cheering and applause. her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid s tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved, now an emmy award winning television series. there s an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio a 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 feel just like new. # plink plink, plink plink. laughter. 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 programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity, and your first choice is your parents. yes. tell me about your parents. well, first of all, th
we ll bring you updates as soon as they come in. we have someone on the ground there and we re getting information. plus we have breaking news out of baghdad. a u.s. air strike targeting the headquarters of an iran-backed militia killing a high ranking commander. iranian proxies are targeting troops for months. more on the developing story. let s get you to this first. 312 suspects on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended. we have no idea how many terrorists have come into the country and set up terrorism cells across the nation. dana: the homeland as a hafsh he en for terrorists. mike johnson leading one of the largest delegations coming to the border and exposing how the chaos is endangering americans on u.s. soil. welcome to america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: the morning is busy. bill hemmer. president biden under increasing pressure to get a handle on this matter. instead of pivoting on their policies the administration is passi
a special holiday edition of the last word. 2024 will be another year of defendant trump and another election here in which democracy itself is once again at stake. the republicansha only a three state majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, montana, pennsylvania, michigan, and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3.7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been has been below 4% for 22 months, the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at a temperature of ain t at the cop with this international training center in battleground state of nevada. on the final jobs report floor 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. he failed. on mount watch, the state of infrastructure week ameri
is newsday. thank you for being with us. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 5:30am in odisha in india, where the country s worst train disaster in decades happened. there s a growing sense of shock as the scale of the crash becomes more apparent. the rescue operation has been called off with more than 275 people known to have been killed. a major investigation is under way. officials have confirmed that signalfailure may have been a factor, but there are broader concerns, too. our correspondent archana shukla has been at the scene. we ll hear from there shortly, but first, let s show you this report. a painful search. sifting through photos, from hospital to hospital, and now morgue to morgue. inconsolable and traumatised. 22 year old himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. can i see my brother, just once? he keeps repeating. and at this makeshift morgue, he is just one of the many families in the desperate search to find those missin
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 feel just like new. # plink plink, plink plink. laughter. 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 programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity, and your first choice is your parents. yes. tell me about your parents. well, first of all, they, um, were very innovative and able to improvise, because, of course, if you live in the woods and there aren t any shops, you have to be, and they were both very outdoorsy. but they also allowed us to make messes in our rooms and didn t make us clean them up. by messes, i mean project