moreover, when she would go to concerts at carnegie hall, she would imagine that armed men concerts at carnegie hall, she would imagine that armed men with machine guns would break in and start killing people. enter generational transmission of trauma. questions about anything? okay. let's go to the main event. art spiegelman, how many have heard of him before this class? spiegelman was born on february 15th, 1948, in stockholm, sweden. he's an american cartoonist based in new york city. best known for his graphic novel "maus." two volumes, the second and final of which appeared in 1991. now spiegelman did extensive research before embarking and while embarking during this project. he read survivor accounts. he watched film footage. but he said the most important influence on him was art drawn by prisoners in the various concentration and death camps. he poured over this art because obviously that is his medium of expression. one initial comment, how do we read graphic novels? what's the difference between a graphic novel and a regular novel? anybody know? what's the difference? yep. g

well, that's the thing, your dad was from julliard, he played carnegie hall.classical piano. he played carnegie hall, yeah. harvey: and your grandfather was a cellist? he was a cellist. and there was a grand piano upstairs in the living room, and i was put under the piano to fall asleep every night. so i heard bach, brahms, beethoven, debussy. you got relatives who are classical musicians. why didn't you follow suit? why did you make a left? steven: well, my father tried to give me piano lessons. and i sat at the piano and i started yawning. and when you're italian, from family, it's like-- "whack." you got whacked. - what were you into? - the drums. my friend down the street had a set of drums. slingerland drums. i couldn't believe there were such things built that you banged with sticks and made noise. so, my father bought me a set of drums and i wound up playing drums in his band in the summer time. so, it just turned into that music. and i got the blessings of my mom and dad to do rock and roll. they knew i could sing. i went to choir when i was a little b

and warm introduction i feel like if you are a minute musician and you are invited to play at carnegie hall if you are invited to talk here it is wonderful. especially for me because this part one - - this book was released on march 1st it is women's history month but also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the signing of the amendment giving the women the right to vote i want to talk about a guide early in the 20th century so they never got a chance to vote for what they did during the course of the american civil war pave the way for suffrage that came later. what i'm going to do today is give you a snapshot of who these five women were in them brief passages for one - - from the book to flesh out the things that occurred. and then i will sum it up to talk about what i think are the ten most critical characteristics these women possess that allowed them to do the things that they did during the war. it was tough enough but the fact they were women gave them an additional hurdle that they all overcame not once did the fact they were women deter them from what they did in fact it just

it was at carnegie hall. days before we were all going to be stopped down. they love the idea these two had developed a friendship and what it meant to be across party lines. they responded so positively to the two of them and how they talked about the things they believed in and what they had done as president. one president can learn from the other. that is the point of being president. it is such a wonderful job and only you know what it is like. you just keep wishing all of them could keep coming back to give advice at any one period of time. john, good evening. thank you for waiting. are you with us? we will move on to jerry in waterford wisconsin. good evening. caller: thank you very much. i grew up during world war two. i remember the early days of that. the thing that really impressed me as compared to the present-day situation is that the media played a big part in that. people, ande the they kept everybody on track. you do not see that today. you did not see that even at 911. there were rumors and things on tv about 9/11, the trade center blowing u

planned celebrations, including concerts at the london south bank centre and carnegie hall in new yorkus outbreak. but to mark the occasion, the shankar family have shared some of their private archive with the bbc. ravi shankar‘s daughter, anoushka shankar, also a renowned musician, spoke to bbc south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan. sitar music. from the moment i started my first stroke on the instrument, i knew that we were connected. most people across cultures and generations seem to know the name shankar. there were definitely were decades where he was the household name that was putting india on the map, culturally, artistically. singing. he's my father, so i think people might be inclined to take this with a pinch of salt, but i really do think that he was one of the greatest musicians that ever lived. pa—pa pa—pa. like this. you know, one of those sort of iconic friendships, relationships he had, be it with, you know, george harrison, philip glass, john coltrane, he — people were drawn to this new music that they'd never heard before and he was the right kind of person

i feel like it is if you are a musician and you get invited to play at carnegie hall if you are invited to talk about your book it is really wonderful. it's especially wonderful for me because this book was released march 1 which most of you know march is women's history month and also that coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the signing of the 19th amendment. unfortunately the five women i'm going to talk about died earlier in the 20th century, so they never got the chance to vote, but certainly the things they did during the course of the american civil war paved the way for suffrage that came later after the 20th century. what i'm going to do today is give you sort of a snapshot of who these five women were and then i'm going to read a brief passages from my book that kind of flush out a little bit of some of the important things that occurred and then i'm going to sort of sum it up at the end by talking about what i think are the ten most critical care of it sticks these women possess that allowed them to do the things they did during the war. the war was tough enough as it

feel like at politics and prose it is like if you are a musician and you're invited to play at carnegie hall. it is especially wonderful for me because this book was released on march 1st which most of you, if not all of you know that march is women's history month and coincides with the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to vote. the five women i talked about died in the twentieth century so they never got a chance to vote but certainly the things they did during the course of the american civil war pave the way for suffrage that came after the twentieth century. what i am going to do today is give you a snapshot of who these five women were and read brief passages from my book the kind of flesh out the important things that occurred and then i am going to sum it up by talking about what i think are the ten most critical characteristics these women possessed that allow them to do the things they did during the war. the war was tough enough but the fact that they were women give them an additional hurdle all of them overcame. not o

it was at carnegie hall. days before we were all going to be stopped down. they love the idea these two had developed a friendship and what it meant to be across party lines. they responded so positively to the two of them and how they talked about the things they believed in and what they had done as president. one president can learn from the other. that is the point of being president. it is such a wonderful job and only you know what it is like. you just keep wishing all of them could keep coming back to give advice at any one period of time. john, good evening. thank you for waiting. are you with us? we will move on to jerry in waterford wisconsin. good evening. caller: thank you very much. i grew up during world war two. i remember the early days of that. the thing that really impressed me as compared to the present-day situation is that the media played a big part in that. people, ande the they kept everybody on track. you do not see that today. you did not see that even at 911. there were rumors and things on tv about 9/11, the trade center blowing u

he spoke to anthony mason for "cbs this morning saturday" in 2015, just before being honored at carnegie halll about that? >> it's like a pre-obituary. >> reporter: withers' family says he died monday at age 81 from heart complications. growing up in slabfork, west virginia, withers was a small boy who overcame a stutter. he joined the navy and worked as an aircraft mechanic. and for a magical decade and a half, his voice gave us a gift to enjoy long after he's gone. ♪ you just call on me brother when you need a hand ♪ >> whatever i am, i'm satisfied that i was at least valid. i wanted to write some songs that were reasonably profound, and i think i did that. ♪ we all need somebody to lean on ♪ >> he certainly did. and leave it to anthony mason to get him to talk. i mean, can you believe it -- "lean on me" zinspired a movie about a new jersey principal who, you know, brought back a school. it so embodied so much of what we're about. >> and today right now, "lean on me," the perfect song for all of us to remember him with certainly. i would say. >> 100%, nice call, dana. nice piece, michelle.

if you are going to check out an album, maybe go for live at carnegie hall.d after 1985 so you because he never played after 1985 so you can because he never played after 1985 so you can at least listen to him on that record. we will go out and get it! many thanks, colin paterson remembering bill withers there. schools and colleges in england have been told to award students grades based on teachers' assessment of their work, after this year's gcse and a—level exams were cancelled. let's get more on this from our education correspondent, elaine dunkley, who's in our salford studio. just remind us... what has been decided in england? a few weeks ago the situation would have been unthinkable to students in the uk. under normal times, normal circumstances in the uk they would be busy revising, cramming and submitting coursework and building up submitting coursework and building up to that big moment where they walk into the exam and the invigilator says turn over your papers, you can begin. that has all changed. now teachers will be predicting what grade they wo