and set new standards of grace and set new standards of grace and athleticism in theatres around the world. having retired from the classical stage he set up his own cuban dance company, and is also a director of the berlin royal ballet. welcome. let s start in cuba, with your family, ballet. welcome. let s start in cuba, with yourfamily, your upbringing, a happy childhood? very happy, i must say, although in the 80s in cuba, ourfamily was i although in the 80s in cuba, our family was i would say, it was poorer than most families but still there was a big big sense of community, it was a good time for cuba, anybody could participate, do everything that society offers, obviously education was free, there was a lot of community parties that brought the community together. i was very restless as a kid and it was in the 80s where the breakdancing movement started in cuba and everything, so i was into breakdancing, obviously, later on in my family, my mother started to have some p
the middle of the island, is about 70% contained, and officials are also dealing with a third fire in up country maui, with no estimate on its containment. in just over four days, the fires have burned roughly 2,000 acres and have destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. these are images from the historic town of lahaina, which was hardest hit. local officials are allowing residents and tourists back into the town, but a nightly curfew is in place. we are now beginning to learn about the harrowing stories of survivors, like this one, where one family was forced to jump into the ocean to escape the flames. the ocean almost dragged my kids away a few times. but, yeah, we stuck together, we held on. i said, we re not going to die, and we re here, we re alive. an unprecedented logistical effort is underway from all over the united states as government agencies are mobilizing resources to send to hawaii. the state s national guard has chartered planes to help fly first responders an
memory? figs what is your earliest cultural memory? what is your earliest cultural memo ? ~ , . ~ ., ., memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to pantomime, - memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to pantomime, live | was exposed to pantomime, live theatre of various thoughts, circus, the circus was a big deal, variety, live variety, descendants of the music hall, including at the age of nine a trip to the ardwick hippodrome to see laurel and hardy live on stage on the famous tour, which i later realised was the famous tour, and the two important things about that were one, two 22 extraordinary things, one was it was in colour. they were in colour, and two, that oliver hardy completely get his act together at all, he was absolutely out of control and of course later we realised that that was because he was cracking up and it was the end of their career. of their career
who has always put her own life at the centre of her work, in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in the bbc broadcasting house. welcome to this cultural life. your life is always has gone through your art but wended the art stop? it took off at school wended the art stop? it took off at school because - wended the art stop? it took off at school because i - wended the art stop? it took. off at school because i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have beenin otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, and ijust did whatever i wanted to do, and i think that s what it was really, it had become me in a serious way and because the teachers took me seriously and trusted me, that was quite a fantastic th
later on this week. before we reach that point, a wet and windy spell moving in off the atlantic. a cold and frosty start with the eastern areas holding onto drier and brighter weather for most of the day. wet and windy weather moving in through the course of the afternoon. it bit of wintry mess over high ground, because the air is really cold. as you could imagine after the morning frost. wet in the south west of england and over wales as the afternoon wears on. in the east, the clouds are. northern ireland turning wet and windy as the weather front moves in. just moving into western scotland. turning wintry over the high ground. eastern scotland, apart from a few showers, staying dry until after dark. an atrocious evening commute across much of the north and west, certainly for northern ireland, western scotland and northern in wood, heavy, driving rain, standing water on the roads with gusts of 60 mph. rain turning to snow over high ground of scotland and pennine routes do