Well take a look at churchills career as a historian with journalist andrew roberts. This is 50 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, we ended last years conference with a presentation by andrew roberts. And we know a winning farm lo when we see one. So do introduce andrew this year, we have the beautiful catherine katz. [ applause ] hello. Ill keep my remarks brief in order to maximize the amount of time we have to be informed and entertained by our next and final speaking, andrew roberts. And for those of you who recall his presentation on sir winstons charmingly lack ri mouse nature at last years conference have undoubtedly been looking forward to this as much as i have. Andrew roberts serves as the guest cue rater at the library. He is the author and editor of 19 books including masters and commanders and the holy fox which we heard about a bit over the last few days. His most recent publication was a biography of napoleon a short work, coming in at just under 1,000 pages, we are all eage
A. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Sunday night, astronaut scott kelly recalls the voyages into space in his book endurance. He sinlt viewed by nasa administrator charles bolden. Yours was the third servicing mission. Having been part of that mission and having become an official hubble hugger, talk to me about what you believe the legacy of hubble is. Or does it have a legacy . I think its incredible. Its been up there you would know better than i how long its been up there. 27 years. 27 years. To have a telescope. Getting to 30. Doing that kind of science on a daily basis and, you know, letting them get the stuff most of you dont see and the Public Engagement that is provided and let people kind of get a sense for, you know, where we are in the universe which is pretty insignificant. If you consider, you know, those images. I think its been a great success. It was a great First Mission for me. Afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on book tv on cspan2. Winston ch
A week of protests around the country irans Supreme Leader accuses enemies of the nation of meddling in its affairs also coming up. With just over a month to go until the Winter Olympics south korea offers to hold talks with the north to discuss letting pyongyangs athletes participate in the games. And germanys new hate speech law is put to the test as Twitter Suspends the account of a far right lawmaker over her anti muslim tweet. Plus saudi arabia prepares for a year of changes as it introduces major reforms among them women will finally be permitted to get behind the wheel but does lifting the ban on driving go far enough. And welcome to the program we start in iran. Antigovernment protests are sweeping the country at least twenty one people have been killed and hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested the countrys Supreme Leader has blamed foreign meddling as Security Forces struggle to contain the boldest challenge to irans clerical leadership in almost a decade but after six
Fire, police, emts, should it be a very hot day they will also need to be generators cooling places down here. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Speaking of trains, septa released new information today about another lottery for special passes. This time for specific trolley lines and its high speed line. The lottery will be held on wednesday. Septa has allotted 20,000 special passes for the norristown high speed line but only two stops will be open. The gulph mills station and villanova station. Tickets will be 10 each. They will be good from september 26th through the 28th. There will be 5600 papal passes available for the trolley route 101 and another 5600 for trolley route 102. Those passes are 10 as well. Two stops on each line will be open, springfield mall and lemey avenue and north street and cliftonalden on route 102. The lottery will be held wednesday, august 12th. Customers have until 12 01 a. M. To 11 59 p. M. To enter. Septa says no matter what time you enter, everyone has the s
Booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. Im reading Tom Friedmans latest. He electorate back in april and i think it is an important bridge as to where we are in Technology Today and where we are going to be in the next ten years talking about a lot of things going on but im usually reading multiple books. Im looking forward to getting into that and i finished recently the buck on the right brothers very interested in biographies of americans who made a difference and ive always been a big aviation buffs and followed developments on the science committee. I recommend it to reading to all my staff the challenge i always have is trying to find time to create because i always tell the students that are here i didnt care for homework very much when i was in high school at university. I do more homework now than when i was in school. Having a Strong Foundation and good Reading Habits regardless what you are reading whether it is american hist