hello, i m john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, the radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures to reveal key moments and cultural works that fired their imagination and had a profound impact on their own art. my guest is tracey emin, an artist who has always put her own life at the centre of her work. in drawings, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations, she tells very personal stories. we met in a radio studio in the bbc broadcasting house. welcome to this cultural life. your life has always run through your art but when did the art start? it took off at school because i missed so much school. i stopped going to school when i was about 13 and i had to go back when i was 15, i went back for three months and i had to do three days a week by law, otherwise my mum would have been in trouble with social services and things, and ijust did whatever i wanted to do in art, and i think that s what it was, really, it had become me in a serious way and bec
the bbc says it treats any allegations very seriously. us president, joe biden, will arrive in the uk later flying into a disagreement over sending cluster bombs to ukraine. the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, is leaving china after a visit which she says put relations between the two countries on a surer footing . scientists are studying virus carrying bats in ghana in an attempt to discover more about pandemics. good morning and welcome to the programme. there are new allegations, concerning a bbc presenter, accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17. the sun newspaper claims the unnamed male presenter was pictured in his underwear, on a video call to the teenager. it s understood the corporation
the bbc says it treats any allegations very seriously. us presidentjoe biden will arrive in the uk later, ahead of a meeting with prime minister, rishi sunak amid a disagreement over the us decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the us treasury secretary, janet yellen, is leaving china after a visit which she says put relations between the 2 countries on a surerfooting , after a long period of tensions over trade. and in ghana, scientists are studying virus carrying bats for clues about how to protect humans from potential outbreaks and learning how increasingly encroaching on their habitats means adding to the risk of new pandemics. now on bbc news.this cultural life: tracey emin.