Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been interesting because, like a lot of people, we found well, i found new ways of exploring that. So, i mean, Iwas Working With Musicians internationally still, i mean, for example, i managed to do a concert online with Ashwin Srinivasan who was in india we did that for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival last year, and id tried to collaborate with people even through zoom and different ways of doing that. So you can sync up a performance through zoom and do it live . Not quite, because ive gone into using, you know, final cut pro, which is a so id cut things together sometimes in a way that they looked live, and th
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Many of us have an inclination to categorise artists. Its an easy, maybe a lazy way, of signalling where we think they fit in the creative universe. But my guest today defies labels. Nitin sawhney s creative output is dizzying. Hes a musician brought up in an indian family in britain who fuses different musical traditions. And on top of that, he writes film scores, he djs, promotes various cultural initiatives oh, and he was a successful comedian, too. So what are the Common Threads in this prolific creativity . Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been in
With stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Many of us have an inclination to categorise artists. Its an easy, maybe a lazy way, of signalling where we think they fit in the creative universe. But my guest today defies labels. Nitin sawhney s creative output is dizzying. Hes a musician brought up in an indian family in britain who fuses different musical traditions. And on top of that, he writes film scores, he djs, promotes various cultural initiatives oh, and he was a successful comedian, too. So what are the Common Threads in this prolific creativity . Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to your creativity . Its been interesting because, like a lot o
Bodies feel warmth and touch have won the nobel prize for medicine. We will speak live to one of them late in the programme. It has been a pretty torrid day for facebook. Two Interconnecting Stories that together have wiped 7 billion of Mark Zuckerbergs wealth. We will come to each of them in turn. Lets start with a first, the Whistle Blower. Two weeks ago the Wall Streetjournal published the facebook files, a damning series of reports that were based on a cache of the companys leaked internal documents. They reveal that facebook was aware of problems it was having with its apps, including the negative effects of misinformation and the harm that was being caused, especially to young girls, by instagram. We now have the identity of that Whistle Blower. Francis hogan, who until recently worked as a Product Manager on the Civic Integrity Team at facebook. Ahead of her team tomorrow before a Senate Committee where she will be giving evidence she has given an explosive interview to 60 minut
Concert hall survivors of the paris islamist attacks. Now its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Many of us have an inclination to categorise artists. Its an easy, maybe a lazy way, of signalling where we think they fit in the creative universe. But my guest today defies labels. Nitin sawhney s creative output is dizzying. Hes a musician brought up in an indian family in britain who fuses different musical traditions. And on top of that, he writes film scores, he djs, promotes various cultural initiatives oh, and he was a successful comedian, too. So what are the Common Threads in this prolific creativity . Nitin sawhney, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Lovely to be here. Its great to have you. Let me begin by getting into your life during this Covid Pandemic that weve all lived through. You are known as a musician who takes an international approach to music making. Of course, during lockdown across the world, thats not been possible, so what has covid done to