Vicki Barker

Immortalized in bronze, moments like this.

Playing Bridget Jones, actor Renee Zellweger.

Helen Fielding, whose newspaper column started it all, told the BBC Bridget is messy, funny, deeply human and deeply British.

To have a character like that endure for three decades and end up as a statue in Leicester Square is wonderful.

Fielding and Zellweger will be present at Monday's unveiling.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.

In a BBC documentary about the January 6th storming of the Capitol building, a Donald Trump soundbite had the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to, quote, fight like hell.

But the producers had spliced out what Trump said next.

that he wanted to help his supporters, quote, peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard.

The alleged doctoring, along with allegations of bias in BBC coverage of Gaza and trans issues, had put management under growing pressure in recent weeks.

Now, the controversy has claimed the job of the BBC's Director General, Tim Davey, as well as that of Head of News, Deborah Ternes.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.

Lewis Carroll sent the invitation to a cathedral cleric in 1875, ten years after the publication of Alice in Wonderland.

Written in purple ink and including a seating plan, the guests include Carroll's former Oxford tutor, Bartholomew Price, whose nickname was Bat.

Curator Fern Dawson telling the BBC...

The 150-year-old menu was also listed.

Soup, black curry, lamb cutlets, apple souffle and apricot cream.

For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London.

In a BBC documentary about the January 6th storming of the Capitol building, a Donald Trump soundbite had the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to, quote, fight like hell.

But the producers had spliced out what Trump said next, that he wanted to help his supporters, quote, BBC Chairman Samir Shah appears before a powerful parliamentary committee Monday, and British media report he plans to apologize for, quote, Shah may also face questions about alleged bias in the BBC's coverage of Gaza attacks,