Right to take this forward the family say that they will only accept the public inquiry the Scottish Government can trigger that they have said in the past that it is something they would consider today we learned that the family will meet the 1st minister on the justice secretary at Holyrood tomorrow Nigel Farage has announced at the breaks that party would contest any of the 317 seats won by the conservatives in 2017 and next month's general election was Johnson has denied doing a deal with Mr for but the Labor leader Jeremy Corben said President Trump had got his wish of a pact between the 2 men the pulling ex-pat Professor John Carter says the move doesn't guarantee a parliamentary majority for Mr Johnson as the banks that party could still split the leave but in constituencies with its stance it will feel a little bit more confident today certainly his own pains those who are defending their seats will fail are rather happier today but he's perfectly well aware that there isn't enough in this to necessarily take him over the line 1st Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the fire in a tenement building and her Glasgow souce a constituency as an absolute tragedy the blaze understood to have started in the ground floor many market at all but cross burning through flights above causing the entire building to collapse no one was seriously hurt. Hong Kong's chief executive car alarm has warned demonstrators that escalating violence would not lead to the government yielding to their demands 2 people are in a critical condition after the latest violent demonstrations in Hong Kong one of the victims a protester was shot by a police officer the other a probation supporter was dubbed inflammable liquid and set alight after arguing with demonstrators. Official figures show that the u.k. Economy has avoided recession by the annual rate of growth has slowed to only one percent g.d.p. Increased by not point 3 percent in the 3 months to the end of September after a fall in the previous quarter. The owners of a Chihuahua see that she had a very lucky escape when a bird of prey tried to snatch out from their garden an Aberdeen she does send the family pet whose name is Emma was only soup thanks to the quick actions of her husband in the city's stormy wooded area on Friday Mr John there's money to get the buzzard like blood to release him from its claws she's no recovering at home after a visit to the vet and that's the news no the sport with I want to balance again thank you Derek Leeds United captain link Cooper will play no part in Scotland's upcoming you know 2020 qualifiers against Cyprus and Kazakstan the $28.00 Childe was taken off in their win over Blackburn Rovers at the weekend a scan has shown Cooper has a small tear in the groin area midfielder Scott McDonald meanwhile is expected to follow after being carried off to Manchester United's $31.00 win over Brighton Scotland can't qualify automatically for the 2020 but can do so through the playoffs and March elsewhere John Kennedy want to be going anywhere so says the Celtic boss Neil Lennon amid reports his assistant is on the shortlist to become the next to Bernie and boss the start old club are still to find a new manager following the sacking of Paul Hackett bottom and in tennis at the a.t.p. 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The weekly excellent to have you company thank you so much for joining me for the 2nd of the show and if you're a fiction fan Do not miss a master of her craft American author Elizabeth stright joining me in a couple of minutes and we have treats for music fans to assist doctors of a new single of the week from a Scottish female Do you and then get more Scottish musical talent dropping in later Hillary bricks Paul McGuigan and Susan Gomery they'll be along to tell us about Thursday's resonate to music industry conference in Glasgow's East End in the 1st hour and if you missed this and you'd like to hear it don't forget everything available via b.b.c. Sounds very shortly we have from Adam Cohen to refix songwriter singer and producer and son of Leonard Cohen We're talking about the return of the legally Leonard Cohen with the posthumous album thanks for the dance and what a bite to hear about the return of a much loved fictional character all of Kit's reach so we would like to close the show with a song about yes you guessed it returning coming back going back going home perhaps you decide it's a song suggested by you have a think and hear it. That might just inspire you. exposed to some return songs and closing there with Mark Morrison return of the mat before the Enigma Return to Innocence we always have to play a poll Simon song because he does write a song for every theme Simon Garfunkel homeward bound and we start it all off with Dolly Parton and here you come again we just sent those to you across the airwaves to get you thinking of a suitable song about returning for us to close the show with get in touch the usual ways you can text me on a 2 to 95 tweet me at b.b.c. On a softer Noons or listen to his Facebook page on Twitter we have Rachel Green who says it's going to be at run rate stomping ground any excuse or run Rick thank you very much indeed George Dugdale on the text 80295 suggest get back from the Beatles which is a Stonecrop a trot How about White Cliffs of Dover given its 11th of November says media in Glasgow in the tanks thank you very much indeed for that jetting good service on the man's cry for whom didn't serve Billy I presume you mean of Connelly I also do a fashion and let's go. For one final texter hottest MacDonald high had us who suggests return to sender by Elvis no shortage of suggestions no shortage of possibilities keep them coming in and we turn to big snow and it's been more than a decade since Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth stright introduced the world to the for miserable brisk straight talking all of Kitteridge a literary creation that caught the attention of readers across the world and then was turned into a great big television cd stunning the extraordinary Frances McDormand Well 2 more novels have since followed anything is possible and my name is Lucy boxen which is about to open on the road we next year starting Laura Linney but it was a straight return to the kind of all of the new the Although again you see the clues in the title Elizabeth welcome to the program thank you so much it's lovely to be great to talk to have been amassed in this because we came didn't didn't want to leave it behind I'm not quite finished it I'm just loving being in that world and with your writing we don't want to rush or way through it so if there are for listening who missed all it tell us about it so one of the things I love advice are She's an older woman yes taught from anything else knows it but where she is this point in her life Well she's she's she's that the book starts out with her about 73 and ends up with her 86 and I think the main thing about all of is that she continues to grow even as she gets older she continues to grow and reflect on herself a little bit more than she did and she's still opens herself to her bizarre little acts of kindness and I thought that that yeah and open to new experiences you know at least without spoilers but you know an unusual ations Yes exactly she gets married again yes one of the things I love about that is the fact that there's a lot of this is the thing but although she's such an extraordinary character she is bit like we would say here Marmite you know you can love it or heat or we're having said she. One speak get to new or it's not straightforward but the new man in her life he laughs a lot when she speaks he he finds out really attractive quality actually what are those people would find off putting Yes I think in many ways Jack an instant is a is a really wonderful husband for all of at this point in her life how would you describe because the 1st. One can I mean one should read it from start to finish and as you just said you know she gets older through it but it is unusual in this to short stories right well it is a collection of short stories but if you can each You can also call each story a chapter so it's a you know it's a novel in chapters like us and it doesn't matter to me if that's called a novel or stories but they are each individual stories is that just a style of writing that just comes easily to you or does it fit the Scott it. Yes I think it fits this character and the original contract was written in the same way and I realized that all of his you know she sort of episodic you know she's she's she's a lot to take for the reader and I thought that when you know the very 1st book I thought well if she shows up on every page that might be a little too much for the reader and for me as well and so then I backed away and showed other people in the town that she lives in because it's so interesting to me how we think we know somebody and we just know a certain part of them and this is true with all of Kittredge's as well you know it's one of the lovely things about to see her through other people's eyes and those perspectives that are already different you're going to do a little bit for I think fairly early on yes yes this is before she has married Jack canister and she's in quite a state so this is the chapter called labor. 2 days earlier all of Kittredge's had delivered a baby she had delivered the baby in the backseat of her car her car had been parked on the front lawn of Marlene Bonnie's house Marlene was having a baby shower for her daughter and all of had not wanted to park behind the other cars lined up on the dirt road she had been afraid that someone might park behind her and she wouldn't be able to get out all of liked to get out so she had parked her car on the front lawn of the house and a good thing she had that foolish girl her name was Ashley and she had bright blond hair she was a friend of Marlene's daughter had gone into labor and Olive knew it before anyone else did they were all sitting around the living room on folding chairs and she had seen Ashley who sat next to her and who was enormously pregnant wearing a red stretch top to accentuate this pregnancy leave the room and all of just knew she'd gotten up and found the girl in the kitchen leaning over the sink saying oh God oh God and all it had said to were you're in labor and the idiot child had said I think I am but I'm not due for another week stupid child and a stupid baby shower Aleph thinking of this is she sat in her own living room looking out over the water could not even now believe what a stupid baby shower that had been she said out loud stupid stupid stupid stupid and then she got up and went into the kitchen and sat down there God she said. Through it thank you very much indeed Elizabeth strong reading from the labor chopped over the new book of all of kid stage all of again thank you for that and I think it gives people who may know have raid your work and insight into your writing style and your reading style actually reflects that it's very straightforward and this is the thing I think so interesting about your writing and I hate to use it is a bit of a cliche but I think for aspiring writers if they were to teach you to work is like a monster class and has to go by say lean prose but absolutely sneaks up behind you and kind of slops in the face. I love the fact that it's full of especially for you know older kind of life ridged mostly did you cease for people you get a little in the mail of bringing up kids and all this things maybe go a slower pace so we have all of those moments that I think people themselves might think in their lives are quite banal so you know going to the supermarket looking at the when I do it the winter sky falling out with family members thinking back over your life that you rise fall asleep all of those things though with your right saying in that sort of lean We just make us pause I think can consider our own lives is do you think about the impact of the writing on people is that part of why you're doing it you know I'm I'm always thinking about the reader at every stage of my writing I am thinking about the reader and I years ago I realized that if I could make up characters I could make up a reader so I have an ideal reader that I write for and the reader is somebody you know who needs what I'm writing and my my responsibility is to deliver them a story that will make them just for a few moments even feel larger feel more comfortable about their lives and will see things differently just for a few minutes even That's amazing and I think is the idea of you. Everybody's a loon ultimately you have to forgive me we've been told that line of code in the 1st I was sent by going on but the idea of connecting making those connections through your writing through cuts right that's right so that people you know people I hope my readers can understand that whatever they have thought and felt has most likely been thought and felt before and that they don't need to feel as alone with with their thoughts and feelings or or guilty about or guilty right and we have a listener who's been in touch she is also a writer based in scope so might have to tell you what she said and Twitter she said everything has stopped I'm glued to the radio I love her book the book just poised to destroy it so there you go I'm so glad you see every do 2 which can be a lovely lovely thing as well. Yes Tell us a little bit about the time because that comes very vividly to life this this tired of being mean but it's so it's a work of fiction Yes Crosby Maine is a fictional town the name Crosby came from my college roommates last name I said Hey can I use your last name for a town and she said sure so Crosby Maine is a fictional town in Maine and it was the 1st you know in the 1st town that all of Kittredge lived in it is still the town that all of Kittredge lives in and it's a small coastal town and she is very very much a part of that town and very much a part of Maine I think of her as a barnacle kind of clinging to the rock of Maine and and yet there are changes that are coming her way as there are all over the world and she she she mostly goes with those changes and learns to accept them and did all of come to you fully formed she did all of showed up very fully formed many of my characters do but boy when all of showed up she really showed up do you remember the moment when ship it yes the very 1st time she showed up I was unloading the dishwasher in my home in Brooklyn New York and I could feel a presence almost right behind me and I could hear her voice inside her head so. Saying it's high time everybody left when I realized oh she's at her son's wedding and she's tired of it so I got that down and then the 2nd time she showed up I never expected her to show up ever again but the 2nd time she showed up I was in a cafe in Norway and just checking my emails and all of a sudden I just saw her in that car nosing her way into the marina and getting out of the car with a cane this time because she was old and older and I realized wow she's back got to get this down so I did that is so exciting and mystical same tell you Miss d.d. a Little bit you know what did you make over and I wonder if you get involved with the t.v. Adaptation because I before having read the 1st book I watched it on a long haul flight and binged which officially it was on there was a transatlantic one and I really loved Frances McDormand and then for was the over of my acquaintance shot to Peter Mullan unexpectedly makes an appearance and this sort of fit what did you make of the ads out station What did you think of Frances McDormand embodying your creation I thought there were all wonderful I thought the every person in that did a wonderful wonderful job and I was really thrilled. Because that must be that must be a strange moment and always a very strange moment. To be a risky one yeah it was risky but I but I also didn't think it was that risky because it was Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Jenks a padlock to and then with that my name is Lucy Barton again Funnily enough I read that on a plane it's a quick return because I was going off to see the London theater production Oh let me. Did you. Yes I did I absolutely did I thought she's just lovely or you're in the edge of your seat looks it's a one woman show when you're like my goodness the hake to she do it exactly she does oh my word she does it so well and plays the mother you know at the same time and she's amazing incredible So that's certainly been broadly a Legionnaires year and yes January 6th fun talking yeah yeah yeah again that must be just so interesting to see it take on a different art form you're right you're right and it's just a very it's wonderful but it's very weird. So will there be more of all of and I'm interested you know. We get insight into what makes a tick there with just the idea of her offending to the pregnant girl is you know a foolish Good old. You know idiot child this is in a bad mood yet other people. Other people describe all of us a narcissist I don't think she is do you know I don't think she is I don't think she is I think that's what her you know her daughter in law on her son have their issues with her as many people do with their mother in laws and their mothers and you know but I don't think that she's a narcissist I think she's just all of you know it's a fantastic it's been great to speak to Elizabeth thank you so much lovely thank you very much thank you very much indeed Ellis Mistry been talking about the new role of kids called all of again which is well worth the read more in full in the usual place on the afternoon show Web page that's the point of war it's just like everyone else Scotland's climate is changing just fixable in the. 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