increasingly, she s written and created her own shows. is that the pathway to empowerment in an industry where actors can be just another commodity? jane horrocks, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it is great to have you in the studio. you have been in this acting business for almost four decades. i wonder when you think about your own career, do you feel that you very consciously shaped it or is it more a question of serendipity and stuff thatjust happened? i think there is a lot of both actually, yes. i think i did engineer quite a lot of it in that my choices were very specific but certain things happened at a certain time that kind of formed it as well. and when you think about the big choices, the key choices, that you made that were instrumental in shaping your career, what would you point to? i think probably the biggest choice that i made was leaving the rsc. the royal shakespeare company? yes, which was my firstjob and they offered me another season and i th
nigel farage, the leader of reform uk, has told the bbc that europe and nato provoked russia s invasion of ukraine. he also said that, while he disliked him as a person , he admires vladimir putin as a political operator because he s managed to take control of running russia. the interview comes as the latest bbc poll of polls suggests reform uk has continued to gain support. the party now sits at i7% on our tracker, which takes into account a wide range of polling data. that is just four points behind the conservative party on 21%. labour still well in front with 41%. there have been more calls for rishi sunak to suspend two conservative candidates who are being investigated for alleged bets on when the general election would be held. this morning, the prime minister wouldn t be drawn on whether he was aware of other candidates or party officials who had placed a bet. labour has accused rishi sunak of a total lack of leadership . the latest donation figures have been rel
obviously, therefore, it s a kind of punishment for this gap between the two groups of people. i would remind you that these people were very well treated, respected and never humiliated. that s why i m so shocked by this ruling. the bbc s anbarasan ethirajan gave me this analysis on the case. what we know is that three employees, former employees of the hinduja family, this is regarding their employment with them, and according to the court documents, they were paid only $8 a day, more than 90% less than what the swiss average or minimum wage is in that country. now, the court ruled, they ve given them various jail sentences. at the same time, they were cleared of these very serious charges of human trafficking because they were accused of withholding the passports of their employees. now, the interesting thing is the prosecutors pursued the case even though there was an out of court settlement with the employees we don t know how much amount it was paid but according to
temperatures 20 or 21 and there sits the high as we look at monday night into tuesday. perhaps the first thing on tuesday not quite as chilly on monday and certain spots could get down as low as 4 degrees and a lot of sunshine to come but cloud filling in through the day so may be sunny spells as we look into the afternoon rather than widespread blue skies and a bit of a change in the wind direction coming in more of the wind direction coming in more of the north sea on the east coast and we see the temperatures in norwich coming down a little and the high, shall notice through the week wriggles around a little and it s that reorientation that changes things on the weather quite subtly day on day. a bit of a weather front on wednesday pushing into the north of the high so thick cloud for northern scotland and patchy drizzly light rain and a bit more cloud pulled into the south of the high pressure in east anglia and the south east which could make a few spots a little cooler but it s l