Clint would send a clear message that an independence referendum must be held next year the conservatives and Lib Dems are ruling not so while Jeremy Coburn says he'd oppose another vote in the 1st 2 years of a Labor government our political editor Brian Taylor was listening to what Mr to not to say she's talking about policies including escaping from Breck said a referendum across the u.k. If possible if if if necessary if the only alternative is a no deal Breck said revoking Article 50 altogether scrapping brags that he's talking about defending n.h.s. Spending as part of an increase in public spending making benefits and pensions more generous and also scrapping Trident coming the close not the manifesto launches in Scotland just the Liberal Democrats to come on Friday. The Labor Party has obtained u.k. Government documents which it says proves that the n.h.s. Is up for grabs in any potential trade talks with the us after brags that Jeremy carbons had the papers proved Boris Johnson's assertions that the n.h.s. Was not for sale were false but Mr Johnston has insisted the claims are total nonsense the Scottish conservatives have suspended their election candidate for Glasgow Central over alleged use of anti muslim language the party said Flora Scott a Bello has been suspended from the party and will face an internal investigation. A former manager of Celtic boys' club has had one of his convictions for sexually abusing young footballers quashed by the appeal court judges ruled that the 84 year old had been the victim of a miscarriage of justice David Cowan report fraud Kerry was found guilty of sexually abusing young players between the 1960 s. And eighty's but after his child the defense discovered that one of the alleged victims had previous convictions for dishonesty in England's Cairney appealed against his conventional not one charge saying the current should have disclosed the witnesses criminal records the Appeal Court agreed it was a miscarriage of justice the judgment means Cairney sentence will be cut from 4 years to 3 he will qualify for automatic Airlie release next summer tributes have been paid to the writer and broadcaster Clive James who's died at the age of 80 he'd been diagnosed with leukemia nearly 10 years ago but had continued working and writing until a month ago a native of a stroll Yeah he moved to the u.k. In the 1960 s. And found fame hosting popular 1900 television shows the presenter Esther Rantzen remembers him as a consummate performer he excelled in every medium and he was a delight to know and a delight to watch work I'm not sure he was a great dancer he does cut off from the screen and enjoy it but apart from that he he was musical he was literate he was evil as well I mean as a television critic he skew it many many times but you couldn't help enjoying it because he was so good at it. Few cinemas has reversed their decision to pull screenings of the gang themed film Blue story the cinema chain and taken action after a series of violent incidents during screenings including a brawl involving machetes and burning in Birmingham years arts correspondent will go on purpose Tim Richards the chief executive of view international said in 30 years of working in the British film industry he had never known so much aggression and violence in his cinemas in the opening 2 days of the urban dramas release he said 16 of his cinemas were affected reporting $25.00 separate documented significant incidents Mr Richards said he had no choice but to pull the film now having spoken to community leaders producers and his fellow directors he says he is comfortable that he can guarantee the safety of his customers and staff and is therefore putting blue story back on most but not all obvious screens as from this weekend sport know him in Macbeth Celtic manager Neil Lennon says the partial closure of the standing section at Celtic Park for tomorrow night she will plead with rain is not ideal but added the club have made the right decision it comes after a series of fines for misconduct at utopian matches this season Meanwhile Rangers are in Rotterdam to take on fine art as they bid to make their last 32 of the competition Chelsea's Champions League knockout hopes meanwhile will come day into the final game after the age of $22.00 with Valencia saw 2 defending champions Liverpool's after the age of one each with Napoli hearts have held talks of former binds the head coach Daniel Stendhal about the vacancy at Tynecastle the 45 year old German was sacked us month after a run of 10 games without a win in England's championship with his side sitting 2nd bottom and Scott Fraser Patrick has been knocked out of snickers u.k. Championship he lost to Mark Williams But Graeme Dott and Steve Maguire both progress after wins today that's your sport Duncan has your weather and on Friday hell the rain will clear sorry on Thursday getting ahead of myself there early rain will clear even much of that he dry with some bright or summit sunny spells that's b.b.c. Radio. Scotland use them can bring it on and I think we work in late June at this late every night yes apart from that apart from the days or were very early. Stuff like. This is the day next to a junkie t. I am thanks for your company tonight here's a taste of our calls for the both of you at the school level. That we want to play the. Health Care that. 50 years ago on public t.v. Anything you know you can't deny that. Almost anything tile could think of something like the National Health Service or political to be a lot of about things going well I'm talking about the area I live you know being able to eat in the local Church Street you can get in touch with us about any of the hot topics the n.h.s. Taxation and hopefully we can chat about the high street before half 12 with the high street not and the claim nationally and the loss of major crimes how can it be revived to its former glory please call me always going 59295 w. Can text 80 to 9 for debate night extra with John Beatty on b.b.c. Radio Scotland call mas or wait a week 59295 Donald far to ext the top 2500 more charges apply this is b.b.c. Radio with. Me Tonight Tracey character from the s.n.p. Katrine Bussy from the Press Association Karen Lindsay Lib Dems Diane Elliott breaks it Party and next week we'll have a panel consisting of the 4 main parties in this election conservative liberal Democrats s.n.p. And labor and for a full list of candidates in your constituency go to the b.b.c. News website and head for the election section 080859295 double Hello Gus. The figure is equal to the a for the reason the taxation I lose Wissmann stuff I go to all the add in but if I go stuff that way as mine is that I totally dispute it but I wonder just how just because many of the trade to buy Scottish government economists and the maximum error is less than one percent my main issue is with. Not defeating the elation a Such as if we were the examine so many Clinton being paid over the years by the ocean have a device lean fleeted strokeplay sees the hospitals being built vastly inflated places maybe then you could put money back and heal Chevys to help people if you look at the local school he calls the case in Glasgow for half a 1000000000 pounds which had been on one in 50 or deals as soon as an s.n.p. Administration came it was funny how the unions and to call the half a 1000000000 base going to go into the social Kitty that he thinks in Gloss cool and there is a correlation between a quality Hooshang on the health and mental will a mental health and in the good the good the good years the golden years of age 20 we have been caught in brain and skull Insecticons who says what about the thought of last year the skull then but only to fall any disappeared in the ocean storm gusted I think you are right there you were talking about that this is the money that was the pay increases to the women for equal pay yet I had been gone for many many years and it was funny so you don't think this should have been paid that mind you that money should be going to the Energizer I do believe he should have been paid but they should be jailed many many years before on base June is an ace in the administration to call it funny how the unions then became very very proactive in Phoenix case this case couldn't buy into the eighty's and it's funny how you Cities agree it takes all the pain the go for them. Not to be salted whale a new Yes not just a nest but I bet they will look at places and local government finances so a lot more gain issue with equal pay settlement get their issue with how it was a going to be by the unions for to many many years ago. When the Labor Party were in control and they have stolen control in large parts of Central Asia calling for answers and on the whole should be taught in school but that will have been dealt with a lot of pain 15 years that substandard substandard quality speak to most parents in those still getting the skills that teachers and able to get at the skills I mean belt have been substandard the quality required for the new century Ok go thank you very much Nadler the calls coming in a way to avoid 59295 double oh why don't we go to Rob hello Rob Oh there. What's your point. I was just listening to the to be a little on the left in testicles and you're going to go on the. Same thing at the cost of all the over the last 2550 years successive governments in Westminster have prosecuted Lou taxation. And all the Telo the Rx to get that shot and to gain votes from the rest of us. All our services nothing because we're not contributing enough and to the part anybody who's up and complains that the National Health Service of myself as a good enough I live on to put a hand in the pockets of the instinct is the fiscal balance the total fiscal balance for the u.k. Is very low the deficit is one percent so it's 3 percent against the e.u. The Scottish one is 7 percent So in terms of the u.k. The u.k. Is doing pretty well they're actually raising enough sort of enough tax to pay for the costs. Right sort of easing enough tax dollar why why is it that the budget coming to school every year gets less and less and that's less and less spent on all these things compared to what was spent on them years ago. You know if you look back a few hours back to when I was you know young man leaving school and get a job I paid higher tax and a little more than I look today and services were much better than any chances of a Rhodes Well you know collections all those things I've always kept and I'm just a local authorities and you see. Ok Rob thank you very much they let me just tell everyone listening the money coming to Scotland every year for a total spend per person in Scotland 201415127201516129201617132278135 etc It's been going up every year so let me go shall we to Karen Lindsey we've not heard from you for a while there is this constant there is a there's a conflict isn't there because ideally want everything to be fully paid for and we've got callers saying well it's a wonderful system but we don't fully pay for it what's your take I think it's you know I said before I think we need to have this honest conversation about what sort of public services we actually want and I think we want to actually think that we want high quality public services we want. Things that make our lives easier and actually I think I'm quite impressed actually by the left by the left that manifesto this week which actually had much of modest tax increases but did most of the poor in the labor manifesto. But if you're a limited member you would be impressed on a faster course I am very surprised how came I said I really am I know that m.p. Manifesto No but actually you're talking about. That manifesto does actually more more for the tourist last despite. Any of the office. I asked the independent resolution facially only today to more trade if you do a lot of modern modest tax increases Tracy character from the s.n.p. He respond to that. Actually to think that people and more should pay more honestly do not don't think I don't think the majority of them with the 60 us. People the s.n.p. . Have a video pick this us tax system people on board interns and middle interns are paying less and people that in and more Guinness to pay that extra nothing that's only right Diane. Yeah again I think we need to expound on terror of where we get our taxes from you know we've got to build the economy we've got to. Which could just go to expand the tax space I think that's all you know we've we can do that we can do that by supporting small businesses and that's where the packs a party want to do we want to see them you know talk to all 3 the you know we have 50 minutes left but I don't hear many political parties going to go along we're going to raise a lot of tax I think we're going to put off to all the taxes of you I want you all to pay more tax I think $1.00 of the really one of the most striking statistics I've I've heard when I've I've covered stories about tax and the Scottish budget is the fact that 45 percent of people in Scotland don't peeing come tax because the amount that the falls below the personal allowance threshold so I think if you're talking about increasing the amount of money you research from taxes I think as well as as looking at who you tax you know that there has to be some way to try and increase people's earnings so that to maybe take them into the tax threshold that's almost half the people in Scotland not paying income tax because their their earnings are deemed to be too low and yet income tax is the big tax take isn't it if you look at the graphs league Scottish government produce income tax is the big tax take. Who would increase income tax Katrine would your research tells you what when you look at political parties they don't nationally say well yes what we'll do is you know you can all play some more tax I think Labor have talked about increasing income tax I know we don't have anybody here from labor in the panel here tonight Scottish Labor certainly have talked about restoring. The 50 p. Tax rate for the very highest earners those earning over $150000.00 pounds I think that's something that the same p. Have looked at but have shied away from in the past in case it causes issues with tax like the idea that people. Either physically move south of the border or do some kind of clever accountancy which would all be perfectly legal and above board but moved there are taxable be south of the border so that they would be classed as a rest of the u.k. Taxpayer rather than the Scottish one as you say the Liberal Democrats are talking about increasing income tax by a penny and the conservatives I think have no plans at the moment to increase income tax I tell you what he's a question as well if you want to call him is would you want would you pay more tax would you voluntarily I mean I always surprise me there's never been a fund you can say like this think my money if I have extra money in this fund the math fund must be spent let's say only on the n.h.s. 080859295 double 00 Joan 00000 and welcome welcome it's a beautiful evening is that cold or their belief doing no I haven't. Been. Watching the show or did you enjoy it. Visually disagree with so many. Jurisdictions I am a member of one of the political parties. Ok I meant and read and I'm phoning today. I think there are no question you've been discussing. Peepin and Julie criticised. The n.h.s. . Wanting to discipline into is a was actually between intending to be sure one of them was the construction of the hospital. To criticize quite rightly so and with no managed by the Scottish government that was what the 1st point to online. The 2nd point was in response to one of the callers to your sure. Believe me I believe to the northeast right. Sure I think should. Be for the last 2 p.g.p. Keys. But then she went on to see that she also believed that breaks did no harm to any chance which is really no issues because we don't know the n.h.s. To stop people from Europe and for Littlefield. Well I think if we. If we do when Bracks that happens we can expand those off friends of jobs of nurses and doctors to more than your we can it can be more favorable because we can open the door to people all over the world musical and Australia you know it's it's just more choice of I don't like interrupting but you would have seen Fraser around the report would you give in to the Scottish Parliament. About job losses from Bracks in in the 1st 10 years in Scotland 80000 jobs lost Yeah but. Why is there going to be those job losses why because banks are why only able to bring in people from all over the world and why are we just only focusing on the people from your I think that's factored into the calculation by the economists. It's going to take time no doubt about it but the thing is we can open our doors to morrow and also we need to be trained in our own doctors in our own I mean why we've got people. Well why did they do that you know we need to be retain our own young people train and make ensure they have the proper opportunities and they're able to get into our health service while the Norway's looking outside for people to come and help us. Believe. Science and intrigue because of. Restrictions which ones you've lost me which training. Is applying to come from from the rest you. Have to true going. And training training Nash. I think I think that's right I think there are minimum earning restrictions for people moving into the United Kingdom as it stands off the top of my head I think the stand at 32000 although a could be wrong on that so though there would certainly potentially be issues in the tracting Trini nurses also that the amount of time it would be to train up not just nurses but particularly doctors who go through several years of medical school that could could cause problems for the n.h.s. As well 080859295 double as the number to call we've got 10 minutes if you're in the n.h.s. So you've had treatment or you think the s.n.p. Is criticised incorrectly I'd love to hear from you we'll also check to Margaret in just a couple seconds on the 12th of December Scotland like the rest of the u.k. Will return to the polls for the general election 29000 in the run up to voting day Good Morning Scotland will be travelling around the country to find out what matters to you in this election will be questioning politicians and candidates from across the parties on the policies and why you should vote for them and you'll hear from experts who will look to scrutinize and check what we're told listen when you wake up I'm right across the day to follow the campaign trail election 2019 here on b.b.c. Radio Scotland got something to say text the top 2005 standard message rates apply debate night extra with John Beattie on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Point 085-9295 double as the number one Margaret Hi I'm just trying Elaine really to hospitals and Lee and a chair. I just spent 6 months and. I had a lens of health crisis and I had to be taken into hospital and I lost a nurse to the doctors and. And there were fantastic I really found tolerance at Excellent I did find there was times when I was sure artist and I was heartbreak and at times because there was a lot of pressure there and we could do it more staff and then just had tossed but just but I couldn't say enough of this particular unit and pays me I don't like mentioned I had to spend 2 tickets or is a night as. Well as a patient Andy and me and I didn't have to wait. But I wanted to also comment prescriptions. Are there and you have to pay. About $350.00 for each prescription at. The product but the rest of Asia is paid by the has Borge but you do have to pay some money for your prescription Margaret thank you so much for calling in Margaret from Paisley. Now we will be talking a lot just coming up next a look shall we at the high street with the high street in decline nationally and the loss of major brands are going to be revived to its former glory given that within the next week we have Black Friday and Cyber Monday the biggest online shopping days he's what So my money food writer and broadcaster to say well I'm a big advocate of the small high street shop what I mean I know very few shops that still exist on my high street I live in a small village just out of Glasgow and there's nothing there that is can constitute as a village shop what's happened to them has it all just gone away because nobody cares anymore No it's because I think online shopping has taken over people can't be bothered to go outside and shop they can't be bothered to support people who stand there there are very few shops that I specifically will go to because I know that there's someone behind that it's everything become faceless that's the problem oh wait no it 59295 doubles the number to call one audience member had strong feelings and action of people here should maybe look at that boat in communities again get people back at the height. And the labor manifest still Labor wants to bring $55.00 broadband to all by the year 2030 Should the player to be funded is placed a social inclusion both in committees and timely access to mental health services rather than a rather than downhill fit connection and that does what oh Ok social connections let's Well I wonder what your high streets like 59295 double is the number of lonely. John thank you for talking to us to me but what you think I mean you near me there's a bit of a decline in the High Street you know you you turn up and if you we coffee shops if you betting shops the better the banks gone what do you think's happening. Interferon it's pretty much the same suppose it's just a political visual sizzle as coffee shops and in short I think. That evil to the Kings which is a clear lesson to Ice-T. However they completely replaced anybody want to start up a small business completely People became completely. Teleco of the time. As far as I can remember of the $25.00 to $6000.00 pounds a year for the lease alone before if an innocent and an o.c. With a cost of energy post touches on the shelf as the moms are being greedy I think in the end it's just insanely they know they'll get it because if they don't then as p. For any we do I mean they'll get their investment from the cancelled today and Anyway so then it's really no loss to people. I think that there is no need to change in the guys that actually stick and says need to be a little more forward with a fund and get before these breaks or part fund set up. And I watched these coming to charge the thank you thank you for the Corcoran Lindsay What do you think we need to do about it. And I think it's really important that we make sure that you know people who have small businesses who want to invest in the High Street have access to the funding to enable enable them to do so I think it's really important to encourage kind of independent shops to just to set up. And actually maybe lose the big companies maybe I just try and I think. I just have the high street is a really kind of vibrant. Place to go and you have to think about it and you do have to think about business rate because I mean that is just a punitive cost for people. You know I can't you know it will have this kind of sort of bustling diverse interesting high streets that are just kind of identikit. That huge change but also you need to think as well how many of the huge change of house have kind of collapsed over the last week while. Under reasons for that Ok thank you so you think we need to reduce this this race class and get breakfast party so one of our main points in our contract is to replace business right with the simplest system to enable people to start their businesses we also need to look at creative planning solutions for the High Street you know entrepreneurial provisions the young people help them with loans and help them to get involved in business we need to get creative about what kind of things we can use the high street for and again community getting people involved in various different things and in the community in the High Street which will bring people in their shops multi-use thing it was on the program they're talking about have been innovative studios and work spaces and all of this could be a cheater It just needs a little bit of innovation crazy you can see. Little change in the way people shop hopefully there is a bit more local shopping but you have business rates you have landlords rates as well there are quite a few costs involved in just being a little local shop that we actually am the sweet referring. Nixon with subject chain but the concerted includes and locally just to the fact that the rain is get an increased risk there of 60 local jobs and also just to the local economy people's shopping habits have actually changed those people pull in line more so we need to be saying what high streets we had Are we out do not look clear that we're actually build in hosting them with another local high streets the be the Opi coffee shops there will be pubs everything will be together will be more like a social experience and that the times and there's a and I think that's part of the problem I think you know when you're talking about . Shopping I think we need to take into account how society has changed you know we're we're the country in the u.k. That has one of the longest working weeks in in Europe so people can't necessarily do their shopping in that the 95 the small business on the the high street is open and they were talking about small businesses why can't they also set up online thank you very much Nate Listen I've enjoyed your company I hope count gets better personal. He's ill but he'll be back next week and thank you to Tracy and to train and to Karen and Diane thank you for your company's about all your calls and texts and tweets don't miss Callum next week I'll be back only tomorrow midday if they let me back on with his voice but right here on b.b.c. Radio Scotland we join our colleagues on 5 life but. On digital radio and fan medium wave on the b.b.c. Sound b.b.c. Radio you Scott. Category run to the west but this was a fine specimen the door lock had been forced from the inside by a grateful and try to get out of it so that he could jog it. The controls fell readily to hand and from there to the floor. When the engine roared into life with all the confident power of a rat running in a wheel I was free to cope with the 4 speed gearbox. There used to be 3 forward speeds available for people trying to defect and the reverse for when they failed. But all I could find was a version of neutral the translated into forward motion if I kept my foot on the brake Clive to his postcard from well let's give the final word to him and this is him writing reading I should say one of his critically acclaimed poems this is sentenced to life I watched the Pacific sunset heavens and in glowing colors and in sharp relief painting the white clouds when the days paint as if it were my will and testament as if my 1st impressions were my last and time had only made the mood to find now I am weak the skies overcast here in the English autumn but my mind box in the light I never left behind. Clive James 55 it's just come home possibly not on digital b.b.c. Sent me. B.b.c. Radio 5 Live. Summary labor is Danding by its claims that a Conservative government would push the n.h.s. On the table in trade negotiations with the us after Boris Johnson described him as nonsense the shadow cabinet member Barry Gardner insist says a real risk that money will be sucked out of the health service because costs will go up a new election poll tonight puts the conservatives comfortably in the lead with a project a majority of $68.00 M.P.'s You Gov asked around 100000 people how they would vote tomorrow if they had to the Alzheimer's Society says calls to its dementia helpline have more than doubled in the past decade with many families asking for help immediately after Christmas the charity says it dealt with 45000 calls last year alone and 60000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in Texas after 2 explosions as a chemical plant firefighters assume at the site import natures but it's not sure what's caused the blasts that's at this point now he's defending champions Liverpool will need at least a point in their final group game at Red Bull Salzburg to guarantee reaching the last 16 of the Champions League after a lackluster $11.00 draw at Anfield against Napoli victory tonight would have put would have ensured the Reds go through as group winners but you're going club side have now lost twice and drawn once against Napoli in their last 4 competitive fixtures Yes obviously I struggle when I play knobbly sorry for that but there's more about how good they are nevertheless last year we went through we won here so that was the most important thing this year we have to fight until the last day of 2 group when it was exactly the same what we had to do last year so it's not not really new for us Chelsea will also have to wait until the final round of group matches to confirm their spot in the Champions League last 16 Frank Lampard so he. I draw 2 to a way of Valencia happy to a degree you come you come here to win a match obviously but you respect the opponent respect the Champions League and how tough it is and expect it with respect to stadium like this we saw that was a really tough match for us but it does keep in our hands now it's on us in the last game I'm too low from whatever way so that's a positive and there were positives and negatives out the game but I suppose if if Chelsea beat a match they think they will be through striker Tommy Abraham There was set stretchered off at half time after falling all quickly after an aerial challenge at the top of the championship West Brom have their 2 point advantage over 2nd place leads back to West Brom thrashed Bristol City 41 at home Celtic manager Neil Lennon says the decision to close part of their stadium for Thursday's Europa League tie with ren is not ideal but is the right decision part of the standing section which houses the Green Brigade ultras will be empty in response to another way for fine in rugby union alst as well Addison's been banned for 4 weeks after a dangerous tackle in their game against Clermont Auvergne in the European Champions Cup at snooker and Mark Selby was among the big names to win his 1st round match at the u.k. Championship in New York on Wednesday the 2 time former champion beat on the Hicks by 6 frames to nil and was pretty pleased to progress Yeah it is new territory for me and I got into the 2nd round to the stage of not really not really at this for the last few years but now I mean cause it's in the back you Monem you look at yesterday local went to go but went so the standards are so tough now there's not really even though they are shots and you have favorites in much as it doesn't really surprise me hopefully being on the tour and seeing these players play because I know a good deal Great Britain's Olympic trampoline silver medalist from Rio 2016 briny page says she's probably a better competitor now despite having returned to the sport after ankle surgery Paige is about to compete in the world's trampoline championships in Tokyo I think it's kind of experience that. Kind of overcomes and obstacles so today I mean that but also like just my technical knowledge and practices. Let's go through the years real impacts went through a really intense time of learning and picking up about sports psychology a British trampoline this briny page you compete in the early hours of this morning and national latest from b.b.c. Sport. B.b.c. Sounds Hello everyone it's a listen John and we are very excited to introduce with Alison John we're going to be talking to range of guests about the challenges sound turtles and setbacks that they might face in their own lives while asking the question how do you call. Them winning. When life began a baby anyway and I definitely get a sense of depression and how do you cope with. The sense this is b.b.c. 5 Live. On the b.b.c. Sounds good center right. Yes indeed lovely to have your company great interview coming for you but then at 1 o'clock it will be time for a polite with well chop Hello hello you know we're remembering Clive James I've spent I spent a long time talking to Melvyn Bragg about Clive James and I wanted to talk to Peter who wrote songs at least Clive James wrote the lyrics and Peter wrote the music and it's a whole other aspect of him which I was really unaware of. So much together and it was one of the things that Clive James loved doing more than anything else probably so lots of lovely memories of Clive James Well also talk about. An impeachment worked 868 the 1st president to be impeached Johnson and how very very partisan cut and thrust the atmosphere was around that and by the way he wasn't removed from office because the Senate but him live as it were by one vote a big story of tick tock. To that's the other thing we're talking about a woman who has one of the other many things we'll talk about be honest Sarah a woman in the United States who did beauty tips on tech talk and then started to talk about China's treatment of the wiggers and it's gone viral very interesting since Tech Talk is itself a chinese up Roth thank you very much look forward to it now earlier John Campbell brought us her pick of best of freights were a couple away days away from December so we thought just about acceptable one of the most prolific and successful writers of season stories is Tricia Ashley a latest novel a Christmas invitation consists of rye opus of Asians about human frailties and is currently top of the Kindle chart I had a chat with a rally and began by asking her what the book's all about my heroine Maggie is about 36 my heroines generally tend to be in their thirty's. And she's had an interesting past but she's now quite a well known portrayed artiste. And she is steamroll it into agreeing to go and stay over Christmas at the Red House which is upon the Lancashire Morris and paint to portray pts she doesn't really want to but but she has more or less steam relit into it. What is it about women in their thirty's that that make you put them as your protagonist as your heroine so frequently it's a really great interesting age I think between bed and late thirty's because my heroines of all had a very interesting past of one kind or another things have happened to them that hatch cope with things but still all the possibilities are open to the future it's a golden time actually I am just very sadly recently out of that period of how long I think. I remember it with great film most of those dogs are already but there are infinite possibilities all like Well there are I mean you know you can start again a new career a new life reinvent yourself you could still have children. You know this new relationships. The will still be. And yet you have much more confidence and you know yourself a lot better than you did when you were in your twenty's or even your early thirty's you do yes you've sort of come to terms with things and got on with life and. It's coping I think yes indeed it is yeah it's really interesting I'm getting I'm getting very nostalgic for it now that we're thinking about it but it is I think it's when you are probably at the height of your powers in a lot of ways potentially it is but then you know getting older as well that has an awful lot to say for it as well or do you do give even less of a monkey's the older you get it is always nice Well yes and I do like to write several generations in one book Yes So right across the age groups and you will say I love animals they erred you're right you're right I'm a little I do yes dogs and cats and hens and. I have American readers who who complain if there are no hens. Where is their love of what's all that about I think I don't know who I mean I have kept hens in the past I'm quite fond of hens but. You know I don't know where the hens come in don't know what it is about them that they were because readers like I write how much are your your novels and your characters informed by your own experience. Well my characters are never me because there wouldn't be any fun in that you know so I like to know where they've come from and what's happened to them and get inside the skin I was right 1st person so once I know what they're like I draw them into a situation and see what they do which is never what I would do myself. Which makes it a whole lot more interesting but of course I deal with a lot of issues that people I know have dealt with you know there are darker issues in there that they have to deal with like some books I've mentioned miscarriage breast cancer the death of a loved elderly relative there's always some darker issue running through it. You know it's about it is need to get to give them that that extra layer that extra depth and yes gravity is a person yes I mean just writing mindless froth wouldn't be any fun at all what do you say to people who do discover would describe your type of work as a chick lit well it is a and outworn catch all phrase for anything but swim inspection and I don't know why there is a sort of sneering reference to it which is a lazy journalist way of referring to women's fiction but it's persisted the moment well it has and the only other shown right that really gets the same sort of stick is fantasy writers and this Terry Pratchett's once said about that you know he he cries all the way to the bank about actually. Indeed wisely said as does George r.r. Martin presumably Well yes Lilian writers you know I say yes exactly right there is a sort of small business about the literary in the genre yes crime crime writers experience that too don't I Well they do but they do have a little bit more clout I think probably because they are banding together more strongly that's interesting points do you do you find that that they are more collegiate bondage. They do seem to have a bit more organization about them. And of course a lot of the men that's true but champ some of the best crime writers are women and I'm very fond of Ellie Griffith and Kate Ellison my 2 current favorites Val McDermid is one of my fellows Yes she's great and Susan Hill surveillance Yaris Yeah if you read a lot of course I'm yes that's my go to Regis is Cosi crime yes it is it's that's another interesting thing isn't it because although maybe there is a preponderance of my Luther's in the crime shown or it is mostly read by women yes I would say that's true yeah what's all that about. Oh I do wonder why why we love crime was even flicking through united through the streaming service is today going what Darkon divorced or fullness can I watch now. Because I've been if I like sort of settled on the French forms Bartels Harvey what you got and I get home very late I think it is with probably quite cathartic isn't it to listen to something that is not something like that I think the set right must be for you because it's the absolute polar opposite of writing a Christmas invitation which is warm and you can almost smell the mulled wine Yes I call my world I write about Trisha world you know you have to suspend normal life and just go through the door and enter into it. And I've invented a specific area of Lancashire that's only in my head which stretches from just above Southport on to the Lancashire Morris and I call that Tricia world but I tie it into real places like Holmes gak Yes. It's a magical landscape I must say and it used to great effect in how many novels now. One of my readers said the other day that she thought it was about 18 I must count up but it's somewhere around there and how many of those all winter slash Christmas related. I think specifically this that's probably about a chore 9 Christmas ones but because I love Christmas so much is some of them you know to have Christmas scenes and it sort of sneaks over and. Well then given that you are the ultimate Christmas Prize for in some way what was it what is it about Christmas that you love and how does Tricia actually celebrate Christmas. Well I love what I love cooking baking basic baking known as they've sort of fancy t.v. Stuff with layers of sugar on and you know like proper wonky cakes with burned it's around the signs and you know dips in the middle and so I love baking. Especially And I love old bulls Christmas tree bubbles and decoration of the tree so I've got all that in the current book particularly. It's just magical and I do like the way the old pagan traditions have been sort of absorbed into the Christian tradition you know so they haven't gone away they're still there they're indivisible now they are yes yes I mean the Romans were quite good at this sort of thing to taking over and absorbing. And I was with somebody. Who has a front for the middle class and our children's swimming practice the. Revised Standard What should our kids really sinking think is their very. Very God . And she was she owns a cafe and she was saying we've got this great thing up stairs now over the Christmas period of course Santa sorting office and you know it's really wonderful because it's more about you go in and you talk about you know not just be naughty or nice but all the all the different children across the world and how it's difficult for science to get to them you know and it's a bit more about the true spirit of Christmas and. How you are never meant. To live for love by a ticket for lawyers you know not quite what it's all about and I you know they shouldn't take the magic of the you know the crave been you know I mean the red house in my book The crib is empty and then Christmas Eve the baby suddenly appears in it you know ready for Henry the little the little boy coming down next to him. And seeing it I think that's one of the best things. About this book is The conflict between megs pagan upbringing and the Christmas celebration she's locked into yet she's sort of sucked into it you know after never really having no net. And she really enjoys it you notice despite everything and I like the way river the grand further father who's a pagan. Comes to the Red House and he obviously goes back he want to got this far yet but he goes back intending to absorb some of these new traditions into his old pay contractions so there is that overlap how much of that affects your Christmas the Christianity side of it. Well I'm not a church goer but you know I I have a lot of friends who do celebrate in that way but I also have a lot of pagan friends so. Yeah I do think about the true meaning of what it's all about and also I think quite a lot of my readers are alone at Christmas and they foundation to my book or all my Christmas books I tend to read the whole lot in a row so they vanish into my Christmas over Christmas and I think that's it's a survival skill isn't it that's very saddened and very lovely at the same time how do you know that a lot of your readers are alone at Christmas Well they tell me so they write here they write to me yes I also have a big annual fan meet in London which I've just had so there are about 40 of them there you know that they get their 5 minutes with me and it's interesting to hear their various experiences and I think books like mine have a great service in that they can help a lot of readers to get through very difficult times not just Christmas but illnesses and brief moments and so on if you can vanish into a book by an author that's a favorite it is a survival skill because you come out at the end thinking I feel a bit refresh now I can cope I'll get on with the next but I've got to deal with it because it's not just escapism is it it's nobility familiarity of somebody that you feel has cares for you know why Yeah I was writing the book well that's set in it's a sharing progress process writing you know you want to share with your readers and you're happy for them to come into your world and you know when you meet them you're all going to have the same sense of humor and you're all going to get all of them and they all get on wonderfully when they get together do their yes I go What sort of ages although they're mostly women of the men and women. The majority are women and my youngest readers is 14 that I know of and they go up into the ninety's so they're all ranges of age. Where experience everything but I do have more and more male readers and I think this is because of the e-books because I used to get e-mails from them saying you know I don't like to be seen reading a book with a galley cover but now I've got my Kindle I can read anything I like I mean Menlove rom com film so why wouldn't they love a rom com book How brilliant is their having a Kindle is basically like having a fake cover on your own you know the brown paper wrapper is your Kindle you know and I see that you are currently number one in the Kindle Store I am number one in the Kindle Store overall today and I think it was last week of the week before I was 2nd for the whole week overall and I was 2nd to leech child and I can live with that wow for that there is the top selling crime writer for yes I actually met him last week as well for the rest time Satyr is it with my publisher Transworld Yes So what was that like Oh it's absolutely charming it was a talk. And I went up and introduced myself afterwards and he is so entertaining you know if you get a chance to hear him talk and yes but he was delightful Yeah but not you know but not delightful enough to be not for you not to be delighted to knock him off the tops for a pretty Reno but he would probably have sent Reacher after me if I had. Trish it presumably because you also prolific you are writing these books about Christmas in the middle of summer. Yes the way it goes I'm usually writing a Christmas book in summer and a some a book in winter so I'm writing a summer book at the moment for next year so what about for writing a Christmas irritation that would you do open the fridge get the sprouts out people often say this but but no you know I've just opened the door in my head to Tricia world and I walk in and it's whatever season I want it to be you know so it was all frozen and there's a dragon village under a reservoir and those high so for it you know I'm I'm just in there and it's like that and then I come out again for a cup of coffee and warm up you know and then I go back in again. What do you some of your favorite Chris with books and why because we're talking about that we can do about that in the program from mine. Well I'm very fond of a book by Fannie Flagg you know she did fried green tomatoes that were struck. And DAWE That book on my door the film I love all her books but she wrote a lovely little book called Red Bird Christmas which I recommend Oh lovely It's about a child who really wants to see the red birds so it's well worth reading. Otherwise you know apart from the obvious Dickens. I don't really read much Christmas but I do watch christmas films and what are your favorite Well it has to be Elf is my outstanding favorite. But my son and I we work our way through films at Christmas and I always watch what Chalet Girl which isn't specifically Christmas but it's wintery Oh I've not seen that shall I go Shall I go Ok great another thing funny fire and shall I go right to kill the president well before you also put some recipe some Christmassy rest of us into this book a part of your love of biking tell us about some of the recipes that you've chosen for this one and on why you like popping recipes in books well I started off several years ago because I often mention food I love food if you could see me you would know I love food. So I kept mentioning food recipes and people baking and readers would say Could I have that recipe you know you can't keep sending recipes out it takes too long so I started pushing them in the books and it's just kept on going. And in this book they have a celebration and it's it always has a treacle cake sticky treacle cake so the recipe for that is in there. Yeah but in some of my other books I like to experiment a bit and there's always leftover mince meat so in some of my other books as mincemeat flapjacks which are absolutely wonderful and great all year round for school breaks and. Church breaks and then I experimented with Eccles cakes and I put mince meat filling in those and it's absolutely delicious that's a match made in heaven it is and it's so easy you can use frozen puff pastry Yes is there later is there anything else like oh you just need a package of that in your freezer and a jar of mint Smeaton and you'll have something absolutely wonderful. That sounds absolutely lovely maybe I don't know if you think about it but one of my favorite recipe books is also by a by a great author of fiction John Harris. Who of course but yes the author with. What I think is of 2 cookery books based on her grandmother's I don't know gosh they go to you know Tricia look for them I think they are very very good I think one's cool the French market I'm going to look it up for you and said it on here. But wonderful and I interviewed her at the Edinburgh Festival during the summer of the great hope that she was going to tell me she was going to release more news like I don't know granny's resprayed they're all die roll or my other favorite but with which had recipes in it was Laura Escobar Like Water for Chocolate Oh yes. There's a magic by Leah Fleming called dancing at the picture cafe which was published years ago it's a lovely book and that's got recipes in it to sort of water I'm sort of ones at Scrabble that's yet another one yeah right well Leah Fleming currently has a very lovely Christmas book such concretes which is a little different and that's called the Olive Garden Christmas choir I'd certainly recommend that one that's really nice it's great on my my Christmas stocking. My mom is completely. Around her is the 1st one of the recipe book The French kitchen and it's really really really lovely and it's you know I tried not stall and Elana as well and immensely at about one easy as well just before I let you go because I always ask all rules as a Tricia to just give some tips I remember reading you want to write that writer's block was a expensive luxury you couldn't afford Yes So any other tips there presumably not to overcome writer's block Well you know writer's block is a is a strange thing I mean you can get it but you don't have to. Stop writing you just do the lateral thinking thing and you tunnel under it or you go around it or you jump a chapter you know and carry on going you don't stop dead especially if you've got a mortgage and you suddenly single with a child you know you you can't afford it if you see that what happened here yes. So yes so you can write yourself out of situations. You just have to follow your star I think but if you're a writer you going to be writing anyway with your published or not successful or not you're right are the words have to come out somehow say just keep writing and and 40 a star I would say is the basic thing and. As I keep saying to writers who tell me you know what's your best bit of advice and I say get on with it. You remind me of my mother very much. Oh yeah if I fell over that. Was all right she'd look at me and I'd much plot. Get up and do your like would have to be hanging off. To school already. I wonder I mean if it's not too personal a question even if you've lost love yes and it how do you then throw yourself headlong into writing stories of romance and the 1st flush of of great love well I think you know I know what it's like to fall in love and you know that lovely feeling. Yes and you always hope that that's going to happen or happen again . So I think kind venture lovely men but I mean there are lots of lovely men out there you know I chose a dot obviously but you know there are lots of lovely ones out there and I have a really lovely son yes you know so I'm I'm certainly very much for men and although I've got some horrible male characters I've got some really lovely ones as well saying yeah you know you got to kiss a lot of frogs what can I say True true and some of them are toads. It's lovely This is a thought yes but I realise that it's a fairy but you have a good Christmas Yes and you to thank you both right that was Tricia Ashley and her book is a Christmas invitation the other 5 that you need to read for Christmas a snow golden by Rachel Joyce studies gone hunting partner Remarkable Creatures try such a valuable winter by Alice Smith and the wonderful Christmas days by Jeanette Winterson and his road shelf with all my. Right away turn up all night he laughed as he typed . 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But once again the B.B.C.'s 1st deregulated leadfree sole financing fully sponsored t.v. Programme for your protection the entire show has been pre-boil for one minute I just had to have a join the board really worms of all the plastic pads covered up that was the bread that he did have he works for the you know the Times Literary Supplement see work for the stream book review he would work for the spectator The New York Times or the most Augusta publications around the world I would classify me as a writer because everything I do is based on writing it when I mean provides it on t.v. 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