i have been hearing the story from new zealand—born emmy—nominated director jessica hobbs.h around 400 people in the centre of london. and we still had six or seven days left of filming to go and we realised we were never going to meet that target with everything going on. so we closed down filming with the ambitious idea of being able to go back and pick up those sequences and scenes we hadn't been able to shoot. but it became abundantly clear to us early on that wasn't going to be an option and we needed to find a way to work with the material we had. so that is how we approached our whole lockdown period. was, how can we create something wonderful out of what we have, rather than mourn the things we weren't able to get. did this mean there had to be an awful lot of brainstorming on zoom? uh, yeah. laughter. peter morgan and i had an unseemly amount of contact on a day—to—day basis and on zoom and on facetime. it sounds like you haven't had much of a break? i am extremely — i was extremely jealous of all of those people in lockdown saying i have been doing the vegetable g

jessica hobbs on the crown and being creative in the age of covid—19. i am philippa thomas.ion of coronavirus: your stories. the weather is continuing to cause disruption over the weekend, particularly with a slow—moving nature of the rainfall, a couple of areas have got ample weather warnings for the heavy rain, particularly wales, west midlands, down to was part of south—west england flooding likely, eastern scotla nd england flooding likely, eastern scotland heavy rain at the weather warning. could be 120 millimetres of the highest ground, causing significant flooding through the afternoon and evening. tonight we still have the rain weather is, driving on a brisk easterly wind across scotland, pushing into northern ireland, wet and windy weather across wales had much of southern england. some clearer skies for northern england, southern scotland, fog patches. sunday brings another wet and windy day for many, rainfall starting to ease, a spiral across northern scotland, northern ireland and southern wales and southern england as well. brighter weather in between but still

jessica hobbs on the crown and being creative in the age of covid—19.of covid—19. i am philippa thomas. thank you forjoining us on this addition of performance, the last in our edition of coronavirus: your stories. hello. thursday offers up the promise of a dryer day for the majority of the uk in comparison to wednesday. there should be some decent sunshine and the winds will be a little light as well. how are we managing that when our weather is dominated essentially by this massive area of low pressure for the coming days? one with actually seven centres — but we are getting quite close to a little hill in the isobars. that is a brief ridge of high pressure that we will sit in through thursday. it's not plain sailing though, there will still be some more persistent rain across northern and eastern scotland through the day and coming into the south—west through the afternoon, some sharper showers that will push into wales, some for northern ireland, perhaps some more generally across southern britain later on in the day. but in contrast to wednesday, l