With Indira Joshi and Norman Bird.
So they made pleasant talk at dinner, and then they would leave little notes on their pillows at night, little notes of encouragement and sweetness, and trying to buck each other up. Nixon liked to buck each other up. But it was all very formal and correct, and it was hard for them, it was just hard for Nixon to let down his guard. This is a guy who when he went bowling alone wore a necktie. He was extremely formal.
Well, you can just stop and think of what could happen if anybody with a decent system of government got control of that mainland. Good God. There'd be no power in the world that could even—I mean, you put 800 million Chinese to work under a decent system and they will be the leaders of the world [1]
The first of four plays from `Chasing the Rainbow', an initiative by BBC Radio Drama in Birmingham to find new writers from the black and Asian communities. This is the story of an elderly Indian woman who strikes up an unexpected friendship with a young student. Memories of her youth in India come flooding back as she tries to come to terms with life in modern Birmingham. With Indira Joshi and Norman Bird. Director: Peter Leslie Wild.
Batman: Volume 2: The City of Owls
In Being Nixon, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complex, confounding figure who became America’s thirty-seventh president. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition.
