i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultural life. thank you very much. happy to be here. on this programme, i ask my guests to choose the most significant influences and experiences that have shaped their own creativity. and your first choice is your parents. yes. tell me about your parents. well, first of all, they, um.were very innovative and able to improvise. because, of course, if you live in the woods and there aren t any shops, you have to be. and they were both very outdoorsy. but they also allowed us to make messes in our rooms and didn t make us clean them up. by messes, i mean projects. which always begin as messes. just to set the scene, this is rural quebec. because your father was an entomologist. he was studying. oh, yes. he was a forest entomologist. and his research station spring, summer and fall, was up in the woods north, north, north, north, north of ottawa, up the ottawa river. and this would be in a house tha
no one wants a straight, also to go, no one wants a stroke but lowest paid workers rates. they understand the workers frustration of generation and have sacrificed so much to give industry alive and strong especially in this economic crisis and the pandemic. workers deserve the first share of benefits they help create free enterprise, companies have made significant office but i believe should be further than record profits which mean record profits which mean record contracts and also that again. bracket corporate profits, which they have, should be shared by regular contracts for the uaw and just as we are building an economy in the future, we need labour agreements for the future. it s my hope the can return negotiations before an agreement. earlier, i spoke to luigi gjokaj, vice president at a detriot uaw chapter, about the mood among workers now the strike has begun. it is historical course to strike at all three of the big three at the same time. what s the mood like
repeated thousands of times. i can t describe it, when you see people s death. maybe when you see one or two, it is. you can control yourself but when you see, maybe it s 500 people in one street, there is a woman, a child, old people. this grainy security camera footage is from the moment when the floods hit and derna was changed forever. two dams, meant to protect the city, were broken apart by the force of the water. the deluge carried everything away with it. this wave of death and destruction sealed the fate of thousands. and glimpses of the horror are still emerging. here in derna, people began to pray for god s mercy. when the torrent passed, some were able to escape. as the rain continued to fall, they headed to the rooftops, with few understanding the scale of the unfolding catastrophe. down below, the force of the water swept away everything in its wake. those who could sought safety on higher ground. it is things like this that really show you the explosive power o
the royal institution of great britain. for the past two centuries, this independent charity has sought to connect as many people as possible with the wonders of science. famed for its christmas lectures, which are aired by the bbc, the royal institution s iconic theatre is a place where leading scientists regularly share their work with live audiences. one area of scientific research which affects us all is in the diagnosis and treatment of serious illnesses. now, the great thing is science has helped us live longer, but the flip side of that is that we are now discovering illnesses which mainly only occur in old age. yeah. many of us have watched the decline of loved ones with dementia, and whilst there s no cure, there are treatments to help manage the symptoms. it s really important to diagnose it early, though, and technology is helping to play its part in that. since the 1940s, gps have been testing memory with pen and paper. and the results of that test are confirmed b
i think might be as close as i am. well, i don t know how i did, but it seemed rather challenging and i ve done a lot of vr before, so i m used to walking around in one of these headsets. i wonder how it would be for someone doing it for the first time for this purpose. maybe it d be thoroughly immersive so it would do the job well, or maybe it would be a bit distracting and make them feel a bit nervous. i don t know. the test doesn t discriminate based on language or culture. navigation is something that we all do. we think that this is therefore a test that works across different cultures, regardless of education, language, demographics. but we haven t tested those diverse populations who historically have always been slightly disenfranchised by standard testing and say, well, actually, we can do it, we can apply this one and identify in you too. we ve seen a turning point in alzheimer s detection recently. researchers have developed a blood test that could uncover the di