films of all time, the musical singin‘ in the rain. for a staggering six decades she has been a big name in show business and she is here in london s west end, treading the boards again. her life, though, has been touched by scandal and hollywood has changed dramatically during the years she has been involved. our guest on hardtalk today is debbie reynolds. debbie reynolds, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. why are you still so driven to carry on performing? well, now, if i wasn t, if i was not having a wonderful time i would be bored to death and i would be sitting at home and i would not know what to do with myself. i have always been busy, active and home in the states i travel 42 weeks a year and that is just constant. i ve never stopped working since i was 16. it isjust like, i am used to it. i get really nervous if, let s say i had a two week vacation, then i am nervous. i have to keep busy. when you started, though, at 16 years old, could you have imagined you would st
i m jamie colby, and today, i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fis
i m in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it s an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man s strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. my name s barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. hi, barry. i m jamie. hi, jamie. nice to meet you. i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it his strange inheritance. it s just 600 square feet, and it s now surrounded by a huge shopping mall a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. who leaves this to somebody? well, edith left it to me. edith? yep. love to learn more. okay. come on. barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, was the shingle-mill capital of the world, with 20 mills producing 3 million shingles a day. there was fishing on elliot bay there, and
coming up next, albany law school professor emeritus paul finkelman delivering a keynote address at a symposium focused on the history of immigration in america. mr. finkelman compares the roles of congress, states, and the president in developing immigration policy from the colonial period to modern day. this event is part of a two-day u.s. capitol historical society symposium. it s about an hour and 15 minutes. for the keynote opening this particular symposium, we have professor finkelman. again, those of you who come on a routine basis, know paul well. he s been our fearless leader for the past several years in helping to direct the symposium. because of that i feel like no introduction is needed. but really in paul s case it s really true. i ll just say that he comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far he s come to be with us today. he s there on a visiting professorship on human rights. he ll be speaking on a a nation of immigran
he s been our fearless leader for the past several years and helping to direct the symposium. no introduction is needed. it is really too. i will say that she comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far yes come today. he is under a visiting professorship on human rights on ae will be speaking nation of immigrants. the keynote is and what opportunity to look, to see the theme in a broader sense. you will be laying the groundwork or everything we will be discussing. he will be laying the groundwork for everything will be talking about. we have a special lunch program that we don t do typically. we will have a speaker join us during lunch tomorrow so we can keep people in the room. we will have boxed lunches and you will enjoy it. if you are suspicious about a living history interpreter does, it is a good chance for you to find out what kind of historians deal with the public directly. these are people who speak to classroom groups, tour group