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“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me,” Dame Judi Dench shares some of the quotes from Shakespeare that mean the most to her – and tells us why she’s ‘besotted with sonnets’.
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Dame Judi Dench tells @Emmabarnett about losing her sight, the rhythm of Shakespeare's sonnets, and how the love of her husband made her. 📺Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=CdHfW0r1… 📻Listen on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00333…
"I can't read any more." Dame Judi Dench is releasing a memoir, written with her friend Brendan O'Hea. She speaks to @emmabarnett about ageing, and how she's had to change what she does as her sight deteriorates.
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This is the man who, using AI, realised that millions of websites around the world were at risk from hackers. Ryan Austin told @BBCr4today that "this is the most serious vulnerability I've ever found". Full interview here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00333… (Starts two hours and 10 minutes in)
“This is the most serious vulnerability I’ve ever found.” Organisations around the world are being affected by a cyber-security flaw that could impact their websites. Ryan Austin is a cyber security researcher at a firm called Calif and discovered the vulnerability. He told @bbcnickrobinson how he did it and what it means.
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“It’s the wrong decision.” The UK government has approved extraction from the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. Areeba Hamid of Greenpeace says ‘the answer is to choose between gas and renewable energy’.
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A £3.6bn proposal to stop sewage being discharged into Windermere, England's largest lake, would see a tunnel up to 12 miles long built to transport sewage away from the lake. Edward Twiddy, convenor of the ‘Only Rainwater in Windermere' project, outlines the ambition.
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Arsène Wenger is a 'no brainer' to replace Gianni Infantino as Fifa president. Former Uefa and Fifa executive Alex Phillips tells @JonnyDymond that the former Arsenal boss 'would bring integrity to the leadership' of world football's governing body.
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“The real test of a good Budget is are you prepared to do those big, long term things.” Baroness Kitty Ussher and Sir Jeremy Hunt debate whether the government is ready to take the tough decisions needed to break Britain’s low-growth cycle.
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"It's scary, it's a very anxious time." The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says this could be the worst parliament on record for living standards. Jo, who we contacted through the charity Changing Realities, is a working single mother and tells us how she's been isolated by financial pressure.
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"It's a great bridge between the mind and the page." The Education Secretary is expected to announce that oracy will be given the same status in the school curriculum as reading and writing. The author Michael Rosen tells us more about what oracy is and why it's so important.
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As the British Army runs a training exercise to retake the Falkland islands for the first time in years, Argentina is accused of using economic coercion to try and regain control of the Islands. Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Chair Jack Ford tells us there is no doubt the islanders want to remain British.
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"Parliament has spoken here." The Independent Football Regulator David Kogan talks to @bbcnickrobinson about looking into Manchester City, and the fact that parliament has explicitly said he should not make decisions based on British trade.
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"Ukraine are holding much of their own." For the second night in a row there was no advance warning from Ukraine's allies of an overnight assault on Kyiv by Russia. Former Head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, says Russia is resorting to aerial strikes because it’s not doing well on the front line.
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"My fridge has gone through more regulations than seem to exist about AI." Nobel Prize-winning author Sir Kazuo Ishiguro talks to @emmabarnett about why we need more regulation in the world of AI and gene editing, and whether he would ever have an artificial friend.
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"No normal person ever sees it." Actor and comedian Reece Shearsmith on the secret room at the top of his house where he stores his collection of strange objects. He tells us more about his love for the macabre and the supernatural - and why he has now written a book cataloguing his finds.
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Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty points to a lot of Russian actions here - bribing a Reform MEP and the Salisbury poisonings - but nothing directly connected to Brexit.
Did Russia interfere with the Brexit referendum? After Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he had been told definitively that there was Russian interference in the 2016 referendum, @justinonwebb presses Minister Stephen Doughty about what evidence there is to prove that.
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Reform UK's Zia Yusuf proposes a UK equivalent of ICE, an American agency responsible for deporting illegal migrants. @JustinOnWeb challenges Mr Yusuf on the party's proposal to revoke foreign aid and sanction countries that refuse to accept the return of their citizens.
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Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft says. Brad Smith tells the Big Boss Interview podcast that the UK is the best placed to lead on global safety rules for artificial intelligence. Listen on Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0pfy9…
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Why are retailers such a prime target for hackers? Former head of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre Ciaran Martin says that it's because data stolen can include shopping habits which cyber criminals can use to personalise their scams.
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"The UN is under sustained attack, the values that forged us feel like they're dying...with that war time generation." UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher says now is the time for 'moral ambition' in leadership, particularly when 'the public square is dominated by weak, insecure figures'.
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Reform politicians "not our kind of people." Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch tells @annaefoster that she 'doesn't like' Reform UK and says, while she wants their voters to return to her party, she wouldn't welcome back politicians who had defected to Reform.
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