So, this is a Radio Drama Studio. Hello, im john wilson. Welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. My guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. A huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. Hes an actor, director, writer and film maker, whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. We spoke in the very atmospheric Radio Drama Studio of bbc broadcasting house. Ken, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you. A show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. What is your earliest cultural memory, do you think . Something that had a big impact . I think, early doors, i can remember Winston Churchills funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. The World Cup Final of 1966, where the nation stopped. And in our own household, my brother had a sort of flir
things were developing. that default was not an honest. and mccarthy even had said that it would be, quote, possible to get a deal by the end of the week, last week. this past week. signs of renewed discourse bill back out yesterday when republican aides paused the discussion saying that it was, quote, not productive. democrats and republicans remain far apart a number of issues including spending cuts and work requirements for federal mccarthy said is a red line for him. talks between congressional republicans and the white house have yet to resume. yesterday mccarthy made his disadvantage faction public, reading, 12. president biden doesn t think that there is a think oh-dollar saving to be found in the federal budget. he would rather be the first president in history to default on the debt rather than upsetting the radical socialist calling the shots for democrats right now. mccarthy s three conveniently of re-norms the fact that republicans nor democrats under a presi
southern border. just today after the governor of texas and more buses of my prints to new york city just days after the governor of florida flew migrants to martha s vineyard, this pressure for a probe into these clear stunts. ron desantis of florida and doug doocy of arizona say they are doing this to make sanctuary cities responsible for migrants coming to the united states. legally, to seek asylum. are the actions by these governors criminal? not just busing and flying of migrants under false pretenses, but also what is happening to these migrants once they arrive? new york city, where governor abbott has done 11,000 migrants, that s by his own account. shelters are at capacity, raising fears that migrants will soon find themselves alone and help fill us on the streets of america s largest city. here s new york city mayor eric adams today on meet the press. our legal and moral responsibility of being a shelter city is something we live up to. but this is a sanctuary c
the office of the prince of wales has insisted that all rules were followed when the prince s charitable fund took a donation of a millon pounds from the bin laden family of saudi arabia two years after osama bin laden was killed. the chair of the public inquiry investigating a major post office scandal has called for the process of compensation for victims to be sped up. more than 600 subpostmasters were given criminal convictions when a faulty it system made it look like money was missing from their branches. 81 people have now had their convictions quashed. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. delight at the court of appeal as the record is set straight. after all this time, now the weight has been lifted. but this court victory isn t the end of the road. the post office took hundreds of thousands of pounds from sub postmasters like richard to cover what looked like shortfalls at branches, leaving people financially ruined. imprisoned while pregnant,
they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa