illuminating conversations with offers. two years of powerful books. two years of reading resistance, there are two major takeaways, the direct attempts to remove books from classrooms and libraries are not slowing down. second, a book could quite literally save a life. i could say more, but today i will let the literature speak for itself. there are two things that encapsulate that truth, quite like the cult classic, the perks of being a wall flower. the perks of being a wall tower follows 15 year old charlie as he navigates high school after a friend s devastating suicide and reckons with the life altering intergenerational trauma. with the help of sam, a magnetic high school senior with an undeserving reputation, and patrick, who is harboring a secret relationship with the quarterback of the football team, charlie finds his footing and finds himself. i began by asking about his frequent use of 90s references throughout the book, including the song asleep by the smiths. i
Snowdonia. Figures today show the number of people being rescued in the mountains is up on last year. Later in the programme we will find out why. Ten years ago today, the first iphone went on sale sparking a smartphone revolution. But how have they changed the way we live . Ill be finding out. Weve come to sheffield to hear about a multi Million Pound plan by the Lawn Tennis Association to revamp grassroots tennis and were also launching our Breakfast Summer Challenge with world number one andy murray the first to take it on. And sarah has the weather. Good morning. Weve got a lot of cloud across the skies today bringing heavy rain for northern and western parts. I will have a full forecast in 15 minutes. Good morning, first our main story. A retired court of appealjudge, sir Martin Moore Bick, is today expected to be appointed to lead the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster. The news comes as police say at least 80 people are believed to have died in the fire, but they do
Yet, when you see those moments, when you see the balcony scene, when you see the poetry between romeo and juliet, it s really hard not to get wrapped up with the passion that they express for each other. with the sincerity of the happiness that they find in each other. so, you have this tension mounting, asking what does it mean to love moderately. that s tied up with the speed in which they fall in love. i m so grateful to the two of you for bringing us back to life for us. jeffrey wilson, shakespeare s colored harvard university. and dr. sophie duncan, research fellow indian for mcgill in college at the university of oxford and author of the new book, searching for juliette. the lives and deaths of shakespeare s first tragic heroine. romeo and juliet isn t the only play that s faced the ire of book banners this week on the velshi banned book club podcast, we ve given even more shakespeare, featuring the tempest. the first of shakespeare s comedies and one of my favorite place. the
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