two from the streets of london to mississippi goddam the politics and music of the incomparable nina simone in a theatre production of buying audiences from london to the edinburgh festival plus a good day to bury bad news what stories are full of through the cracks in this week's buried news coming up a days going underground but first while the british press continues to decode last week's princess diana revelations coverage of tomorrow's presidential and parliamentary elections in the u.k. former colony of kenya where diana's mother in law found out she was elizabeth the second a more nuanced than say coverage of a referendum in venezuela now at first sight it could pass for a clip from the program but if you look very carefully you will notice that there is a naughty boy difference the voice used in that report does not belong to any of our reporters because maybe if it was one of their reporters in africa they'd be saying things like this welcome from a broken eastern libya well we know that coalition military planners are carrying out what they call bomb damage assessment just to chec

or martin luther king jr joining me now is actress and director of mina a story about nina simone and me joe's at bushell mingled his play follows the legendary singer's activism and draws a power. the black lives matter movement today just welcome to going underground some people might think of me as a murder as a recording artist screwed by the music industry which is where so many car commercials use or musical in your play it's not about advertising the music world is no it's not my production really is about the celebration of nina's life i use nina simone who is both a consummate classical pianist artist singer and also activist i focus specifically on the civil rights activism and i focus specifically on using her as my g.p.s. today in twenty seventeen as a black british woman trying to navigate increasingly racist conditions where we tend to end up dead. on this program we often privileged class abilities of many different issues rather than identity one's own a woman or race in your play you focused squarely on the idea of being a woman and being black yes i do i thought so m

thank you after the break revolution nina simone's style is the politics of. searing indictment of bigotry in britain. this week at the edinburgh fringe festival in the world and from golden globe winning actor bryan cranston visiting a place in the u.k. to michael gove's mission to improve. this week's. going underground. monopoly. and the. people who would be useful if. you were talking to. each other. and that a lot of what i think about comedy skit but i'm about the same as art when i was up the money into. making money i let my money. just say to me the. long run should be made by. other people that was on the. so you know you're not. you're not just i mean. i'm already but it was. i mean. if it up as what i might say i mean i just don't get it i'm getting worse but those were the oh. my but if i see. that they're already. in the thought of i think they're calling. my. welcome back. national international sports and weather from the news and that's very news as we get details of a previously classified cia memo outlining plans from the usa to infiltrate j

two from the streets of london to mississippi goddam the politics and music of the incomparable nina simone in a theatre production terrifying audiences from london to the edinburgh festival plus a good day to bury bad news what stories are full of through the cracks in this week's buried news coming up a day's going underground but first while the british press continues to decode last week's princess diana revelations coverage of tomorrow's presidential and parliamentary elections in the u.k. former colony of kenya where diana's mother in law found out she was elizabeth the second a more nuanced than say coverage of a referendum in venezuela now at first sight it could pass for a clip from this program but if you look very carefully you will notice that there is the not able difference the voice used in that report does not belong to any of our reporters because maybe if it was one of their reporters in africa they'd be saying things like this welcome from a broken eastern libya well we know that coalition military planners are carrying out what they call bomb damage assessment just to ch

and from the streets of london to mississippi goddam the politics and music of the incomparable nina simone in a theatre production terrifying audiences from london to the edinburgh festival but a good day to bury bad news what stories are full of through the cracks in this week's very news coming up and today's going underground but first while the british press continues to the code last week's princess diana revelations.

got to say i like nina simone you mentioned george michael for george michael a massive influence but then equally i'd listen to public enemy a big hardcore rap you know i love all sorts and then my light see good talent can do accents but it's not secret anymore accents accent have my name is joe delaney i'm not deserve love the farrier search a gentleman larry why do you think i act in a terrible and do their group out thank you if you were on a musician what would you be a teacher in a place teach a person you trade places with for a day. donald trump ah. so big you wish you were better at. i wish i could play the piano you to music your fans would be surprised to know you listen to i think i'm to set it everything what do americans get wrong about great britain sometimes with the accents they think you're posh when you're not. you know i mean i think oh my god you know the queen you know just because you've gotten pretty much then or you're clever they think you're clever just because you've got a british accent or not trusting me or smart or what do great britain's get wrong abou

i can hear nina simone mississippi god damn right now and i can hear her singing strange fruit rightow. people need to understand there's real flesh and blood and trauma about what happened in charlottesville in virginia for our african-american sisters for our jewish sisters and brothers and we cannot tolerate. we need the president -- his words were better than he said 48 hours ago but he has a real opportunity to push policy. he took an oath to protect this country from all enemies foreign and domestic. and domestic terrorism white supremacy is real, it is painful, it is in the consciousness and the dna of this country and we collectively have to do something about it starting with the president of the united states of america. >> so joseph, you have been sitting here patiently. as a young republican, what message is the president sending to the country on race when it takes a president multiple attempts to speak out against neo-nazi's and white supremacist, and he still doesn't get it right. he bragged about the economy at first and took on a black ceo on twitter. what are your t

i can hear nina simone singing mississippi got dam right now and singing strange fruit right now. people need to understand there's real flesh and blood and new trauma behind what happened in charlottesville, in the area. that we cannot tolerate it. we need the president, not just in his words today. because his words were better than 48 hours ago. but he still has a real opportunity to push policy. don, he took an oath to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> domestic terrorism, white supremacy is real, it's painful. it's in the consciousness and the dna of this country. we collectively have to do something about it, starting with the president of the united states of america. >> joseph, you have been sitting here patiently as a republican. young republican. what message is the president sending to the country on race when it takes a president multiple takes to speak out against white supremacists and neo-nazis and doesn't get it right. he bragged about the economy first. took a black ceo on, on twitter this morning. what message does that send? >> more

nina breaks into tears when i ask what it means. >> i'm so proud of her. she's such a big role model for me. and i'm just so proud. >> reporter: mom pam says simone was drawn to the military at a young age when as a third grader, she watched the midshipmen march into a navy football game. >> she saw them all in formation and rose up and asked me, what does it take to lead that? and that was third grade. >> reporter: simone got appointments to both the naval academy and west point but it was her love of the army that decided it, and now has taken her to the top of her class once again. >> she takes a lot of pride in and she has always been a leader. she will do what no one else will do, and doesn't matter who's watching. if it needs to get done, she'll do it. >> reporter: her family says simone is well aware of the significance of her new position. she knows many will be watching. they hope especially african-american girls will take notice. >> it's so exciting and, you know, it's a great step for not only women but african-american women, because it shows that, you know, like no matter what your sex or your race, like, you can really do anything.