hello from new york, i'm tom brook.special edition to celebrate our 20th anniversary, a conversation with top british actor and director kenneth branagh on the changes that have taken place in the film industry during the time that talking movies has been on the air. kenneth branagh joined a special event in new york to mark talking movies‘ two decades on the air. the audience, a media crowd, including former members of the production team, got to sample excerpts of the show going right back to 1999. hello from new york, i'm tom brook. in today's programme, tim robbins‘ new political comedy cradle will rock. now let's move on to the digital revolution and the impact it's having on the film industry. the writer's strike has dominated the news. members of the writer's guild of america downed talks. of america downed ——tools. hello and welcome to austin in texas, i'm tom brook. during its existence, talking movies has covered many key developments in cinema, from the changing status of movie stars to the rise of the stream

i'm tom brook.n today's edition of talking movies we look back at the nine—day long south by southwest film festival which took place earlier this month. music playing. i have been coming to south by southwest for several years and i have always been struck by how eclectic it is as a film festival. it's an unusual brew of studio pictures, genre films, horror and comedy, and independent features and documentaries amid lots of hype and promotion. it's an extravaganza which falls under he wider south by southwest umbrella, which also includes a music and interactive media festival. going into the south by southwest film festival this year, the highlight was the opening night picture, and a film that i most wanted to see, the world premiere of us. it's the latest creation from the oscar—winning writer and directorjordan peele, whose horrorfilm and racial satire, get out, became a huge cultural phenomenon two years ago. the stars turned up for the premiere of us. lupita nyong'o, winston duke, elisabeth m

i'm tom brook and today's programme is a special edition, looking back at highlights of the 91st annuals a night of quite a few surprises, green book walking away with the top best picture prize, 0livia colman winning for best actress and an oscar night without a host that actually proceeded quite smoothly. let's take a look at all of this in a bit more detail. do you foresee any issues in working for a black man? you and the deep south, there are going to be problems. the evening's last award, that of best picture, yielded the biggest surprise. few had expected green book to prevail. it is a road movie, an interracial drama involving a black musician and his initially bigoted white chauffeur travelling in america's south in the 1960s. the film's director was naturally pleased by green book's night of oscar triumph. of course we were nominated so we thought we could win but we didn't expect it, honestly. honestly, i cannot block it out. it's like if i watch a football game and i need my team to score, ijust leave the room and they will. if i'm watching them, they won't. so ijust kind of

community should be held responsible for spinning a conspiracy theory so let's get that he's now tom brooks he's a professor of law and government. and there are no school and he joins us now and you very welcome thanks for coming on. what's your reaction firstly to this report i mean two years of hysteria many unspent now it's concluded that there is actually no collusion this outcome a surprise as a surprise to you. well. it depends on how someone might want to spin the findings of the reports are a lot of body was spent in a very targeted in really quick by the standards investigation and it seems to been incredibly productive it is found that there was evidence that claims according to the summary of russian state interference the u.s. election it also states that. as we saw that there were dozens of people that were convicted of various offenses. close to and part of the truck campaign this idea of the collusion between those closest to him and russia to work the campaign that with the election that is that's been something that's been a surprise for many with the mule report but it ha

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frontndoyal toms brook and strasburg all below freezing this morning. clinton, maryland at 31. you'll need that warm coat. kids waiting at the bus stops this rning, most of the sunshine will be in the first part of the day. clouds will b gradual on the increase. you will not need the umbrella today, though. what to wear? jacket, scarf, sunglasses for the ride in to school and work and probably won't need them on the way home. ton of rain tomorrow, tha makes today comparatively very good. 55 for your high today. be ready for a t of rain tomorrow. more about that in the arrival and departure timesfhat rain coming up. >> couple different things happening on t beltway, all is now clear. tiny blip here outer loop bottom of the beltway. we'll look at that but i don't think anything is ainually happ there right now. 395 into town, out of town no worries. we had that earlier road work there at a couple different spotsr including neaing street and that is n gone, too. from frederick to the spur on 270 66 miles per hour gets you there. northbound open. storyght to a developing this morni

so from me, tom brooke, and the rest of the talking movies production team here in austin, texas, itelcome to a weekend which is going to deliver some dry weather but there will be blustery showers, particularly in scotland and it is going to feel cooler than it has done recently. we've seen this weather front move on southwards, coolerfresh air moving on behind but it's clearer and more of us will see sunshine over the weekend. this is how we start saturday, touch and frost sibilant parts of northern england scotland and northern ireland and cloud through parts of southern england and towards the south coast in particular, it may hold on through the day and we have that, don't be surprised if there is a little light rain and drizzle. elsewhere across england and wales, high cloud. it's going to be quite hazy. sunny skies in northern ireland and scotland though cloud producing a few showers here and there and they are very blustery showers and scotland. average speed gusts are higher, the northern isles between 60 and 70 miles per hour initially before the wind eases later and shower

and in half an hour here on bbc news, tom brook takes a look back at this year's oscars in a speciallking movies. good evening. flowers have been laid in the park where a 17—year—old girl was stabbed to death in east london last night. police were called to reports of a knife attack at a playground in harold hill in romford. the victim, who hasn't yet been formally identified, is the first teenage girl to be fatally stabbed in london this year. our correspondent, katy austin, has been at the scene for us this evening. that's right. the park behind me remains cordoned off as detectives try to piece together how a teenage girl, who's yet to be officially named, became the 18th person to be killed in london this year. and that number is lower than it was at the same time last year, but that will be of no comfort to the victim's grieving family and friends. flowers have been laid by the park where london's latest knife crime victim died last night, a shock to residents of this normally quiet area. i'm quite shocked, to be honest, that someone died here, because i come with my baby quite

brooks. our first call comes from tom in connecticut. you are on with our guest. go ahead. caller: my name is tom. i wanted to see what you thought about fox news in particular but also ms nbc. sofriends growing up are into fox news. i'll think the clintons would have lost if fox news wasn't here and i don't know how we get news from commentary. they think hannity is news just like shepard smith is news. tell me your thoughts on fox news and msnbc. get that question a lot about the news networks that have a lot of partisan commentary. if you watch the special report on fox news or the actual news shows on msnbc you are getting high-quality news sources. expect thet political commentators who set -- we haveup as such become very unsophisticated in our viewing habits. what i recommend to all people is that they get diverse sources if they want to look at something that scratches their own itch. they should look at something on the other side. if you find that you are unhappy because of the way that you are being fired up, you are unsatisfied, you don't like what's happening i

brooks. our first call comes from tom in connecticut. you are on with our guest. go ahead. caller: my name is tom. i wanted to see what you thought about fox news in particular but also ms nbc. sofriends growing up are into fox news. i'll think the clintons would have lost if fox news wasn't here and i don't know how we get news from commentary. they think hannity is news just like shepard smith is news. tell me your thoughts on fox news and msnbc. get that question a lot about the news networks that have a lot of partisan commentary. if you watch the special report on fox news or the actual news shows on msnbc you are getting high-quality news sources. expect thet political commentators who set -- we haveup as such become very unsophisticated in our viewing habits. what i recommend to all people is that they get diverse sources if they want to look at something that scratches their own itch. they should look at something on the other side. if you find that you are unhappy because of the way that you are being fired up, you are unsatisfied, you don't like what's happening i

tom: nicholas lardy is the death star in washington known as the brookings institution.ut the industrial is most measured. nominal gdp in china is less than what we think real gdp is, fractionally less. the you buy the idea that we really don't have the correct statistics behind their economic growth? nicholas: their statistics are theyerfect, but i think are broadly directionally correct. for example, last year people were saying they were only growing at 2%, but imports grew at 15%. you can't have that with 50% growth of imports. you had a cupat of coffee with the president. what do you tell him, if he is sitting with robert lighthizer, -- nicholas lardy walks in, it is like mike pence walking in -- what do you tell the president? nicholas: i would tell him that he is overestimating china's weakness. his view formats months has been that china will cave because their economy is slowing down dramatically. i agree with what karl just just sad.hat carl 615% growth, they are doing very well. tom: what if we get another hanoi? dr. weinberg: i don't did we are going to. i do

noting here is that tom tillis is up for re-election as his cory gardner, two people who the white house has been pressuring in recent days to side with the president on this and brooke, we reported that the white house was telling them not only is this not a throwaway vote where you can just vote how you feel, the president is going to be paying very close attention. this is going to effect your standing with the white house and if you're up for re-election you could be primary, we may play a role in that. they were sending pretty thinly veiled threats to the senators warning not to buck the president. these 12 republicans did vote against trump. that's not a. >> look for the white house. that's what the narrative is going to be here on out. >> that list of 12 republicans is exactly that. katelyn, thank you at the white house. let's chat with some of my favorite ladies here. republican strategy dana navarro and dana bash. and so, anna, to you first. you have seen the list of the 12 who have rebuked this president. your biggest surprise? >> i just say bravo, bravo, bravo. i think, you know -- look, congress, needs to remember it is a coequal branch of government. it

tom wheeler. he is the former fcc chairman during the obama administration. he's now with the brookingsfrom guttenberg to google: the history of our future." thanks for being here today. >> good morning. good to be with you. >> let's talk first about the privacy debate that is really taking off in washington and around the country after what we've seen, maybe things that people didn't really realize was happening with their information with some of these companies. what do you think? is this an area rife for regulation >> i think you did a terrific job a minute ago in summarizing the situation. there is a kind of digital alchemy which takes place where your information and my information is somehow transformed into an asset that is used in markets and other activities tim cook standing up for privacy is not only an important issue i think he calls it a human right. but it's also a way as you out putt out a minute ago of differentiating his product from, for instance, his competitor operating system for phones he said you have to pay me to get the ios operating system, but i'll protect y