Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
Each week here on through the decades we see the exceptional range of our human nature. And this week, weve seen the bombing of an Anarchist Organization in the middle of an american city, the launch of a rocket that would fuel the Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century, the inauguration of an extraordinary man that signaled peace to all corners of the globe and the failure of an auto maker that set a political precedent decades later. And we begin with an event that happened this week in 1981 when the leader of the catholic became the target of anthe ii assassin. Became the target of anthe ii assassin. Pope john paul the iis election to the papacy in 1978 was unique for a number of reasons he succeeded one of the shortest papal reigns in history, he was the first nonitalian pope in over 400 years, he was relatively young but what really made john paul the ii stand out was his presence. This one could easily be dubbed the tireless or vigorous pope with crowds, especially children. He
Hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First. Queen elizabeth has made a televised address marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in europe at the end of a day of muted commemorations across the continent. The british monarch said the message of ve day was never give up, never despair. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. This is london. His majesty king george vi. It was a not a nation gave thanks as it emerged from a terrible struggle and the king recalled the many thousands who would been lost. We have come to the end of our tribulation. And they are not with us at the moment of our rejoicing. 75 years later, the queen recalled her fathers and rejoicing. 75 years later, the queen recalled herfathers and britains great from tyranny. At the start, the outlook seemed bleak. The end distant. The outcome uncertain. But we kept faith that the