If this conjunction of Jupiter and Venus they'll make their closest approach on Sunday but they will be fairly close together on Saturday and Monday too of course the 2 planets are actually nowhere near each other they just happen to be lined up from our point of view Jupiter is getting closer to the western horizon because we're circling to the other side of the sun from the biggest planet and it will soon disappear from our early evening sky but Venus will be there for several months we're also circling to the other side of the sun from Saturn but the ringed planet is still fairly high above the western horizon so you'll be able to see Saturn for a while longer. But that's not all of the planetary news that's happening in your personal sky remember I told you that you can see now see Mars in the early morning eastern sky Well you're definitely want going to want do some star gazing and both the evening and the morning sky this weekend if you go outside around 5 30 am on Sunday morning the 24th and face east you'll see a crescent moon less than a fist went to the left of spike the brightest star in for a go the Virgine. Below the moon and Spike you'll see that red star that isn't a star Mars will be forming a triangle with the moon and Spike on Sunday morning. Now do you remember that a week ago this past Tuesday Mercury passed directly between the Earth and the sun and did a transit of the solar face if you look below Mars you'll see a star about a fist with down that forms a fairly straight line with Spike and Mars that's not a star it's mercury and you can see all 5 planets on Sunday 3 in the evening and 2 in the morning sky gazing on Sunday will be absolutely astounding and you should also have a look in the eastern sky on Monday morning to on Monday in the Mon will be between Mars and Mercury not quite as smiley face but as an astounding 3 body conjunction nonetheless So enjoy your morning and evening planetary conjunctions this weekend they don't happen very often although the changing seasons don't mean much to us here Temperature wise and they do bring new constellations to our early evening skies and a very famous one has made it parents above the eastern horizon. I said last month that I called our autumn sky the 1st grade sky because of all the letters and numbers and another letter has appeared find due east and measure a fist went up and a fist width to the left around 7 pm and you'll see an upside down letter v. You know it better is the head of Taurus the bull a very famous sweater constellation enjoy. And until next week this is Pam Eastlake reminding you to look at the universe. This is Fresh Air I'm David Bianculli editor of the website t.v. Worth Watching sitting in for Terry Gross. On Sunday Netflix presents the new season of The Crown which tells the story of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd in the 1st 2 seasons the young woman who became queen was played wonderfully by Claire foil for this new 3rd season which covers the years 1941977 the queen is played by a Livia Coleman who takes over the role seamlessly and instantly really in seconds and before even showing the front of her head our critic at large John Powers will have a review of the new season of the crown but 1st let's revisit a conversation with the creator and writer of that mini series Peter Morgan Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies spoke to him last year Peter Morgan's other impressive works about powerful people include the movies the Queen and The Last King of Scotland and the play and movie Frost Nixon. Let's start with a clip from the 1st season of the Crown it takes place a few days after Elizabeth Windsor then $25.00 has learned her father has died and that she is now Queen Elizabeth is played by Claire for she's with her husband Philip played by Matt Smith We hear 1st from her private secretary played by Harry Hadden Patton. Would help if we could decide. Yes man. Is the name you will take is. Your father took. Was. Well. That's what you complicate. My name is Elizabeth. Own lives Queen Elizabeth. And the 1st time Queen Elizabeth hears those words from the crown the Netflix series that is created by our guest Peter Morgan Peter Morgan welcome to Fresh Air thank you. It's remarkable to imagine a 25 year old woman suddenly inheriting this responsibility she says a few times in the series that she would have preferred to live a more anonymous life and I saw a piece where you were quoted as calling her a countryside woman of limited intelligence was this taken accurately or in context no it was the yeah I have paid for that. It was really headline of the story I saw I think. Just about anything unfortunately that I say about this ends up in the headline somewhere that I don't want it to end up so I thought being quite private about this and about my have put my responsibilities here but yes I do think she would have been. A more more comfortable as a country woman I do think she is naturally a modest and not just a shy retiring person I think one can sense that. You know one can sense when someone is hungry for the limelight and when someone would soon a void that of course is quite different from her sense of duty and you know which in itself is such an interesting thing to explore you don't get a sense that people talk about you 2 very much anymore and so you know when I started sketching out episodes and thinking about what the show could possibly offer me as a writer or an audience you know what what was the central guy Lemme at the heart of this psychologically emotionally for the lead character it would be. You know that who she is as a Lizabeth winds up and who she is as Elizabeth Ridge I now think you know the queen are 2 very different things and the push and the pull between those 2 things but Russian dolls one within the other right and her her mother tells her the queen the crown must always win. You know it's fascinating as I hear you talk about this you know she bore this responsibility of representing this institution properly you kind of bear the responsibility of interpret ing these lives to a lot of people who don't know very much about him does that feel like a weight on your head I hope that it's that way to that's responsibility that all dramatists would feel when when tackling real life figure this you know that came a moment off the film that I wrote the queen had come out where Tony Blair was asked about his audience with the queen and in his book in his autobiography which of course came many years off that we made the film The Queen Tony Blair when referring back to that critical period in the off my time is death. Used a number of expressions in quotations that seem to me to be very familiar because they think they sounded like my dialogue and I remember thinking whining about it I kind of got it that right I mean I think we were all pretty confident we knew what Tony Blair represents we knew what the queen thought and but surely he he didn't say the very things that I've written that he'd said and I rang a couple of I said if you want to put out autobiography because it sounds very much like the scene that I wrote and it seems that even Blair's memory had sort of become blurred with what we had done and it was both funny but also sobering because you suddenly realise that the predisposition people have towards sort of blew it once you watch something on film it becomes that thing it becomes the way it was and so much of what I write can't be exactly the way it was because I don't know I'm just guessing and then for Blair in this particular instance to have taken those imaginations all guesses and to reconstruct them as the truth was confusing in his own account he's going he's only counts right he said I then said that I was like you didn't I don't think you did well if you did struck a lock on my behalf but I'm pretty sure you're actually just quoting what I wrote which you've watched and which you've subsequently denied that you've watched but which you've clearly watched. Well we were talking about the very young Queen Elizabeth inheriting the throne at the age of $25.00 in adjusting to the demands of it and one of the things that we see in here is the effect on her marriage with her husband Philip and he finds it difficult you know the constraints of living in a palace and all of the demands on her and being kind of 2nd to her and I wanted to play a scene here this is in the 2nd season where Philip has been away on a long trip representing the crown in Australia and some other places and he's back and information is has been surfacing in the press now suggesting infidelity on his part and this is not a complete surprise to Elizabeth and this is a scene where they're I believe in a room on the yacht and they're going to have a frank talk about their marriage in the context of the the demands of being a royal couple and I'm just going to mention one thing for our audience you will hear Philip refer to them a stash as he's referring to functionaries and secretaries who set rules and enforce traditions around the palace so let's listen to this is Elizabeth and Philip Philip is played by Matt Smith and Elizabeth is played by Clare for let's listen. But we want to take this opportunity. Without shields and without. Distraction. To lay our cards on the table. And talk frankly for once. About what needs to change to make this marriage work for. You guys 1st. Question of the month in my notes I go sick and. If I am sure if I just it's hard to start. Your complaining by complaining it's suit whining like a child a surprised the weather is god awful massages the other part is continue can fantasize me perhaps you and paving are going to give me this and I'm instructions do this don't do that read this don't read that say this don't say that can you imagine anything more humiliating Yes As a matter of fact I can. I have learned more about humiliation in the past few weeks and I hoped I wouldn't a lifetime. I've never felt more alone than I have in the past 5 months. Of my choosing that was. Because of your behavior because you sent me away yes and why do you think that well I don't know you tell me because you're lost you're lost in your role and you're lost in yourself. I realize that it's not just turned out to be something quite different top of us imagine it's understatement and that we both find ourselves in a. Prison. In a situation that is unique. Our marriage is to good to any other in the country because executed which is open to everyone else a divorce. Yes divorce. It's not an option for us. And that is carefully and Matt Smith playing Queen Elizabeth and her husband Philip in the Netflix series The Crown created by our guest Peter Morgan That's a terrific scene how do you find the voices for this young couple in this situation . I suppose in some shape or form and it's like. The high wire walker who doesn't notice the distance Denethor his while you know or while you know I the fact that I'm writing these 2 people doesn't seem for some reason to give me vertigo it I just write them and therefore you know them biting about a marriage and that would be something any you know screenwriter would be expected to do. I just seem to be up to write them and you know we know they will hold up on the role of the Opera Tanya full a good many hours before they emerged publicly we know that they were in a storm we know the dates that they were that and we know what had transpired we know that his best friend Mike Parker who had also been his private secretary had just been divorced very publicly by. His wife for infidelity and so you know as a dramatist you see a series of thoughts and what you hope is that through research that got some brought close enough together we know where they were where you know roughly what their official function was thought much with these people is extraordinarily you know evident and minute we know whether we pretty much know for every decade of their lives where they were and what they were allegedly doing. What we don't know is what they were feeling what they were thinking and and and so it's my job to to to to draw the line between those 2 points and to do so in the way that we were talking about earlier in as responsible a way as possible you know I guess watching this series one gets the impression that Prince Philip probably did play around though it's not completely clear and I gather the royal family has never acknowledged there's been no clear proof yet. Do you have any ever gotten any feedback from the royal family at all about your work . In the crown or I mean the royal family is not going to give me any feedback about Prince Philip and infidelity. But other people might and. And the royal family you know I'm I'm delighted to say that I've I've only met them on a couple of occasions I know most occasions I stay well clear of telling them who I am or what I'm responsible for if they know it making sure that we're talking about something else I'm thrilled to give them the distance to have total deniability and in the same way I want to have respectful distance from them to be allowed to get on with what I do and to take responsibility for I. Peter Morgan speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year more after a break this is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air Let's get back to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies and his 2018 interview with Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of The Queen The Last King of Scotland and Frost Nixon the 3rd season of The Crown starring a Livia Coleman as Queen Elizabeth the 2nd begins Sunday on Netflix you know Claire 4 is just terrific in this role and I assume you were involved in the casting you know what were you looking for and what did you see in her and 31 year old the casting of Claire for which is now sort of almost impossible to imagine because you know she was overlooked so this doesn't reflect well on me but I will tell the story and live in shame so what would happen is we'd be so I would be sent a list of people coming to the costings and I would look down the list and Wednesday this as it were costing session would involve the following 5 young actresses and I looked on the list like oh well I know that one that I'm not one of the other or rather interesting I'll come in a lesson to see that one I'll come in at 12 because I'm busy and important a lot of thought to be and whoever this clef or person is like you know into that I overlooked and snubbed Clare on no fewer than 5 occasions until there was one time . Where I simply couldn't avoid it because I was interested in the one before the one after her and so I then stayed to see her and then I was like why is no one should. Also matter with an if you why don't you tell me to look at this when they said Peter she's been on for 5 occasions and each time you've studiously avoided and I suppose she's fantastic it what did you see what did you see that happening it's not an easy part I mean you have to be both forgive me when I say but you have to be both plain and stunning you know she has to have both and a number of the actors that came in were simply too beautiful you know too conventional beautiful all to their faces did not have the full range is Elizabeth Windsor is a beautiful was that it is arguably still a beautiful woman but not all the time and not from every angle and her face lights up you know with a smile and can look quite grumpy quite like a wet weekend when not smiling and be over look up and quite plain and you need to believe she has intelligence and understand her intelligence because the queen contrary to what people think I think she has an intelligence and a very sharp mimicry and intolerance of fools but at the same time she's not that intellectually curious and so she has to be both quick and alert and yet at the same time capable of repose and being quite Those are so it's not easy and she has to be emotionally stable and I don't think an actor can act I mean of course they can but it so helps if they are that and Clara brought a lot of that into the part and then acted a lot of the stuff that she didn't have to perfection and I sort in an instant that she could do it. Well I want to talk about we've talked a bit about the Queen which is this the feature film that you did before you did the series the crown this was directed by Stephen Frears and we'll hear a scene here this is about the moment in 1907 when Princess Diana has been killed in a car accident and because she is divorced from the royal family the queen sees her death as a private matter with no need for a public appearance or even a statement from her the Queen and in fact she takes her family and Diana's 2 boys who are her grandchildren to the royal state in Scotland kind of to just get away while London is mourning and in this scene we're going to hear she gets a call from the Prime Minister Tony Blair played by Michael Sheen who is concerned because the public and the press are seeing the royal family as heartless because it's expressed no grief at Diana's passing so we hear the queen pick up a phone to speak to the prime minister Prime Minister what I'm actually trying to study. And I was just wondering whether you'd seen that he was today's papers the man used to look at climbing to. In which case fine. Thank you what do you what do you know. How to respond. To this story. And I believe if you know that you get and you just are doing their best to sell newspapers it would be a mistake to dance to their tune under normal circumstances I would agree. But well my fries being taking the temperature of modern people on the streets. And all the information I'm getting is that the mood is quite. So what would you suggest prime minister some kind of a statement now that I believe the moment the statements has passed. I would suggest flying the flag at half past the palace. And. Coming down to London at the earliest opportunity. It would be great. And would help them. With their Greek. Yeah. Imagine I'm going to try to come down to London before I tend to my grandchildren who've just lost a mother. Down there is anyone know who's the British people more than I do Mr Blair now who has a great defeat in their wisdom and judgment. And it is my belief that they will any moment reject this. This movement which is being stirred up by the press. In favor of a period of restrained grief and super private money. That's the way we do things in this country. Actually. I think Nick. Dressed well just was it not school and that was Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth in the film The Queen which was written by our guest Peter Morgan you know it's interesting that in the crown we see a very young Elizabeth who is struggling to put duty above her personal interests and feeling so often and in this episode you know many decades later it would seem the queen puts her personal feelings about Diana and her failed marriage and her disappointment in Diana above her role and you know as a sovereign kind of a embodying the nation's grief is it makes sense you know I don't think you know I think I think that it was exactly the opposite I think it was that she was doing exactly what she thinks the principle the right thing to do was which had nothing to do with a personal feelings. Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of the Queen and Frost Nixon speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year the new season of The Crown with the Livia Coleman inheriting the role of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd begins Sunday on Netflix after a break we'll continue their conversation and have a review of the new season of the crown from our critic at large John Powers Also our film critic Justin Chang will review the new film waves about an African-American family living in South Florida I'm David Bianculli and this is Fresh Air. And. The nearby our Family Foundation supports w.h.y. Wise fresh air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from math museum committed to building math success critical thinking and problem solving skills teaching students face to face and more than 1000 franchise locations more at Mass museum dot com and from Whole Foods Market offering colors and flavors of the season with seasonal produce holiday desserts and Chef created menus Whole Foods Market colors the classics. This is Fresh Air I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross this Sunday Netflix unveil season 3 of the crown with a Livia Coleman taking over the role of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd from Clare for today we're listening back to an interview from last year with the creator and writer of the Crown Peter Morgan Morgan also wrote the screenplay for the movie The Queen starring Helen Mirren when we left off Morgan in Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies we're talking about the days after Princess Diana's death. The queen was initially reluctant about making a public appearance acknowledging the nation's grief because Diana had divorced from the royal family people interpret it as a personal vendetta but actually there is a strict protocol at the time when you have fairly even if other of the future king if you are divorced you're no longer part of the royal family at that point you no longer entitled to you know titles and and as such when you are 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th in line or whatever it is there are quite clear precedents for what happens and this is a system which you know works entirely through precedent you know what are the rules for what happens when this happens and of course when the rules are in conflict with what the natural emotional intelligence will response to a situation would be that's when you get into trouble and that's where the royal family has frequently com. As has run its trouble is when their response appears to be emotionally out of step with the street systems all rules or you know and if I went to my research as I have to come back to with 6 or 10 really interesting examples I'm sitting in the right just actually got no access to that but where they've been really interesting examples where actually you would want emotionally to respond in one way but actually it's really clear that in the case of say the Prince of Wales you know who is at the throne the following rules apply and she the queen behaved perfectly correctly in that scene that you just heard even though as a mother and or former mother in law it might appear cold and in a proper and that's why the response in the country was so animated she was only doing what she thought the right thing to do was and she has ventured persuaded to come to London and join in the national mourning for the tell you know the Queen by the way never attend funerals almost. Never tense you know you know so so no matter how close she is to someone you will find that the Queen does not attend the funeral Well she was such a it's product right yes because I think you know it is particle and it's like the Crown does not attend a funeral. It's again if you gave me a couple of hours to respond I'd be able to respond with more information and you know because again you know my I keep doing this I keep refusing to swallow all this information myself because you know my responsibility is to be a storyteller these people interest me only insofar as they are a family and a vehicle with which I can analyze the 2nd half of the 20th century all the dynamics of a family as a long running saga. Swallowing this royal porn which is what we'll call it you know this was swallowing the mind you shy all of apparently completely crackpot protocol and so forth it's not something I particularly liked and you know we have I have 10 full timers such as on this side and they work around the clock and they have certain areas divided up within them and some of them all focused on politicians and some of them all focused on on Royal masses. You know I saw the queen when it was made I think was 2006 and then you know I've watched the crowned recently told 20 episodes and then I said watch the Queen again and it was so much fun to see the same characters that are in the series the crown now you know decades later much older drawn by the same writer you Peter Morgan you know they're different actors in some cases but then we see these same people after they've matured and gone through all this life experience and I'm sort of this is Peter Morgan's vision of these people now later on although you did them in the reverse order you did the older one the more recent one 1st choice and I wonder if you were doing the queen now after this deep immersion into the Elizabeth Neuffer of her twenty's and thirty's and forty's do you think you would have done it or written it any differently such a question I thought I really don't know I couldn't tell you I haven't really watched the queen. I don't tend to watch anything you know by the time you reach you know a final cut in something or so sick of it and. And you know by the time it's on promotion and so full of listening to it just now. I was there any affection I had was not for my writing but for the beautiful school by Alexander the Splash who I notice is just on the shape of water and when the Golden Globe of the light was a great pleasure to run into him again there's a wonderful composer. I tend not to look back on it but but it's interesting that I wrote the older character the older versions and. And let's see you know at the moment I can't but I think I have to continue to write these cards just so but for much longer but I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying still realigning season 3 in seasons for us that coming up which will be that as it was a middle aged Queen which you know comes in between of course the the queen that you saw in the movie played by Helen Mirren and there's a whole generation as it were to be played by another actress and we've we've all sort of a common story that not only she said yes but actually the cumulative depth of knowing that they were you know knowing them and having written the months younger and having invested in their marriage in the early years of a marriage and now has the marriage hits middle age and as they hit it lateness they have midlife crises and as I say you know go this way and that way is current So this may be this is one of the joy of writing television and having the time to really really stay with characters maybe that will really pay dividends and maybe I'll love it Peter Morgan speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year more after a break this is Fresh Air. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Penguin publisher of the fountains of silence I Rufus a patent author of salt to the scene set in Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco the fountains of silence is a portrait of love silence and secrets and from Capital One committed to reimagining banking offering savings and checking accounts that can be opened from anywhere Capital One what's in your wallet Capital One and. This is Fresh Air Let's get back to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies and his 2018 interview with Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of The Queen The Last King of Scotland and Frost Nixon I want to pre-clear mention Frost Nixon the film that you did in 2008 I think. Directed by Ron Howard it was and it was a play originally you did it for students and this is based on the interviews that David Frost to older folks will remember was a British celebrity journalist and with Richard Nixon 3 years after he resigned in disgrace. Let's just listen to a scene this is from this series of interviews Frost did with Nixon many of the earlier interviews were relatively congenial but this is the last of them when frost is really boring in on Nixon about Watergate Nixon is played by Frank Langella David Frost by Michael Sheen Let's listen I you've always maintained that you knew nothing about any of this until March 21st but in February your personal lawyer came to Washington to start the raising of $219000.00 of house money to be paid to the burglars Now do you seriously expect us to believe that you have no knowledge of that money I believe the money was for humanitarian purposes drop there's a graduate's people were 3rd affronts Well it was being delivered on the tops of phone booths with a and I thought by people with gloves on that's not normally the way lawyers fees are delivered I have made statements to this effect before all that was holding the Norton's business I know nothing Ok fine but you made a good growth for America I stated my view Now let's move on let's go home no I don't want to talk to children and on it goes that's Frank Langella David Frost. In the film processing you fight it out yeah well it could be he did what it was did you in this confrontation between these 2 men wanted to put on state. Well it was it was a particular. You know you do not to sound pretentious but you do look at it almost like a set of ingredients and not every historical encounter which has huge significance and ramifications for the country or for the world has those ingredients you know and for me it's all about character and and it appealed to me particular I could never have written Frost Nixon as a play or a film had frost not been British Frost was my way in and so to me it was a story about a guy out of his depth and a guy you know suddenly finding himself. You know I went in through I was not tortured in the same way as any American citizen would have been by the by the national trauma that was Watergate and so Watergate was something I observed from from the point of view of the u.k. I was emotionally invested in what must have been like to have thought oh I better get these interviews with Richard Nixon because they it's quite prestigious get only just suddenly feel the extraordinary weight. All of American you know the trauma on your shoulders and to realize if you do not deliver a conviction that that these interviews will effectively be offering somebody a rehabilitation and so suddenly he's in unbelievably deep water and that really appealed to me so I came in that through frost but of course in America the play and the film were interpreted completely differently and they were interpreted as will the beast get slain you know and and. One of the joys of Frost Nixon as a project was traveling between the United Kingdom in the United States and having the schizophrenia response to the play in one country it was a play about Richard Nixon and one country was a play about David Frost and in England they saw Frost as well rehabilitating his own an image or what no frost was sort of you know Frost was known in in the u.k. As an opportunist. Although he was a very intelligent man he was certainly not known for his intelligence he was known more for his high life style and his you know he was always with beautiful women and he was that you know he he was an opportunist he was not he was a golden opportunist and this was one opportunity that he seemed to have misjudged and so the opportunist. Being out of his depth felt it was a story met with Levy in the United Kingdom where frost was you know also the pub layer of some quite low brow. Game shows or talk shows and suddenly the idea that he was in the ring with Richard Nixon and being forced to deliver something that no one else had delivered before. It turned out he did have both the mettle and the intelligence to do so but. Wouldn't have known it necessarily starting out . Well Peter Morgan It's been fun we will look forward to more of the Crown thank you so much for speaking with us pleasure. Peter Morgan creator and writer of the Crown and writer of the Queen in Frost Nixon speaking to Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies last year the new season of The Crown which tells the ongoing story of the royal family during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd is presented Sunday on Netflix it features a new cast including Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Elizabeth our critic at large John Powers says that while the show has changed in many ways what hasn't changed is that it's still so good I was once visiting Cambridge England when I saw crowds pouring into the city center joining the throng I arrived in time to see an immaculately be suited Prince Charles give a speech that celebrated of all things the opening of a new supermarket watching him feign enthusiasm I remember thinking the poor guy spends his whole life doing this stuff and I walked away grateful that I wasn't a royal I says that many feel the same gratitude watching the crown the plush behind the palace walls hit that may be the most delicious series on television created and largely scripted by Peter Morgan the show's 3rd season drops on Netflix this Sunday carrying Queen Elizabeth story into the mid 1960 s. And seventy's while the essential drama of Buckingham Palace stays the same is the tug of war between public rules and private selves season 3 has big changes the take a couple of episodes to warm up to is not simply that we're watching once youthful characters now congealed in cushy but often disappointing middle aged Malays we must also get used to a superb new cast with Matt Smith spiky Prince Philip giving way to Tobias Menzies more textured annoyance he's a reservoir of better advice and Vanessa Kirby's dess Ling Princess Margaret turning into an unhappily married social butterfly waspishly played by Helena Bonham Carter. Most important clear choice likely hesitant will visit with has been replaced by a prematurely dowdy queen who in Libya Corman's layered performance has warmed to her job but needs are sometimes lacquered exterior She's an odd mixture of decency and coolness cluelessness and ultimate good sense making major Still trickier the show was no longer set in the postwar afterglow dominated by Winston Churchill largely ignoring the giddiness of swinging London Morgan focuses on troubled times even as politicians ask whether the monarchy is a waste of time and money Britain is faced with a shrinking count Sterling massive strikes calamitous power cuts and even the threat of a right wing coup involving national luminaries here on Election Day in 1964 Elizabeth watches the news while her husband fans absurd fears what will happen should Labour's Harold Wilson become prime minister and we do know is that man witnessed. The ones out. With the horses Cavalry and they were to rabid anti American. Heads and spokes of the left evolutional I doubt this decryption and effects. Of the field where he's from. I haven't heard a rumor that he has a case it was 5 Mr Wilson as doctors but his predecessor Hugh Gates girl was poisoned by the Russians so their mathematical proof you get out of a friend of mine it looks like the whole series. Will swing being turned Well a trade mission to Russia so he even had the k.g.b. Code. Over the 20 minutes and summarize it over c m I 5 in the last article on Mr Wells list they would have done something about this they never expected to get this far oh. No indeed as it happens ideology proves your relevant over a series of nifty scenes Elizabeth comes to develop a close relationship with Wilson slightly played by Jason want guns who talks to her forthrightly about governing she vastly prefer same to his feckless Tory successor Edward Heath who she finds about as appealing as a tree salon the crown gets much of its own from filtering historical events though they're often tend to actual connection to the royal family plus a mining disaster becomes the story of a lizard with trouble displaying public empathy a preview of her p.r. Disaster with Princess Di Britain's need for an American loan lose to a drunken Princess Margaret spouting dirty limericks to a delighted Lyndon Johnson in a sneakily powerful episode the fear of Welsh nationalism leads the family to uproot Prince Charles played with great healing by Josh O'Connor and shipped him to the University of Wales in Everest with to prove the English care along the way Charles becomes this season's prime sacrificial victim or his sister Princess Anne played the star making assurance by Aaron Doherty listens to David Bowie and to his casual flings and addresses the world with biting sarcasm the touching Charles believes himself a kind of individualistic free thinker but whether it's his schooling or his love life he's bulldozed into doing what his chilly stiff upper lip family decides is best for the crown his whole purpose in life is to become king when his mother dies now 71 he's still in that limbo more a figure of mockery and sympathy. The crowd is wonderfully entertaining in part because we don't have to take it all that seriously because the throne has no real power we can enjoy it as a historical soap opera without worrying that things are inaccurate or partisan as we would with a show about say the Kennedys or the Trumps indeed one key to the monarchy is a literary It offers a kind of larger than life cop mythology in its timeless pageantry an out of touch silliness the crown transcends the moment it represents the idea of an enduring Britain and it provides ordinary people with a useful distraction from the battles of political life I never thought I'd say this but these days maybe America could use a royal family to critic at large John Powers review the 3rd season of The Crown available on Netflix this Sunday coming up our film critic Justin Chang reviews the new film The waves about an African-American family living in South Florida this is Fresh Air. This is Fresh Air The 31 year old writer director Trey Edwards Schultze One great acclaim and the top prize of the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival for his debut feature Krisha his new movie waves is a family drama complicated by tragedy it stars Kelvin Harrison Jr as a Florida teenager and Taylor Russell as his younger sister film critic Justin Chang has this review the emotionally turbulent drama waves revolves around an African-American family living in south Florida and I mean revolves quite literally in an early scene the camera swivels a full 360 degrees around the inside of a car as a teenager named Tyler Williams and his girlfriend Alexis drive along the oceanfront Tyler played by a mesmerizing Calvin Harris and Junior is a high school wrestling star with the right looking future in the camera whether racing alongside him on a field or crashing down next to him on the wrestling that seems to draw on his youthful energy the writer director Trey Edward Schultz has a gift for turning dramatic ideas into visual ones waves this is grandest and most ambitious picture yet but Mike is earlier features Krisha and it comes at night it's about the fragility of the American family shots the style have some of the raw ragged intimacy of John Cassavetes but also the dreamy poetry of Terrence Malick whom he worked with years ago his camera is alive to the lush beauty and sweltering heat of his Florida setting and it's magnetized by the intense physicality of his actors the camera begins to slow down when Tyler gets home and mumbles a half hearted greeting to his family Renee Elise scolds Barry places loving stepmother Catherine and Taylor Russell plays a sensitive younger sister Emily Tyler has the closest but also the most difficult relationship with his father Ronald a gruff authoritarian played with soulful gravity by Sterling k. Brown role of this hard on his son always correcting his behavior and pushing him to do better whether they're lifting weights together in their home gym or having an argument about Tyler's work ethic. I said it before I see it again the world going to. You and me we are not afford the luxury of being after each and we're 10 times as hard to get anywhere. And I don't think I want to push you because I have to you you know when I'm saying . This is one of just a few moments in which the movie directly addresses the subject of racism is a later one to when a stranger hurls an anti-black slur at Tyler but for the most part the tensions tearing at the Williams family come from within this is a sad sweeping story about the seemingly unbridgeable gap that can open up between parents and their children it's also about the desperation that can set in when life doesn't go according to plan Tyler starts to experience a nagging soreness in his shoulder a doctor's visit confirms that he has severe muscle damage spelling the possible end of his wrestling career around the same time his girlfriend Alexis informs them that she's pregnant and wants to keep the baby this might sound contrived on paper but I like the way that waves doesn't shy away from melodrama and shelters filmmaking is so propulsive that you're carried along at every moment he puts you inside Tyler's head making powerful his confusion and anger as everything begins to spiral out of control I won't say anything more about the tragic turn that follows partly because I don't want to spoil it and partly because Tyler's experience turns out to be only half the story waves understands that men tend to hog the spotlight in families and relationships in sports and in movies and so it's both pointed and deeply moving when the plot suddenly ruptures and the perspective shifts to Emily who tells her story in the movie 2nd half. Emily is as shy and reserved as her brother was brash and reckless and Taylor Russell acts with a quiet sensitivity that counterbalances Calvin Harris and Junior's brooding fury but before long Emily catches the eye of a classmate named Luke played with puppy or sweetness by Lucas Hedges who charms her and coaxes her out of her shell their initial flirtation blossoms into a real relationship as they bond over burgers and hang out with friends they also connect over their shared understanding of the pain that family can bring there's a wrenching scene in which Ronald confesses his failings as a father and reaffirms his love for Emilie whom he is too often ignored he proceeds to recite a few words from the Book of Proverbs which beautifully encompass the movie and its emotional extremes hatred stirs up strife but love covers up all offenses shots isn't peddling easy redemption he's trying to show us what it looks like for a family to try to heal in the aftermath of tragedy as a technical display waves is awfully impressive as an emotional experience it's simply enormous It begins in exuberance before moving through rage and despair but by the end it has achieved what feels like a state of grace just in Chang is a film critic for the l.a. 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Credit Suisse is the global sponsor of the New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic this week is generously underwritten by the Kaplan Brothers Fund the Audrey love Charitable Foundation the National Endowment for the arts and by the Philharmonic's corporate sponsor Met Life Foundation. From Avery Fisher Hall in New York City it's the New York Philharmonic this week a weekly program of concerts and recorded highlights by one of the world's great orchestras and this week. Paul Lewis is the soloist in the Piano Concerto Number one by Johann astronomers this is Alec Baldwin and I'm delighted to have your company on the program that will also feature the Symphony Number 2 by Robert Schuh on Christophe Fund Dr will conduct the New York Philharmonic this week. And biographer Burnett James wrote in the 1972 volume Brahms a critical study that the Brahms d. Minor piano concerto is quote a direct and authentic transcript of the.