Tough love
12:26pm Friday 21st November 2008
Angelina Jolie almost turned down her latest film role because the subject – the kidnapping of a child and a woman’s betrayal – was too painful for her as a mother. But, as she tells Steve Pratt, she became fascinated by the story.
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12:16pm Thursday 20th November 2008
Last week 13-year-old Hannah Jones chose the right to die after refusing a heart transplant. Ruth Campbell talks to the mother of Josie Grove, who died last year after refusing any more treatment for leukaemia, and hears why she supports the teenager’s decision.
Creature comfort
12:11pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
Tyneside author David Almond captured the public’s attention with his award-winning novel, Skellig. Already a stage play and a film, the magical tale is now being turned into an opera, he tells Steve Pratt.
Keeping the gold standard
10:00am Tuesday 18th November 2008
With house prices falling and shares slumping, one investment continues to soars: gold.
Body of work
9:50am Monday 17th November 2008
At 71 North-East film-maker Ridley Scott has made some of cinema’s most iconic movies, but, as he tells Steve Pratt, he still hasn’t fulfilled his teenage ambition.
60 things about Charles
9:04am Friday 14th November 2008
As the Prince of Wales celebrates his 60th birthday today, Owen Amos discovers some not-so-well-known facts about the heir to the throne
Long to rain over us
9:37am Thursday 13th November 2008
A citizenship ceremony, welcoming 12 foreigners from three continents to the UK, has taken place in Redcar and Cleveland.
'I thought I'd be better dead'
11:53am Wednesday 12th November 2008
The issue of forced marriages has been under the political spotlight this year and the problem in the North- East is far greater than anyone expected. Julia Breen speaks to a woman who was threatened with death if she didn’t marry a man she had met only once.
The final horror
9:47am Tuesday 11th November 2008
1918 was the most awful year of the Great War, but also the year that Britain proved itself the world’s dominant military force, says Peter Hart.
Lest we forget
9:19am Monday 10th November 2008
November 11 marks 90 years since the bloody battles of the First World War were brought to an end with the signing of the Armistice.
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