without my team mates, the staff, the fans, the philippines as a whole. it is amazing right now to feel the energy in the stadium. it is just amazing. it is exciting and it can be heartbreaking, tonight it was heartbreaking, tonight it was heartbreaking, i could see tears in our eyes, heartbreaking, i could see tears in our eyes, on heartbreaking, i could see tears in our eyes, on our player, i know how much our eyes, on our player, i know how much it our eyes, on our player, i know how much it means for them to be here, and to much it means for them to be here, and to play much it means for them to be here, and to play in much it means for them to be here, and to play in front of their friends and to play in front of their friends and families and fan, so it is heartbreaking but this is not over is heartbreaking but this is not over yet over yet. we - over yet. we have still one game yet. we have still one game to go, and we still have we have still one ga
a few moments ago england were 213 for 4 after 42 overs, sciver bru nt reaching her century. in the men s ashes it s must win again for england as they prepare to face australia in the fourth test at old trafford. they trail 2 1 in the series but come into the game after an excellent win at headingley. jimmy anderson is restored to the side on his home ground, but the weather doesn t look great for the five days. captain ben stokes says they may need to play even more positively! we know we have to win this game to take it to the last game for us to have a chance of winning the ashes so going into the last game at we were 2 0 down and we knew we had to win that so that helped a little bit and may be again with the weather thatis and may be again with the weather that is predicted, that it might bring more out of us again knowing we might have to push the game on even more. the open, golf s final major of the year, gets underway at royal liverpool on thursday and rory mcilroy
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, 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 because the teachers took me seriously and trusted me, that was quite a fantastic thing at the age of 15 when no one else did, and i didn t have much else to hold onto at the time and if i had not have done art at school, i think god knows who would have happened to me. no idea. this was margate where you grew up. was there any access to museums, galleries, culture? no, see, i didn t even know art museums really existed. there was something like in my mind, when i was real
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
with almost 40,000 kilometres of track, germany s rail network is the longest in europe, which makes it the perfect place to explore by train. but from berlin s vast central station, train. but from berlin s vast centralstation, i m train. but from berlin s vast central station, i m taking an even cheaperform of central station, i m taking an even cheaper form of transport for a spot of sightseeing. all right, we re doing it. we are crossing the tramway. fabulous. 0h, crossing the tramway. fabulous. oh, it s beautiful. i can see the tower on my left. and it s so cloudy, the tip of it is just unseen. alexander platts is these days the touristic heart of the capital. until 1989, it was the main public square in communist east berlin. i was born in 1990, which is a year after the berlin wall came down, so for myself and i m sure for a generation younger, there is no recollection of those news events. so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like i