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now on bbc news this cultural life: margaret atwood. margaret atwood. one of the world s best selling critically acclaimed authors, she s published more than 60 books, and has won the booker prize twice. the winner of the first booker prize of the 21st century, margaret atwood. cheering and applause her stories often centre on oppression and brutality. most famously, her 1985 novel, the handmaid s tale, a dystopian vision of america, in which women are enslaved. now an emmy award winning television series. there s an eye in your house. in this episode of this cultural life, the radio a programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds # it makes them feeljust like new # plink plink, plink plink. .. i want to make sure the mics are recording us. margaret atwood, welcome to this cultu ....
programme, she reveals her formative influences and experiences. and how even in high school, her creativity was clear. i put on a home economics opera. it was about fabrics. can you remember how it goes? # fabrics need a swim in the suds. # it makes them feeljust like new. # plink plink, plink plink. 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. j ....
coming their way. there were experiences in the door. they blocked the door. it sounds like a commando operation. straight out of the military. it still feels like i blame myself for everything. the story about young couples and their children, their tangled relationships is so disturbing you might question what kind of creatures we humans are. you ve been forewarned. we have a lot of strange cases in the course of day one. but this one has a chilliness to it that is just unmatched. it s something you don t usually hear about. the trip into the darkness actually begins on a sunny fall day. october 27th, 2018. and the sleepy town of sodus, and way upstate new york. tiffany fare was headed out to the grocery when her two years old got fussy about what they were eating. we went to the kitchen to grab gummy bears. some neighbor talking with a gentleman outside. didn t think any of it thing of it. her neighbor josh, leaving against his truck see ....
it s friday it s friday! that s all? you know what that means? let s welcome tonight s gasburg like his books people would love to see him leather bound. literary critic walter kerr. and win life gives you lemons, please squeeze it into his eyes. cohost of fox & friends , todd pyro. she defies conventions and wears extensions. best-selling author kat timpf. he has nightmares about chandeliers. new york times best-selling author comedian and former nwa wrestler titus. i need a break. before we get to some new stories let s do this. greg s leftovers. its leftovers where i read the jokes we didn t use this week. it s my first time reading them. if they suck, we will tied joe mackie s to the back of a truck and drive away. too bad he enjoys it. the first one. a diverse for in new hampshire is catering to adults where they role-play as babies in diapers. to show customers how it s done they brought in a professional. speaking of joe, he is finally headed to ohio and pla ....
at harvard a black plicatae cream of the crop had a 56% chance while whites and asians with the same qualifications had a 15%. a black applicant had a higher chance to get in than a top asian or white student t supreme court ruled 6-3 that s unconstitutional racial discrimination probed by the equal protection clause t14th amendment. chief justice john roberts who authored the majority says this, quote. eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. roberts is saying, basically, you can t unfairly discriminate against whites in order to help blacks. all discrimination s wrong. harvard university made race a factor in every single step of of the application process, from the second they accepted the application to the second they accepted or rejected it, race was used in their decisions. the court says harvar ....