to this cultural life. thank you. on this cultural life, i ask my guests to reflect on the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity. you were born and raised in chelsea in new york city in the late 50s and the 60s? yes. what are your earliest cultural memories as a child? you re talking about a little kid, i m a little kid? the most important thing to me was that the people around me, again, the people around me never said, you can t do this. so you want to know what the inspiration was? it was my mother. cos my mother said, if that s what you want to do, sure, let s find out how to do it. what about school? what sort of pupil were you? i was not a great pupil. i was dyslexic. i am dyslexic. but didn t know at the time? at the time, no. they just thought i was just being lazy. my mum didn t think i wasjust being lazy, shejust didn t. she said, i don t know what it is, but, you know, it s ok. and so she didn t allow people to ca
yes. what are your earliest cultural memories as a child? you re talking about a little kid, i m a little kid? the most important thing to me was that the people around me, again, the people around me never said, you can t do this. so you want to know what the inspiration was? it was my mother. cos my mother said, if that s what you want to do, sure, let s find out how to do it. what about school? what sort of pupil were you? i was not a great pupil. i was dyslexic. i am dyslexic. but didn t know at the time? at the time, no. they just thought i was just being lazy. my mum didn t think i wasjust being lazy, shejust didn t. she said, i don t know what it is, but, you know, it s ok. and so she didn t allow people to call me stupid or any of the words that lots of people had to deal with. i know i m talking a lot about my mum, but i. i was very blessed to have the woman that i had as a mother because she was just odd enough to recognise the oddity in her child. and that w
become the inspiration for a continued struggle forjustice and accountability. forjustice and accountability a struggle now led by her three sons, one of whom, paul caruana galizia, is my guest today. what are the lessons of this tragic death in malta? paul caruana galizia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here and, indeed, also a pleasure to read your book. you ve just published it a death in malta: an assassination and a family s quest forjustice, you call it. you ve worked on this book for a long time. it is six years since your mother was murdered. working on the book, do you feel you have come to understand her in a new way? a different way? yes. so, the funny thing about the book was, i thought writing about her murder would be the very difficult thing, you know, for all the obvious and gruesome reasons. but in the end, what proved the hardest was learning about her life before the murder. in fact, before my br
and so she didn t allow people to call me stupid or any of the words that lots of people had to deal with. i know i m talking a lot about my mum, but i. i was very blessed to have the woman that i had as a mother because she was just odd enough to recognise the oddity in her child. and that was kind of groovy. i read that you left school very early, before you were supposed to. yes. ..so how were you educated? i was educated all over the place. i made a deal because i couldn t take high school. i couldn t do it, it was really hard. and my mother said, listen, you cannot run in the streets, but what i will do with you is, we will together find the places where you can go, to the museums, you can go to a lecture. we will find these places together. and when i come from work and i say to you, what did you learn today? where did your mind go? , you have to tell me. and i was lucky enough because i. you need to show me things, i don t. i m not a great reader. you have to
polls open, both contenders have been trying their hardest to win over the last looters and bead to s new president. in the uk, the post office apologises for using racist language to describe sub postmasters who were being wrongly investigated as part of the horizon computer scandal. itv says it investigated rumours of a relationship between presenter phillip schofield and a younger employee in 2020 but both repeatedly denied it. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. we will start with the latest on those delays getting into the uk at passport control. a home office source has told the bbc that uk border force e gates are now starting to come back on. a nationwide issue with the e gates, which started on friday evening, have resulted in long queues at passport control at airports across the country. the bbc understands the gates will be switched on in the busiest sports first and that the it issue has now been resolved. live now to our reporter david waddell at london heathrow ai