richard ii. richard ii is -- >> yes, richard ii.> i actually was on stage just a year ago. >> seth: okay, great. >> so it's recently. but i -- i would say one of my biggest breaks in my career was being offered the role of cassio in othello with this -- by the director sir nicholas hytner who i think is one of the best shakespeare directors we have. and so i'm like really excited that he's invited me to play richard ii. >> seth: oh, so you've worked with him before, and you get to do -- >> i have. >> seth: that's great. >> and it's ten years since we worked together. so we invite you all to come along. >> seth: it must make such a difference when you feel safe with a director, with an undertaking like that of doing shakespeare. >> i think -- yeah. i mean, completely. i love -- sort of the rehearsal process of theater so is unique. and you do just have to -- you do as much work as you can, and then you turn up, and it's over to the director. couldn't be in better hands than nick, yeah. >> seth: very exciting. i will say, you know, "b

based on the works of richard's adversary john, thomas smore wrote a history of richard ii, which shakespeare as the factual basis for his play. thanks to this great tragedy, richard, whose coat of arms bore the motto "loyalty makes me firm," became the embodiment of betrayal and villainy. 145 years ago, on august 22, 1879, the outstanding russian actor, people's artist of the rsfsr nikolai nikolaevich rybnikov was born. he played his best roles on the stage of the maly theater, as well as in the films the ice house, the last night, and goglevsky's adaptation of the inspector general. 85 years ago, on august 22, 1939 , the remarkable writer and storyteller sergei kozlov was born. he is known as the author of the fairy tale hedgehog in the fog, based on which yuri narshtein filmed his most famous cartoon. he also wrote all the stories about the lion cub and the turtle, which sang a song he had composed. i lie in the sun, was the author of scripts for the cartoons tryam zdorovite, zimnyaya skazka, autumnnye skory. kozlov was unlike anyone else, a unique, one-of-a-kind writer, an intelligent, pr

of a hotel and bliss is a reward, but i'm a different matter, here is evil my joy, for example, richard iill, not at all interesting, more than anyone else in the world i love vydebil, where there are a lot of songs, and podivil, vatybil, vatybil, music of sveska and dancing, let them be simple-minded naive. i suggested to him he says you know i say well obviously who few can sing and dance dance like me then few could i say well sing i'll somehow torture him he says well okay do some it was a complete surprise for him, now we'll remember this number, for someone the role of the hotel and bliss, a reward, but i'm another matter, my joy is vydyvil, for me, for example, richard ii, well not at all interesting, i love adele more than anyone in the world, where there are many songs, that you can go anywhere, and there was also it's funny, at the end there was something where you had to lift your legs with the girls, and i asked, well, like, well, i rehearsed with them, they told me that they would lift them higher, but i thought, well, since they would lift them higher, and i did, maxim comes

richard nixon. after world war ii the young couple settled down and began a family.cia was born in 1946 and julie in 1948. when dick ran for congress from california 12th district that was it equal partner and partner in the campaign. who'll be formidable nixon team was forged. on her many travels she excelled as an ambassador humvee behalf of the american people she traveled to 81 countries. in every state in the union sharing her general work in compassionate strength. she broke new ground a second lady. wherever she went she insisted her schedule included meetings with real people in real places. schools, orphanages, hospitals, village markets such panama she visited a leper colony pick. >> mrs. nixon visited where she toured under the personal guidance of its director. >> she continued the custom as first lady. in 1970 she brought relief supplies to the devastated country of peru. it's t a signal honor for me too receive visit decoration from the government of peru. i accept it for the people of the united states are glad to lend a helping hand to their makers. >

the first were the world war ii letters between pat nixon and richard nixon which will blow your mind. so in love, so smitten and they were amusing things in there too between the differences between the president and mrs. nixon. the president much more emotional and much more a smitten schoolboy than pat nixon who bye the way made him drive her with other men for while her while which he gladly did just to have the chance to be around her. it kind of blew away a lot of media perceptions you may have heard about the marriage and in my book i found they had a very loving marriage and were just smitten with each other. that was mind-blowing to read these letters. i did get to see some letters people had not gotten to view before that really made just the whole interpretation of their relationship, it helps me understand that. so that was one piece and the other piece that struck me equally and is equally as interesting to me perhaps even a little more so had to do with secretary franklin when she was the assistant to the president. i got into a course the white house central files were

ii reporter who got the worst job in the world. nobody cared about it. cronkite got politicians on tv including john f. kennedy, richard nixon, and every four years, it played a bigger role. by 1960, it would be like the birth of email, or the iphone. that is when john f. kennedy became our tv president. he did it with the debates against nixon. he did it by inventing the modern press conference. it started in 1964 in atlantic city. the take away of lyndon johnson getting the nomination in 1964 for the democrats was a moving tribute film, meticulously made, 22 minutes long, honoring john f. kennedy. and i think when we start each convention -- we don't have video of roosevelt's speeches, so we cannot compare. but in election lore, really since the 1960's, there are people that have mastered the convention speech. number one is bill clinton in 1992. that is what put clinton up so high. he had bounce out of the convention due to the power of his speech. and of course barack obama was a speaker in 2004, for john kerry. it is a way to get noticed, the way aoc got noticed here in chicago in 2024. she gets maligned by the ri

of thousands of southeast asia, and that is one of the great sins of richard nixon, that he had been a young lieutenant in world war ii seen churchill, roosevelt, eisenhower bomb the german cities, and he had become convinced that these great men believe that if civilians had to be sacrificed, then they had to be sacrificed, and i don't think he's saw the proper distinction between bombing a nazi regime and laying waste to villages, a backward people in southeast asia. host: talk about his life growing up in los angeles and how begun to politics to begin with. guest: he had a series of ups and downs, he grew up -- like i said, his father was dirt poor. they bought an abandoned church and turned it into a grocery store, and that is where richard and his brothers worked. so he was always one of the brightest kids at whittier high school but also one of the poorer kids. that was a source of irritation because no matter how much you would go out for the football team, there would be a feeling of snobbishness among some of the kids. and that feeling of snobbishness, the resentment towards the elites, he carried through his

former president richard nixon froze prices and wages for the first time since world war ii.hat move a political success but economic disaster leading to recession and stagflation which is marketed by simultaneous inflation and high unemployment. pbs documented the scene in the late 70s as the carbohydrater administration could not recover from price controls on gasoline. >> by the time the pumps opened. many had been waiting two and three hours for gas. >> i have been here since 4:30 this morning. it's ridiculous waiting online here. i couldn't get gas tuesday. >> republicans say going down the road of price controls leads down the wrong path. >> what you are see if she has her way are lower supplies of goods and services to people who need them most. this stuff has never worked in any country and at any time in the history of the world. let alone the history of the united states. >> and countries like venezuela instituted food price control 201 set by nicolas maduro. the country ill prepared to deal with the demand still seeing food shortages, other countries like argentina

i think it was somebody, someone's wife who pointed out that jfk and richard nixon, their rise was the junior officers of world war iiresident kennedy said, were tempered by war and then guided us through the cold war for good and for ill. nixon, in many ways, represents the best of us and the worst of us. vivid political figures often do. >> coming up, former trump attorney janet ellis cuts a plea deal in the arizona fake electors case. more on that, next. next. smile! you found it. the feeling of finding psoriasis can't filter out the real you. so go ahead, live unfiltered with the one and only sotyktu, a once-daily pill for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, and the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding you're so ready for your close-up. or finding you don't have to hide your skin just your background. once-daily sotyktu was proven better, getting more people clearer skin than the leading pill. don't take if you're allergic to sotyktu; serious reactions can occur. sotyktu can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections, cancers including lymphoma, mus

i think it was someone's wife who pointed out that jfk and richard nixon, their rise was the young officer, the junior officers of world war ii had finally come into command. so it's this generational, seismic moment where you have this cohort of people who were, as president kennedy said, tempered by war, and then guided us through the cold war for good and for ill. nixon, in many ways, represents the best of us and the worst of us. vivid political figures often do. >> yeah. you said the best of us, the worst of us. it reminds me of the title of tom wicker's book, a guy who studied nixon as closely as anybody. >> yeah. >> "one of us." >> yeah. >> "one of us." again, for better and for worse. you talk about the age of nixon. if i'm not mistaken, more americans voted for richard nixon, i could be mistaken, but this was the case at least 30 years ago. i don't think anybody is eclipsing, but nixon got more national votes than any person in american history. he ran on the national ticket in '52, '56, '60, '72. then along with lbj and fdr. three of the greatest landslides in u.s. history. what was it about richard nixon that drew

of thousands of southeast asia, and that is one of the great sins of richard nixon, that he had been a young lieutenant in world war iieen churchill, roosevelt, eisenhower bomb the german cities, and he had become convinced that these great men believe that if civilians had to be sacrificed, then they had to be sacrificed, and i don't think he's saw the proper distinction between bombing a nazi regime and laying waste to villages, a backward people in southeast asia. host: talk about his life growing up in los angeles and how begun to politics to begin with. guest: he had a series of ups and downs, he grew up -- like i said, his father was dirt poor. they bought an abandoned church and turned it into a grocery store, and that is where richard and his brothers worked. so he was always one of the brightest kids at whittier high school but also one of the poorer kids. that was a source of irritation because no matter how much you would go out for the football team, there would be a feeling of snobbishness among some of the kids. and that feeling of snobbishness, the resentment towards the elites, he carried through his e

richard gentle from romford will be representing england. normal football rules, it's not walking football, this is properfootball where you're running about on an iigresses. but in the sunshine it will be feeling warm and humid today as well as temperatures widely reach the low to mid 20s. maybe up to 26 or 27 celsius in one or two spots. the cloud will continue to increase, though, as we end the day, and we will start to see the arrival of some showers. some of the showers may be heavy in places, there may be the odd rumble of thunder, and it is a mild, humid night as temperatures hold up at 16 to 18 celsius. these showers will continue on and off to start tuesday but it is a gradually improving day as high pressure builds for us here in the south—east. for us it does mean we are expecting some drier weather for a time on wednesday and to start thursday but it will gradually become more unsettled thursday night into friday and temperatures around average for the time of year. that's it from me, i'll be back around quarter past nine. there's plenty more on our website and salma el—wardany is on bbc radio london. back now to sally and ben. hello, t