i was really looking forward to meeting nicole in london, but even as superstars, travel plans can be ruined these days, so we talked virtually. nicole kidmanjoining us from los angeles, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. thank you for having me. you were born in hawaii and moved to sydney with your australian parents at the age of four. your father was a clinical psychologist and biochemist. was it a creative upbringing? yeah, absolutely. i mean, as much as i grew up the daughter of a scientist who became a psychologist, i was also the daughter of a nurse educator, but they were both academics. erm, but there was an enormous love of the arts. i was always taken to the theatre, opera, symphonies. my mother loves opera. what are your earliest memories of favourite films? i would go to a place called the independent theatre, which would show films, and we were all allowed to flop around on bean bags. they didn t have chairs, they didn t have seats, they had bean bags. an
the first asian mp in scotland. he trained as a dentist but then he returned to the family business politics. anas sarwar, welcome to political thinking. my pleasure, thanks for having us. now which is more frightening, waiting for the dentist drill or waiting for the verdict of the electorate? definitely waiting for the verdict of the electorate. i mean, the great thing about dentistry is that you get to be in complete control about, you know. the dentist always asks the awkward questions when they are already in the person s mouth doing the treatment, and i used to always have this thing with my patients when they came in, i always used to try and loosen them up, say, you know, don t worry, i m a pain free dentist. i never feel any pain. and, you know, that, that interaction part was what i loved about dentistry and actually the people interaction part is what i love about politics as well. i was going to say. although some people would say being a dentist, really deep
be after putin s war? the mood in ukraine is that if ukrainian officials agree to something less than the borders of 1991, the question would be, why did all those people die? and populism is its day over? the way i like to look at this issue is not, are we going to see a resurgence of populism, but are we going to see a resurgence of democracy? it s been one of the most confusing episodes of recent times, and we still don t know exactly what happened or what the outcome might be. yevgeny prigozhin, head of the wagner group of mercenaries, ordered a detachment of his men first to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back, and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not farfrom the ukrainian border. so what on earth does it all mean for t
baked a cake, full of natural ingredients? make your own muesli? is life too short? how much of these ultra processed foods do you eat, do you worry about the risks, how much do you know, or is convenience and cost absolutely key in this busy and expensive world? that is in a nutshell. in touch. good morning, it is the nation s phone in and here is the news from nick hatfield. good morning. prince harry is expected to give evidence at the high court this week in his long running legalfight at the high court this week in his long running legal fight over privacy. the duke of sussex was mirror group newspapers used illegal methods to gain information, they are contesting the claims. russia says it has stopped a large scale ukrainian offensive in the donetsk region of the country. moscow aims to have killed 250 ukrainian soldiers, kyiv has not commented on the claims. examples say gcse and a level papers being sold online are fake. bbc research has found students are being conne