Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
From coronavirus has passed 400,000. No new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours for the First Time Since lockdown began. But the uk death toll has risen by 77. A member of the Scientific Group advising the uk government says he wishes the country had gone into lockdown earlier. I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately. Im sure that taking into account everything we knew at that moment, my view is that we made the right decisions at the right time. And in a weeks time places of worship in england will be opened for individual prayer. Hello, and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Thousands of protestors are gathered in Central London outside the American Embassy for an anti racism demonstration. 0ther protests are also being held around the uk, with 10,000 demonstrating in bristol. This is what the
A typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that will survive for even another 1000 years before you have billions. Thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an optimist i think that weve already seen well i know that weve already seen just incredible advances in science and Technology Medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a S
Visionary. Not interplanetary flights maybe just decades away. But what will they be like and are we ready to embrace interstellar a well i asked. Researcher professor. Jimbo welcome to the show its great to have you with us so jim Scientists Say that they sun will expand into red giant and eventually destroy last on earth how much time do we have. Well so if thats actually true and but i wouldnt worry about it its going to take at least maybe 5000000000 years or so the sun is a typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognized as another existential
Technology medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a Sustainable Way on this very precious and rare planet that we live in to maintain the environment that is conducive for for a good quality of life so so im an optimist i believe in science and technology and and that the Scientific Method can make our lives better and it has and will continue to do so as we go into the future you know im sure you know this asked a physicist and just marching rees i was speaking to him recently and he told me that there was no plan b. For us. Do you think there were east or there is not. Well i mean right now thats true thats absolutely true but we we are made for this planet for this environment we have evolved to for this life around in this kind of an atmosphere with this temperature and this pressure and this composition so you know earth is our hom