You got to say . Everybody is welcome. Your phone or needs you. Get in touch. Text and call. The Text Messages are coming in already. Now the news. Former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education says the budget for repairing schools with failing concrete was halved. Jonathan slater said it was frustrating that funding was only given a50 schools after a by rishi sunak. The government says it will do whatever it takes to fix the problem. Keir starmer is expected to reshuffle his cabinet today, although most senior roles will be unchanged. Former Civil Servant sue gray is set to begin her role as chief of staff. The First Supplies of the weight loss jab wegovy is arriving in the uk. It will be available via weight loss management clinics. And huddersfield and Manchester Victoria are the Railway Stations in britain with the highest rates of cancelled trains this year. Network rail says it is working with Train Operators to make improvements. The state of our schools, and as i sai
The supermarket or on the street is, so, whats your book about . Its a fair question, and a good one. And often extremely challenging to answer because you have spent thousands of hours writing thousands of words, you have a ton of information if your head in your head, and youre writing one story, but that one story includes many other stories. And suddenly you have to figure out how to condense all this information, all these stories in a 15second sound bite of ten words or less. Well, ive got it down to three. Well, seven, actually, if you include american phoenix is about. And one of the things that helped me get there was someone asked me, so, if your book were made into a movie, how would you pitch it . And i answers the titanic meets rocky. [laughter] american phoenix is about, in essence, disaster and survival. Its about disaster of Epic Proportions that involved a lot of water and engineering failure, the failure of design that killed a lot of people. And its about survival, t
Out, my share of the path. And dick cheney on coronary disease. His book is also coming out in 2013. Sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and Bob Minzesheimer of usa today, we appreciate your time today on booktv. Sarah kilborne recounts the crew of her greatgreatgrandfather, William Skinner, a textile manufacture in the mid19th century. The author recalls skinners immigration from london and his career ascendancy from a worker and a silk mill to the owner of his own factory, the mill village, skinnerville. In 1870 for a dam burst near skinnerville and destroyed the town and forced William Skinner to rebuild. This is about an hour. Thank you, bill. And thank you for your support of american phoenix. And thank you all for coming out tonight. And thank you and thank you, cspan, and booktv for being here. Its a real honor. And im thrilled to be able to share with you american phoenix, american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny. So o
Doing socalled lowlevel kinds of crime but eventually became the crime boss of new england with his headquarters on federal hill in providence, rhode island. Sometimes people think mob guys are thats not true at all. They have people are incredibly intelligent. They pull some scams for example, on wall street that would make Bernie Madoff look like a piker. But, of course, they had a traditional kind of socalled organized crime which were shaking young people, extortion. Of course, they viewed as just protecting your business from other guys who might try to shake you down. Of course, murderforhire, et cetera. The repertoire grew and grew as a result of their trying to protect their way of doing things. More from rhode island state capital as the booktv, American History tv, and cspans local content vehicles look behind the scenes at the history and literary life of providence today at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. You dont always find many newspaper editors in any era embracing inve