michael goldfarb, as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers ?least to a brit. well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and '71 and i did stay at the british seaside, which is an experience we all have to have — all foreigners need to have the british seaside experience in a fawlty towers—like hotel. i got it, and it was hugely popular in america in the '70s when it was sold on. michael goldfarb, steve richards, mark urban, thank all of you very much. thank you very much. don't forget, geeta guru—murphy is here next week at the same time with dateline. from all of us now on dateline london, goodbye. good morning. a frosty but sunny start to the week for areas from eastern scotland all the way through to the bristol channel. still cloudy though, first thing, east anglia, south—east. bit of patchy rain, cloudy damp morning in northern ireland. but brightening up here from mid—morning onwards as cloud and patchy rain spreads its way through scotland during the day, and into the afternoon across

michael goldfarb, as an american living in the uk, did you understand fawlty towers?least to a brit. well, i lived fawlty towers because i did my first tour of duty as a university student in 1970 and '71 and i did stay at the british seaside, which is an experience we all have to have — all foreigners need to have the british seaside experience in a fawlty towers—like hotel. i got it, and it was hugely popular in america in the '70s when it was sold on. michael goldfarb, steve richards, mark urban, thank all of you very much. thank you very much. don't forget, geeta guru—murphy is here next week at the same time with dateline. from all of us now on dateline london, goodbye. hello. it was. many in northern ireland, it was a covers at night on record, with peppers at —3.7 is the rest of the day, actually do squint, but it will be quite a little sunshine on offer are not everywhere, though. a day of mixed fortunes. low pressure close to the south—east is still driving in brisk northerly winds across eastern counties, so anywhere from county durham, through the east ridi

michael goldfarb. steve richards. mark urban. thank all of you very much.fairly breezy for some of us, and sunday will remain brisk on the north sea coast, places and on top of that cloudy but there is sunshine in the forecast as well and in fact many western and northern areas will have had clear skies over night and early on sunday morning. that's leading to a touch of frost there in the lowlands of scotland, even the towns and cities of glasgow and edinburgh not far off freezing. we have the wind off the north—east, you can see temperatures holding around double figures early in the morning. so this is what sunday looks like. 0vercast in places across the east of the country. still quite a strong wind blowing out of the north. 15 degrees might look decent on the thermometer but cloud and wind means it will feel chilly. it will be much better in the west here where we will have sunshine. 0ver where we will have sunshine. over the next couple of days, it will start to warm up a little bit with temperatures back up to 18 but from midweek, turning unsettled.

week's events for dateline london, two podcasters — steve richards of rock n roll politics, and michael goldfarbtainly not hisjournalism, mark urban, diplomatic editor with the bbc‘s newsnight programme. hello. and to both of you, michael and steve. good to have you back with us. we are going to begin with, of course, coronavirus. just as it's shaken up every aspect of daily life, so the pandemic has disrupted the pattern of british politics. the conservatives, the "party of business", instinctively sceptical of the state and, in the 2010s, champion of austerity, had, at one point this summer, half the nation on the government payroll. labour, traditionally more comfortable with spending taxpayers'

week's events for dateline london two podcasters — steve richards of rock n roll politics, and michael goldfarbertainly not hisjournalism, mark urban, diplomatic editor with the bbc‘s newsnight programme. hello tmo: and to both of you, michael and steve. good to have you back with us. steve. good to have you back with us. we are just as it's shaken up every aspect of daily life, so the pandemic has disrupted the pattern of british politics. the conservatives, the "party of business", instinctively sceptical of the state and, in the 2010s, champion of austerity, had, at one point this summer, half the nation on the government payroll. labour, traditionally more comfortable with spending taxpayers' money in times of economic crisis, has been chiding the chancellor for being "cavalier", of having "splurged" the voters' money not spent it wisely. this week, just before the main scheme of state support — the furlough — was due to end, the british government cancelled next month's budget and announced a fresh wave of public subsidy for private business for the next six months.