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We are talking to edward st albert about his new novel, dunbar, the story of a media mogul whose life becomes a retelling of the tragedy of king lear. Coming up, on meet the author. King lear. Welcome to bbc news. Good evening. For the second time in a week theresa may has been forced into a mini reshuffle of her cabinet. Penny mourdaunt has been appointed as the new International Development secretary replacing priti patel. She resigned last night, admitting she had not been transparent enough ...

And its impossible not to be inspired by shakespeare. Anyone writing in english is inspired by shakespeare. And in this case, a particular pretext in king lear, i found that quite soon i left the play behind, and became involved in the novel, and it was like all my novels, i wanted to write the next sentence and the next scene. And youve got a central character, dunbar himself, who is a media mogul, an immensely powerful man, who sees everything slipping away. I mean, his power, but also his min...

Separatist havoc in the area. The prince of wales has led the country and honouring its Service Personnel on remembrance sunday, taking the queens place to lay a wreath at the cenotaph in london. For the first time, the queen watched the surface in whitehall from a balcony. Whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You can see whitehall is starting to get back to normal now. You can see lots of people looking at the wreaths that we re p...

The abuse of Student Loans in one of the abuse of Student Loans in one of the biggest private colleges in england. Agony for Northern Ireland as they fail to qualify for next yea rs world cup as they fail to qualify for next years world cup finals. On meet the author, i am talking about edward said and his book about king lear. Hello, welcome to a look ahead to what the papers will be bringing tomorrow. Withers are tony grue and caroline frost. We will begin with the metro. It leaves with news t...

Fashion fashion. This is a deconstruction of the preparations involve one a lister diva to get on the red carpet. Multiple costume changes . I have rarely seen anybody looking quite so good in a bathrobe. You should see me in the morning i am concerned what she was doing at the european medicines agency. We will get some clarification. We all need a narrative when we get trashed. It is not enough, you have seen some of the things that come to the fore at the gala, this isjust an extension of tha...

I would like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session of shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff, executive director. On behalf of our partners in presenting the session, i would like to welcome you on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics in International Affairs as well as the bard globalization program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant i think that we are ...

Does that mean we can stop worrying about the deficit . The parties are not saying much about money at the moment. But taxes, spending and borrowing are what governments do. Tonight, well ask if election promises on tax and spending can really be painlessly paid for. Also tonight, the 15 year old Anorexia Sufferer who took her own life after being discharged from Mental Health care against her parents wishes. Well hear from the writer emma woolf, who suffered from the illness for ten years. What...

Directly out of three threading room on the other side of the lawn into this remarkable and intimate theater. Booktv joins us tonight so that all who couldnt be with us in the First American reconstruction of the theater can catch up and view the lecture in the weeks ahead. This is probably a good time to remind you all to turn off your cellphones so that we can all enjoy the lecture. We are at the conclusion of a year long celebration. Tonight, at 401, what have we learned so that our stewardsh...

If you are with us tonight [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] in 1932 and we celebrated with an open house and tonights lecture we can bring the current perspectives and debate to the other side of the wall. Cspan twos book tv joins us tonight to the window for the reconstruction in the weeks ahead. This is a good time to remind all to turn off their cell phones while we get situated. We are at the conclusion of the celebration of the 400 anniversary but tonight we pause to reflect what we have...

If you are with us tonight [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] in 1932 and we celebrated with an open house and tonights lecture we can bring the current perspectives and debate to the other side of the wall. Cspan twos book tv joins us tonight to the window for the reconstruction in the weeks ahead. This is a good time to remind all to turn off their cell phones while we get situated. We are at the conclusion of the celebration of the 400 anniversary but tonight we pause to reflect what we have...