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Some pieces to bang your head on. Yeah. We have a GrAnd Piano if youd like to entertain us. A GrAnd Piano . Yes. I can open it, but i couldnt play it. John laughs Michael Palin, welcome to This cultural life. Thank you. You were born in sheffield in 1943. What are your earliest memories of childhood, Home Life . Um, i think it was shopping in the Ration Book era. Um, And i can remember going with my mother to get. I think we were given free Orange Juice at that time. Really, This must have been. I must have been three or four. And watching it being filled up And hAnded over. Your father was an engineer in the sheffield steel industry. Yeah. What Sort Of man was he . What was he like . He was. He was quite a difficult man in a way. He was a little Bit Sort of. Could be quite cantankerous. And i think a lot of This went down to the fact he had a stammer all his life. He was ....
They thought it was gonna make 700 million, but it actually made 1. 3 billion. So it had a business impact, it had a community impact, it opened up doors. dramatic music Rocket Thrusting it showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at afrofuturism and blacks in scifi, looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the television screens, finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. When you think of how broad that landscape is, to not include every single individual that is participating in the world, then its a li ....
People. Black people were just so absent in Science Fiction, and its a blind spot. Black panther was a massive moment in our culture. They thought it was going to make 700 million. But it actually made 1. 3 billion. So, it had a business impact. It had a community impact. It opened up doors. It showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at black looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the Television Screens finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. ....
president zelensky has condemned claims by russia s defence minister that kyiv was preparing to use a so called dirty bomb in a false flag operation, and then try to blame it on moscow. the first birthday cards from king charles and the queen consort, camilla have been delivered to people across the uk celebrating their 100th and 105th birthdays. hello and welcome to bbc world news. in less than 2a hours, the process of electing a new leader of the governing conservative party will move up a gear, as the deadline approaches for candidates to declare themselves. whoever wins will be succeeding liz truss after her ill fated six week premiership. earlier on sunday, the former finance minister or chancellor rishi sunak officially announced that he will stand. the current leader of the house of commons penny mordaunt has already thrown her hat into the ring. and there s also a lot of buzz around the former prime minsiter borisjohnson. of buzz around the former is he ....
on the same day seven times in the last decade. to start, the consumer price index. that s the key inflation gauge that held good news wednesday morning for american consumers and the fed. it showed inflation cooling slightly in may after a few particularly hot read outs in the first few months of the year. at 3.3% the yearly price increase was lower than expected and slower than the increase we saw in april. the data actually showed no change month to month between april and may. and the core inflation rate which excludes volatile food and energy prices cooled as well. that s the kind of news federal reserve officials are looking for. but it was not enough to warrant an interest rate cut. here is federal reserve chairjerome powell. we see today s report as progress and is building confidence, but we don t see ourselves as having the confidence that would warrant beginning to loosen policy at this time. the fed held steady, making no change to the current benchmark inte ....