Book, the 70s the great shift in American Culture as our main textbook. So, when i refer to schulman, that is what i am talking about. Tonight, we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring charlton heston, as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic challenges of the 1970s, where all of the president ial administrations, but particularly for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis, this film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. It is dystopian where everything is terrible future. The big problem is overpopulation. New york city is wildly overcrowded with a population of 40 Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million. Were talking five times the normal population of new york city, which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent. The food supply mostly
Children and what support needs to be put in place. The charity has written to the nhs in south west london, urging them to withdraw the proposal. The Commissioning Groups say nothing has been decided yet. And they will talk to local people before deciding the way forward. Lets check on your lets check on your weather lets check on your weather now. Lets check on your weather now. As lets check on your weather now. As we head through the afternoon, we could see a batch of storms, Heavy Rain Developing in wales. Wet weather arriving in Northern Ireland and a few late storms across the West Of Scotland but very high temperatures around the moray firth. Thunderstorms in Northern Ireland, heading into scotland but will peter out eventually. There will be lots of cloud around, warm, quite muggy. 14 celsius, tomorrow starting quite cloudy, not much in scotland. Some sunshine developing across england and wales and then we encounter some late storms, heavy downpours arriving from the south we
Children and what support needs to be put in place. The charity has written to the nhs in south west london, urging them to withdraw the proposal. The Commissioning Groups say nothing has been decided yet. And they will talk to local people before deciding the way forward. Lets check on your lets check on your weather lets check on your weather now. Lets check on your weather now. As lets check on your weather now. As we head through the afternoon, we could see a batch of storms, Heavy Rain Developing in wales. Wet weather arriving in Northern Ireland and a few late storms across the West Of Scotland but very high temperatures around the moray firth. Thunderstorms in Northern Ireland, heading into scotland but will peter out eventually. There will be lots of cloud around, warm, quite muggy. 14 celsius, tomorrow starting quite cloudy, not much in scotland. Some sunshine developing across england and wales and then we encounter some late storms, heavy downpours arriving from the south we
The mp for eastbourne, Caroline Ansell. The white house spokesman, sean spicer, has admitted he made insensitive remarks about hitlers use of Chemical Weapons. The First Lady Melania Trump has received an apology and damages from the daily mail, over allegations about her work as a model. Also coming up. A suspect with Islamist Links has been detained, in connection with the bomb attack on the Borussia Dortmund football team. Last nights events didnt keep fans away from this evenings re scheduled match, which has taken place amid tightened security. Good evening to you and welcome to bbc news. Rex tillerson has held talks in moscow with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov the meeting was described as frank. The politicians said they found common ground. President putin earlier said relations between the countries had deteriorated. The meetings took place in week after the chemical attack on syria. Yesterday the g 7 blocked a plan to face more sanctions on the assad regime and its russian bac
The mp for eastbourne, Caroline Ansell. The white house spokesman, sean spicer, has admitted he made insensitive remarks about hitlers use of Chemical Weapons. The First Lady Melania Trump has received an apology and damages from the daily mail, over allegations about her work as a model. Also coming up. A suspect with Islamist Links has been detained, in connection with the bomb attack on the Borussia Dortmund football team. Last nights events didnt keep fans away from this evenings re scheduled match, which has taken place amid tightened security. Good evening to you and welcome to bbc news. Rex tillerson has held talks in moscow with his counterpart Sergey Lavrov the meeting was described as frank. The politicians said they found common ground. President putin earlier said relations between the countries had deteriorated. The meetings took place in week after the chemical attack on syria. Yesterday the g 7 blocked a plan to face more sanctions on the assad regime and its russian bac