hundreds of millions of dollars. the winner of the museum of the year will be announced tonight, a prize which celebrates the uk s best museums and galleries. this year s finalists include experience barnsley, firstsite in colchester and thackray museum of medicine in leeds. the art fund, which runs the prize, says the entries reflect the resilience and imagination of museums throughout the pandemic. the announcement will be made during a special programme on the bbc news channel tonight at 7.15pm. a bbc documentary has shed new light on what the duke of edinburgh was like as a father and grandfather. all of the duke s children and grandchildren took part in the programme, to be broadcast tomorrow on bbc one. they portray prince philip as firm but with a fondness for practicaljokes as our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. as well as assisting - the queen, he has a separate and independentjob of his own. he ran his public life from this office in buckingham palace. he lov
in the light of the pandemic later on in the program. jenny, it is time now to introduce the shortlist for museum of the year 2021. we have representatives from all of the museums here with us tonight. without further ado, jenny, the contenders. without further ado, jenny, the contenders without further ado, jenny, the contenders. , , ., contenders. just remind us who was on the list- contenders. just remind us who was on the list- i m contenders. just remind us who was on the list. i m going contenders. just remind us who was on the list. i m going to contenders. just remind us who was on the list. i m going to do - contenders. just remind us who was on the list. i m going to do this - contenders. just remind us who was on the list. i m going to do this in i on the list. i m going to do this in alphabetical order. we start with the centre for contemporary art in derry londonderry. experience barnsley in yorkshire, at first in colchester, thackray museum of medicine in leeds
nicholas witchell, bbc news. the winner of the museum of the year will be announced tonight, a prize which celebrates the uk s best museums and galleries. this year s finalists include experience barnsley, firstsite in colchester and thackray museum of medicine in leeds. the art fund, which runs the prize, says the entries reflect the resilience and imagination of museums throughout the pandemic. the announcement will be made during a special programme on the bbc news channel tonight at 7:15pm. coming up us president biden will address the un general assembly. brazil s president bolsonario is speaking at the moment. mr biden will follow him and we ll bring you that speech when it starts. now it s time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. the days of september are passing by. the nights are drawing in. in certain ways, it is
because they ve been told to leave, so residents have been given a limited timejust to grab what they can to pack it up, and to get out, to go to a place of safety. they ll be taken to emergency shelters, and they ve been warned that they may not be able to come back here. you can see just how close the flames are and how big the risk is to these properties, and being here forjust a couple of minutes, you realise how dangerous it is. there is ash that s settling on my shoulders. you can feel it in the air, and all the time the volcano is rumbling thunderously in the background. all of these houses are likely to be destroyed, but even any that survive could be dangerous for a long time to come. the winner of the museum of the year will be announced tonight, a prize which celebrates the uk s best museums and galleries. this year s finalists include experience barnsley, firstsite in colchester and thackray museum of medicine in leeds. the art fund, which runs the prize, says the entries r