30 seconds to on air! 0k, and you are just here. couldn t i sit farther back? sir anthony hopkins playing an ordinary man with an extraordinary story. sir nicholas winton was just 29 in 1938 when he embarked on a campaign to bring hundreds of refugee children from prague to london. for 50 years, he didn t talk about his efforts until they were revealed by the bbc tv programme that s life. if they hadn t been rescued and brought over to england, these children would have been killed by the nazis. i m the bbc s culture editor, katie razzall, and for this edition of the arts interviews, i interrupted sir anthony s busy filming schedule to talk to him about his role in one life. is everybody happy? are you happy, sir anthony? yes. tony. i think this whole story has affected me and has actually stayed with me throughout the whole of my life, really. i also speak to the younger nicky winton actor, johnny flynn. the experience of making it will never leave me. ..and 90 year old rena
hi! hi. i m katty. thank you so. it s so.! oh, my god. i m so happy. so lovely to meet you. does everybody who meets you who used to do ballet stand automatically in first position? 0h! is that like a giveaway? and so you have. so i have. and i ve been doing it. you know what s weird, preparing for. i find myself all day standing in first position again. it s been so many years. makes you stand up straight. it s so good for you. no, i. thank you for doing this. i m so thrilled. i m happy, so am i? i actually when i was about 13, i applied to the royal ballet school in london and i didn t get in, which was just as well, because i d have been way in the back stage of the corps de ballet, kind of ideally out of the set. but i ve wanted to meet you for so long. oh, wow. ..so that s great. so, when you come onto a stage, misty. ..having not danced since 2019. mm hm. ..how are we feeling? how s your body doing? erm. ..i mean, it s like different air up here. yeah. you know, like i
dc later this year and one foundry in gloucestershire has played a key part. the extraordinary work of art has taken pangolin foundry in stroud and american sculptor sabin howard around 10 years to create, as amanda parr reports. a depiction of one soldier s journey through the great war and a creative journey like no other for the team here at pangolin. the american sculptor, sabin howard, searched the world for a foundry he trusted and he discovered it in stroud. as you can see, the casting has come beautifully, really sharp detail. i m really happy with that. it s been a decade in the making. the process has been astonishing. actors with clothes from the period flew from the states to pose before this rig of cameras. sd images were then made up in foam and clay and sent back to the us for the sculpting, from life, each figure taking hundreds of hours. and then they ve been shipped back to stroud to be cast in bronze. the project of a lifetime. how s the work going? how s
live from london, this is bbc news: alaska airlines grounds boeing 737 max 9 planes after a section of fuselage including a window broke off mid air, forcing an emergency landing. diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the war in gaza continue, with the eu s chief diplomat warning against a widening of the conflict. it is imperative to avoid regional escalation in the middle east. police in london confirm they re investigating potential fraud offences in relation to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub post masters by the post office. i m lucy grey. hello. we start with drama on an alaskan airlines flight in america which had to make an emergency landing after a part of the fuselage broke off in mid air.
live from london, this is bbc news: alaska airlines grounds boeing 737 max 9 planes after a section of fuselage including a window broke off mid air, forcing an emergency landing. diplomatic efforts to bring an end to the war in gaza continue, with the eu s chief diplomat warning against a widening of the conflict. it is imperative to avoid regional escalation in the middle east. police in london confirm they re investigating potential fraud offences in relation to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub post masters by the post office. i m lucy grey. hello. we start with drama on an alaskan airlines flight in america which had to make an emergency landing after a part of