yeah, this is difficult. hello, my name is michael mcmullin. i m speaking to you on january 17th, inside of a plywood box here to relay my recollections of 9/11. i mean, obviously, it s very unresolved for me. [noise] i can see the damage done to people. they couldn t tell their own story in their own words. it was just plain, plain, plain building down, building down. there was absolutely no space for more complicated stories . it became absolutely clear that this really was a very shattered experience. with a lot of feeling okay, rei guess it s working. [noise] what the bleep was that? the trade center, the trade center. oh my god. oh my god. oh my god! so, my husband and i had decided that we were gonna take the morning to do some errands and have breakfast to gather. so, we dropped our daughter off to school. the stairs from the school and my husband was talking to a stranger. he had a page from a paperback novel in his hand. and the edges were burnt. and
jens stoltenberg was speaking as leaders of nato countries prepare to meet at a summit in madrid on tuesday. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. what i find funny, you might find offensive. comedy challenges taste and convention and it can rouse strong reaction, as we saw at this year s 0scars when a joke earned comedian chris rock a slap in the face from the actor will smith. my guest today has spent more than 25 years finding laughs in sometimes unlikely places. 0mid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? 0mid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this won t be a
in sometimes unlikely places, omid djalili was born in london to iranian parents. he has thrived as a cross culture comedic chameleon, but is it possible to be funny without being mean? omid djalili, welcome to hardtalk. stephen sackur, my friend, my fellow presenter in the business of show, man who is so unbelievably good looking and thin that he walks into snooker hall, they start chalking his head. i am so happy to be here, this is one of my favourite shows. well, if you carry on like that, this won t be an interview, it will be a monologue! let me ask you this, you have been doing comedy for almost 30 years, do you find the same stuff funny today as you did back then? what a tricky question! what a way to start. that is such a tricky question. look, at the end of the day, it is a big subject now because we saw the oscars and we saw will smith smack chris rock. can i just tell you, just to speak personally, i saw the video the day after, and i bleary eyed woke up on monday
Hello, My Name Is Michael , and im speaking to you on january 17th, in side of a plywood box, here to relay my recollections of 9 11. I mean, obviously its very unresolved for me. I could see the damage being done to people, but they couldnt tell their own story, in their own words. It was just plain, building down, building down. There was absolutely no space for the more complicated stories about what people actually felt. So, this is it. Well i, just click it, go check to see. So we were willing to bust open the space for that. So you can see, we are inaction. Once people went inside the booths, they controlled the recording. They controlled their own story. Hey. It became absolutely clear, that this really was a very shattering experience. With a lot of feeling and emotion behind it. Im just, you know. And, our purpose was to capture exactly that. To tell the personal truth about what 9 11 was. Okay, i guess this is working. What was that . Its the trade center, the trade center. [
Felt like i would know when i d hear her. i just kept going, kept looking. and the wind was blowing in my face and i thought of that letter from the civil war, where he tells his wife, if he dies in battle he ll come back and be the breeze against her cheek. and i remember talking to the breeze and telling shelley, if that s you, you go back and you wait, we re coming to get you. we re living through a day, the 11th of september, 2001, that will be dealing with for a good long time in our lives, and our children as well in their own lives. [inaudible] [noise] my headmaster said,