to them are fathers and mothers have to cross over from one world to another and take the best from he sent them to the best schools and universities train them in the old ways and the knee but they were too soft now no one could hold the balance like he did and when he died or fell apart he asked my father to write the book that holds the secrets of our kingdom. Ok so this passage brings together what's happened before and the point that they've come to Generationally he's kind of articulating what they feel will be their mission which is quite a lot for 2 children to carry this mission to right the wrongs of the past which in a way that parents have felt that their very distinct Smy and called to my ear is fascinated by and different to how white contemporaries the schoolgirls that she meets in Germany and Britain and could do is mysterious and rebellious to it seems to me with a real sense of artifacts and traditions that are gone am but that have been lost and dismantled by Empire I wonder if this is a novel about trying to piece together broken things and to collate last things yeah very much I mean I think this moment that we're at I can't call it post-colonial moment because I feel like it's no longer defined by the colonial I know there's so much talk in England at the moment about the colonizing the curriculum and institutions but I think it's a much more complex process and part of that is piecing together. Lots of fragments lost and found I think that that different buttons in a way because Ghana couldn't but escape having to deal with its colonial past becoming an independent nation it almost had to mediate it whereas England could for a very long time close its eyes to it and I think it's no longer possible for an imperial museum to sit on objects that it stole and looted and say these are objects in perpetuity it's just no longer tenable Well that was Radio 3 so free thinking with Shahid about writing a conversation with 9 of our IATA I am. Now a powerful listen this haunted me all week and one that some people may find very upsetting using real transcripts and testimonies Kate Lamble takes us inside the chaos and desperation of Graeme felt our flat one for 2 the situation in Florida 40 had deteriorated for the gate Hello 5 brigade my house on fire Ok you ingrown fold Hell yeah Ok what floor you on 1717 Can you get out notice my coming and you go for a new flat Yeah the fire is in your flat they need to get out Ok who's in the bag and said again that there were 5 people in the front there was now a fire in the kitchen and hallway Ok you need to leave your flat what you need to do right you need to cover you need to get what all what sheets we can get to the bathroom you need to leave the building you need to get out how I can get the stairs dislikes too thick I think you're just going to have to go for it just leave the building at the end of the cool no tell their family they need to get into the hallway you need to try and make a run for it are you still there are you still there hello hello. A difficult but essential lesson that was grand fell flat one for $21.00 of the most touching things about the program is the familial love contained in that flood despite the desperate circumstances now the young people refused to leave their elderly and immobile parents to save themselves. And thinking aloud the consensus among sociologists is that the world needs more love but what is it and how should we think about it that's what the ever brilliant Laurie Taylor is seeking to discover as he looks back that classic film. That is from brief encounter Celia Johnson despite being traumatized by her passion of her with Trevor Howard returns home to her black pipe smoking husband fridge Laura's decision to return home might have been regarded by a similar goes not so much a dent in the potency of love that it was just all she could do it was a piece of realism Claire people could divorce newspaper it was difficult and the costs of divorce both the financial cost of divorce but also the costs in terms of perception of will see it would do to homes to children was deemed to be extremely high my reading of that film isn't that she just goes back to normality though I think there is a sense at the end of the film that she's different and you know we have here just because you've been mocked by her encounter with desire I think what's also interesting about the film is the way in which middle class and motion economy between them is outlined and then in the background you've got the working class characters who are seen to the trade as being far more treat emotionally but it's interesting isn't it that when people start to talk about reforming the divorce law they do it don't they in terms of the way in which it will strengthen marriage we don't want to Valse says that people can just get divorced we were. And diverse or they can remarry and they can make happy marriages and that the idea that you can escape marriage will make individual marriages stronger in fact that doesn't happen but that notion that the worst thing in the world is to be in a loveless marriage that is I mean the desire to escape from loveless marriages I mean they're all over literature let's just remind ourselves where we're going to go we're going to have Madame Bovary necessarily aren't we've clovers novel about the doctor's wife ever Bovary has adulterous affairs in a quest for love diff there were somewhere being strong and beautiful a valiant nature full at once of exultation and refinement a poet's heart and an angel's form a liar with sounding chords ringing out elegiac every telomere to heaven why put chance should she not find him before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn't come she supposed she must have been mistaken. And emma try to imagine just what was meant in life by the words blues passion and rapture words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books I absolutely love thinking aloud it makes you smarter and has an amazing archive with almost every topic you can think of on b.b.c. Sounds now from Romantic Love to Love for a community we return to this week short course which is full of so many gems I just had to include another story the theme was mumps and I love how Gail Lewis a go at he was so when skate and the trash in Mumbai in condé talk about how in the darkness their personal maps are suddenly illuminated constructed not just from roads and buildings but from local histories knowledge as and Solidarity's I've got this leaflet was created from the remember Live collective project there is a map of the particular parts of Brixton and all the different places where organizing is happening or people used to me and it's just I can walk around Brixton I walk around that area and I know these little spots in these buildings and for that to just be like so concretely having been given to me as a way of learning and understanding my history and as a south London as well I just thought that was one of the very special things that came out of it. I'd kind of begin to locate my interest in politics from my grandmother's knee and. Grandmother household. Really committed to working class politics so that kind of got me into the idea will if you have a political idea then you have to get out on the streets for it because it really matters and my home life is that from the Caribbean mum from England both working class. And I grew up in Kilburn it was in the household that I learned about there are no borders to racism and the fact that people may be loving up on each other and producing children of each other don't mean that racism goes out the window or is not also structuring intimate life in Race Racism was in the streets really in the streets that you know I'm coming up through the time of Notting Hill our house got a little fire bomb thing thrown into it so I've lived through the power moment can't tell you how intense the thickness of racism in the atmosphere was k.b. W.'s keep Britain where daubed everywhere you'd really navigate where you wouldn't wouldn't war all that kind of stuff by the time we got to the late sixty's I thought no black power is for me I am absolutely identified with this but it has to also be an anti imperial project and so then I was living in Sri Lanka and it was feminist they're saying if you really think that Burma is in belongs to what Western women you're a fall go back to London and do the work you need to do and understand that you will find other black feminists there that is when I met the Brixton black women's group and it was that moment of. Oh here's a place I can breathe. It's that kind of practical organizing in all these arena anti policing anti immigration in defense of the n.h.s. Reading groups links to anti imperialist organizations class demand is because of all of that I say that feminism is a gift because it has to attend to everything. I'm always interested in the things that can bring people together despite race or religion sometimes it's around the political project other times it's around the culture or traditions but often it's something simple food brought the families together on the road terraces I grew up in in Sheffield I love the homes and Lama my Yemeni friends would eat next door they love my mom's mashed potato in Hansal from the b.b.c. World Service for a general explores how be told a sacred place in many religions and the bringing communities across many faiths together so one of the major benefits that that peace provide for us is pollination that service that they provide to us is probably the most beneficial thing that the hive does for us and it does this within a 3 mile radius of the location that we're in so if we talk about where we are right in the heart of the city they can go as far as Hackney they can go to southern arc they can almost get to Buckingham Palace as well actually it's got massive area that it provides a service for and this kind of thing is something that I always 100 out as well because pollination services is similar to the kind of way that we should be treating our environment so we should be going out there we should be providing this free service to the environment we should be helping everyone we can and doing this without requiring anything in return This is what the bee does and this is some of the lessons that we can learn from looking at the bee and studying it as well so you know you're doing what the Koran is asking of you as a Muslim you're pondering the b. I hope so yes so that the last part of that verse which talks about the bee is telling us to ponder about the peace telling us to think about what the b. Does and to try to imitate what it has and I hope that we are doing those things. Who can see everywhere and may be. One person who's also have pondered that be and how it can be used as a tool for peace building is your. Every morning singing a special song that I wrote there my piece and they really like it and all my pupils and all my people that all my students Jewish and Arab increase in all the time sinking to their b.s. This song that I wrote to them. Vali. Good morning to you might be is. San enlightened bringing to me and to the world this is the spiritual light in the heaven and in our heart. A thank you bees for all the good things that you are making. In. Your sea runs the bees for peace project on a mountainside just outside Jerusalem. This is a freedom farm for the bees that we made here on the Jerusalem mountain and we are now sitting in the nature a lot of bees a round the sun is shining everything is nice here. Bees for peace it's a project to be with the bees to live with the bees and to learn from them how to behave how to be man to men people to people people to the land people to the world people to theirs and what we are doing is bringing together our Rob Jew We Muslims Christians Bedouins to keep bees together in the natural way in the biodynamic way to live like them to make relationship between us as the bees make the relationship between themselves and between the worlds. Praise be there from heart and soul and I was buzzing after hearing this week's quote the quotation for you is all musicals a 10 minutes too long in fact everything in life is 10 minutes too long. Yeah I said that I can't believe I've said something worth quoting now yes. It's true yes it's in some of the dictionaries a politician's I can really go yes yes yes now have any of your musicals been 10 minutes too long well I suppose I should say all of them by that definition but I think I can claim truthfully that some of them are shorter than most other musicals partly because we began recording them 1st and the limitations in those days on the length of time you could get onto a vinyl album yes and that made them shorter and that was a plus and when you say everything in life is 10 minutes too long you think of anything in particular. Not really some things maybe that's not true for but I think I mean. Maybe the show should only be 20 minutes. But the Tim Rice was perhaps the 1st person that made me want to be a writer my dad was in Jesus Christ Superstar which Tim Rice row and I was always amazed how we could devote visuals and stories in just a few lines now we aren't fish in 10 minutes sorry Tim but it is the end of the show and I want to give praise to endings and remember how the end can often be a reminder of a beautiful journey in soul music Julie Newmar remembers a father Leonard Nimoy aka Mr Spock and his beautiful last day here on planet earth it's a lovely reminder so enjoy each other before the mysterious darkness of that final frontier. The last day that he was in the hospital he asked Susan my stepmother and myself to to get the whole family over to the hospital room you know I called my children and my brother and and his children so we were all together in the hospital room with him that evening. And you know he's talking about how much he loved the song and it just so happened that my step brother had it on his phone so we put on the boxer for my dad. I think it just brought him back home as he was singing and kind of you know moving his shoulders and back and during the song he was talking to all of the grandchildren and not only just saying his could buy but expressing the love he had for each and every one of us it was a very very special moment with him because this was the last time that we were able to talk to him while he was still conscious what was sort of like wrapping up his skis life and I think just with songs and the fact that he had his wife his children his grandchildren with them he had everything he needed right there in that room. And that was. God and mock. The week was presented by Johnny Pitts signed produced in sulphide by Steven gonna it all with this week's selections are available right now on b.b.c. Sounds next Sunday and Tony a quick will be choosing the highlights so if you have any suggestions for her program you can email p o t w at b.b.c. Don't kowtow to u.k. That's p o t w at b.b.c. Dot co don't you k. . Words mean more this day than we ever have time just pull into my stories stories of musical masterpieces it's profound. Truth ignites my love my heart for my daughter. The new series of soul music on b.b.c. Radio 4. The song really represented sisterhood we would never in a 1000000 years have chosen but I won't for a 2nd ever give up soul music Wednesday morning spent 9. B.b.c. News at 7 o'clock senior conservatives have confirms that Boris Johnson will bring his bricks it will draw deal back to the Commons before Christmas the prime minister hopes to take the u.k. Out of the e.u. On January 31st and strike a trade deal with Brussels before the end of next year is also reported that Mr Johnson wants to overhaul the civil service with next gen experts replacing Whitehall staff to make sure his agenda is delivered the former head of the Foreign Office Lord Ricketts is wary of large scale change in my experience it never achieves the outcome people want it absolves the civil service in friction of redoing the plumbing where they should be out there making new policies so no doubt there were some trainer I would not go for a large shake up a prominent critic of Jeremy Corbin a said she's seriously considering entering the race to replace him as Labor leader the Wigan m.p. Lisa Nandy described the party's defeat in Thursday's general election as shattering earlier the shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he accepted responsibility for Labour's poor performance for the media's portrayal of Mr Korwin who is also to blame. Environmental campaigners say world leaders have missed another opportunity to tackle global warming after a marathon un climate summit in Madrid ended in a compromise deal countries have been given until the end of next year to put more rigorous carbon cutting plans on the table the un Secretary General Antonio terrorists said he was disappointed by the outcome. A British man shot and killed during an attempted robbery in Argentina is understood to be 50 year old Matthew good bad from Northamptonshire his stepson he's $28.00 was injured in the attack in one a series but survived. 10000 people have gathered in Aberdeen for the b.b.c. Sports Personality of the Year ceremony which is just getting underway on b.b.c. One there are 6 nominees into the England cricketer Ben Stokes and the heptathlon world champion Catarina Johnson Thomson The winner will be chosen by public vote b.b.c. News bases b.b.c. Radio 4 now it's been just over a week but despite that Helen and Lee are still together they've reached the going for a walk in the countryside stage of the relationship will be sneaking up behind them in just a moment to see how things are going. This Christmas on b.b.c. Radio. My father announced he would take me to meet the actual Father Christmas at the magical grotto known as the will in hall public baths where is the Christmas tree we haven't got one yet what are you waiting for. You better cut out in the roof I'm going to the square. To do a Christmas I love to dress up as Brad Pitt's ex-wife tank for laughter is the season to be jolly. Christmas on b.b.c. Radio 4. And this stand up comedy from Edinburgh right after Helen leaves and the haunches. So finally Henry gives him the plate with such. Full back was in the play correctly knowing they're both. Going to sleep the night at least yet so excited I just have . To eat the paper. As my cousin here said to him yeah. You know his home farm which is basically. Pretty much as far as you can see. Oh you had to me and I talked about my friend in the chef that was a 3 month old he doesn't do you sleep I'm not helped by teething no see you remember Lee starts at the cross he classes in the village. Karate guy yes make a story here is dad used to regale us with stories about practicing at home when she 1st started and he was the same what if you break it she says are cool Tell me about it my daughter's broke 2 lumps in a glass square and one I know never seem to blame me spouse and concern the keno they all the better a great exercise I'm sure but isn't it supposed to be all about discipline that all right takes slightly longer. Than. Sorry it'll be Brian again. You can't seem to get that I'm rushed off my feet then sleep deprived you know like he has a nap when Zonda does but the minute or alarm goes at 530 that's me for the day too early when I roll up we love the boss a shit Blue program by the way both him post-race one delicious in kept saying how proud he is it's a massive achievement to. Look Better get on take this feed to the you see you later have a nice walk then. It was nice his copilot Yes it is and before you. Share a bike. The city may call you a cheat and that was their business a little bit yeah I do with my bare hands then maybe I should see who the magic happens. You want to see me through not enough to. I thought. Yeah that should do it. But it is the door straight was. I think he said. For your coffee Well thank you. It's looking good in that Brookfield ball the best wedding venue in both that reception venue we're not marrying anyone here you know not yet anyway is my space and so much character don't you dare say rustic you know still are not the more Elizabeth said Kenton on a sleep they were both so blunt condescending they think I'm some kind of ignorant Yoko completely unromantic if that's even a word you're not paid an anniversary called this morning to night and then taking it for a meal tonight I thought she but yeah Ok but it was my idea to go. I knew I'd get a card and it was something on the kitchen table for you something I'd.

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