Statement good evening everybody and welcome. I am the coowner of the store along with my wife and we are delighted to have joshua hemmer back with this at p p. Joshua was here for his last book, about four years ago, and i would of course was the bad librarian in timbuktu which told the riveting story of how an art you fist in timbuktu managed with a very brave helper to smuggle more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under miltons to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a best seller and established josh as someone and i truly believe it was a great story. And he said to begin, with his new book, the falcon thief which has another true and gripping tale of adventure. But this one about wildlife. And josh is a journalist by training and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer and within a few years, he was asked to cover the rest of the world,
Jihadists to safety about 6 miles away. The book was a bestseller and josh is someone with a knife or some truly Great Stories and he has done it again with his new book falcon sees which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure this one about wildlife smuggling. Josh is a journalist by trading and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined it newsweek in the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. And back here in the us in los angeles. For the past decade and a half he has continued to report and travel widely writing for a range of publications. Four years ago he 10 National Magazine award in reporting. That was a prizewinning story that told the story of aor physician who would lead the effort to control the ebola outbreak. In addition to the timbuktu josh wrote three other previous works were on about his younger brother who became a relig
The man i loved. Did he deserve to die . No. And im very sorry for what happened. I should have been a stronger person. I should have left him earlier. But i just couldnt. You can watch our fulll interviewjust before 10 30. And british stars did brilliantly at last nights emmys with killing eve and fleabag both picking up awards. I find writing really, really hard and really painful but id like to sayjust honestly from the bottom of my heart that the reason that i do it is this hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. We are going to spend quite a bit of time talking about thomas cook. If you have a holiday booked with the company, let us know what your plans we re company, let us know what your plans were and what you can do now. Much more to come on that in a moment but first the news with joanna. More to come on that in a moment but first the news withjoanna. Good morning. Thomas cook, one of the worlds biggest Tour Operators, has collapsed after last ditch
With george ford at fly half. It isa it is a pretty chilly start to your friday. Mist and fog around, too. But lots of sunshine to come. I will have the details on breakfast. Its friday the 20th of september. Our top story the future of thomas cook is hanging in the balance this morning, as it scrambles to raise £200 Million Pounds to secure an Emergency Rescue deal. Britains oldest package holiday firm must secure the funds before a crucial meeting next friday. Ninas here to explain what this could mean for its customers and staff. Lots of people concerned about their jobs. And millions of holidays. It has been around since the 1840s. Hundreds of high street branches. May, they revealed £1. 5 billion of losses over the past six months and warned that they were tough times ahead. Lots of debt. They blamed lots of reasons. One of them brexit uncertainty. People making fewer bookings. Also the heatwave meant we we re bookings. Also the heatwave meant we were spending less on holidays a
Back into the ashes . Berlin and paris. Really, although the third test at headingley gets under way this morning. Open to ideas, no fundamental shift, and looks whos ready to steam in again. Because the fundamental problem is that the eu sees that have got to be good morning. There is still some ove rco m e that the eu sees that have got to be overcome still remain. And mr rain in the forecast in the northern half of the country. Tomorrow, as we johnson has got to present new ideas head into the weekend, a bank if they are to move at all. And holiday for some is going to be mostly dry and hot or warm depending aside from these talks particularly, is there a sense in france of our on which end of the country youre in. Ill have more details in 15 new Prime Minister . What do they make of Boris Johnson . To be honest, minutes. Its thursday, august 22nd. I think many are waiting for this, waiting to see what mrjohnson has our top story borisjohnson to say. But with little hope will go hea