rivalries and betrayal and murder. what were the last hours on earth like for her? it lurks here on this storied family estate, a mystery as tangled and gnarled as the trees that reach for the sky. i think she s dead. i can t sleep most of the time. a crime like a storm. everyone could see it coming. she was missing, the matriarch with a grip on her powerful family fortune. did someone have a powerful motive to do her harm? i saw bruises on bonnie s arms, like someone had grabbed her. she looked at him and said, you tried to kill me. who is behind this? a search in the dark. a secret in the family, and the jailhouse interview to make your jaw drop. you said you wished you were dead, and then later, she became dead. this is a twisted tale deep in the heart of texas. people who are desperate will do desperate things. erate hello, and welcome to dateline. a city in the texas hill country, although tiny in size, it is huge in the pecan growing business, ev
funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. but i watched the world cup final in a neighbour s house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. wow. and you mentioned belfast there. some people, i think, are still surprised when they hear that you grew up in working class belfast. uh-huh. and you ve now written and directed a film called belfast. uh-huh. how autobiographical a film is it? well, it s seen through the eyes of nine year old buddy. it s seen at 50 years distance from me. so inevitably, not everything
so, this is radio drama studio. hello, i m john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. my guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. a huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. he s an actor, director, writer and film maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. we spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. ken, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. what is your earliest cultural memory, do you think? something that had a big impact? i think, early doors, i can remember winston churchill s funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort
so, this is a radio drama studio. hello, i m john wilson. welcome to this cultural life, a radio four podcast in which i ask leading creative figures about the influences and inspirations that have fired their artistic imagination. my guest in this episode is sir kenneth branagh. a huge talent, a star of stage and screen for more than four decades now. he s an actor, director, writer and film maker, whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry v to thor. we spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. ken, welcome to this cultural life. thank you. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. what is your earliest cultural memory, do you think? something that had a big impact? i think, early doors, i can remember winston churchill s funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped. and in our own household, my brother had a s
which the uk and us consider a terror organisation. but more than four months later, and despite israel s overwhelming advantage in technology and firepower, fighting is still taking place across the strip. that includes sporadically in the north, where israel says it has dismantled hamas s command structure. so how feasible is israel s mission and how far has it got? and could the war, which has claimed so many civilian lives, end up mobilising a new wave of fighters? bbc news arabic s dalia haidar reports. the israeli military assault on gaza in response to the october seven in response to the october 7th attacks by hamas has the highest rate of death of any conflict of the 21st century. most of the deaths from both events have been civilians, but israel remains steadfast in its mission. but can hamas really be eliminated, and with worldwide calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, what are israel s chances of victory? tensions have grown over the scope of israel s mi