many factories have been ordered to close, and shops are restricting their normal opening hours. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. london prides itself on being a culture capital, this city buzzes with creativity. now, artistic trends come and go, of course, but my guest today has retained his status as the godfather of pop art for some six decades. sir peter blake came to fame in the 1960s. he is still painting today. so, what keeps his creativity alive? sir peter blake, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. are you still creating, painting, doing the collage every day? do you still get that urge? i do. i get quite a lot of pain at the moment. i ve got a sore neck which sometimes begins to hurt and i have to stop. but i work every day. i haven t worked today yet, but i looked at what i m working on. let me take you right back. yeah. because i m always interested with artists to figure out what impelled them to create. you had a tough childhood in some ways. you were a war child. yeah. you spent years away from home and family in environments where there wasn t actually
with the queen now other national icons are getting in on the act. i ve got my own swarovski crystals, so i can outsparkle everybody here, although might i say howjealous i was of paddington bear having tea with the queen only last night! good afternoon. a huge pageant along the mall in london will start in about half an hour, bringing to a close four days of celebrations to mark the queen s platinum jubilee. you the queen s platinumjubilee. arejust you the queen s platinum jubilee. are just hearing that of you are just hearing that the sounds of the kids quiet, made up of 400 schoolchildren representing 22 schools from around london coming together that a very special performance today warming up the crowd performing i am the earth, conducted by richard and about to begin performing something that will begin performing something that will be very familiar to many of you. take that s greatest day. thousands have come here from all corners of the uk and indeed much further a