on the bbc s hardtalk program in 2014 when he was 105. love, honesty, decency. ..ethics. that standard of life. i believe in ethics. and if everybody believes in ethics, we d have no problems at all. 26 years earlier, another bbc programme, that s life, thrust him into the spotlight after it was handed a wartime scrapbook. that tv show told the true story of how nicholas winton had saved the lives of 669 mainlyjewish children. so we told her about him. she said. i tried very hard to find out who had rescued us. i even tried the archbishop of canterbury to see if he knew. but i drew a blank. i would very much like to meet nicholas winton to thank him for saving my life. if it hadn t been for this man, i wouldn t be here to tell the tale. vera gissing is with us here tonight. hello, vera. and i should tell you that you are actually sitting next to nicholas winton. hello. applause hello. that story has gone from the small screen to the big in the feature film one life.
it s saturday, 13th january. our main story: the united states has confirmed it s carried out a fresh strike on a houthi target in yemen overnight, a day after both the us and uk carried out a series of raids on the iran backed group. the operation follows an attack by houthi rebels on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. the group have said attacks in yemen will not go without punishment or retaliation . graham satchell reports. before and after satellite images show the impact of the american and british bombing raids. the americans say airfields and weapons storage depots were destroyed. the raf didn t take part in the attack overnight, but both the british and americans say the raids are vital to keep shipping routes open in the red sea. houthi militia have been targeting container ships off the yemeni coast for weeks. sometimes, like this, they have boarded vessels. in other attacks, they used drones and missiles. they say they are disrupting this key shipping
Judi dench, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you, john. You were born in 193a and grew up in york. Set the scene for us. What was family life like . My father was a doctor. And i had two brothers, older than me. And of course, at that time, no television, nothing like that. So we all had bikes and we made our own entertainment. My second brother, jeff, only ever wanted to be an actor. My oldest brother wanted to be a doctor, like dad, and i wanted to be a designer, scenic designer. Thats what i set out to be. From a young age . From quite a young age, because we were taken to the theatre a lot, you know, we were taken to. I remember once going to see a cuckoo in the nest, and i laughed so. This couple was in bed and suddenly a chest at the end of the bed opened and a man stood up in vest and pants. And i was sick. I laughed so much, i was sick. My mother had to take me home. But the wonderful thing is that i was taken back a couple of nights later to see what happened. They laugh m
the bbc. i want to talk to about so much. i think it makes sense to begin at the end and this is where we cut to when enormous this is where we cut to when enormou5 spoiler alert, we tell people that logan roy in succe55ion doe5 die. wa5 people that logan roy in succe55ion doe5 die. was it strange leaving this production, 5uch strange leaving this production, such a big part of your life and mind. you ll it was such an odd feeling. i looked on it wrongly a5 a form of rejection. i looked upon it, you have done with logan, you created this monster and you don t know, you got rid of him in a pretty brilliant way. that was so brilliant the way he did it because there was no set up, we didn t know it was going to happen, it gets on the plane. hejust had this huge, these first two acts, epi5ode hejust had this huge, these first two acts, episode one, episode two, we see this in epi5ode two, we see this in full blast. and suddenly he s gone. i was fine with a bit rejected. i m going
and career as the man i m about to meet. he s gone from working class dundee in the post war years to london s theatre land in the swinging 60s and then film and television stardom. brian cox has featured in over 100 movies and played stage roles to great acclaim. but it s his role as succession s logan roy, the maniacal media boss and terrifying patriarch that is seeing him become a superstar. you have to be a killer. like the character he plays, cox can be fearsome and forthright on everything from scottish politics. we have been treated so badly time and time and time and time again. ..to his fellow actors, michael caine. the winner of numerous awards for his performances on stage and screen, he s a master of his craft. now in his mid 70s, cox is at the height of his powers creatively and the height of his anger politically. it s very, very good to see you. thank you so much for speaking to me and for speaking to the bbc. i want to talk to you about so much. i think it ma