By a friend of mine who runs a company in london. I did Everything Possible to resist the offer to make this film. Because it was a complex and frightening and challenging subject. You are dealing with one of the seminal events in World History obviously. There are all kinds of cliches about the world changing. And yet what happened in my case around thoughts buzzing in my brain, did not go away. Almost reluctantly i accepted that and started to make a film. The film, really was exactly as story,cribed, a 24hour a story that starts at 8 15 in andmorning august 5, 1945 ends above a clinic in the middle of hiroshima. It took me to so many different voices and People Places and people and became an obsession, which is a dangerous thing for a filmmaker and nascent writer. I decided after that the subject was something i could not leave and i would write a book about. This is the product. I say that i remember somewhere in my research, i started a journey which took me around the world. It
Walker talks about his boom shockwave. The story begins with the first atomic bomb in new mexico on july 16th, 1945. And documents key events leading up to the august 6th, 1945 bombing. Which the author then tribes in detail. Thanks very much. You can hear me i hope. Thank you for coming on actually the most wonderful evening in this glorious city, which my daughter has pleatly fallen in love with. And her first visit here. Its such a lovely evening. Its great you could come here and listen to Horror Stories about the atomic bomb. I want to talk to you from the heart about what this book is and what it means to me and the journey i have taken over the last two and a half years since i started the documentary. I was asked to make this documentary in april, 2003, by a friend of mine who i do everything to resist the offer to make this film. Not because the money was appalling, which was, but this is a terrifyingly difficult and complex and frightening and challenging subject to have to t
Hornets, an aggressive species thats wiping out honeybees in the Pacific Northwest. Luke burbank will be telling us all about it. Reporter somewhere in these woods lurks a fearsome predator. Its isolated. Its somewhere in this area. And the race is on to find it and destroy before it can threaten americas honeybees. They are just killing machines. They have these giant mandibles that are like shark fangs and one chop it bites the head off. Wow. Later on sunday morning, tracking the asian giant hornet. From there, its on to a look at whats cooking with famed new york restaurateur danny meyer during this time of dining restrictions. With Martha Teichner, well hear him out. Im not gonna be the kind of restaurant that ive heard about that puts shower curtains between the tables. Ive literally heard about that. Covid19 forced danny meyer to close all twenty of his iconic new york restaurants and lay off more than 2000 people, so now what . There is no recovery at all unless this industry re
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Wealthy middle class is going to double in the next decade and at the end of that time boeing is expecting that one in every 5 air passengers around the world is going to be chinese now thats a huge Market International airlines and international play makers i was going to want to get a part of but as james was saying in his package just a few minutes ago the u. S. And the chinese are still going through this trade war at the moment were expecting more talks on that to come possibly october 10th of october 11th but the u. S. Particularly is being hindered by the this lack of progress in those talks at the same time the Chinese Government is also actively encouraging its own airlines to buy chinese made aircraft in the fact the top 3 airlines have made significant bids to buy in significant significant orders for domestically built aircraft majority of those for the domestic flight market the short haul but those which are also designed for the long haul markets was an indication. Of ho