SATURDAY 25 JULY 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qnh91)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18v462fqcy)
Gold prices rise as investors look for safe haven

The price of gold rises as investors get jitters over the coronavirus pandemic and worsening US-China tensions. We also hear how rare earth minerals, key to most of our high tech products, might be caught in the geopolitics too. Brands with racially problematic histories have been called out during the Black Lives Matter protests – and an Australian cheese is now changing its name to disassociate from racist connotations. We hear why it's taken so long for the brand to drop the name from aboriginal activist Sam Cook. Plus, why there's a coin shortage in the US and why wool prices are falling around the world. We discuss all this live with Sarah Knight, station manager at ABC Radio Perth.

(Image: Gold bullion bars. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qnm15)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w7cg9)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybbz9k)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhjf)
Ben Stokes: "The best cricketer I've played with"

Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma chat to England opener Dom Sibley fresh from his maiden home Test century during England's victory over the West Indies in the second Test at Old Trafford, and pay homage to "Mr Incredible" Ben Stokes after he starred with the bat, ball, and in the field. We also reflect on the postponement of the 2020 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia and discuss the likely knock-on effect it’ll have on this year’s Indian Premier League. Plus we look at the return of cricket fans in grounds in England this weekend.

Image: England's Ben Stokes (L) and England's Dom Sibley return after lunch on the second day of the second Test cricket match between England and the West Indies at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England on July 17, 2020 (Photo by MICHAEL STEELE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qnqs9)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjh9)
The president and the hostage-taker

There's hot debate in Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky helped secure the release of a busload of hostages by complying with the hostage-taker's bizarre demands. Irena Taranyuk of BBC Ukrainian has been following the story.

Birdwatching in lockdown Kathmandu
For Shreejana Shrestha of BBC Nepali, lockdown in the capital Kathmandu brought an unexpected new interest. She's become an avid birdwatcher. She tells us about the many beautiful and unusual birds she's been able to see and hear in the quieter and cleaner city.

Cathedral, museum, mosque: Hagia Sophia
The first Friday prayers have been said at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, after a court ruling ended its museum status. It was built as a cathedral 1500 years ago, became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest, and in the 1930s became a museum. Now it's a mosque again, as BBC Turkish journalist and Istanbul resident Esra Yalcinalp reports.

Iran's defiant women singers
Women are banned from singing solo in Iran, and during the past two years at least a dozen have been sentenced to prison for singing in public. BBC World Service Women's Affairs reporter Faranak Amidi tells the story of two singers who faced prison for making music.

Notable banknotes
One side-effect of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a big increase in digital payments. Is it the start of a long goodbye to familiar banknotes? It seemed a good moment to revisit some tales of unusual and surprising banknotes we collected on the Fifth Floor a few years back.

(Photo: Hostage bus Lutsk, Ukraine. Credit: Markiian Lyseiko/EPA)


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmv5)
The fastest vaccine ever developed

In the 1960s five-year-old Jeryl Lynn Hilleman got ill with mumps. Her father Dr Maurice Hilleman took a swab from the back of her throat and used it to help create a vaccine for the disease - more quickly than any previous vaccine had ever been completed. During his decades long career Dr Hilleman worked on vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, hepatitis and meningitis.

Photo: Jeryl Lynn Hilleman with her sister, Kirsten, in 1966 as a doctor gave her the mumps vaccine developed by their father Maurice Hilleman. Courtesy of Merck.


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qnvjf)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcn5)
Should tax havens help pay for coronavirus?

While the coronavirus pandemic is raging around the world, discussions over rebuilding the global economy are already underway. Globally, the recovery will cost trillions of dollars. Governments and finance ministries are working around the clock to design financial packages at a time when income from tax has hit rock bottom. There's concern that many governments will have to raise taxes to cope with the shortfall in revenue. But what if they could tap a different source of funding? According to the Tax Justice Network, there are trillions of dollars' worth of cash and other assets tucked away in offshore tax havens belonging to both private individuals and large corporations. Some people are now saying that with the coronavirus crisis, governments can no longer afford to go without the vast amount of tax revenue they lose each year. So, could a small tax on that money fund the global recovery? What challenges need to be overcome to bring together governments and multiple jurisdictions to agree on a framework? Will it be possible to sift through layers of obfuscation to establish the exact amount of money that is held in tax havens – and how will diminishing their prominence change the world? Join Ritula Shah and guests as they discuss whether tax havens should help pay for the pandemic recovery.


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qnz8k)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w7qpp)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybcbjy)
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SAT 05:32 Trending (w3cszvs0)
QAnon and on and on

It’s bursting into the mainstream – a bizarre conspiracy theory that casts US President Donald Trump as its hero.

QAnon claims that the president is secretly fighting a cabal of high-placed paedophiles in Hollywood and the so-called “deep state”. But why has it had an apparent surge in popularity during the global pandemic?

Since it first emerged in an anonymous post on an online message board in 2017, QAnon has developed into a movement which is now making inroads into the American political psyche.

However, many families of QAnon followers feel they have lost their relatives to a dangerous cult. Several people have been arrested plotting attacks while seemingly under the influence of the conspiracy theory.

This week Twitter banned thousands of QAnon-themed accounts, but it’s likely that at least one adherent will enter the US Congress after elections in November.

What role might this strange belief system play in US politics?

Presenter: Mike Wendling
Reporter: Stephanie Hegarty

Picture caption: A man in a crowd flashes a QAnon T-shirt
Picture credit: Getty Images


SAT 05:50 James Naughtie’s Letter to America (w3ct0whm)
Letter four

James Naughtie reflects on the causes and consequences of the polarised politics of the United States. Looking back on 50 years of American experiences, he explores the conservative revolution that began in the 1990s, the culture wars that brought a sharp partisan tone to every public debate, and the resulting challenge to the system of government itself. A modern American revolution, played out in the years from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump.

Produced by Tara Neill and Regan Morris for BBC World Service.


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qp30p)
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SAT 06:06 WorklifeIndia (w3cszvgz)
How are India’s lavish weddings changing under lockdown?

More than 10 million marriages take place every year in India, while the wedding industry - one of the biggest in the country - is estimated to be over $50bn in size. Multiple ceremonies, large gatherings, destination choices, designer wear - the list is endless, as families try to outdo each other in scale and extravagance.

But the coronavirus has hit the industry hard, with the government restricting the number of guests to just 50. Royal revelries have all but vanished, with masks and sanitisers becoming an essential part of the smaller, cheaper weddings.

So, in this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how India’s big, fat wedding industry is adapting in the times of social distancing.

Presenter: Devina Gupta

Contributors: Kaveri Vij, wedding planner; Raghav Khullar and Vandana Mirchandani, newlyweds; Saurabh Goswami, matchmaker


SAT 06:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybcg92)
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SAT 06:32 Global Questions (w3ct0wj4)
Global Questions

Coronavirus: A different environment for the Earth?

Coronavirus has led to reduced pollution, falling carbon emissions, re-emerging wildlife: all an environmentalists dream. But will it continue and will we see long lasting environmental change? There are mountains of food going to waste, unrecyclable waste rising daily; severe cuts in agricultural and fishery export levels, while the maintenance and monitoring of natural ecosystems has been temporarily halted; and tourism activity to natural areas has ceased. So what action will and should the world take next?

Zeinab Badawi, her panel of experts and a global audience putting their questions.
Panel:-
Inger Andersen Executive Director UN Environment Programme
Lily Cole Super model, Actor, Activist and Writer, mostly recent author of Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World.


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qp6rt)
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SAT 07:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snt)
Will the EU's Covid deal heal the bloc's divisions?

After the second-longest summit in the bloc's history, EU leaders agreed a deal for a coronavirus economic recovery plan worth hundreds of billions of euros. But will it keep the so-called Frugal Four satisfied? Also - is now the time to reassess the health insurance industry in the United States? And why Kenyan farmers have been hit by a drop in Muslim pilgrim numbers for the upcoming Hajj. Presented by Lucy Burton.

(Image: President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen & European Council president Charles Michel, Getty Images)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpbhy)
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SAT 08:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pr)
Brazil’s legacy of racism

Stories from Brazil, Turkmenistan, Hungary and Italy.

The global anti-racism movement following the death of George Floyd has resonated in Brazil. It has a long legacy of racial inequality – Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery – and that’s left deep scars. And even though more than half of the population now identify as black, very few hold positions of power. Our South America correspondent Katy Watson reports from Sao Paolo.

Police in Hungary are investigating the alleged suicide of a Roma rights activist and politician who died earlier this month. Laszlo Bogdan was 46 and had made a name for himself as mayor of the small village Cserdi in southern Hungary. Under his leadership, the village had become a model for others. He was also popular as Roma leader who fought for greater integration. His death has left many in the community searching for answers– as Nick Thorpe has heard.

Turkmenistan is one of the most secretive and authoritarian states in the world. And so far it has not officially registered a single case of Covid-19. That's despite high rates of coronavirus reported by all its neighbouring countries, including Iran and Afghanistan. And its leader is focused on creating a different narrative in the country: an Era of Supreme Happiness, filled with fast cars, beautiful horses and rap music written by him. He likes to be known as “the Patron.”

But despite the media black-out, independent news organisations are reporting numerous cases of people falling ill with Covid-like symptoms. There are even reports that a Turkmen official has died of the virus – but still, the country insists there are no cases. So how did the recent visit by experts from the World Health Organisation help to shed light in an information vacuum? Rayhan Demytrie reports.

Cultural events have been cancelled or put on hold around the world in 2020 because of the pandemic. The Tokyo Olympics, the Eurovision Song Contest and the Cannes film festival have all been postponed, but it’s the hundreds of thousands of local events many are missing the most. In Venice, one festival has gone ahead, albeit in a more restrained way - and, perhaps fittingly, it’s the one that celebrated the end of the plague in 1576. Julia Buckley attended the festival.

(Image: Woman at a "Black and Indigenous Lives Matter" demonstration in Manaus, Brazil. Credit: Reuters/Bruno Kelly)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybcpsb)
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SAT 08:32 Kalki Presents: My Indian Life (w3ct0t3y)
The biggest brothel in Asia

Sonagachi in Kolkata is a hub for sex trafficking. Leena Kejriwal wants to end the exploitation of young women. “It's all happening because nobody's doing anything about it.”
Send us your stories: myindianlife@bbc.com
And let us know what you think of the podcast. #MyIndianLife


SAT 08:50 Resolves (w3ct0v7h)
Resolves

Caroline Hodges

Caroline Hodges, headteacher of Little Ealing Primary School in London, resolves to find ways to provide poorer families with meal support for their children through the summer holidays, since Covid-19 has revealed the difficulties they’ve faced year on year in the past.

The school has remained open to frontline worker families, and here she observes how the older and younger children adapt and play together, but the wealth divide at this large primary school is not so easily accommodated. Caroline is determined to set up a fund to support the families in need.

Caroline recalls her own tight knit community in Northern England, where she grew up in an atmosphere of certainty about the shared care and help that existed between families.


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpg82)
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SAT 09:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w86p6)
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SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybctjg)
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SAT 09:32 United Zingdom (w3ct0wl1)
United Zingdom

'Essex has given me my ballsiness'

Zing heads to Witham to meet councillor Chelsey Jay, a self-described proud Essex girl. Chelsey was elected last year to the local town council, at the age of 28. For Chelsey, being from Essex is all about being "ballsy" and ignoring snobbish stereotypes: "You're gonna be ripped apart for being from Essex, so you might as well give it a try with a smile on your face."


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4k)
Has science coverage lost out its diversity of topics to Coronavirus?

Listeners discuss how well science coverage on the BBC World Service has tackled Covid 19 - and whether this has been to the detriment of other topics? We talk to the World Service science editor.

Plus a twist on a legendary radio format: but what is the objective of James Naughtie’s Letter to America?

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpl06)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3bw1bd6csx)
Major League Baseball's first female on-field coach

Alyssa Nakken on making history in Major League Baseball. San Francisco Giants assistant coach Alyssa Nakken joins us to reflect on becoming the first woman to coach on field in an MLB game. She coached first base during this week’s exhibition against the Oakland A’s and tells us she’s grateful for the opportunity but “it’s not like we won a World Series”. Nakken also says she doesn’t feel she’s looked at any differently at the club because she’s a woman. Nakken reveals her “insecurities” lie more with the fact she hasn’t had much experience of “big league level”.

The president of the NWSL expansion team set for Los Angeles in 2022 - Julie Uhrman – on the hype around her new club. Uhrman tells us about the club partnering with LA84, being inspired by the City Football Group, attracting players to Los Angeles and the fact her club will allow their players to protest about social issues. Uhrman says: “This started by having a deep interest in pay equity. When something is happening in the world that we are not pleased about they should be able to use their platform in the same way that we should be able to use our platform.”

No Olympics in Tokyo but Sumo Wrestling is back – We speak to John Gunning from the Japan Times about the return of sumo amidst the coronavirus pandemic. July’s Grand Tournament was moved from Nagoya to the capital to limit travel during the pandemic.
“It’s an understanding that is deeply bonded.” - Lisa Butler and Rachel Levey from Paradise City Dragons discuss how being part of a dragon boat crew has helped them come to terms with living with breast cancer. They tell us how the friendships formed among the crew have helped them emotionally and how the activity has helped their physical recoveries. A film about the team of cancer survivors and supporters from Western Massachusetts is in the running for an award at the PBS Short Film Festival.

The Karate champion with the world's smallest pacemaker - Mairi Kerin joins us after she was fitted with the latest version of the world's smallest pacemaker. The three-time World Championship competitor and 2020 Olympic hopeful says the vitamin pill sized device has saved her martial arts career. She had to be fitted with a pacemaker after visiting her doctor after she fainted and says she was shocked to be told she had a problem with her heart.

This week’s Sporting Witness goes back to 2010 to chart the story of the Afghanistan men's cricket team. Their journey from the refugee camps of Pakistan to the International stage is one of cricket’s most remarkable stories. Afghan batsman Raees Ahmadzai tells us all about it.


Photo: Alyssa Nakken (Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpprb)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w8g5g)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybd20q)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct0wkc)
The confined: A story of hidden children

In 1942 in Nazi occupied France Jews were hunted and those helping them could be sent to concentration camps. Despite the dangers a Catholic nun took a stand that saved the lives of 82 Jewish children.

Back then Capdenac was a small, picturesque town in the south of France, around 140 miles north of Toulouse. But it was also a strategic military location for the Germans because of its railway junction - not a place you would expect to find a group of nuns hiding Jewish children. Led by Sister Denise Bergon they hid the children for two years in the convent boarding school of Notre Dame de Massip. Out of around 15 nuns, only four knew the identities of the children taking shelter.

Three survivors talk of their unique bond with Sister Denise and how they escaped the clutches of French collaborators and an SS Division which would become notorious for its massacres in the area. Sisters Annie Beck and Helene Ulrich, and Albert Seifer speak of the confinement that changed their lives forever and the love that saved them. Later honoured as one of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem Denise Bergon decided not to become a bystander.

Presenter Alice Doyard met the survivors in France and tells the story of the woman they remember forever as “Our Mother Of The War”.

Producer: Niamh Hughes
Presenter: Alice Doyard

(Photo: Annie and Helene at the Convent Gate)


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpthg)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6t3)
'Synths are my best friends' with Suzanne Ciani and Marie Davidson

Legendary electronic artist Suzanne Ciani welcomes Marie Davidson, Sui Zhen, and Lorenzo Senni.

Suzanne is based in San Francisco and has been nominated for five Grammy Awards. She was the first woman to score a major Hollywood film, and was the first female voice to be used on a computer game. Marie Davidson is a French-Canadian musician, and one of the world’s most exciting electronic producers. Her most recent record, Working Class Woman, considers “the stresses and strains of operating within the spheres of dance music and club culture”. Lorenzo Senni is a Milan-based electronic music producer, composer and visual artist, and has composed for cinema and theatre. He has even created an installation designed to comfort people in the intensive care unit of a hospital. And Sui Zhen is an experimental pop and performance artist from Melbourne, Australia, whose work focuses on the intersections between human life and technology.

Joining from different timezones across the planet, they’ll dicuss what it’s like to release an album, the importance of human interactions with machines, and how they first discovered their beloved synths.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qpy7l)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2ysnr7d3w5)
Spain seeing a surge in coronavirus infections

All nightclubs across Catalonia in north eastern Spain have been ordered to close, with a spike in coronavirus cases prompting fears of a second wave of infections in the country.

Also in the programme: A new warning here in the UK about the heightened risk of death from the virus from being obese or overweight; a crackdown on the opposition in Belarus ahead of Presidential elections; and the resignation of journalists en masse from a news website that is a rare independent voice in Hungary.

(Photo: Mask-wearing is encouraged in Barcelona as the region endures new restrictions. Credit: AFP)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qq1zq)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3l80wtdln1)
Tokyo 2021: the Olympics on hold

On what should have been the first weekend of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Sportsworld takes a look at the next step for the athletes. With a year to go until Tokyo 2021, will we see the same athletes next year?

Plus, we hear the story of Jim Thorpe, the American Indian who was the star of the 1912 Olympics.

We'll be joined by our Premier League panel, Anita Assante, Benni McCarthy and José Fonte ahead of tomorrow, the last day of the 2019/20 Premier League season. With Champions League, Europa League and spots in the Premier League all to be decided, there'll be plenty to discuss ahead of the tomorrow's action.

We'll have live updates from the second day of the third test of England and the West Indies' three match series. And we'll bring you all the latest news and stories from sport around the world.

Photo credit: Olympic rings outside museum in Tokyo (Getty Images).


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qqjz7)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w99dc)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybdx7m)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3cszvs0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 James Naughtie’s Letter to America (w3ct0whm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:50 today]


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qqnqc)
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SAT 19:06 The Documentary (w3ct0t2t)
Seven dead, 46 injured: One Chicago weekend

On Monday 5 August last year, the Chicago Sun Times newspaper carried this headline: “Seven deaths, 46 wounded in Chicago Weekend Shootings.” It was referring to the casualty list after one summer weekend in Chicago.

As violence flares in cities across the USA this programme reconstructs those three days in 2019. Narrated by Clarke Peters (The Wire’s Detective Lester Freamon), and with a specially composed music and sound design, this immersive documentary uses the words of the city newspaper updates on the violence, alongside eyewitness accounts and the sad personal stories of relatives and friends who lost loved ones.

This series of unconnected gun incidents in Chicago took place while America was focused on two mass shootings elsewhere that weekend - in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton Ohio.

We hear from the father of one of the men killed in a Chicago shooting, from the ER director of the hospital forced to refuse new admissions in order to deal with the victims; from an eye-witness who helped young people wounded during a drive-by at a local park; and from an anti-violence campaigner whose friend was shot dead in the middle of the day.

Yet the level of gun violence in Chicago that weekend, was not particularly unusual - and this year, the figures are only getting worse. With emotional first person recollections, the documentary recreates life in a city where gun violence has become part of everyday life.

(Photo: A memorial where 26-year-old Chantell Grant and 35-year-old Andrea Stoudemire, mothers volunteering with a group called Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK) were shot and killed 28 July 2019, in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qqsgh)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk32)
Director, producer and writer Oliver Stone

This week on The Arts Hour on the BBC World Service, Nikki Bedi talks to the multiple Oscar winning director, producer and writer Oliver Stone.

Famed for the challenging films he makes, he began his Hollywood career as a screenwriter writing Scarface, which starred Al Pacino, and won his first Academy Award for the 1978 movie Midnight Express.

As a director he’s created some of the most talked about and often controversial feature films of the last fifty years as well as making political documentaries alongside them: He showed us how greed was good in Wall Street; explored politics from the very top with his presidential trilogy, JFK, Nixon and W; made a film about the ex-CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden; and examined the portrayal of violence on US TV in Natural Born Killers. Oliver also used his experience of being a Vietnam veteran in his Vietnam trilogy of films, Platoon, Born On The Fourth Of July and Heaven And Earth.

He’s just published his memoir. Called Chasing the Light, it takes us from his early life and career through to him winning the coveted Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Platoon.

In the programme, Oliver Stone talks to Nikki about the power and responsibility he has as a filmmaker - how he gets the best performance from actors, although that did involve shouting at Tom Cruise, and why he feels he did his best shots with fifteen minutes to go. He candidly discusses his family, his intimate relationship with French mother, how his parent’s divorce fractured him and intensified a split in his nature, why his grandmother’s death renewed his passion to succeed in the film industry and the impact of having duel heritage.

He discusses the stories behind some of his most iconic films: why making Natural Born Killers made him feel free; the problems of questioning the murder of JFK; and the shame of being in the Vietnam War.

Oliver also responds to the criticism he has had over his interviews with political leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin and addresses allegations of sexual misconduct during his career.

(Photo: Oliver Stone. Credit: Oliver Stone/Octopus Books)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qqx6m)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2ysnr7f2v6)
Poland withdraws from convention protecting women's rights

Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party, which promotes a conservative political agenda, says it intends to begin withdrawing from a European treaty on violence against women. The treaty is the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention and was ratified by a previous centrist government in Poland in 2015.

Also in the programme: Donovan Price, a street pastor in Chicago on working with the families of victims of violent crime, and protests continue for the third Saturday in a row in the city of Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East. People have taken to the streets demanding the reinstatement of their popular local governor, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested earlier this month on murder charges which he denies.

(Photo: Protesters hold banners reading 'Women's Strike' as they take part in protest against the Polish government plans to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on prevention and combatting of domestic violence, in Warsaw, Poland on 24 July 2020. Credit: Wojtek Radwanski / AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qr0yr)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9pr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:06 today]


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybfd74)
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SAT 22:32 Global Questions (w3ct0wj4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:32 today]


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5nx66qr4pw)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b863w9x40)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pqmybfhz8)
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SAT 23:32 The Why Factor (w3csytz8)
Why do stories matter?

Telling stories is one of the ways we connect to one and other. Stories teach us empathy and allow us to feel what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes. They evolve to show us what our society considers acceptable - and what will not be forgiven. Sandra Kanthal explores why stories matter.

Guests:
David JP Philips – Communications Expert
John Yorke - Author: Into The Woods
Mirta Galesic - Professor in Human Social Dynamics, Santa Fe Institute
Jamie Tehrani, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Durham University
Elizabeth Kperrun - Founder; Zenafri Limited
Samantha Armstrong - Senior Publisher, Oxford University Press
Sandra Newman – Author: The Heavens and How Not To Write a Novel

Music Track: Make America Great Again – performed by Dave Fenley

(Photo: Woman holding an open book bursting with light. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 23:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxl)
Data in the time of cholera

Tim Harford speaks to Steven Johnson about William Farr and the birth of epidemiology in the 1800s.


(British epidemiologist William Farr circa 1865 in London.
Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)