And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Please welcome Andrew Garfield back to the gram author of true story breathe who survived on a breathing machine for nearly four decades and became disability rights pioneer here now a clip from the film breathe. Do you have any idea of the risk . Yes, i do. The risk he is might die. Can go on live hearing or possibly die. Yeah. What are we waiting for . How demanding it must have been for you to play this character and you said tavis i was honored, lucky to play this chashl character, tell me why. I never saw it as an acting challenge but a living challenge same way as robin must have because he was adjectin athlete captain in the army, drove cars and planes a was a leader. He understood the world physically. Its how he connected to people, to the world. At the age of 28 he was struck with poliohen he was paralyzed from neck down and his challenge from then on is how do i live now. How do i go on . How do i make sense of
And again i remember people saying, what on earth is all this about . The World Wide Web online, who will use that . And you realise now what teams have done, starting with you and everybody, making this absolutely part of our lives. You cannot live without bbc news in the way we are now talking about it, or indeed bbc news online. It has added frankly, to peoples use of the bbc. How much of a battle was it to convince colleagues that it was a worthwhile investment . It was a very big battle. To be honest, it was a battle both externally and internally. People were saying that all done, you are diverting resources, money or activity from what was then the nine oclock news. Into this new thing which no one will watch. It was a huge battle. But my belief then is my belief now, that had we not done that, we would not be giving our audiences the service that they will want and the way they wanted it. I was saying back then, with slightly different coloured hair and glasses, that that messa
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Please welcome Andrew Garfield back to the gram author of true story breathe who survived on a breathing machine for nearly four decades and became disability rights pioneer here now a clip from the film breathe. Do you have any idea of the risk . Yes, i do. The risk he is might die. Can go on live hearing or possibly die. Yeah. What are we waiting for . How demanding it must have been for you to play this character and you said tavis i was honored, lucky to play this chashl character, tell me why. I never saw it as an acting challenge but a living challenge same way as robin must have because he was adjectin athlete captain in the army, drove cars and planes a was a leader. He understood the world physically. Its how he connected to people, to the world. At the age of 28 he was struck with poliohen he was paralyzed from neck down and his challenge from then on is how do i live now. How do i go on . How do i make sense of
And its impossible not to be inspired by shakespeare. Anyone writing in english is inspired by shakespeare. And in this case, a particular pretext in king lear, i found that quite soon i left the play behind, and became involved in the novel, and it was like all my novels, i wanted to write the next sentence and the next scene. And youve got a central character, dunbar himself, who is a media mogul, an immensely powerful man, who sees everything slipping away. I mean, his power, but also his mind, and we are with him as he becomes entrapped, really, in a world in which he can no longer understand, in which he tries to exercise power. Its a very contemporary story, isnt it . Yes, i wanted to find the modern analogue for a king, and it wasnt a king, obviously, or an elected politician, but someone who is part of the permafrost of power, and dunbar is such a person. But what the novel can do, that is very difficult for a play to do, except through monologues, is to show the interior life
Separatist havoc in the area. The prince of wales has led the country and honouring its Service Personnel on remembrance sunday, taking the queens place to lay a wreath at the cenotaph in london. For the first time, the queen watched the surface in whitehall from a balcony. Whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You can see whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You can see lots of people looking at the wreaths that we re people looking at the wreaths that were laid during the ceremony. At its height, the crowds were ten deep. Lots of people came to take pa rt deep. Lots of people came to take part in the act of remembrance. Of course, lots of veterans are here as well, Something Like 8800 veterans took part in the march passed down here, all with their own thoughts. I have a member of the serving personnel, kevin stacey from the regimental division. It is a proud achievement for my family. I am delighted to be he