Great opera directors. When you give him the soup, you do it like that and go, hello heres Jonathan Miller directing don pasquale. A man of many parts, he was a broadcaster, writer, sculptor and intellectual and he could have been a neurologist. Were it not for beyond the fringe. Sorry to drag you away from the fun, old boy. Thats ok, sir. The wars not going very well, you know. Oh, my god he was a newly qualified doctor when hejoined the Ground Breaking satirical review, which also starred alan bennett, peter cook and dudley moore. The Shows Success was huge and millers medical career never recovered. Goodbye, sir. Or is it au revoir . No, perkins. Laughter. If you prick us, do we not bleed . He went on to direct plays, including Laurence Olivier in the merchant of venice. A bit more clarity. Strident, sometimes rude he became a big beast of english theatre. Itjust needs to be a little more clarified. He was brilliant, he was mercurial he could bite, as well. You know, he said to a gr
Hands, and calls for a second independence referendum next year. Tata steel says it expects to cut 1,000 jobs across the uk as part of the compa nys restructuring plans. A warning from councils that social Care Services wont be able to meet demand through the winter from those who need it most. Vue cinemas will restart showing the london gang film blue story after banning the screenings due to a mass brawl in birmingham the writer, broadcaster and critic clive james, one of the most familiar faces on British Television for many years, has died at the age of 80. And at 11 30pm, we will be taking another in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, Torcuil Crichton and sam lister. Stay with us for that. Good evening. We start with one of the key issues in this election campaign, the future of the nhs, and labours allegation that the Health Service is at risk or even for sale to american firms in a trade deal after britain leaves the eu. Jeremy corbyn claims he has proof, in the form o
France and keep us dry, but it could go as far north as wales, the midlands and east anglia. At the moment the best guess is between these two solutions where we see the rain mainly affecting southern counties of england. Away from that band of rain it is a dry day with just a scattering of showers across the northern North Eastern areas. By sunday the low pressure has moved well away from the uk, in towards the mediterranean. And High Pressure really is beginning to dominate. It is not completely dry everywhere, there will still be themselves around because northern scotland, wintry at times, maybe for the northern isles, certainly over the high ground in scotland. There could be some fog patches to start the day elsewhere but for the majority a lot less rain than we have seen over recent days and weeks. Mostly dry with sunshine but feeling cold, temperatures 4 seven celsius was up this autumn the jet stream pattern has often look like this, with a big ridge to the west of the uk. We
But Lawrence Weschler has often come, his books have always had Something Interesting going on and i say this in a singular way he writes in about and has written about unique people or sometimes there are extraordinary situations as well but often these books are unique and unusual and this is a time when often it feels like it makes us all same exactly like something informed and conventional. The last time he was here in seattle was a couple of years ago with a man quite wellknown in the world of film walter murch and he had kept in touch and all these work he is done as a film editor. He is one of the foremost to his one in oscar and also an astrophysicist by heart with rogue theories and a book called waves passing in the night a book by Renan Walters with the dialogue of what he was doing. He does it in serious ways in various times. Tonight he is here for a book in this case someone we really have heard of that being delayed dr. Oliver sacks and this book chronicles the 30year f
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