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So we're looking for a stress buster a feel good classic to finish off with before 4 o'clock for a topical tune for today and which one should we go for that was just some suggestions they were on Facebook and Twitter get us on Twitter at B.B.C. Afternoons and you can take a 2 to 15 as well thanks to everybody getting in touch so far Pete Parker's has got what about the candy man from Sammy Davis Jr That's one that's going to blow the coal bed so isn't it and also this one Scottish one bill on Twitter my stress buster song has always been Mr Blue Sky by the wonderful E.L.O. It's even more enjoyable when you watch at the start of the Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 great films and the great soundtrack the great suggestion actually you know not without question is for evil Oh yes that's definitely in the running Grant uplifting song Let your love flow by the Bellamy Brothers who want smile and reach to turn up the volume on that one Shlomi insteps thank you very much for your take on that when you find out which tune we go for before 4 o'clock this afternoon right let's turn now to a real Scottish success story created in close collaboration with those in the industry to maximize graduates employment opportunities the M.E. T.V. Masters degree from Glasgow Caledonian University provides students with a full range of industry experiences and supports them and developing your own original drama now it's 10 here the course has seen multiple success stories but just what makes. This course one of the most respected in its field and what makes it students some of the most successful in the industry as we had earlier black stuff is a fad and David Heyman is a big supporter to unmarried and Crystal and who run the Emmy writing course are both artists and close close friends of mine whom I've loved and admired for many years so it was a no brainer when they asked me to come in and be part of the course and coming to the students once a year it's just great fun David Heyman they're more than happy to help with the any T.V. Master's degree from a law school Caledonian University in Germany to tell us all about it one of the very folks just talking about their lecture on the course Chris dollar welcome Chris I grant are you doing very well indeed my friend thank you for joining me this afternoon David David him and when I was just I was just about see David here there Blake Duff and also looking online to some of the people who get involved you have agree list of names and people who support you on this course Yeah it's kind of the trick of it really and the documentary there's a lot of stuff goes on with and university able to distance themselves on how teachers but yeah you know you spent a year with us and we'll introduce you to really key players so not only do you go away with a big black hair book of addresses and he peel emails and all that given all these people speak in talking to you to help me it's all actors writers directors producers commissioning people yes it's a full on course with a with a lot of different people giving to it and its 10th year as well Chris which is which is great so tell us what sets apart from the list of guests that you could pull in for a child what sets this course apart from others in school and well 1st of all not to Scotland we are the only course cuz certainly in Britain and probably in Europe as far as we can tell in the world well it's interesting to hear look around there are lots and lots of courses on theatre and unfelt which is fantastic an adequate lot of musters degrees in theatre and film there are quite a lot of degrees and courses which will have an. Not all of it being about television but still I see looking at the more or gust more C.D.'s Some people think I disagree if art forms of theater and film but actually the one police that writers like me make a living isn't television but there we are but the only people to do it to do is a food same absolutely dedicated course we're not teaching theatre we're not teaching film we are a boat television because we love television and because television is where 8 years ago to get work and it is so strong at the moment we were just talking about this before killer the so much good drama of the moment I don't know how you feel for your professional standpoint but we're in the rich Well I was only sold into us . Sort So what I mean you so touch sort of there what do you offer the students or a lot 1st of all it's a must of course so there are there are modules you have to get a little bit academic language in there for modules and there's those that then the next Demi one just quit interesting actually is very much about you know not just what you're able to think about what's going on behind what you write in the but the issues you're writing about but then Anne-Marie and I. Began the course we about 10 years ago and I joined and soon after. We did the 3 model models we have a one called scripts a story technique which just look at the whole act of rating at all and we just look at what makes any drama drama rip them apart and put them back together again and just look at structuring catheter and all those things and Marie looks very much in long running drama but hope we tell our students that when you leave us if your commission the next day to write an East Enders or. Hollyoaks or whatever you will be able to do it we will know all about it stories be stories crossover stories you'll know about hosting should begin and how you work with other writers how you an episode rate to work you know fits into you know the longer running thing all of that so we teach very much the specifics of. What you need in order to become a television writer and also television and drama you know you mentioned there you know a couple of sorts of little half hour bursts of storytelling there we have dark heart which is just started identity which is a series of 6 because like 3 stories within that that run there's the cry which is one story across the sort of so many different ways of of telling a story and do you cover all these different ways of of we are not cross we do we can a horn in and one of the models and rated for a long running drama because the thing is quite important there are there are exceptions down there one or 2 there's not that many but by and large the people who are rating the big dramas and your screen at the moment have cut their teeth on television elsewhere and all normally be on a long running drama usually a soap or doctors or casualty something like that in a way people producers aren't very keen on risking their scripts which cost a lot of money was somebody who hasn't already shorten that in nor heard a prodigious can so we do a lot of that about how you actually read it you know a good river city you know you're a good Holby you do that because it's lately is not your 1st gig in television is going to be a doctors are Hollyoaks are diversities something like that and then you move on to other things and hopefully to also you don't drama with the also look at all the lost after you have course and then that you've had so many success stories as well most recently as the T.V. Series woman on the very edge by Lorna Martin the 1st graduates of a series devised entirely on or not to be a great moment fantastic us if it does if you just think we just were sure that you could open the floodgates and. It did take longer we thought but as great Laura as a terrific writer and it's a wonderful C.D.'s and it's been around me she'd written the book originally away a little it was in one of the pieces she what with. Which is doing the course but we knew all about it and she talked about a quite a lot she was always a great writer. And yet it's so hard to get these things me but eventually you know if you're really determined to do and you stick in at it and you're good enough for later stuff just me and woman on the verge is super OK let's have a little pause and have a wee clip from it. And that his mother is in the bottle explosion from tours kills and his mother is stopped and the doctor to find out from the mother is standing very high in my. Area I. Thought even if the brought the ideas then back to us never came to visit. But it's good to see a little. SAS . Same are. We not for that. He had her. Sort of blind date. And it's a little snippet there from a woman on the verge by a lot of marks I'm a graduate of the Emmy T.V. Master's degree from Glasgow Caledonian University and as you mentioned some of the graduates you know will go into work in Eastenders casualty Holby City and possibly end up you know doing their own little Yammer think a lot well we are married to people you know it's a complex job this rate of television you know there are you get hired but there's this noise if you're going to you get a job for life you don't know the people right for years there's a lot of televisions we're seeing Ellen around there's a lot around the people will kind of you know mix and match and undock and dive a bit soul yeah there's people like Mark and we got lost people never city who are doing a script editing or doing the actual scripting itself or story editing that kind of thing Amy Hall's has just finished producing and writing part of the children C.D.'s mall in mind we have to release Marty who's development without with a thriller C.S. With Sky Michael Richardson just won a Bafta for of for a short film. We get all the people who are crane writers Nova still working in television people writing sketches so there's an awful lot of different ways you can enter the industry we really couldn't cut it all our students just to get involved in whatever kind of rating as long as you're enjoying it and it's good rating then go for it mentions his 10th anniversary as the course evolved since those early days. Every year slightly different we tweak it every year saw a sequel for me we get together a lot was love live Amy T.V. Is I mean I think one of those who are good at spotting waiters like me to be do good stuff and the actual year they're with us but we're good at spotting raters that must be a skill in itself yeah I think I think you know I'm getting better that was. Because smell them the people you get to remain Yeah that's what's will many years or. So and then then they become a group of the rolling and the become a real kind of could have helped to each other and all that but in the state once they leave there's no a really large ish community of writers connected to any T.V. Who read each other's work who will you know act out for each other who will you need to let the rest north as a job up for grabs who will get together socially and all of that fantastic in a support group of writers all kind of centered around Glasgow so that's one of the things is really good better than the years going on but I think also all every year we just trying to tweak and hone and try to get each part of the Course to be you know rate and rate for that particular group we have city in front of us we mention the same group of writers who are supporting each other and helping be also as we touched on there you go for a selection of actors who drop and here's another clip if we know government should be of course from Still Game on why courses like this are so important that's a kind of feel when and they have to snail a drama. As well as on the OP again we're looking at the future for Africa but there's a colony not needs to be an option to keep the industry alive so some buy or think I think for everyone. And everybody's interest that we're confidential and. So easy to govern they're just reflecting on the business as it stands at the moment it's no well known industry can be tough and it's set fair to see especially noticed it's just been harder for those trying to break in what's your opinion on the industry just there and the opportunities after a course like yours well I mean. Thanks so much to fuel the government help us so much Julie it cancel this week the government chill coral from Eastenders is our work with our students and we get so many actors BLITH of course for normal of the year. So it's great having these people who don't get a real taste of the actual professional people what with who to what was real like to us and you producers on all of that yeah you know it's a mixed bag exile and on the one hand. There's more and more television be made I mean as you were saying we've got water cooler television by you know people you know on the bus in the morning or you know in the. Canteen queue are talking about the cry of before the talk about the bodyguard. Both of those shows we have connections with and people come in and talk to our class about so there's lot so there I think it's all there much our time before break sitting in Glasgow or pair Thor Carlisle or wherever can write for the big American Netflix shows there's no reason why that can't happen so I think there's more to more projects there's more and more possibility but yes you're right as hard this is to break into those normal specific routes to go in and I think one of the roots we have is Amy T.V. We're Nordin the media were no one in the in the world of television drama The nor that the people come through as you know have been trained pretty whale so as one way through and there's no doubt it helps to say you've got you know you've done in the T.V. But yet you still go to layer in a hotel you know network of course and if you've got any T.V. On your on your ticket then there and it's got to be a good thing it helps if they also we know it does we know that people told us from you know from London elsewhere that the minute he saw in the T.V. Than the more attention tell me that the B.B.C. Tailing program what can we expect from the well I just revealed today and I do not know what on there. Off the press there exactly I don't know as I'm either mum or a lover but goodness knows what she's going to do or say. L.B.J. I'd probably be so much the stronger they were to. Or did converse not that the universe did not the going to go to a city we were very close to the river city B B We have a long running drama which both Henri and I work for on our doorstep the mud not to use it so you know we get no district editors in all sorts of people in there so I know we're going to go down there and talk to X. Didn't sound the actors and the producers and all of that so yeah it's about how do I think it's going to look more at how we really link in directly to the yeah the industry itself and it's not at the sight of it as a kind of a as if an academic exercise is no it's very industry facing Thanks Chris thanks very much and the 10th anniversary party was it was a success wasn't and still recovering selling a good sign did my Chris a real pleasure to speak it thanks very much for Chad thank you Don Thanks very much guys you can catch the special B.B.C. Telling episode that's been filmed right there on Thursday the 15th of November past 7 if you want more information head to the Afternoon Show Web page right let's take on some more music English alternative rockers bottoms of love playing live it can Margaret Union in Glasgow tomorrow night he's a classic from 1988 Kristie. Me That's house of love with Christina on B.B.C. Radio Scotland they're playing live at Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow tomorrow night gets ill with Brian Barnett on tonight's get on we'll look at what went before. And see what happened after. The county give a clear warning of what could happen. After midnight but we're left reflecting the day. It's a bad deal before and after on tonight's getting all. The songs you want to hear Monday to Thursday from 630 on B.B.C. Baby is Scotland's find a selection of tunes from Brian Noto from half past 6 tonight so from Chris on the Emmy T.V. The small screen there we move to the big screen and the Inverness Film Festival or the I F F at the premier film festival in the north and one of the leading cinema events in Scotland it's now in its 16th year the popular festival is held at court in Inverness the main arts center in the Highlands with over 50 screenings in the 2 high quality cinemas and the more than one touched theatre it's a feast for movie fans runs from today the 7th until the 11th of November celebrating films from around the world some hidden gems from our nation's cinematic past as well as cutting Dylan's directorial debut it opens tonight with what is reportedly Robert Redford's final film The old man and the gun the true story of Forrest Tucker from his or dishes escape from San Quentin at the age of $72.00 an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and. Chad to the public. Let's say you do let's assume. That we can survive told you probably wouldn't you said I was going to sing again would you. Take this place so it was a bank account if there was really a teller's window and you just walk in. So you walk right up. You say this is a robbery and you sure the guy like this you say we want you to get hurt because I like you I like you live so don't go brick are. You nuts. Robert Redford and Sissy speciate enjoying a coffee and chat in a moment from the old man and the gun which will open the I F F at the Court Theatre at 745 tonight you'll have been joins us know from that fear City to tell us more alone Neal Hello Grant. The 16th Inverness Film Festival kicks off tonight as we just said that's the only film The old man of the gun starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek What do you think a good choice yes goalie in radians for a great festival opener you know I think old school star power goes a long way. Critical acclaim indeed credentials. And so yeah I mean it sounds good to me Robert Redford robbing banks armed only with his charm. Supporting cast includes Sissy Spacek and Tom Waits are actually not seen on screen for a while so I've actually seen. A really really good film and a very fitting sendoff for Robert Redford as well as create such an towards the air fantastical it looks like a really good small and so I think by way of contrast the closing films worth mentioning here as well because there's that story to body is the title of the film is the directorial debut of boots Riley and this is getting a lot of heat around it's been billed in some quarters as the most anti capitalist movie Hollywood has ever produced is being spoken about. In the same vein as Jordan peels get out in terms of a state of the nation and as I gazed the satire and you know an allegory for the black experience in America so I think in terms of the opening film Robert Redford presenting something that is familiar and comforting broadly accessible excellent choice and then closing or something edgy and provocative. You know very much like the 2 sides of Inverness self absorbed and very well Booker and another coup in there of New York the Avengers and Jim and Jack Karen Gillan we talked about her an introduction set to return to her home city of Inverness is going to be special is next year for a screening of her directorial debut at the party is just beginning that's right yeah she's she's a long way from Dr Who you know a long way from from Inverness most of the time I presume between making Comanche and Avengers films in between which I think she find the time to come back here to show shoot and air star in her real debut which is written shot in the mean streets of Inverness so yeah I think they'll be a great deal of excitement about homecoming so the film explores the issue of Sue sleep in the Highlands you know more about it yeah it's a surreal coming of age story as the suicide of a male friend at its core believe that Dylan was aspired to tell the story having read some sobering statistics about Sue say that young men being higher in the Highlands than the rest of Scotland so so that has a real darkness at its core but I think she makes a lot of ambitious directorial choices. And I'm looking forward to seeing it well it's great to have it along she says she studied drama performed in court she's also a member of its youth Dance Company and soon you feature so where she's going to go Rosing reception I'm sure when they're when they're all coming up and so many James for you to catch this month what's on the highways. I believe it's a really strong foreign language line up year the festivus reform in programming foreign language Oscar contenders including 3 that go on to be winners in the last 5 years one of which was the remarkable Holocaust drama son of Seoul. And tomorrow there's a screening of the follow up film from the Hungarian director nemesis called Sunset it's a mystery drama that again digs into some dark corners of history in this case the dying days of the or strong Garion Empire before the 1st World War am at also point out shoplifters which is the Japanese film which won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival this year there's the wild pear tree which is a 3 hour Turkish drama from previous Pandora when are newly built the same and it's a is might be something that's not for everyone may require but exist deal for on but you know I think his I'm a I'm a big fan of his films I think they have to be experienced in a cinema. And I would also draw attention to them birds of passage which is a film which offers a fresh take on the whole set American drug cartel scene which you know to me sort of seems like it's become a joiner in its own right no films likes a car or T.V. Shows like Norco's but this seems to be offering a really interesting take on it because it's looking at the involvement of people from the indigenous tribes of Colombia in the drugs trade. Excited about this it's from the directors behind embrace of the serpent which is on the stand at films of 2016. So yeah tons and tons of would enter if it foreign language cinema and also retrospective on Margaret teet tell us a bit about her and will market it was a pioneering filmmaker import from Orkney she is known for her writing and dozens of really innovative short films she made most of which were experimental she finance them or self and they documented or Kadian culture in Lansing. And this is the centenary year of her birth in 1900. The investment versus presenting not only a program of her shorts but they have the world premiere of a restored version of her only feature film blue black permanent I believe that screens tonight at 6 actually. I haven't seen the film but all of the imagery involves craggy course in the sea or in Scotland it looks stunning and also at wildlife actor Paul do directorial debut to see as well yeah really well if you're really looking forward to that. It's it's always interesting when actors who've worked with some really incredible directors turn to directing themselves carry Mulligan has been getting some great acclaim for her performance. So yeah I think I mean if listeners don't immediately recall Paul Dana as you have almost definitely seen him in a in a film he was the meat kid in Little Miss Sunshine me start alongside Daniel Day Lewis in there will be bloods. And he's written a screenplay here as well long with his partner who's the actor's really. And yet it looks fantastic kind of Mad Men esque relationship carnage Jake Gyllenhaal costarring sixty's America it's exactly the kind of thing that I'm well up for a clip of the moment as you just said it does tell the story of a young husband wife Playboy Kerry more going to join or living in the 160 S. In a small town in Montana it's a subtle film about the breakdown of a family. Your father and a woman and here. You can do. Anything. Crazy or. I think that's true people are trying to think this is. Just a moment from wildlife featuring Carey Mulligan as the housewife who realizes she needs to be as you touched on the great reviews for that film and many critics suggesting perhaps a career best performance from yet in deed I mean I want to get on board with Carrie Mulligan Actually I think the turning point for me was her performance in Davis and I believe she has really gone for it here that she was specifically cast by Dino because he wanted to push her into you know corners of her psyche that she hadn't been to before and yeah I think it looks like it could be something really special other films just look in the list to end fabric What do you know about this one well this one is about a curse to tress So in some ways you don't need to know anything ask me so all that I got my ticket from but it's you know if any of that kind of sounds like it could be a segment from a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror and all the Japs that are something if anybody can make this work I think it's the British director Peter Strickland who's behind him he's known for stylish slightly bizarre films like Burberry and same studio which Toby Jones monkeying around with their horror genre cliches the juke of Burgundy my personal favorite unravel the city Damascus that relationship in our world with a man saw I can't wait to see what he does with us right you going to have to help me with this one and the apocalypse this is what I've got here is a Scottish Christmas Zombie Musical Yes That's that's it. You know years ago yeah what can I add to that yeah I mean I think those are those are 4 words that will either repel or draw you to the Scottish song the Christmas musical It's apparently like high school music. Well meets Dawn Of The Dead. I like musicals or like zombies Christmas I'm not quite so into but I'm willing to be willing to give the shot and it looks like it's something distinctive and bald which you don't always get from from you know homegrown Scottish cinema. I guess you know internationally we're probably no one for the kind of miserable ism that we produce so so this does look like great fun. To humor that one and also if you buy experience a film festival like this some special events as well yeah there's some fantastic side bars one of the ones that really interests me is called it came to a cinema near you and this concerns the heyday of cinemas in Inverness all of which are long gone. I'm fascinated by this trees of cinema venue's because I think film going cultures too often sidelined historically in a field we don't really talk about when and how these cinemas closed and disappeared. I mean a north scores of them died off with the advent of multiplexes in the ninety's but beyond that there are other reasons that tell us a lot you know changes in society and not just that but what kind of films people were watching queuing down the street to see was great to see an event this probing this is going to be in illustrated talk there are screenings of films that of play these all theaters in this week of the festival but 6070 years ago. So you know the events are in the great or it was put you on the spot just before we wrap up on this $11.00 standard or what's the what's the film or event you're looking forward to the most this weekend or that's a tricky one that is a tricky one. We've we've talked about a few of them I'm also personally really looking forward to. A rainy in film cold EVA which is up. A woman who young girl at school who has issues involving pregnancy whenever I go unseen or Indian film a film festival always blows me away saw a door nor a great deal about that but I'm confident that that's going to be a good one excellent Neal thanks very much indeed for joining us and opens they were one of them which is a great film you enjoy it too thanks to Neil Hepburn there the 16th Inverness Film Festival is on tonight from where Wednesday the 7th of November until Sunday the 11th more information at the Afternoon Show Web page you know just about 20 to 4 let's see what's come of the news driver B.B.C. Radio Scotland at 4 o'clock we are very Hello Valorie Hello Grant Yes today we have President Trump Republicans losing control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections they gave in the in the Senate so we'll be asking just how much of a break the Democrats could no be on his program for government and jellyfish a rotting tongue a new hypothermia speaking to the adventure who's become the 1st person to swim right round Britain that lots more new strife Valley thanks very much indeed and just before we hand over to vote it will be finished off with a topical tune for today it's national Stress Awareness Day So we're looking for the feel good classic stress buster I mean if you can get in touch with some fine suggestions or crackers to the party Callie from talk Ross in Glasgow Grant feel good song the Beatles and getting better Paul Gilly Good afternoon grand good song to get your frustrations out Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright for fighting would argue your not one robot from Dyson Aberdeen you're so good to me from the Beach Boys and another show for the Beatles from Luke and are both looking for let it be but which one shall we go for you'll find out within the next 20 minutes and again touch just for last minute ship Music know the time for our single of the week from the Proclaimers the new album is called Angry cyclists This is the 3rd track to be really. This cold it comes to me. To. See. The Dow fell to. a single of the Week this week on the afternoon show then it comes to me the new single from the Proclaimers and it said released on Friday the new album angry cyclist is out now and is ahead of their gigs at the Playhouse on Friday and Saturday and of just fine day that to morrow in the afternoon chill I'll be chatting to Craig from the Proclaimers on the foreign so it should and for that right to make should review our November book group take that comes from the B.B.C.'s World Affairs Editor John Simpson who has turned his hand to fiction with the Moscow midnight a revelator a thriller involving a death which leads to tag was John swift into a violent underworld where whispers of conspiracies assassinations and double agents stop blowing blurring the line between friend and foe it's based on one kind of invent that happened which made a huge impression on me a colleague of mine colleague of mine went into politics had a background in reporting things. In Russia and ended up this was in the 1990 S. Ended up in one of those really saw did scandals and I just thought well I had never thought that this man would behave like that I couldn't believe it but I thought you just never know people do you and it was only a few months later when I was talking to another friend of his who was a specialist in Russian events and Russia was going through some really weird things that that time he said to me Well of course he was murdered and he was murdered in such a way that the K.G.B. Knew no one would ever kind of look into it because it was too salute to Chris and I always after that thought one day I'll write something that shows how that kind of murder could have been the work of Russian agents That's author John Simpson setting the scene for us discussing his new book Moscow midnight on the Steve right now after enjoying your 2 regular afternoon show arts critics Katrina rose and Peter Ross have been reading at the join me now Katrina welcome Hello thank you Peter how are you doing and well Grant thanks good OK you've taken the time to read this book for us we're going to find out whether or not they liked it well let's cut to the chase Peter seemed to see you didn't yeah I mean I don't want to overstate this Grant I didn't merely dislike this I despise that. And I resent it Shelley you know I think it's only reason to exist as far as I can see as to Sarah as a warning to other journalists that no matter how to accomplish the media in their own field writing fiction is an entirely different challenge and they should not publish has to flatter them into believing that we can do it Peter we should really tell us what you think. About here Katrina you felt that all seemed somehow vaguely autobiographical memory and that is. Well I find probably the only thing of. It was one of those things that I was reading and it came to I thought you know this there's elements that he's dabbled in in his own career and called the character Jones where it's I mean right OK. So that was the most I do think in all fairness to John sense and I do think it showed his quirky or Sade you could have a little bit of humor to him but all in all I find it really hard because I just thought I came across as really really pulled this right so you struggled to read it Peter you clearly didn't like her but to tell us about Joan swift particular see what was this fictional character like because he knew the story doesn't it Yeah so he's obviously a very lightly fictionalized version of John Simpson himself when they're both old school English broadcasters with Irish roots who've been a spent decades reporting from the world's hottest trouble sports they're both Anglicans and they were both friends with with M.P.'s who is a Simpson said there at the star died in very unpleasant circumstances and Simpson's case it was and the Conservative M.P. Stephen No again and the case of the Jones West friend is called Patrick McCready and I think you know Swift's narrative voice is really really close to some sense speaking voice which we're all very familiar with obviously through his many years as a news reporter so when when you're reading the bit when I was when I read the book I certainly haired and enjoyed since his voice so it is written off pretty well it was a 1st the 1st 4 chapters because the voices are being quite intimate it's quite self-deprecating and it's quite good fun to sort of spin the best time and it's company but as the big quit on I began to find that very oppressive and there's one particular annoyance which is the part of Swiss character as he's had this very expensive education at private school and then Orks forward and he's very well read and sweep a person's conversation with quick with quotes from that support tree and he does this all the time and I think is meant to be a rather. Charming an impressive Hobbit but there so much of it is every few pages that I very quickly got the impression that it's really just there so that John Simpson can sure of his own reading and also Borel some witchery sophistication for his own dick and it becomes quite smug and everything so I felt eventually that the narrative voice was just so relentless that there's just no getting out from under it and I didn't leave that home. Join swift so we can assume it's just an old foreign affairs correspondent but he does like fine with things as Peter's touched on for things in life I mean go going back to that whole point about him making those references he actually states in the big to make himself look good because he has nothing else to contribute to the conversation and when you pictured a foreign affairs correspondent or an old school journalist that would you have in your head it is JONES With He has a taste for the finer things like Burgundy when he says you know he makes reference to all of this artwork and antiques that he has in his property and the closest I've got to refine our Burgundy is like a supermarket fine so I couldn't really relate but he says you know what I was like Is he a womanizer and a white noise and all of women eyes are and he really he struggles to connect with the people who he's working with like other female journalists or producers and he makes the point that he's paired up with this producer and he can't connect with are and actually he immediately thinks she hates him and he keeps referencing that and he says oh it's just because if I look at her too long she will take that in the wrong week and she's a feminist it's very interesting as now you can sort of draw parallels with with the real person and what is going on in this book Peter Simpson's novel delves into the so murky violent world of Russian espionage and he was looking forward to being revealing but in light of recent events and where we are in the country the most recent Russian spy stories it's just big it does feel a bit more real does it does that does that change the reading experience knowing what we know now and what we experienced of the last year or so yeah I think that. Interesting I mean I mean some of the and if you see given the room this book he's lamented I think that he feels that real life is can a stall when his thunder but I think it you know which is rather not very humble We have looked at the Soulsby poisonings for a start but I think it I think actually gives a bit of a topical wage and rootedness in reality and if I can find a positive in this I think he's quite decent at writing about espionage and secret agents and there's a good bit where he writes that that spy organizations aren't as powerful and effective as the movies make a note to be erase that they're basically just as slow moving understaffed underpaid doozie resentful and disorganized as you work for and I think that has the ring of truth and it reminded me very much of those F.S.B. Agents who claim their own souls brutal look at the cathedral You know I think the way that he issues the absurdity in the walk of glamour and the spying game is pretty good and so I think I think he's actually been in some ways quite fortunate that a big question is written before the Nova talk poisonings has actually been published in a moment when people are talking much more openly about Russian aggression as we mentioned earlier on Katrina the fictional story lines underpinned by some of the real world politics and as we're talking talking there and the shadow Putin's Russia you felt this could almost be as a memoir over over fiction I've decided this is Johnson's revenge novel I have to say good that's what this is and the whole time I was reason I'm like what you try to tell me Johnson's And what am I taking away from this you're trying. This is it what you want to do what you would do what do you think you are right well it was no secret that John Simpson was felt like he was being pitched out of his job a number of years ago and as a consequence of that he did take a pay cut and he's now on a less salary than what he was on and I think for anyone who's seen that salary you know what a shame. Think this is he has stated you know that he is a very similar parallel that John swift she almost had John says you know I'm like is this guy so joins with he makes reference. Pushing me out they're pushing me out they want someone younger I know things that they don't know and going back to that comment you made about. Their detective working the spies he again I think this is something John really believes himself because he makes reference to that improper old school detective work which I love they go to clubs and I believe that this is probably how John Simpson has operate and continues to operate he doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would do a better social media or you know Google sleuthing to find out you know what he needs to know I think he's very old school and that's why I think this reflects Peter with regard to the book and so you felt it needed a bit of editing Yeah I think that his problem is he doesn't really know when to stop rating you know it's I mean I mean the story overwrites under. He does both of those things it's underwritten in the sense that he doesn't really have any Can a real fully or to nothing sort of special but the right thing but it doesn't either have the sort of. The punch you get with the best plane rating you know this can is if he senses you might find in and Raymond Chandler jungle carry which I think are probably models for him and which he hopes and emulate he just doesn't have a parent's work but he also has a tendency to I mean he he can't resist similes that would have been better we have to resist it I think there's the there's one where he talks to his murdered friends and he says his face kept swimming into my dreams like Richard the 3rd victims the night before Bosworth which I think is just you know it's just too much and also he just assumes very basically he just uses too many words you know he's a guy that can or resist the one sentence too many you know there's there's a bit where a chapter ends even when I cause the door of enter sanctum I could still hear him walking through the woods and then yards Well the would substitute you know. The law is Alan Parker stuff and I think the problem is that he's a news guy you know and when you're writing scripts for broadcast in the news there's no room. For nuance are implying something you have to be quick on the news but in print specially in fiction it's often more powerful just ticking away things unsaid than to make the reader do a bit of work and I think he's just too walked into his his newsman's we have written here I don't know if you'll agree with me on this one but the one thing that really bugs me in his writing was the continuous reference to you might recognize me on the T.V. That guy from the T.V. And then he would be hired they're out like when I interviewed someone so and I'm just like right OK we get your established we did this in chapter one let's again go in here. Try and find the positive on this one looking through your notes you feel you could paint a pretty good picture you know what for yeah he does over and he does he should stop using so many similes but he can paint an incredible picture he painted Russia like most school was incredible you could you could picture that and again if you couldn't relate to the pompous language or the smugness of the catheter you could certainly feel like you were with him and in Moscow and actually even just the death scene when they're going in there and describing how the room in the where the body was and actually everything on the wall like I could picture the pictures in my head and the office in Leo and I think that's something he does really well there have. Been pleased so let's finish them on a very Would you be recommending this book to friends colleagues and the likes of you could you know I think if you want to know the real John Simpson give a read OK Peter No and I can even do that Mike hope to visit the charity shop because the margins are full of my new beginner so it's kind of constructive criticisms but end it's mainly swearing and it's funny. I think I quite like to have a look about myself thanks very much they get to know Rose and Peter Ross joined Simpson's revolutionary thriller Bosco midnight is published by George money and it is out now for more information head to the Afternoon Show Web page moments from D. We're going to be reviewing windows of the new film from Steve the new phone from Steve McQueen director. Of the Oscar winning 12 Years a Slave place plus Michael Morpurgo looks a job very special live reading an ember of his classic war story War Horse with music by the R. S. And going to be joined on stage by actor Juliet Stevenson generate the tale and news day I was next to the B.B.C. Readers going away to get some new teeth to take us to they had a cracking topical tune suggested by Helmut B. And Scottish Well that's Martin a feel good song to finish off with What about this one from below Mr Sky Thanks for listening. To. Them they. Can. Let. The air. They. Let's. Play it live I. Still live. Oh. I. Can't seem to. Radio stuff. 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