nina simone, dr simone, it has been a pleasure having you on the programme. i am a doctor, do you know why? you are a doctor of humanities. yes. from malcolm x university in chicago. and a doctor of music. from ambrose college in ambrose massachusetts. 0k, thank you for setting the record straight. it's been a great pleasure. good morning. it looks like it will be on the cool side for the easter weekend. more on that in a moment. we've introduced cooler air at the moment behind this very weak weather front that moved down across the country. this north—westerly airflow. particularly chilly first thing in eastern scotland and eastern england, but with the cloud more broken in the countryside, temperatures briefly not far from freezing. at least we have early sunshine through lincolnshire, east anglia and the south—east. the tendency through the day is to increase the cloud from the west. that's already happening in south—west england, across wales and in the north—west cloud is thick enough for some light rain or drizzle, mainly over the hills. again, fine to

nina simone, doctor simone, it has been a pleasure having you on the programme.g? i am a doctor, do you know why? you are a doctor of humanities. yes. from malcolm x university in chicago. and a doctor of music. from ambrose college in ambrose massachusetts. 0k, thank you for setting the record straight. it's been a great pleasure. hello there, good morning. cooler, cloudy weather is more likely as we head into the easter weekend. there was some sunshine around yesterday. it was quite warm in the sunshine too, that was pontypridd in wales. but further north it was rather grey, threatening skies that we had here in stirling in scotland. and we had this thick cloud across more northern parts of the uk, and that's slowly pushing its way southwards. we've got a westerly breeze, though, and that is dragging in cloud even across england and wales, so temperatures here won't be as low as they were last night. the rain, though, is further north and that will push its way slowly southwards during wednesday. but we'll start with some rain in the central belt. wetter in gla

i was a fan of nina simone, especially in college there were a couple of songs that had romantic ties will sound pathetic, i run the last couple of days to a -- like a remixed version of feeling good by nina simone. >> really? >> yeah. it's good. >> you're a good dude. i knew there was something special about you. >> when you work out, is that how -- do you work out to music? >> yeah. of course, absolutely. i work out to my own voice. no. >> i'm sure there's some folks in l.a. that do. >> i soothe myself. no, i'm all about hip-hop. i love hip-hop. i like, for example, tech 9, probably the most successful underground artist unsigned by a big level. since training has become an anchor, i know you love to work out as well -- >> not quite as successful as you. >> well, i fake it. >> you really let yourself go. >> yeah. >> is there anything you hope people come away from the series with? >> hope would be one. and that change is real. when we look back on the defining moments, that we chronicle in the music that has driven and inspired these moments. i think, you know, music has that specia

. >> when you think about nina simone singing about the death of martin martin as an ellay, we thinkmarvin gaye singing about and describing mothers crying over sons being lost in vietnam. those words resound and reverberate as true today. we think about the mother of orlando castillo or the mother of michael brown grieving the loss of their sons. so music has always not only reflected what we're going through as a nation but it has also marked where we're going as a nation, what we aspire to be as a nation. and so music has been incredibye powerful. when we think about in contemporary times, rise up or kendrick lamar's "all right" or beyonce's "formation." these songs are not just an expression of the hearts. they're an expression of the movement. musical has been incredibly important in the life and as operation of the ncaa. i love it. i love music. i've always been inspired by it. in fact, when we set in the office we sang. even in the police van we sang and we inspired ourselves. >> you've seen this documentary that's going to air later tonight. briefly, give me your review. >> i

. >> nina simone was a jazz musician. she was born in the segregated south.ississippi goddamn is one of the, if not the most racially critique of the american sound book. ♪ alabama's got me so upset ♪ ♪ tennessee got me so upset. ♪ everybody knows about mississippi goddamn ♪ >> dr. king will buffer the lives between the black people and white people. the white people's best friend is dead. ♪ can't you see it, i know you can feel it ♪ ♪ it's all in the air ♪ i can't stand this pressure much longer ♪ ♪ somebody -- >> goddamn in song has a very powerful impact. mississippi goddamn. and she couldn't come up with a better word. got her in trouble. it was banned. ♪ lord have mercy on this land of mine ♪ ♪ we all going to get it in due time ♪ ♪ i don't belong here ♪ i don't belong there ♪ i even stopped believing in prayer ♪ >> i choose to reflect the times and situations in which i find myself. that to me is my beauty. and at this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, i don't think you can help but be in