Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. In the first of a five part look at hollywood directors who made films for the u. S. Government during world war ii, we feature frank capra who made and supervised dozens of films during the war including the why we fight series. Up next the 14 minute your job in germany. A training film for troops occupying the defeated nation. Later well show you a four minute animated private snafu training film. But first we talked to journalist and film historian mark harris. The book is titled five came back a story of hollywood and the Second World War and joining us from new york on American History tv is author mark hard rays. Thanks very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. As you put together this book and well see some of the films from these wellknown directors how much did you know before you researched the topic . Well, my training as a film writer and film histori
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Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are madeline grant, deputy comment editor at the daily telegraph, and the political commentator and former director of communications for the labour party, lance price. Welcome back to you both. Lets have a look at whats already in. According to the metro, pupil power in the uk has forced the government into a u turn on a level and gcse grading, after education secretary Gavin Williamson declared there would be no change and no u turn. The daily express says the Prime Minister told the education secretary to scrap the algorithm for this summers exams results, following the outcry. The daily mirror describes it as another government screeching u turn, but note that education secretary reamins in his job. According to the daily telegraph, Gavin Williamson is blaming the exam regulator quual for the exam results chaos. We will look at that in a bit more detail. The i describes how some students,
This time for his exploits on the pitch, as Marcus Rashfords hat trick fires Manchester United to a comfortable victory over rb leipzig in the Champions League. We have a band of heavy rain moving from the west towards the north east through the course of the day with gusty winds and the strongest will be in the west, especially because of the height and exposure but it will feel a bit milder. Of the height and exposure but it will feela bit milder. I of the height and exposure but it will feel a bit milder. I have the details in about ten minutes. Its thursday 29th october. Our top story. The second wave of coronavirus is at a critical stage, according to experts after a major study found that nearly 100,000 people in england are becoming infected every day. Scientists at Imperial College london are warning that action taken so far to contain the virus isnt enough. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh has this report. The study tested a random sample of 85,000 people across england,
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