ending federal protection for the procedure. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur, and this is the stage of the royal shakespeare theatre in stratford upon avon, birthplace of william shakespeare. 400 years and more after his death, his words and stories still resonate around the world, transcending languages and borders. well, my guest today is the just retired artistic director of the royal shakespeare company, greg doran. why do we continue to make much ado about william shakespeare? gregory doran, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. nice to be here. well, it s a real pleasure to be on your stage here at the royal shakespeare company. you first set foot on this stage 35 years ago. idid. in fact, this month, it s 50 years since i saw my first show at the rsc, which was eileen atkins in as you like it. and my mum had packed us all into the back of her beige mini and we had come down from preston, and i saw the show and i was just compl
So, you know, they are seeing him as a good ally in this fight. Also, you know, echoing the message we heard from joe biden in that Rare Oval Office address. You know, i think those lines of communication remain open, but i think this is something that Mitch Mcconnell just believes in a similar fashion to joe biden, and theyre happy to have someone from the other party be a spokesperson and advocate for this significant aid package. All right. Well see what happens in the capitol today. White house reporter for the Washington Post, tyler pager, thank you, as always. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Welcome to morning joe. It is 6 00 on the east coast, oz yau take a live look at washington, d. C. It is tuesday, october 24th. This morning, for the first time, were hearing from a hostage freed by hamas. Well play for you comments from one of the elderly women released yesterday by the Terrorist Group. Meanwhile, the e
off. but where we started with rusty bowers, i mean, there are people who have stepped up in this country s time of need. the problem is a lot of people didn t. absolutely, and what i think is so profound about what richard has written, i have been waiting for this book, i think, for a long time, is that in the end it all comes down to character, right, richard, that s what you say, and i think about teddy roosevelt who said that the power of a president is most exemplified in the power of example, and he said his most important role was that of being citizens, all of this stuff you talk about. i think of george bush sr. when wrote about his mother who wanted him to be fiercely competitive. on the other hand, she wanted him to win, i scored three goals in soccer, well, how did the team do, she said, so somehow i think what you ve done in this book, richard, i would like to ask whether it was intended that
upbringing. his father, according to richard, was physically abusive. beat him, beat other members of the family. he wrapped a garrison belt around his fist, and he hit them in the head and knocked them out. and his mother was verbally abusive, very strict, and at times, would also beat him with a broom. there s a lack of love in that family and quite a bit of what i would call brutality. so, that s really not a very good environment, i would say. richard s brother, florian, died at approximately age eight. initially, what was believed, that he had fallen down the stairs and sustained injuries from that fall. richard has said that actually, what happened was that florian was beaten to death by his father.
deformed, unfinish d, sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionable that dogs bark at me as i halt by them! why i? nor would i say that it is no longer possible for non disabled actors to play richard iii. but what i would say is what he brings from his lived experience is something very particular. nor would i say that i think you have to have adolescent onset idiopathic scoliosis, which is what we know richard has, cos we found it in the car park. nor do i think we have to have an obese alcoholic play falstaff or a scottish murderer play macbeth. but i think there are times when. ..i think you have to. you have to look. you know, i think this goes back to, for instance, othello in the, what, the late 80s, i would say, when suddenly, it felt that it was no longer appropriate.