he's an actor, director, writer and film—maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry vo thor. we spoke in the very atmospheric radio drama studio of bbc broadcasting house. ken, welcome to this cultural life. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. what is your earliest cultural memory, do you think? something that had a big impact? i think, early doors, i can remember winston churchill's funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television and just being told about the great man. the world cup final of 1966, where the nation stopped, and in our own household, my brother had a sort of flirtation with meningitis which was very dramatic, as you know, those can be fora minute, and then he was fine, thank goodness. but i watched the world cup final in a neighbour's house and ijust remember in both those cases, in belfast, as i was, i was very aware of a national event, or at least it seemed to galvanise everybody and everything, and i was looking at images that said, the world is watching. wow. and you mentioned belfast there. some people, i think, are

he's an actor, director, writer and film—maker whose credits range from hamlet to tenet, from henry val life. a show about cultural inspiration, cultural influences. what is your earliest cultural memory, do you think? something that had a big impact? i think, early doors, i can remember winston churchill's funeral, i think it was 1965, seeing it on the television

it's not there, you know, and you kind of look at henry v, ohio so and the the the occurrences with detective as a what a shared moment. and i was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about that why do you see it as a watershed moment and? tell us a little bit the case. sure. so you're right. i don't see the words police in the fourth amendment either. and the protection against unruly searches and seizures really does focused on the subjects of those searches, victims of potentially that overreach. but the supreme court has repeatedly interpreted the fourth amendment not terms of what we, the people, are entitled to in terms of of sanctity of our homes and our possessions and our our bodies. but in terms of what the police are authorized do, in light their need to and control crime and that analysis or weighing has repeatedly by the supreme court been been done with a real thumb on the scale for the police to i think the detriment of of us as a society as a whole. and i do talk about terry, a team in that shift terry is as a case involving police officer who saw a couple of guys who l

thank you another question from the audience a number of members of the early olmsted firm like henry v hubbard. we're also involved with designing affordable housing as part of the focus of public welfare. were they unusual in developing that alliance between public welfare and landscape design? i can start with that please dan. oh the history of affordable public housing and landscape artichoke goes goes way back in terms of planned communities and ideas english garden city movement. so these ideas of looking at housing and housing relationship to landscape and providing people with limited means access again, it goes back to green space having the garden having a playground and we see these ideas moving up through the depression with places like greenbelt, maryland in terms of planned communities. aberdeen gardens, which is the plan community for african-american community in virginia during a time of jim crow and we can see this going up through the newtown movements and public housing real innovations at times. usually it's not this great. you're just not the special but when there

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