a £20,000 payment for 240 dentists to moved to underserved areas, top up payments for dentists to take on new nhs patients and school visits to support tooth brushing and offer children fluoride varnish treatments. let s go to our panel. with me if the deputy director of the centre right think tank onward adam hawkes be an author of cosmopolitan politics on some stack and lease. we will talk to you about the situation in the us in a minute but adam, what do you make of this is the government announced a new plan but there is criticism of it from the dental industry today? there was, and this is a sort of thing there was, and this is a sort of thing that there was, and this is a sort of thing that people expect the government to take care of. when you say to government to take care of. when you say to people what are some of the things you say to people what are some of the things you are for about, cannot get employment, and cannot get a gp or passport employment,
yes, do you need to.? take your jacket off. hello, i m john wilson, welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast, in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal the key moments in their life, and the most important cultural works that fired their own artistic imagination. my guest is director, screenwriter and playwright mike leigh. he s known for gritty social dramas, including vera drake and secrets and lies. domestic comedies, like life is sweet and happy go lucky, and historical stories, including mr turner and peterloo. i spoke to him in one of the many radio studios in bbc broadcasting house. mike, welcome to this cultural life. let s take you to the beginning. what is your earliest cultural memory? as a kid, we had, and i was exposed to. ..pantomime, live theatre of various sorts. circus. the circus was a big deal. variety. live variety, the old, you know, descendants of the music hall, including, at the age of nine, a trip to the ardwick hippodrome in manc
these newspapers is because i was so keen to have my privacy. i feel a sense of duty to expose them, as they ve exposed us. prince harry and sir eltonjohn have launched legal action against the publishers of the daily mail action is being taken- against the sun newspaper. legal action against the mirror group over allegations of phone hacking. who did you hack? it would be quicker to say- who i didn t hack, wouldn t it? it d be easier. celebrities, politicians. i was living in this sort of super highway of illicit information. it was exciting. you felt like a spy. as the years have gone by, - the story has grown and grown. it s 100 times worse - than the press admitted to. these are frankly eyewatering claims. bugging cars, listening to and recording live phone calls, paying police officials for sensitive information. i don t know to this day how many people have heard my deepest secrets, my desires. .that phone hacking was not. practised by the mail on sunday or the daily
vapes and the little left behind. 1.3 million disposable vapes are thrown away every week. that is why the local government association representing councils in england and wales, once the government to ban single you see cigarettes. so what s their problem? the lga says disposable vapes can cause fires in ben laurie s. the plastic cannot be separated from the batteries, which makes them really hard to recycle, and when those lithium batteries get crushed they get really hot and become flammable. crushed they get really hot and become flammable. those 1.3 million dis - osable become flammable. those 1.3 million disposable vapes become flammable. those 1.3 million disposable vapes are become flammable. those 1.3 million disposable vapes are going become flammable. those 1.3 million disposable vapes are going on - become flammable. those 1.3 million disposable vapes are going on the - disposable vapes are going on the floor unfortunately, in which case it causes a signif
up here, it s peaceful. the views, you don t get this out of a aeroplane window. hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from switzerland or, more specifically, the international balloon festival in the swiss alps. we ll be taking a bird s eye perspective on that later on. but in the meantime, let s head to zurich for something a little more underground. i m on a journey from switzerland s capital, beginning with a drive two hours south west, because i ve heard that all around this country is a vast network of bunkers some of which are open for travellers to explore. among them are old military forts, which you can still see hidden in the mountainside. glorious view. ..if you have a sharp eye. so, i ve been given a pin that tells me that there s a bunker basically here, somewhere. it s camouflaged. so, there s going to be a trick actually finding it. i mean, this stretch of mountainside just does look like every other stretch of mountainside for mile