renwick was privy to the point they wanted at the romanesque, and arch style. he designed of input from robert dale owen. >> they did it on purpose to get away from the bleak style of the other buildings being built. >> it was the first non-ecclesiastical but also in this styleing of architecture. there were a lot of churches in gothic revival, universities had it many buildings, yell and harvard. -- yale and harvard. we are not a government building but we're on that level. >> what did the public think? >> it was mixed. it was dorothea dix who saw the building being built and she wrote a letter to the president and said that in a near proximity to the white house stance the smithsonian edifice or matters -- massive deficient edifices and went on for a long couple of paragraphs and hated it. other people loved it. horacio hated it. he said it stamped itself on the beautiful dome of congress as ink upon paper. .t was a blot >> brutal, weren't they? building impractical just because of all of the little mix and crannies and -- nooks and crannies and towers that a

his is not that well known, a sitcom series called hot metal about the tabloids, written by david renwickspaper, the joke being proprietor and the owner of the newspaper, thejoke being that the proprietor wanted someone to run it was so much like himself that he cast someone exactly like himself. he could do heavy drama, 0f cast someone exactly like himself. he could do heavy drama, of course winston churchill is such a difficult role because everyone knows what he looks like and he sounded like. to get someone playing him again and again and he won a bafta award for it, getting someone where you are not thinking, that is someone impersonating him, someone who embodies his personality, strength and 0utlook, that's the mark of a great actor and robert hardy could do that, the gentle roles in things like all creatures great and small, broad comedy, a truly wonderful actor, a great british character actor. for well 0ver half a century. that is a career to be proud of. people will be looking back on it fondly today. indeed, what his family will be saying today. i remember him in u psta i rs s

he was in a series called hot metal, about the tabloid press are written by david renwick, who was behindwspaper and the editor, the joke being somebody that the proprietor cast somebody so magnificently in his image, that they were indistinguishable. that is they were indistinguishable. that is the other great thing he could do, he could do the great drama of some be like churchill, but he could play the comedy in a series like that. one of the great actors. somebody known to so many generations for a whole range of roles. you mentioned churchill, a role he returned to so many times because he was so good at it? encapsulated the man so well. we had some a people playing churchill, and still do, people like gary oldman playing him in films coming out this year. for so many people, he was the man that didn'tjust get the look of him spot on, the feel of him, the atmosphere, the real personality of the man. at won him a bafta. what a difficult role to play. somebody who people have a strong mental image of. if you can get somebody on screen that can actually do that, without making you think

so, but unfortunately when you look at the two enquiries into the failings in the city of robbie renwickotorbike gang we would be dealing with that accordingly. we have to deal with this. thank you. sarah champion, shadows is a gradual state for women and equality is. coming up. alexandra shulman has been praised for that selfie, is she an inspiration or a hypocrite? should never put that on the front of herformer magazine, should never put that on the front of her former magazine, would she? —— she would never put that on the front of herformer —— she would never put that on the front of her former magazine. school children in some of the most deprived parts of wales are getting free school meals these summer holidays paid for by the welsh government. £500,000 has been allocated which still means only a small number of schools are covered. a report earlier this year said that up to three million children across the uk risked going hungry in the holidays. we played you catrin nye's full report earlier — here's a short extract before we have conversation about this. can you tell me what y