Margaret atwood. One of the worlds best selling critically acclaimed authors, shes published more than 60 books, and has won the booker prize twice. Margaret atwood. The winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, Margaret Atwood. Cheering and applause. Her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. Most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaids tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved. Now an Emmy Award Winning television series. Theres an eye in your house. In this episode of this cultural life, the radio 4 programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. And how even in high school, her creativity was clear. I put on a Home Economics opera. It was about fabrics. Can you remember how it goes . Fabrics need a swim in the suds it makes them feeljust like new plink plink, plink plink. I want to make sure the mics are recording us. Margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you very much. Happy to be here. On this programm
what? she did have a tendency to be a little bit hanna off of the rails when she was drunk. i was very confused because i didn t see any signs. she didn t say any goodbyes. there is no note. she told me she had had the affair with craig s friend. craig was to be especially upset. there were couches in both hands. this is not a person who jumps out the window. did you think he killed her? yes. did he pick hannah up and throw her out of that window? no. hannah was really wonderful. i just have to believe it was a terrible accident. what it s a funny thing, looking back at photos of happy times. you don t know yet which of them is doomed. her ham? maybe both? but don t think of that yet. the wedding is underway. it was 2005, he was at u.s. navy man, craig becker. she was a bookish grad student studying psychology, hanna hove. they were head over heels in love. her college roommate, when elizabeth aciego, remembers how the couple first met at a university swimmi
,. our like, there is blood on the pillow. somebody was stalking the young women of reno. and now, one of them had vanished. obviously, there was, you know, something really bad. her name, brianna. she was just 19 years old. just wanted to say to my daughter, breonna, that i love you. i miss you, and nobody s ever giving up. nobody was giving up, but nobody was any closer to solving the mystery. where was breonna? within a three mile radius, they were hundreds of registered sex offenders. then, a tip but a woman who had found something odd in her boyfriends truck women s underwear. and when she asked him for the truth, she discovered something even stranger. did you do this. oh my god, did you? hello, and welcome to dateline. reno, nevada calls itself the biggest little city in the world, and this was one of the biggest cases it had ever seen. a local girl, a college student named breonna had disappeared on a winters night. what had happened, no one
there s as we begin a new hour. american rights risk, a week of consequential rulings from the supreme court has ruled us back decades. raising the stakes of the 2024 race. speaking of, we take a look tonight at the slew of legal laws now effect in florida. governor desantis going right in on abortion and the second amendment. plus pressure campaigns and presidential immunity. donald trump s legal troubles going higher. as the judge shoots down his latest attempt at revenge against e. jean carroll. and the law back, how speaker mccarthy is saying my bad, after daring to doubt that trump could win again. this is american voices! but we begin this hour with your rights. the supreme court, and the republican party hell-bent on rolling back years of president and progress. this week, the courts affirmative jury ended college admissions. it struck a blow to lgbtq+ rights, starting with a website designer who refused to create websites for same-sex couples. and ruled in favor of a
be fresher but brighter. your full forecast here on breakfast. it s friday 30th june. our main story today. a formal pledge for thousands more doctors and nurses is being unveiled by the nhs in england. the 15 year plan is backed by more than £2 billion of government funding. there ll be a greater emphasis on apprenticeships, and five year medical degrees could be shortened by 12 months. but labour has accused the government of adopting its ideas, and said the move had come a decade too late. here s our health correspondent dominic hughes. does daniel represent the future of the nhs workforce? he s what s known as an apprentice operating department practitioner learning on the job about how to be a scrub nurse in an operating theatre. his apprenticeship at royal derby hospital is backed up by a university degree, and for daniel, it s the ideal foundation on which to build a career in the nhs. i train and practise within the trust itself, so i am able to work alongside othe