it is a music they are a celebration of the power of music to change lives. live at glasgow central station, this choir sounds sensational, they will be joined by a special breakfast performance by the scottish singer amy macdonald. if dry and sunny weather is music to your ears, you will like the forecast. it will feel cold, details on that and your full forecast here on that and your full forecast here on brexit. breakfast. it s friday the 28th of september. good morning. our top story: powerful, honest and riveting , that was donald trump s assessment on twitter of the testimony of his nominee for the supreme court, brett kavanaugh whose accused of sexual assault. yesterday, professor christine blasey gave dramatic details of the alleged attack, she said happen 36 years ago. 0ur washington correspondent, chris buckler, watched as the highly personal testimony became entangled in political rivalries. at times, this committee hearing felt more like a court, with senators
came back on the bbc before moving to itv. it is a fact that he was, of course, such a presence on so many different forms of broadcasting for many years. everything from morning talk shows to the infamous ghost watch, which terrified the entire nation. i think his legacy is that he was able to have informative, intelligent conversation, with people who were anyone from a notable news figure to globalstar. and really managed to get them to open up and reveal a bit more of themselves. he was really a class act at coming up with the right questions, framing it in the right way, and, ithink, allowing the person who was being interviewed, to open up in a form they wouldn t do to any other interviewer. i think the amount of people who i have been reading and seeing talking about, in the last few hours, who have said they had got into journalism and broadcasting because they were inspired by watching something on his show. that is the true legacy of a person, notjust the show they
his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. he s not aggresive! rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you re born into a mining family, you followed your dad s footsteps down to the pit. his escape was journalism, which took him to granada tv. ladies and gentlemen, miss shirley maclaine. and then, in 1971, the parkinson show. i hope i can get away with this, it s a beauty. it was a programme that could transfor
never. jimmy cagney. orson welles. jimmy stewart. these were distant, mysterious screen gods until parkinson brought them into your living room. the fact is that you re a crowd puller and frazier s not, is he? why is that? number one, he s ugly. his interviews with muhammad ali were unmissable. he has no rhythm, no footwork, no class. he cannot talk. and who told him he could sing? but of all those 2000 or so guests, one always haunted him. i interviewed everybody from henry kissinger to billy connolly to james cagney to dame edith evans, to all those people. and i m only remembered for one thing, i was attacked by a sodding emu. it s not a question. rod hull and emu rather punctured the suave tv persona. i knew we should never have booked it. of course, there wasn t much hollywood glamour in the childhood of this son of a yorkshire miner. my generation was the first that actually challenged the assumption that if you are born into a mining family, you followed your dad s foo