SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3ghn3wd)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18s9vhjzbr)
Americans mark the end of slavery

As Americans mark June the 19th and remember the end of slavery, the Black Lives Matter movement is forcing US businesses to get on message - fast. We have a special report from Oklahoma as President Trump's imminent rally stirs up ghosts of the past.

Also in the programme - Australia's Prime Minister says government and institutions are being targeted by on-going sophisticated state-based cyber hacks.

And after the paralysis of lockdown, we meet the boss of a Scottish distillery who's hoping that Father's Day will tempt visitors back to sample a little Water of Life.

Plus, we speak to the author Lynda Gratton about her new book which explores two big challenges people in the developed world are facing - living longer and having to contend with ever more complex technology.

Presenter Fergus Nicoll is joined by Sinead Mangan

PHOTO: A large group holds a Juneteenth prayer in Atlanta/Getty Images


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02wy4v)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9bmf3)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpl9f7)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhj8)
Waqar, Australian turmoil & Windies rebels

As chief executive Kevin Roberts loses his job as CEO of Cricket Australia, we'll ask why the Covid-19 crisis has been so badly mishandled in one of the strongholds of the sport.

Plus, Pakistan fast bowling great Waqar Younis looks ahead to their tour of England.

And 'The Unforgiven' - a new book on the black West Indian cricketers branded traitors for taking money to play in apartheid South Africa.

Photo: Waqar Younis (Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x1wz)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjh4)
The herders caught between two armies

This week 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces in the disputed region of Ladakh. It's the first fatality in 45 years, but one of many skirmishes along the de facto border. BBC Indian languages journalist Aamir Peerzada looks at the impact of the current stand-off on the nomadic livestock herders who inhabit the high altitude desert.

#A man should know his place
Many women in Turkey have taken to Twitter to mock sexist language and patriarchal attitudes. Under the hashtag 'A man should know his place', they've turned popular sayings and clichés upside down, applying them to men rather than women. Beril Akman of BBC Monitoring in Istanbul shares some of her favourite tweets.

Colombian love in the time of Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us many unexpected things about our world and our eagle-eyed BBC Monitoring journalist Luis Fajardo spotted a curiosity from his home country, Colombia. It seems Colombians are finding it hard to give up their “love motel” habit, despite the lockdown.

The 'ugly-dirty' diamond of Indonesia
The Banjarmasin diamond originally belonged to the Sultan of Banjar in the 1800s, so why is it on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam? The BBC's Endang Nurdin visited the museum, which houses many other Indonesian treasures, and tells us what she found out.

How to shrink a 'big fat Indian wedding’
Indian weddings are traditionally lavish affairs with hundreds of guests, lasting several days. But Covid-19 has changed all that. Geeta Pandey of BBC Delhi has spoken to some couples who decided to abandon their dreams and go for the simplest possible ceremony.

Image: Nomadic herder in Ladakh with livestock
Credit: BBC Aamir Peerzada


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmv0)
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise

When Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, US school teacher, Jane Elliott, decided to try to teach her all-white class about racism. She decided to segregate them according to the colour of their eyes, and treated them differently. Although controversial from the start, the “blue eyes/brown eyes” teaching exercise has been adapted in schools and workplaces for diversity training ever since. Jane Elliott has been explaining to Rebecca Kesby why she still thinks the model has value today in defeating racial prejudice.


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x5n3)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcn0)
Is this the internet we always wanted?

The internet has proven invaluable during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing us to continue to work and learn from home, disseminating information to concerned citizens and providing desperately needed social contact for those cut off from family and friends. Before the pandemic, it seemed the internet was increasingly becoming an angry and cold place, providing a platform for selfish pursuits and amplifying extreme views and behaviour. That still goes on, of course, but is the pivot to more altruistic activities online an opportunity to consider again the potential of the internet and what it's for? A string of data scandals over recent years has prompted calls for greater regulation of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon. But three decades on from the creation of the World Wide Web, is now the time to discuss more sweeping reforms? Proposals are now emerging that could radically change the way the internet works, how your data is managed, who’ll be able to make money, and even challenge the very concept that “the internet should be free”. Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of expert guests to discuss whether the coronavirus-era internet that has brought people together and even thrown us a lifeline might be the internet we wanted all along. If so, how can we build on the moment and make it even better?


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x9d7)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9bznh)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qplnnm)
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SAT 05:32 Trending (w3cszvrv)
Can viral videos stop police brutality?

It was a brutal killing which captured the attention of the US and the world. But the death of George Floyd wouldn’t have caused such an outcry if it hadn’t been captured on camera.
The person who shot that famous video was 17-year-old Minneapolis resident Darnella Frazier. Her footage, along with other angles captured by other witnesses on that day in late May, galvanised a social media wave and prompted protests around the world.
But are viral videos really an effective check on police abuse? We talk to the experts, look at the evidence – and talk to witnesses and people on the front lines of the protests.
Presenter: Michael Wendling
Reporter: Reha Kansara

Picture caption: A protest sign reading “No justice, no peace”
Picture credit: Getty Images


SAT 05:50 The Big Idea (w3csxfjh)
Are we all racist?

Are we all racist? Harvard professor Mahzarin Banaji is the architect of what is arguably psychology’s most influential experiment. It’s called the Implicit Association Test (the IAT) and it has been taken millions and millions of times.

It purports to be a measure of our unconscious bias towards various groups – black people, women, the elderly or people with disabilities. Most people taking the IAT do exhibit some kind of bias. That leads to two questions: how worried should we be at these implicit attitudes? And what can be done about them?

Presenter: David Edmonds

(Photo: Question marks. Credit: Shutterstock)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xf4c)
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SAT 06:06 Worklifeindia (w3cszvgt)
How can Bollywood survive the coronavirus pandemic?

India’s mega Hindi film industry, Bollywood, is staring at a loss of more than $300 million. Since mid-March, film production has been stalled and the country’s 9,500 theatres are shut because of the coronavirus outbreak. This has led to massive job losses.

Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which is also home to the multi-billion-dollar industry, has allowed resumption of film shoots and production work from next month, but with severe restrictions. How will social distancing norms affect filmmaking? How will Bollywood's trademark song-and-dance spectacles be filmed?

In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how Bollywood will have to change to survive the coronavirus crisis.

Presenter: Devina Gupta

Contributors: Tisca Chopra, Bollywood actor; Amit Behl, senior joint secretary, chairperson - outreach committee, CINTAA; Sidharth Anand Kumar, vice president - films & events, Saregama India Ltd


SAT 06:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qplsdr)
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SAT 06:32 BBC OS (w172xm4lszzl757)
Coronavirus conversations: Another Beijing lockdown

We speak to people in China's capital, Beijing, where a fresh spike of Covid-19 cases has been detected. Fan Fan and Richard tell us what it feels like to go through lockdown all over again.

Meanwhile, the most intense outbreaks are now in Latin America. We hear accounts of how communities in countries including Peru and Colombia are dealing with the disease.

As restrictions ease elsewhere, businesses are preparing to open again in a very different world. We bring together business owners in Botswana, Turkey and the United States to talk about the challenges they face and their hopes for the future.

One consequence of coronavirus lockdowns being discussed around the world is an increase in reported cases of domestic abuse. We hear the experience of one woman in Texas who managed to escape her violent relationship.

Picture: Fan Yingziong


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xjwh)
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SAT 07:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snn)
Hong Kong: Business and the new security laws

On Business Weekly we ask how international businesses based in Hong Kong will react to China’s new security laws. Also - it is finally illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in the workplace in the US. We’ll hear from the man who took his case to the Supreme Court. As the World Bank predicts that remittances will fall by 20% this year we look at how that will affect communities in the developing world and speak to those workers who send their wages home. And two big food companies say they're rebranding products that adhere to racial stereotypes - we consider the importance of this. Presented by Lucy Burton. (Picture: HK protesters, Getty Images)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xnmm)
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SAT 08:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pl)
Post-lockdown problems for Turkey

Pascale Harter introduces analysis, reportage and personal reflections from correspondents around the world.

In Turkey, where there has been a surge in new cases of Covid-19 – following the lifting of many restrictions on 01 June – there are fears that the country might face a second wave of infections. The authorities are urging the public to remain on their guard. So far more than 4,800 people have died of the virus, according to official figures. Orla Guerin has been in Istanbul since the start of the outbreak in mid-March.

Two journalists, Maria Ressa, the head of an investigative news website called Rappler, and one of their former writers, Reynaldo Santos Jr, have been sentenced to prison for libel in the Philippines. The case has been seen by many as an attack on press freedom and some question the government’s motives to prosecute, as Howard Johnson reports.

Following years of civil war in Yemen, they have the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. On top of malnutrition and a devastated healthcare system, in comes coronavirus. Iona Craig was in the worst-hit city, Aden, when the virus began.

The number of people facing hunger could double to 265 million by the end of the year, according to the UN – that’s because of the coronavirus pandemic. Kenya’s capital Nairobi is not immune to food shortages with reports from the biggest slum in the city of stampeding when flour and cooking oil were given away. One lab is looking at a more sustainable way of feeding the masses, their answer is insects. Emilie Filou has put them to the taste test.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Bethan Head

(Image: Women wearing face masks shop at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey, 01 June 2020. Credit: EPA/Sedat Suna)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpm0x0)
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SAT 08:32 Kalki Presents: My Indian Life (w3ct0t3s)
Rapping Kashmir

A voice from the Valley. Ahmer Javed grew up making music under curfew in Kashmir.
Send us your stories: myindianlife@bbc.com
And let us know what you think: #MyIndianLife


SAT 08:50 Resolves (w3ct0v7b)
Resolves

Frans de Waal

Frans de Waal, a professor of psychology at Emory University in the USA, who is renowned for his work with non-human primates, resolves to find ways in which humans can learn to live alongside animals.

“The problems we have with the diseases that are coming up are all problems of us setting ourselves apart and thinking we can do anything we like with animals, with nature - because we think we are far superior.”

During lockdown, he’s imagined a new system for supermarkets to adopt which will let customers know where the meat they are buying has come from, and make clear what is meant by, for example, ‘free-range’ or ‘organic’. He proposes a scan code on the packaging that customers can read with their smart phones, which gives images and information about the farm and the ethos of the farmer.

A Cast Iron Production for the BBC World Service.
Part of Rethink - a series of programmes on BBC Radio looking at how the world should change post-coronavirus.


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xscr)
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SAT 09:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9cgn0)
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SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpm4n4)
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SAT 09:32 Trending (w3cszvrv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4d)
Does the historical series Spitfire make it off the ground?

The historical series Spitfire: The People’s Plane takes a deep dive into the rarely told aspects of the story of this iconic second world war fighter. But does it take liberties with the truth and why in one episode did the sound effects drown out what’s being said?
Plus a listener defends the documentary The Orgasm Gap.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xx3w)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3bt6zt9mrq)
The Premier League is back and Black Lives Matter

The Premier League returned this week following a one hundred day hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Ahead of the opening round of fixtures: players, managers, coaching staff and officials took a knee to highlight racial injustice. The BBC's football correspondent John Murray, former Liverpool defender Gary Gillespie and Liverpool fan and broadcaster Lizzi Doyle discuss the significance of English football making its voice heard and the prospect of Liverpool ending a thirty year wait for a League Title in the coming week. Gary was part of the last Liverpool side to be crowned English Champions, while Lizzi wasn't born the last time the club won the League.

"I'm behind NASCAR all the way - we are taking baby steps to better our sport" - Brehanna Daniels is the first African-American woman to work pit crew in Nascar, having made her debut as a tire changer in 2017. She joins us to discuss how she got into the sport and why she gives her backing to NASCAR's decision to ban the Confederate flag.

Afghanistan's Director of Cricket, Andy Moles, joins us from his home in Cape Town to discuss his recent life-altering operation. Following a walk in Abu Dhabi, Moles noticed an issue with his left foot, which led to him having to have the leg amputated below the knee. Moles was told his life could be in danger if he didn't opt for amputation.

Royal Ascot - no crowds and no Queen. On the final day of this year's meeting we speak to jockey Hayley Turner, who rode a winner there this week and Juliet Slot who is the commercial director at the course about a much changed Ascot experience. Due to the covid-19 pandemic there have been no crowds, jockeys have worn face masks and the Queen - a racehorse owner herself - has not attended for the first time in her sixty eight year reign.

And - Sporting Witness - tells the story of the pioneering black footballer, Clyde Best, who played for West Ham in the 1960s and 1970s alongside the likes of Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst. After moving to London from Bermuda as a teenager, Best made a name for himself as a goal-scorer but faced constant racist abuse from opposition fans.

Picture: Pierre Emerick Aubameyang takes a knee before Arsenal's match away to Manchester City. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02y0w0)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9cq48)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpmd4d)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct0whd)
Dame Vera Lynn

Dame Vera Lynn began her career singing in London's working men's clubs at the age of 7 and became the Forces' Sweetheart after being chosen by the BBC to win the propoganda war as the 'girl next door' reuniting soldiers and their sweethearts via the Radio programme, 'Sincerely Yours'. These programmes and her trips to places like Burma with ENSA during the rest of the war years, cemented her in the hearts of those troops forever and not just in the UK.
Dame Vera was a trailblazer she knew her own mind and always chose her own songs and she was a record breaker, she became the first artist to have a no 1 in the US Charts with 'Auf Wiedersehn' and the first centenarian to be in the UK Charts in 2017 at her 100th birthday.

Tessa Dunlop, author and historian, presents this celebration of the formidable 'Forces Sweetheart' with archive and interviews including Katherine Jenkins, Virginia Lewis-Jones and fellow centenarians.

Image: Vera Lynn, pictured in 2007 (Credit: Fiona Hanson/PA Wire)


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02y4m4)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6sy)
Dance and wash the dishes with Laetitia Sadier and Peter Zummo

Stereolab founder Laetitia Sadier chats to Mabe Fratti, Peter Zummo, and Zooey’s Marie Merlet.

French singer, keyboardist, percussionist and trombonist Laetitia Sadier has worked with the likes of Blur, Luna, Deerhoof, Common, Mouse on Mars, and Tyler, The Creator. She’s asking the guests how they overcome hurdles, how they define originality, expanding musical ideas, and what sparks the creative process.

Answering these tough questions is American composer, trombonist and producer Peter Zummo. He’s perhaps most famous for his years of work with cellist and producer Arthur Russell, plus the Love of Life orchestra, Flying Hearts, and Lounge Lizards, which saw him create a style that he wryly termed "minimalism plus a whole lot more". Guatemalan cellist, singer, and sound artist Mabe Fratti started playing the cello when she was just eight years old. She released her debut album Pies Sobre la Tierra earlier this year to critical acclaim. And French singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marie Merlet completes the line-up. You might also know her as Iko Cherie; she also makes up one half of French duo Zooey with Matthieu Beck, and used to be in the French post-rock band Monade with host Laetitia.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3ghpkty)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2yqvdnhctz)
Brazil passes one million coronavirus cases

The new figure was revealed hours after the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic was entering a "new and dangerous" phase.
Also on the programme: After a gap of more than three months because of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump is due to resume campaign rallies with an event in Tulsa today; and a divine calling to a drive-in church service.

(Photo: An open mass grave is seen on May 27, 2020 in Manaus, Brazil. Photo by Andre Coelho/Getty Images)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02yd3d)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3l66k7hvlv)
Live Premier League commentary

The Premier League is back and with that Sportsworld brings you live commentary of Brighton & Hove Albion against Arsenal. Sportsworld will be joined by Anita Asante from Chelsea Ladies, the Champions League winner Benni McCarthy and the Euro 2016 winner and former Southampton and West Ham defender Jose Fonte. Plus all the latest updates from all games in the Premier League.

As men's sport returns and continues to dominate headlines we'll be finding out what's next for women's sport amid the coronavirus pandemic.

And we'll have the latest from all the major football leagues across Europe.

Photo credit: Granit Xhaka of takes on Leandro Trossard during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Brighton & Hove Albion at Emirates Stadium in December 2019 (Getty Images).


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02yw2x)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9dkc5)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpn7c9)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3cszvrv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 Over to You (w3cszf4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:50 today]


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02yzv1)
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SAT 19:06 The Coronavirus and Your Money (w3ct0t2w)
Class of Covid-19: Should I go to university?

The pandemic has led to job cuts and reduced salaries, so does going to university still make financial sense? And if you took a cut in wages during lockdown but are now back at work, how should you talk to your boss about pay?

Listeners share their stories and get expert advice on managing money in the time of coronavirus, including:

- How to increase your chances of getting a job in the post-pandemic world.

- Whether a change of career is a good idea right now.

- And where you can get financial help if you are struggling to survive.

Plus money for nothing – the arguments for a universal basic income - where everyone is guaranteed a minimum wage without the need to work for it.

Email the team your stories, questions and suggestions: yourmoney@bbc.com

Paul Lewis and Manuela Saragosa are joined by:

Oluwatosin Olaseinde, founder of Money Africa in Nigeria
Farnoosh Torabi, the award-winning financial strategist and host of the So Money podcast in the US
Mitul Lakhani, the CEO of iMoney a financial comparison website operating in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Professor Andrew Norton, an expert in higher education based at the Australia National University.
Leire Rincon, chair of Universal Basic Income Europe.

Producer: Joe Kent
Editor: Emma Rippon

(Image: Socially distanced Graduation, Credit: Reuters)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02z3l5)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk2x)
Director Spike Lee

This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi, director Spike Lee talks about his latest feature film Da 5 Bloods which follows a group of African American veterans who return to Vietnam. Pop superstar Lady Gaga discusses releasing her new album during lockdown and singer songwriter Imelda May explains why she’s turned to poetry.

Hollywood heavyweight Judd Apatow talks about making a more poignant sort of comedy with his new movie The King of Staten Island, Miranda July reminisces about distributing her early films on VHS tapes and music journalist Armen Manukyan takes listeners on a musical road trip around Armenia.

Nikki is joined by the writer and film-maker Bidisha and the director Dominik Moll who discusses his tense and complex thriller Only the Animals.

(Photo: Spike Lee. Credit: Jeff Overs / BBC)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3ghqjsz)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2yqvdnjbt0)
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SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02zc2f)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpnqbt)
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SAT 22:32 Outlook (w3cszdzw)
Dynamo: turning illness into magic

Steven Frayne, aka Dynamo, isn't your usual white-gloved magician pulling rabbits out of hats. His tricks have seen him walk on water and stroll down the side of a huge building. He's one of the world's most celebrated magicians but it hasn't been an easy path to success for the British entertainer. His entire life has been hampered by Crohn's disease, a debilitating inflammatory bowel disease. But this adversity has been the source of inspiration for some of his best tricks.

His latest TV show Dynamo: Beyond Belief is available now on Sky One.

Presented and produced by Saskia Edwards

Picture: Dynamo in a city street at night
Credit: courtesy of Clare Britt


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02zgtk)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9f52t)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpnv2y)
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SAT 23:32 Boston Calling (w3csz70q)
In retrospect

In the penultimate edition of Boston Calling, we’re looking back at some of the moments, from the past eight or so years, that have shaped the world and this programme. We start in 2012, also an election year, finding out how the role of the US presidency and American power looked to the world then. We also take a look back at the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013. We reflect on the US role in the Middle East, and the impact that military deployments have on the lives of US soldiers. Finally, we revisit a conversation with comedian Trevor Noah, from the day after the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Photo: Passengers pass through the main concourse at St. Pancras Station, in April 2018, in London, England. Credit: Richard Baker/Getty Images Images