mike leigh, known for his legendary use of improvisation in films that have brought him seven 0scar nominations. james marsh, who won an academy award for his celebrated documentary man on wire. mary harron, who made the modern american classic american psycho starring christian bale, and sally el hosaini, a rising star in british cinema, having just launched herfilm the swimmers, a story of two syrian refugee sisters, to considerable acclaim at the toronto and london film festivals. the bbc may have been around for 100 years, but almost 50 years ago, i came to portland place to a bbc appointments board, and i gotan apprenticeship as a bbc news trainee. since then, over the years, i have witnessed numerous men and women, talented people at the bbc, who ve moved on to greatness in the film industry. the bbc helped to train the man who is, without any doubt, an elder statesman of british cinema 86 year old ken loach. with more than 50 directing credits to his name, he has mad
hello there. we start here in the uk, where the two rivals vying to become the next prime minister have been setting out their contrasting economic plans and attacking each others . foreign secretary liz truss, currently the favourite to win, has suggested her party s economic policy has been wrong notjust under her rival, former chancellor rishi sunak, but for its entire period in power. ms truss said the past two decades had failed to deliver growth and promised billions of pounds in immediate tax cuts. we ve got the highest taxes for 70 years. we ve got lower debt than the united states, than japan, than canada. no other countries are raising taxes and the oecd countries are raising taxes and the 0ecd has described our current policy as contractionary and contractionary, it essentially means policies that lead to a recession. so what i want to do is increase tax revenues by growing the economy, not choke off growth by raising taxes. mr sunak has been restating his plan to
at the age of 91. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. the queen s coffin has arrived at buckingham palace. it was flown from edinburgh airport landing at raf northolt west of london a few hours ago accompanied all the way by her daughter, princess anne. despite the pouring rain, huge crowds lined the roads on the 22 kilometre journey into london. traffic came to a standstill as people pulled up and got out of their cars to watch the queen s hearse pass by. on wednesday, her coffin will travel to westminster hall, where she will lie in state. here s our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. and so, to london, on a dull september evening in an aircraft of the royal air force with the callsign kitty hawk, the callsign of any military aircraft carrying her majesty the queen. waiting on the tarmac, a very new british prime minister, in the dark clothes of mourning, just as there had been all those years ago when winston churchill had been at anothe