Cultural life, the radio four podcast, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how her passion for playing was there from the start. I knew very young there was no question i wanted to play the violin. There was no question that that was what i must do and had to do and wanted to do. Have you played here much, nicky . They chuckle nicola benedetti, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you so much for having me. Its an absolute pleasure. You were born and brought up in north ayrshire. What are your earliest musical memories at home . What memories do you have of music being played at home . The bee gees and abba. Later on, good dose of shania twain. That was all my dads taste. My mum definitely had a kenny g record. Um. She laughs saxophone . Theyll kill me for saying all of this quite like this, but its the truth both of your parents were born in italy, werent they . Yes. Was it an italian household culturally growing up . Its a good question. I would say both parents
Beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush Generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. Once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a Better Future for themselves and their families. When they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr
Bbc verify has geolocated the building as the regional theatre. Another video from cctv shows people running for cover as a missile hits a pedestrianised area. This is an image from another video which was taken from cctv footage. It shows people running for cover as a missile hits a pedestrianised area and the fire. Our correspondent James Waterhouse sends us this update. This is a typical force of the blast. You can see the debris thrown against this building, a branch broken and shattered glass everywhere, notjust here but across the square and neighbouring streets. Roof tiles blown off and here you can see the building which has borne the brunt of this strike, the regional theatre and you can see the roof is seriously damaged in the windows have. The Drone Exhibition was held here today. There is a suggestion of possible motive but there is an overarching reason, too, which is the continued invasion of ukraine. That is why Russian Missiles continue to land in cities across the coun
thailand s prime minister attends the funerals of the children killed at a daycare centre last week. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. warnings of further attacks continue across ukraine this morning, a day after a wave of strikes by russia. yesterday, missiles hit cities across the country killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 100 more. air raid sirens have sounded across kyiv and other cities into this morning. the southern city of zaporizhzhia was shelled again overnight, with authorities saying one person was killed and public buildings including a school were damaged. work is under way across ukraine to restore electricity supplies damaged during monday s attacks. in his nightly address, volodymyr zelensky warned people to follow safety rules , saying the danger is still here, but we are fighting. later today the leaders of the g7 nations will meet virtually, and are expected to hear from the ukrainian president. mea
president with the violence. tonight with the context, mick mulvaney, president trump s former chief of staff, and the former conservative cabinet ministerjustine greening. hello, welcome to the programme. on a tour of the television studios this morning, the business secretary jacob rees mogg tried to blame the bank of england, rather than the uk s economic policies, for the recent market turmoil. what has caused the effect in pension funds, because of some quite high risk but low probability investment strategies, is not necessarily the mini budget. it could just as easily be the fact that the day before, the bank of england did not raise interest rates as much as the federal reserve did, and i thinkjumping to conclusions about causality is not meeting the bbc s requirement for impartiality. it is a commentary rather than a factual question. it s notjust the bbc pointing to the cause and effect of kwasi kwarteng s budget. while there is undoubtedly a global element to this