Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, reminding you that while cinemas may be closed, there is still plenty of new movies to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home. The most mainstream release this week is the dig, A Bittersweet Real Life Drama about the unearthing of the sutton hoo treasures on the the eve of world war ii. What are they . Do you hazard a guess . Burials, men, id expect. We are standing in somebodys graveyard i reckon. Viking. Maybe older. Apparently local girls used to lie down on them in the hope of falling pregnant. Ive read plenty of legends. Ive heard plenty of legends. Is that why you want to dig, mrs pretty . Details of Buried Treasure . Ralph fiennes stars as basil brown, the self taught archaeologist who wears his immense learning lightly and who is enlisted by carrie mulligan s wealthy widow, edith pretty, to excavate the imposing Burial Mounds on her property. My interest in archaeology began like yours, edith tells the initia
Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke, and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for thatjust began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, itsjust one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. So if the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed in the evacuation would
That her nickname for husband david was goldenballs in 2001. 0ur arts correspondent David Sillito looks back at his life. Dont you get fed up of each other . Oh, yes, yes. I call him golden balls, you know, now. Did you ever say, you dirty rat . Never. Jimmy cagney. Orson welles. Jimmy stewart. These were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. The fact is that youre a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he . Why is that . Well, number one, hes ugly. His interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. He cannot talk. And who told him he could sing . But of all those 2,000 or so guests, one always haunted him. I interviewed everybody from Henry Kissinger to Billy Connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. And im only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. Hes not aggresive Rod Hull And Emu Rather punctured the suave tv persona. I knew we should never have booked it.
For the rest of his career. But at Least Myjudgment was right. Very down to earth, very straightforward, very grounded, a wonderful marriage, lovely family. Part of him couldnt believe what what had happened to him. And the other half enjoyed it. And but he never lost sight of his roots, which were pretty well delineated by him on many programmes. Live now to Gloria Hunniford, presenter of Rip Off Britain on bbc one, as well as a myriad of other programmes through the years. Gloria, you knew Michael Parkinson for many of those years. What are your thoughts right now . My thoughts toda are your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because in your thoughts right now . My thoughts today are just sadness, because in a l today are just sadness, because in a weird, naive way, i thought mich
Out the odd light shower as well in the afternoon. Much of Northern Ireland, the midlands, North West South west england, should do pretty well in the sunshine. Quite breezy as well, especially along north sea coast. Temperature is at best around 24 coast. Temperature is at best around 2a celsius. Any of those showers tend to fizzle out through this evening and overnight than most places will be dry. Again we have got quite a breeze across england, wales and Northern Ireland and that picks up in the south west bringing a line of heavy showers or thunderstorms. Quite a muddy field to the south. A bit fresher further north. On friday things get a bit more interesting. We have got the first of two Weather Front spreading across england, wales and Northern Ireland and thundery showers spread northwards. Around the irish coast 60 miles an hour gusts and that might cause issues. But a nice fine day for scotland. Here we have got the high teens. Because of the clouds and thunderstorms 22 or 2