Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Efforts. Or to situate slavery back into the history of the president ial plantations, not entirely sure. I went back and forth on how to say that. Im not entirely sure which is the right way to set but what i think is the crucial thing to say is that we are considering the processes that have erased the obvious location of the enslaved in the histories of the presidencies. And everyone here on this panel and many of you in the audience are involved in efforts that precisely do not assume the that slavery is some sort of addition or addon to the president ial histories but rather that the two are inextricable. To that and im really excited to each of us afternoons speakers talk about the work there and equate at the president ial plantations are some good introduced all of them to you now in the order which they will speak, and we had planned the presentations to allow for significant time at the inn for the panelist to both engage each other and the audience to ask questions here so f
And where the athletes eat, sleep and train well get a guided tour behind the scenes. And nick has the weather. Good morning, it is the weekend so there is another weather system coming into the uk. Rain at some stage for all of us. The chance of snow, especially later. And after being less cold today, tomorrow is much colder again. I have yourfull forecast coming up. Good morning. First, our main story. The department for International Development is reviewing its work with oxfam following claims the charity covered up the use of prostitutes by some of its staff. Oxfam has insisted it publicised the action it took against the workers, some of whom were fired. However, the times is reporting several went on to work for other charities who were unaware of their past behaviour. Jessica parker reports. An advert to the charity giant oxfam, it got nearly £32 million from the Uk Department for International Development in the last financial year. To be the Sexual Exploitation scandal, the