SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2020

SAT 00:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7r3b8)
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SAT 00:06 The Real Story (w3cszcnv)
Climate change: Can Biden make a difference?

President-elect Joe Biden has said that one of the first acts of his presidency will be to return the United States to the Paris climate change agreement. His administration is proposing to make US electricity production carbon-free by 2035 and to have the country achieve 'net zero' emissions by the middle of the century. In 2015 the United States played a leading role in bringing together 195 countries that pledged to work together to keep the global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius. But less than six months after taking office Donald Trump said he’d withdraw from the agreement, claiming it was putting American jobs and the economy at risk. By the end of the Trump presidency the US had left - and had also rolled back dozens of environmental protections and implemented plans to expand drilling for oil and gas into public lands. So what has four years of President Trump done to global efforts to tackle climate change? How will America's return to the top table under a Democratic leader change the picture? Will President-elect Biden have the support he needs from Congress and the American people to meet his ambitious targets? And what now for US leadership in persuading other countries to commit fully to fighting climate change? Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of expert guests.


SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7r72d)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x192rtljg59)
Asian trade deal set to be signed this weekend

Fifteen countries have been negotiating the deal for nearly a decade. They include the ten countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) plus China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Parag Khanna, author of The Future is Asian, tells us about the significance of the agreement.
The BBC's Michelle Fleury brings us the latest from New York where further coronavirus restrictions are due to come into force. She also gives us reaction after President Trump's press conference earlier.
Plus, to mark World Kindness Day we hear from Kelly Allison, the founder of Corporate Kindness, about how she chose people over profit in her own business and now helps other companies to do the same.
Sasha Twining is joined throughout the programme by Sinead Mangan, journalist for ABC News in Australia in Perth.

(Picture: Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the virtual Asean conference. Picture: Getty Images)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7rbtj)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bhtrdb37n)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pz8kvfq2x)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhk3)
Inside the Mumbai machine

We hear from Mumbai Indians batting coach Robin Singh after the franchise won a fifth Indian Premier League title in eight seasons.

Plus, has Covid-19 spoilt the Afghanistan story, or can natural talent and determination help them keep climbing cricket's ladder?

And the parallels between the US election race and Test cricket.

Photo: Mumbai Indians logo


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7rgkn)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjhz)
Young, French and Muslim

Islam is under scrutiny in France, especially since the killing of teacher Samuel Paty after he showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslim-majority countries have called for a boycott of French products, but what do Muslims living in France think? The BBC's Fethi Benaissa has been talking to the Arabic-speaking community.

How do you say 'lockdown'?
As Collins dictionary declares 'lockdown' to be its word of the year, we take a virtual stroll round the Fifth Floor to see how it's said in Russian, Sinhala, Korean and Spanish, thanks to Yulia James, Saroj Pathirana, Julie Yoonnyung Lee and Lucia Blasco.

BBC Mundo's dance star
BBC TV's famous Strictly Come Dancing show was thrown open to insiders recently. They called it Strictly BBC - Dancing with our Staff. One of the 3 finalists was Inma Gil from BBC Mundo, dancing in her living room with her 9-year-old daughter Nora.

Kenya's camel-back clinic
Last year BBC Africa TV reported on the big challenge of getting medicines and healthcare to Kenya's Maasai, Samburu and Turkana people, who are often on the move with their livestock. Christine Njeri discovered how camels have been enlisted to help with transport.

Saris in lockdown
Chinki Sinha, who's a contributor to BBC Hindi in Delhi, returned to the family home in Bihar for lockdown. As time went by, friends and followers on social media started to notice an eye-catching series of fashion shoots, with Chinki, her aunt and her mother, dressed in a succession of beautiful saris.

Image: Young French Muslims
Credit: BBC


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmvv)
The 'good enough' mother

Psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott helped shape childcare in Britain through a series of BBC radio broadcasts in the 1940s and 50s. He suggested mothers did best when they followed their instincts, got to know their babies and ignored prescribed rules. He became most famous for developing the idea of what he called ‘the good-enough mother’. He also introduced the term 'transitional object' to describe the favourite teddy that babies cling to, He suggested it represented an important phase of development, helping babies develop a sense of self, separate from their mothers. Claire Bowes has been speaking to retired psychoanalyst Jennifer Johns, who knew Donald Winnicott.

PHOTO: A mother with her baby in the 1960s. Credit: BBC.


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7rl9s)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcnv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:06 today]


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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bhtrdbgh1)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pz8kvg2b9)
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SAT 05:32 The Cultural Frontline (w3cszj96)
Capturing #endsars on camera

A hashtag that went viral, photographs that caught the world’s attention. Rachel Seidu, a photo journalist from Lagos, tells us how she took to the streets to capture the #EndSars protests against police brutality in Nigeria.

In Johannesburg, one woman is using her camera to change perceptions of a nation still plagued by racial injustice, inequality and high crime rates. Angel Khumalo tells reporter Mpho Lakaje about the photo club she runs to show another side of her community.

We hear from two photographers documenting the impact of Covid-19 on mental health. New Zealand based photographer Tatsiana Chypsanava and Spanish photo journalist Manu Brabo are studying the effect of lockdown on their communities as part of The Wellcome Trust’s Covid-19 Anxiety Project.

Plus: has a film, a book or a song ever changed the way you see the world? Photographer Misan Harriman, who shot the cover of British Vogue’s September activism issue, tells us how a scene from the film Crash has influenced his work.

Presented by Tina Daheley


(Image Credit: Rachel Seidu)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7rtt1)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172x7d4q6lq62r)
US President Nearly Concedes

The US president, Donald Trump, has given his first public acknowledgement that he may not be in the White House after January. We get the latest from our correspondent.
Also on the programme the raging civil war in Northern Ethiopia; And we'll hear from Azerbaijan, victorious in its six week war with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Jef McAllister former journalist and lawyer; and Dr Yu Jie research fellow on China at London's Chatham House.

(Photo: US President Trump at the White House; Credit:REUTERS/Carlos Barria)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7ryk5)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172x7d4q6lq9tw)
President Trump says time will tell

The US president Donald Trump, has given his first public acknowledgement that he may not be in the White House after January. We hear from our correspondent and from Deborah Pryce, a former Republican member of Congress from Ohio, who thinks its time for Mr Trump to leave the White House.


Also on the programme - public health costs in Spain of stopping outdoor exercise during lockdown; And the human cost of war for civilians caught in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict -- we hear from one family in Azerbaijan.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Jef McAllister former journalist and lawyer; and Dr Yu Jie research fellow on China at London's Chatham House.

(Photo: US President Donald Trump; Credit: EPA/Chris Kleponis / POOL)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7s299)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172x7d4q6lqfl0)
Afghanistan "Deadliest" Country For Civilians

Violence in Afghanistan has worsened in recent months including targeted killings of journalists, politicians and rights activists. We hear from the Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross - Robert Mardini who says that Afghanistan remains the most dangerous place in the world for civilians.

Also on the programme - President Trump has spoken publicly for the first time since the election was called for his rival Joe Biden; And the extraordinary life of a Eddie Jaku - a Holocaust survivor and why he is the Happiest man on Earth.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Jef McAllister former journalist and lawyer; and Dr Yu Jie research fellow on China at London's Chatham House.

(Photo: Car bombed in Helmand, Afghanistan; Credit:EPA/WATAN YAR)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pz8kvgfkp)
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SAT 08:32 When Katty Met Carlos (w3ct1c4t)
Bridging divided America

America’s turbulent 2020 election has highlighted how divided the United States is. President-elect Joe Biden has promised to bring the country together, and this may become one of the biggest challenges of his presidency. Katty Kay and Carlos Watson discuss what politicians, leaders and communities can do to bridge divides in this polarised nation. They’re joined by veteran civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton and former Governor of Ohio John Kasich.

Editor: Penny Murphy
Produced by Viv Jones, John Murphy, Maeve McGoran, Iyore Odighizuwa, Jonelle Awomoyi and Suzanne Kianpour
Mixed by Andy Garratt


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7s61f)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct19yv)
US election: A test of democracy

Joe Biden is the projected winner of the race to be the next president of the United States. Donald Trump, however, refuses to concede the election and many of his supporters continue to believe that he’ll remain in power after the inauguration in January.

Host Ben James shares conversations among Trump supporters in Georgia, Florida and Washington DC, who believe President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud. One of them changed from a Democrat because she felt Trump treated immigrants better.

Plus women from both political sides come together to consider the impact of Kamala Harris as America’s first female Vice-President elect.

(Photo: Trump supporter Bobbie. Credit: Bobbie Donnelly)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pz8kvgk9t)
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SAT 09:32 Girl Taken (w3ct0xw9)
Girl Taken

14/11/2020 GMT

Girl Taken is a two year investigation to find a little girl taken from her mother in Iran. In this 11 part series, recorded in real time, Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie slowly unravel the mystery of what happened to four year old Bru and set out to reunite mother and daughter after years of being apart.

The series starts when Sue Mitchell came into the story, as a reporter for the BBC covering the refugee crisis in Europe. The little girl had hit the media spotlight when her father, claiming to be a widow fleeing Afghanistan under threat of death from the Taliban, asked Rob Lawrie, a volunteer at the Calais camp, for help. He wanted Rob to smuggle Bru to the UK but this failed. Although the story was extensively covered no one knew Bru’s mother was alive and desperately searching for her.

Through the original BBC coverage the mother, Goli, makes contact with Sue and Rob, telling them her daughter was taken from the family home in Tehran without her knowledge or consent. She’d been to the police in Iran but was told they could not help. She then travelled thousands of miles at the hands of smugglers with Bru’s baby sister, Baran. Sickness forced her to stop in Denmark but authorities and refugee charities there could not find Bru. These recordings cover a series of dramatic turns in the search for the little girl.

The recordings also touch on the plight of other women whose children have been taken from them by abusive husbands. It is still a rare thing to happen, but this investigation exposes shortcomings in the asylum process. Since the recordings aired, officials have discovered other cases where men have come into the United Kingdom with a child to help their asylum claims. These claims have not been fully investigated in the past and there are few safeguards to protect those who have suffered as a result.

The series raises the plight of children living in the Calais Jungle and other overcrowded and unsanitary camps. Through Goli’s story we learn more about the control others had in shaping her life. She’d had an arranged marriage to a cruel and controlling man and lived in a society where she had few rights. When she decided to flee Iran and search for Bru, she encountered many dangers, from smugglers to perilous sea crossings in the dead of night with Bru’s baby sister, Baran, in her arms.

The series gives voice to one woman’s story and in doing so raises issues affecting many others. Goli left the only culture she had known to search the world for her little girl and in doing so changed her outlook completely. On reaching the West she immersed herself in the education she had always wanted. As she began making her own choices she starts to experience possibilities and freedoms she had never before imagined. Goli is hopeful that her story could help other women to challenge the injustice and cruelty she has overcome.


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf57)
Listeners react to the US presidential election campaign

Your feedback on the BBC World Service’s coverage of the US elections. Was reporting across the campaign distinctive and illuminating? Did the corporation get the political balance right? We speak with the BBC’s Nuala McGovern to get her personal perspective.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Produced: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7s9sk)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3c3nyx93l8)
'The business of boxing is systematically built against females' – Heather Hardy

Former boxing world champion Heather Hardy – gives us an insight into the realities of making a living from boxing ahead of a huge night at Wembley Arena, which sees two women’s world title fights on the same bill.

Hardy believes the sport still has much to do in terms of the gender pay gap and that the time has come for women to stop thanking men for opportunities to showcase their skills. Hardy says women need to co-headline big shows and admits her own career may be over. She lost her world title in her last fight and says she’ll never fight again for “a pay check that doesn’t make sense”.

However, despite her own struggles in the sport, Hardy does believe boxing is a viable career choice for young girls and women that are coming through now.

We also hear from promoter Eddie Hearn, who addresses Hardy’s concerns about pay and promotion for female fighters and the BBC’s boxing correspondent, Mike Costello, gives us his views on the pay gap and looks ahead to the night's action.

Gia Peebles and Lesleigh Mausi from the Ebony Anglers join us to talk about friendship, fishing and what it’s like being part of an all-Black, all-female competitive angling team. The team was set up earlier this year and they’ve already won a major tournament. Peebles and Mausi talk us through their big haul and explain how they’re hoping to inspire young girls and boys to take up the sport.

We hear how long-covid has affected former world number three tennis player Grigor Dimitrov. He’s been speaking to the BBC’s Laura Scott after he contracted coronavirus back in June.

Sporting Witness charts the remarkable career of the Argentina blind football captain Silvio Velo - who's still finding the net in his late forties and is credited with raising the profile of his sport in South America.

And the BBC’s golf correspondent, Iain Carter, joins us with all the latest news ahead of the third round of the The Masters at Augusta National.

(Photo: Heather Hardy celebrates after winning her featherweight bout against Paola Torres in 2018. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7sfjp)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bhtrdc5yt)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct0z3f)
India's missing children

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. BBC South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the family of one of those children and follows their attempts to trace their daughter. It’s a journey that takes us into the murky world of human trafficking, where children are bought and sold as commodities – forced to work long hours in factories, brothels or as domestic servants. And far from slowing the trade, the Coronavirus has fuelled demand for child labour and led to an increase in child trafficking as ‘middle-men’ target communities worst-hit by the pandemic.

(Photo: A girl puts her hand print on an installation during an awareness campaign program initiated by Delhi Police for those children who were missing and kidnapped. Credit: Biplov Bhuyan/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7sk8t)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6ts)
The importance of improvising with Bebel Gilberto and Martha Wainwright

Bebel Gilberto welcomes Martha Wainwright, Sam Amidon and Martin Hayes to talk about the influence of their musical families, their most memorable live shows, why improvising is so essential, and walking the creative tightrope between doing something new and following traditions.

Brazilian singer and songwriter Bebel Gilberto is the daughter of Bossa Nova star Joao Gilberto and singer Miucha. Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter born in New York City to musicians Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, and her brother is Rufus Wainwright. She released her debut record in 2005, and has since released a further six albums. Sam Amidon is a folk artist from Vermont, USA, who plays guitar, fiddle, and banjo. He followed in the footsteps of his folk musician parents, who would play Irish and Appalachian folk music for him. And Martin Hayes, a traditional Irish fiddle player, and founder of the Irish-American group The Gloaming. He grew up in County Clare, where his father PJ Hayes was a respected fiddle player. He won six All-Ireland Fiddle competitions before moving to Chicago, and has played for President Obama at the White House.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7sp0y)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2z19crgvnj)
Ethiopia: Conflict worsens as airports attacked

The Ethiopian government says two regional airports were targeted; it blamed the Tigrayan forces that it's been fighting.

Also on the programme: Azerbaijan won the war with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh, but has been left to count the human cost of the conflict; demonstrators continue to demand government reform in Thailand and we ask scientists whether lightning can be tamed?

(Picture: Troops loyal to the government ride in trucks to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front forces, Credit: Reuters)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7sss2)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3lhnjbhbfd)
Live Sporting Action

We bring you build up and live commentary of the Women's Super League where Aston Villa women play Birmingham City women.

Masters Golf - moved from its traditional spot in April because of the coronavirus pandemic, Augusta National will host the final major of this calendar year in unprecedented circumstances. The field is the same as it would have been when the tournament was cancelled in March, but the picture is very different. Lee James and the BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter look ahead to Saturday’s third round.

Plus we bring you Benchwarmers - Sportsworld looks at mental and physical challengers of being consistently left out or not being able to win a race. From those who have spent the whole year in a bio bubble not playing that much, to the reserve goalkeeper, the 12th man in cricket and athletics pacemaker with no chance of winning. Guests include former Tottenham goalkeeper Michel Vorm, England and Somerset cricketer Jack Leach and former Great Britain athlete and 800 metres runner Jenny Meadows. Plus what do you want from a pacemaker – Kenya’s Sally Kipyego tells us and how do you manage a benched player, former South Africa and Netherlands coach Vera Pauw has her say with Lee James.

Photo: Demi Stokes of Manchester City runs with the ball during the Women's Super League match between Aston Villa and Manchester City at Villa Park on September 05, 2020 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7t8rl)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bhtrdd15q)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3cszvsp)
Doxxed and hacked In Hong Kong

The fight over democracy in Hong Kong continues. In the week that pro-democracy lawmakers resigned en masse in protest at the sacking of four of their colleagues, we take a look at the secretive struggles happening online.

Trade union leader Carol Ng was shocked to find her phone number and photo on a mysterious website – HK Leaks – which lists names and personal details of some 1,800 activists.

Who is behind the site? It appears to be hosted in Russia, but many believe it’s a smear campaign driven by the Chinese authorities.

Also featured on the site is Nathan Law, one of Hong Kong’s youngest-ever lawmakers. He fled to the UK in the wake of a new security law.

We meet him in London, where he tells us about “government backed” attempts to hack his online accounts, and also about his unique relationship with California’s social media giants.

Big tech appears to be standing shoulder to shoulder with the activists, and protecting them from government intrusion online – but that doesn’t mean the companies want to say much about it.

Facebook, Google and others have previously tried to court the Chinese government, in hopes of gaining access to an enormous new market. So this time around, are the firms acting out of nobility – or are there more strategic forces at play?

Presenter: Sam Judah

(Photo: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law. Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 18:50 More or Less (w3ct0py8)
Vaccine numbers

A vaccine which has shown in a clinical trial to be 90% effective against Covid-19 has been widely welcomed. But what does it mean and how was it worked out? Although experts and politicians urge caution, how excited can we be about the results of this trial of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech? Tim Harford explores what we know about this new vaccine candidate with Jennifer Rogers, vice president of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK, and she also works for Phastar, a consultancy which specialises in analysing clinical trials.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Charlotte McDonald


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7tdhq)
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SAT 19:06 World Questions (w3cszt61)
The Environment

World Questions focuses on a single global issue – the environment.

The BBC’s Justin Rowlatt chairs a remote debate with leading scientists, academics, businesspeople and activists from around the world – to try to come up with some answers to one of the most pressing issues of our times.

The questions come from members of the public from across the world – from a stall holder in Haiti, to an engineer in Hong Kong and a group of schoolgirls in Spain. Are we too selfish to save the planet? What lessons can we learn from the Coronavirus pandemic? Why is it proving so difficult to stop climate change and the destruction of the natural world?

The panel:
Professor Sir Robert Watson: Leading climatologist and former chair of IPCC
Ska Keller: German Green MEP and co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament
Sir Partha Dasgupta: Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, author of an independent global review on the Economics of Biodiversity
Elizabeth Wathuti: Kenyan environmental campaigner and activist
Michael Liebreich: Chairman and CEO of Liebreich Associates, consultant on clean energy, climate finance and sustainable development

Producers: Helen Towner and Charlie Taylor
Studio Engineers: Tim Heffer, Chris Weightman and Ian Mitchell

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: Turtle holding plastic bag, Credit: Sarayut Thaneerat/EyeEm / Getty Images


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7tj7v)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk3r)
Actor Matthew McConaughey

Oscar-winning star Matthew McConaughey talks about one of his favourite roles and predicts the future of going to the movies.

Actor Kristin Scott Thomas tells us about playing Mrs Danvers in the new adaptation of Rebecca, and how some early advice she was given almost made her quit her acting dream.

Country superstar Keith Urban reveals the role his wife Nicole Kidman plays in his music.

We hear how boiled eggs helped Octavia Spencer give a natural performance in her latest movie The Witches.

And ballerina and artistic director of the English National Ballet Tamara Rojo tells us about the moment she knew she wanted to be a dancer.

Joining Nikki Bedi in the studio is film critic Rich Cline, and on the line from Tel Aviv to talk about her latest TV show Tehran and her album Zan, is actor and singer Liraz.


(Photo: Matthew McConaughey. Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7tmzz)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2z19crhtmk)
Conflict in northern Ethiopia spreads

Residents of the Eritrean capital, Asmara, have reported loud explosions in the city. The cause is unclear but it comes hours after a senior official in the Tigray region of neighbouring Ethiopia threatened missile strikes on Eritrea. We'll hear from Tigray and from neighbouring Sudan, where thousands of people are seeking refuge from the fighting.

Also in the programme: how the controversial impeachment of Peru's president has led to mass protests; and why has the US state of North Dakota been so badly hit by the coronavirus?

(Picture: An Ethiopian woman who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region is seen in Hamdait village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in eastern Kassala state, Sudan. Credit: REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7trr3)
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SAT 22:06 The Newsroom (w172x79pd0sq6qy)
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SAT 22:20 Sports News (w172x3fl04qdhps)
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SAT 22:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct1cw3)
Catholic women and the US elections

As the campaign in the 2020 US Election went on it became clearer that America’s Catholics were crucial to the result.
Here are two candidates, the Democrat Joe Biden, a practising Catholic, who represents a social justice interpretation of the faith, and the Republican, Donald Trump, with who now describes himself as ‘a non-denominational Christian’ but who appeals to the socially conservative Catholic pro-life agenda. It is a fascinating dynamic. The rival campaigns targeted Catholics with fervent appeals to vote based on faith, especially on the issue of abortion.

After a tense week, Joe Biden was called, and declared the next president of the United States, only the second Catholic to hold the presidency. As he steps up to lead, he faces the challenge of a divided America and it may take a lot more than just words to heal, and an awful lot of faith to fix the wounds inflicted by both sides.

Angela Davis, in Minnesota, brings together four Catholic women across the US, to discuss issues that affected their vote, such as right to abortion and racism. Did they vote on faith or policy?

In a divided America, what does the Catholic faith tell us about how democrats and republicans can now come together and heal?

Presented by: Angela Davis
Produced by: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham

Photo: A pile of I voted stickers, November 2020 / Credit: Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images.


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5p4tv7twh7)
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SAT 23:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0sph)
Getting a Covid-19 vaccine to where it's most needed

Excitement and hope this week as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said it believed that its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. On this edition of Business Weekly we’ll look at the logistical challenges of rolling it out. How will it be transported? Who will get access to it - and how much will it cost? Also at a high level climate change conference in London our correspondent chats to chief executives who say capitalism can help the planet - but will they put their money where their mouth is? Plus, what, if anything do parents owe their children? We have the intriguing story of the man who sued his parents because they couldn’t afford him. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Vishala Sri-Pathma.

(Image: Patient receiving an injection, Getty Images)