Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures in the science and technology and the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. Another new feature of this center is a unique twoyear ma and biography memoir which will train students in our Historical Research interview technique and narrative form as well as the history of biography in memoir and how the forms have evolved over time. Housed jointly in history and a l
And prose and welcome to p p at the wharf. Thank you very much for coming and for braving this evening of storm warnings and wind and rain. These evening are getting to be too frequent here in washington, dc. Last august, john chapman, an air force combat controller, was posthumously awarded the medal of honor for his heroic actions atop a snowcapped mountain in afghanistan in early 2002. A few months of u. S. Forces began fighting na the done. Champman was the first airman to receive the medal of honor since the vietnam war. He had been attached to a navy seal team, assigned to establish a mountaintop observation post in connection with the major u. S. Sweep against al qaeda and Taliban Forces forces and the vn eastern afghanistan. Approaching the site, the helicopter carrying the special operations unit, came under heavy fire, and one of the team members were thrown from the aircraft. Returning to try to rescue their team meat, chapman and the seals batted al qaeda fighters, dug into
One big question change for the better. So we have one big question this change for the better. So we have one big question this morning, i change for the better. So we have i one big question this morning, how does Rishi Sunak Plan to get back your support . Live to take our questions rishi sunak, the Prime Minister himself. Wes streeting, one of labours team, trying to shove him out of office, is here too. And whats it like to play a Politician Megastar of stage and screen, Dame Helen Mirren, tells us exclusively about her latest film. My father would hide hide us in the cellar and wed stay silent, hoping the killers would pass us by. Im not that little girl hiding in the cellar. Morning, morning from the bbc in salford. Helping us pick through the news and pick over the Prime Ministers interview fraser nelson, the editor of the tory bible, the spectator magazine, baroness louise casey, troubleshooter and former government adviser, and jon culshaw actor and impressionist wholl be his
Committee, and that money is actually paid by fifa money. So it is the other 11 billion that goes into the infrastructure and half of that is being paid by the federal government of russia. Now, in russia its a little bit different because you say, the other half comes from sponsors and other private citizens, from what i learned in sochi, many of those private companies that sponsor were actually governmentbacked there you get a little bit, unlike the United States, germany and others where you have true commercial entities, i find many of these private companies have some Government Support in the back. Also what happens is, i again learned, correct me if im wrong here, is that many of those hotels were built in sochi and maybe this will happen for world cup, many of the hotels are built based on loans guaranteed by the federal government. So if they default on those loans, because those hotels arent being filled up and theyre not making revenue, who is really paying that . It is the
A new deal for yorkshires economy will be debated in Parliament Today. Steph will be there to see what it will mean for the economy. In sport, heartbreak for wales. Their dreams of playing in the world cup end with defeat to the republic of ireland in cardiff. Ive been chatting to Michael Fassbender about his gripping new film, the snowman, his love of surfing, and his incredible impersonation of a red breasted robin. Birds. He tweets. To the birds either . They do actually. That is quite good, that, isnt it . Very good. And matt has the weather. Thankfully, no snowman in the forecast today, fairly mild across the country, some rain but overall it isa the country, some rain but overall it is a brighter day than yesterday. All of the details coming up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Sweeping inequalities between different ethnic groups in areas such as education, housing and health are expected to be exposed in a government study later today. The findings will show t