time pop star turned church of england vicar, the reverend richard coles, whose frank account of his own grief has struck a chord with many. why did grief nearly break him? richard coles, welcome to hardtalk. britain has just lived through a rather extraordinary, momentous experience, the death of queen elizabeth, the mourning that came with it. and many people have said that the death of the queen revived very sharp memories for them of their own losses and how they felt during their own losses. you ve just written a book about grief. is that true of you, too? oh, yes, very much so. i think the queen had a representative life as well as a sort of constitutional life and a personal life. and her loss is a loss we all experience. people say, oh, but you didn t know her, but of course, we all did know her from banknotes, from stamps, from simplyjust being there, the christmas message. and that absence affects all of us. and any absence will elicit in you your own experience of
after you get what you want, you don t want it. that s a perfect number, because that s really her story, too. because after you get what you want you don t want what you she had the money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. i know you but there was something missing. she doesn t want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. i could have sworn you re a dramatic actress. that s impossible. what i d like to do is to be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there s no business like show business opens to great fanfare, but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. marilyn monroe didn t show up for her own movie premiere. her mind and her life were somewhere else. she was incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black, bobbed wig sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. she didn t tell anybody, and nobody knew. marilyn walked out as a declaration
but also, johnny depp won his defamation case against his ex- amber heard. fans, he wasn t in court he was in london jamming with jeff beck , i believe we have tape. solo. hold on. i got it. don t do drugs, kids. because they are mine. but apparently when the jurors heard what heard heard was, the decided to give her the bird. i like poetry, i guess that makes me a nerd. she the bed in courts and in bed . the jury saw what we saw that she had a lousy case because sh was a lousy liar which is weird for an actress since she lives for a living. may be her lawyer should have gotten scarlett johansson to play her in court. so amber defamed a dude, she used to me to movement and probably, she probably just figured all you have to do is point finger and click, but it became obvious she was so full of commit that she was leaving it in the bed. you could see its, we could see its, the we could see it, the jury could smell it. or maybe he just needed a bath, you know who couldn t see
at downing street. at the height of coronavirus lockdowns, people in the uk were banned from socialising, or even attending funerals because of the pandemic. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg. we are taking a look at a new podcast that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co hosts, pandora sykes. and, wagatha christie how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bizarre column, which is a0 this weekend. he faced significant pressure to stand as a witness. simon, i have got to ask, who would play you in the movie? it s funny, we actually had this conversation in the office. what is the answer? well, my hairline is going rather quickly, probably from the stress of thisjob, so ross kemp was mooted. that is harsh. martin compston would suit me. great. and the other person we hav
reality tv. and the wagga the christie. who would play in the movie? , , ., , movie? it s funny, we had this conversation movie? it s funny, we had this conversation in movie? it s funny, we had this conversation in the movie? it s funny, we had this conversation in the office. - conversation in the office. what is the answer? my airline is going quickly. ross kemp was moved in. martin compton would suit me. ., , ,., suit me. the other person we have here suit me. the other person we have here is suit me. the other person we have here is tim suit me. the other person we have here is tim watson, - have here is tim watson, guardian s media editor. you have been following the trial began, there is a whole lot of interest in this case. how long is the queue for the press box? it is quite extraordinary. there it is quite extraordinary. there is it is quite extraordinary. there is a queueing system, people there is a queueing system, people have to get their pret