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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Talking Books At Hay Festival 20170617

Talking books at hay festival. Hay has been inviting audiences to talk, to think, to read and to reflect for 30 years. Over ten days 250,000 people will rub shoulders with some of the worlds greatest writers, thinkers and performers. All here in the beautiful surroundings of the Brecon Beacons in wales. Today im talking to the australian author tim winton, who once compared writing to surfing. Hes written 28 books for adults and children and his latest, the boy behind the curtain is about his childhood growing up in Western Australia and the impact thats had on his work. Applause now, most writers dont have a fish named after them. Most writers dont have their face on a postage stamp. But then tim winton is not most writers. He wrote his first novel, an open swimmer, when he was just 19 years old, and hes gone on to write nearly 30 more books for adults and children, all very different, but to my mind, all sharing an ear for language, and an eye for the natural landscape, and hes pulle

Transcripts For BBCNEWS Talking Books At Hay Festival 20170618

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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Talking Books At Hay Festival 20170618

For the vast majority, dry and fine and warm. Pretty uncomfortable night for most of us sleeping but for most of us sleeping tonight but tomorrow again looks and dry for tomorrow again looks hot and dry for many. The air tomorrow again looks hot and dry for many. The air creeping south many. The cooler air creeping south gcioss many. The cooler air creeping south across and across scotland and Northern Ireland. Again low 30s in the south and east. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines Government Staff are being drafted in to manage the response to the Grenfell Tower fire following fierce criticism. A team of Civil Servants have been embedded in the Council Office after residents complained theyve received little help. Those affected by the blaze. To allow mps more time to scrutinise brexit legislation. Its been described as an unusual move. 57 people are killed in a forest fire in Central Portugal which continues to spread. Many of the victims burned to death in their vehicles when th

Transcripts For KCSM The Debate 20131127

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