This podcast is brought to you by Netflix, presenting the multi-award-nominated film, Maestro.

It's up for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and Seven Baffters, including best actress for Carrie Mulligan and best

actor for Bradley Cooper. The Times hails it as an astonishingly beautiful film and

if the Times says so it must be right.

I've seen it and it is a beautifully captured portrayal of the relationship

between the great Leonard Bernstein and his even greater wife, Felicia.

It tackles the difficulties of balancing a towering talent and the needs of a family

and it paints an incredibly moving account of different

forms of love. Both Bradley Cooper and Kerry Mulligan are brilliant and give the

performances of their careers.

Maestro, you can watch it now in select cinemas and on Netflix. As talks of a new ceasefire grind on in the Israel-Garza war, one of our colleagues, the journalist

Amal Hellas, is still in Gaza.

Her reporting is crucial to us because Israel's banned foreign journalists from entering the

strip. They're only allowed in if they're embedded with the Israeli army and

then Israel gets to check their work before it's published.

We weren't allowed to talk to other people, not to doctors, not to patients.

Locals, like a mall, can speak more freely, but it's very dangerous.

Over 110 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7.

drones were roaming in the sky, watching our movements on following us.

They targeted us directly.

As always, Israel denies targeting media workers.

Despite the dangers, Amal's been talking to us for the past few months.

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