join the conversation with phone calls, tweets, texts and facebook messages. on booktv on c-span. welcome. thank you for joining us for our latest future tense social. this is very exciting for me because aim other huge fan of erik larson s books and we got to listen to a little churchill as we were warming um. i m andres martinez, the editorial director of future tense, collaboration between new america, and arizona state university. we look at the implications of impact of technology on society and i m prefer of practice our cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. it s a pleasure to have you here and your latest book o the splendid and the vial a saga of churchill family and defiance during the blitz. erik is the author of such fabulous books as dead week in the garden of beats, thunder struck, devil in white city. i have read most of your book but not read your first book. was intrigued looking at your biography that you wrote a book called the nake
can add to your television to watch netflix and amazon video and youtube and hundreds of other channels, many for free. it s a smashing success. the company s most recent financial numbers thrilled wall street. that s particularly amazing because roku s competitors are huge. apple refreshed efforts with its own tv box, apple tv. anthony woods is ceo of roku. his two biggest competitors, apple and amazon, have orders. anthony is a television pioneer before he invented the set-top box, he joined the dvr. so, you ve had quite the week. on thursday you announced that you can get hbo premium on roku just in time for game of thrones. then there is this report that amazon is going to throw millions into a new channel. that has to be another darn day for a ceo, i guess. it s a great time to be in the streaming business. people are streaming more and more. last year over 3 million people cut the cord. about half of roku customers don t have a traditional paid tv subscription, so,
welcome everybody. thank you for joining us. this is very exciting for me because i m a huge fan of erik larson books. we all got to listen to a bit of churchill as we were warming up to get in the mood. my name is andres martinez, editorial director of future tense. which is a collaboration between new america, slate magazine and arizona state university. we look at the implications of the impact of technology on society. i m also professor of practice at our walter cronkite school of journalism out at arizona state. it s really an honor and pleasure to have you with us today, erik. what brings her today is your latest book, the splendid and the vile isac of churchill, family and defiant during the blitz. as all of you probably know, erik is also the author of such that his books as dead wake, in the garden of peace, thunderstruck, devil in white city. i have read most of your books but i ve not read the first book. i was intrigued looking at your biography that you wrot
after a referendum on independence for the region of catalonia. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news. more injury concerns for england ahead of this week s world cup qualifier both fabian delph and philjones sat out training today and require further medical assessment. good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. at least 58 people have died and some 515 have been injured in a mass shooting in las vegas. the gunman, stephen paddock, was a 64 year old white man living in a retirement village and unknown to the police. the shooting broke out during an open air music festival attended by thousands of people. shortly after 10:00pm local time, hundreds of bullets rained down on the festival goers from the mandalay bay hotel, as paddock opened fire from his room on the 32nd floor. people ran for cover in panic, some were crushed in the stampede. by the time the police managed to work out where the gunfire was coming from, paddock had shot himself. the police say they foun
but is it better to keep boris in the tent or kick him out? get in touch with us using #beyond one hundred days. hello and welcome. i m katty kay in washington and christian fraser is in london. tucson, newtown, san bernardino, orlando, and now add las vegas to that list. once again, dozens of families are grieving. last night s mass shooting at a concert on the vegas strip has already earned the really grim distinction of being the worst in american history. and 12 hours later there s still no indication of motive. 64 year old stephen paddock was a retired accountant who lived on a golf course. on thursday, he checked into the mandalay hotel and into a room with a perfect view of the concert venue below him. he d brought with him more than ten rifles. last night, from his elevated position, he fired his automatic weapon on a huge crowd below him. we have no idea why. james cook begins our coverage. in the cold nevada desert, country music is warming the crowd. the time is