i think in my acting days, i did a tiny bit of bbc radio. oh, you did? it might have been in this very studio some 60 odd years ago. really, here? fantastic. well, we ve got to dig those performances from the vault. i can t think what it was. it was something. ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. it s a great pleasure to come. and good to see you. you too. you were born in 1936. you grew up in the midlands. tell me about your family. what did your parents do? my father was an electrical engineer. took his apprenticeship in the mines. the whole family, my father s family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at alfred herbert s machine tool factory all his life ao odd years. skilled worker, then? yes, a skilled worker. electrician. and he had a work ethic that was formidable. he worked seven days a week. and my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. but.lo
That simply wasnt made to last. Raac was a postwar solution, now causing a headache for 21st century britain. More than 100 schools in britain have been told they need to close. Labour has announced it will force the government to reveal a complete list of affected schools, and now calls for transparency on the scale of the problem and for fast solutions. Its been known for a while and what we have also known for a while is there is a squeeze on school funding, and my committee has highlighted that repeatedly, and my committee has highlighted that and when you dont invest in maintenance and improvements in schools you get these problems arising but with raac its a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. Hospital buildings and Court Buildings among those impacted and internal documents obtained by The Sunday Times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. The concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. Trusts have been trying to cope
Studio some 60 odd years ago. Really, here . Fantastic. Well, weve got to dig those performances from the vault. I cant think what it was. It was something. Ken loach, welcome to this cultural life. Its a great pleasure to come. And good to see you. You, too. You were born in 1936. You grew up in the midlands. Tell me about your family. What did your parents do . My father was an electrical engineer. Took his apprenticeship in the mines. The whole family, my fathers family were miners from the warwickshire coalfields, and he worked at Alfred Herberts machine tool factory all his life. Ao odd years. Skilled worker, then . Yes, a skilled worker. Electrician. And he had a work ethic that was formidable. He worked seven days a week. And my mother had been a hairdresser, but like women of that time, it was a matter of pride for my father that she should not have to work. But. Lovely woman, very kind. What sort of cultural upbringing did you have at home . Well, it was a very normal, i guess
more of that and i think president obama s going to come out there tomorrow night and i think there s going to be a lot of soaring rhetoric and i think it s going to be a little bit more partisan than the 2004 that is the big question. right? if he comes out there, look, he s got nothing left to lose. right. he s got an opportunity in some ways frankly to frame some of the debate about the campaign tomorrow night. really ultimately no one it s very rare that a speech like this is going to be remembered. his legacy will be remembered longer than the speech will. so in terms of what rhetorical function it s playing, that s what he can do in the short term. i think that s true. but right now what he s doing is building his legacy. absolutely. that i completely agree with. he s doing podcasts i mean, honestly there s a lot of that going on. i think this is very important in terms of setting the terms of the debate and basically saying like look, here s if you want to at
syria and then having the policy have to back that. i don t read the polls are suggesting these substantive issues, these matters of world importance, are much the people much care yet. that s a function it s august of 2015, and we re talking about november of 2016. but it s not what they seem to care about. they seem to care about boisterous nothingness. you see interest in it spike when something happens that s got a foreign policy tie insure. we saw with this james foley s execution, and these are going to continue to happen. it s not just the islamic state. we have the crisis in9l ukraine, cyber security, chinese aggression in the south china sea, host of foreign policy issues. and this matter of immigration as well. people who do the questioning, as the process moves forward, have a lot of work ahead of them because this matter of what to do with immigration, we heard some more specifics from donald trump. we don t have any idea what that