laila lalami jenny lim nancy mercado viet tan win simon ortiz tracy smith gunders strides margaret porter and shawn wong. so for those of you who are award winners, just know that your words were read by this illustrious group and including one person who wears makeup. and of all folks, you were selected as a recipients of this year's american book awards, a flex for family members who came? a flex for the mothers and fathers who are like, how come you didn't become a doctor you save for the american book award, mom paula's is your mom here? mama flores, this is why? this is why. all right. so the way this is the following for the awards. all right? this is very important. i the fancy schmancy awards in the east coast, please notice there are no runner ups, no first prize, second prize, third prize. everyone is at an equal footing. everyone. this means if you come the american book awards, you will have on the stage luminaries who've won the and a first time writer. you will have someone published by knopf and someone who published independently. equal footing. the quality of the word is

simone, muhammad ali, tupac. so for this latest edition of art is life, i spoke with shinique smith. she worked on an installation that featured nikki giovanni's poetry and voice. i asked shanique to reflect on that project and what collaborating with such an influential figure was like. >> i'm shanique smith, i'm in los angeles, california, and i am a visual artist. i grew up in baltimore, washington area, and i wrote graffiti as a teenager and was inspired by japanese calligraphy. >> i take bits of poems, song lyrics and mix remix the language, cutting it, sculpting it, adding objects, the images you're looking at are from an installation i created titled no thief to blame. it was installed in 2007 at the national portrait gallery, which was part of an early recognition of hip hop as an art form. nikki agreed to write a poem or she submitted a poem and she read it. it was recorded and her vocalization was piped on. a speaker within my installation, which was created directly on the wall, she says. just out of yellow. so you'll just shadow with gray this time and just shy of metalli

thank you very much, simon smith. _ instability. thank you very much, simon smith.ry much, simon smith. thank you - instability. thank you very much, simon smith. thank you for - instability. thank you very much, | simon smith. thank you for being with us. here, this thursday, the prime minister will make a speech setting out targets his government want to achieve on nhs waiting times, early years education, and improving living standards. the government's not calling it a reset yet after upset from pensioners over the decision to means test winter fuel, and angerfrom farmers and businesses over elements of the budget plus a cabinet resignation last week, some are suggesting that's exactly what it is. nick, what's the government's aim here? as you said, this is not a relaunch, but i do have to say that there is chris shaking his head, of course it is not a relaunch, but a lot of labour mps are saying they would quite like a reboot, and chris will agree with this but, they think the government is doing some really big things. but it does seem to be on the back foot q