i want my audience members to know, i want to bring this to you from head or high water. hopefully just had. we have interruptions, i want to apologize before him for technical difficulties with the pending storm but it s my pleasure to get this program started by passing it on to the museums stone historian and executive director of our institute for the study of war and democracy. thanks and welcome to everyone from louisiana. quite literally in the path of the storm, a few hours from the eye of the hurricane. the world is getting a lot of the ladder and we hope we don t get any today. we are really excited about today s program. every now and then, you get to interview and author in the case of this particular author, this might be difficult but he s a writer, best selling author of numerous spy among friends great the trail, a great he s written and presented these documentaries of his work. he is a star in the field. ben mcintyre welcome to the national world war ii ab
substantial fellowship. we just got the university to improve a masters program in biography and a two year degree program. it s urban outgrowth of this program here all very exciting. but this evening we are here to listen to ben mcintyre talk about his new biography of the spy and traitor and we are in for a new trait. his book does read like a spy thriller and after his talk we will have time for a few questions and then he will be signing books. we are passing around a clipboard to people. give us your e-mail if you are so inclined so we can tell you about our future event. i think it was in 2010 he just published the obligation to use a corpse dressethe corpse dressa british officer. on that occasion i just have to introduce them and then he got up and wowed the audience as he will today i m sure. i confess for some years now since the first encounter, my wife has wanted me to be ben mcintyre. [laughter] his books sell so much better than mine. [laughter] i always follow
us to bring authors to madison and for us to make it available to everyone for free. take you to them and all our sponsors for putting on wisconsin book festival this year.part of my job as director of course is selecting the books but one of my favorite things about that is being able to find that wisconsin authors doing incredible work. that s what we are going to start with today. i came across this book, the gift of our wounds by party coleco and otto michaelis. tells an incredible story that doesn t matter where you are from its incredible story but the fact it tells an incredible story about wisconsin is even better to me. ãbcame together and he formed a friendship and the hardest of times after the shooting of the sikh temple in milwaukee in 2012. the book, the gift of our wounds, tells that story and it s my distinct pleasure today to welcome parties and arnaud and listen to their conversation. [applause] thank you. good morning. my name is arnold michaelis and dis
bringing us tomorrow. with me are the independent‘s deputy political editor, rob merrick, and the author and broadcaster, natalie haynes. many of tomorrow s front pages are already in. the ft weekend leads on brexit, reporting that labour will vote against theresa may s deal for britain s exit from the eu. comments by a government advisor that parents should turn their phones off at night to set a positive example for their children make the front page of the telegraph. the i weekend leads with a scientific brea kthrough. it says british researchers are developing a blood test for identifying those at risk of heart disease and strokes. an effort to rescue payday lender wonga, which collapsed last month, is to be led by the archbishop of canterbury to help the poor, the guardian reports. the duchess of cambridge makes the front page of the daily mail. the paper says she is launching a campaign to help disadvantaged children. the express is reporting that dame esther rantz
monday and temperatures close to average, still quite pleasant. i wa nt to average, still quite pleasant. i want to show the jet stream format is weak and the idea is that it is coming right at uk. it could well be that the main part of it is focus across the northern half of the uk. the more active weather system is wet, windy and cooler. further south you are, the further you are away from the closer to high pressure and tends to be more settled. it may flirt with southern areas at times, that aside you have these colours speak ina that aside you have these colours speak in a cane of florence, the uncertainty with a forecast in the atlantic, that means nothing is set in stone in our forecast, that is why we want you to keep coming back for regular updates. hello, this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first the headlines: two russian intelligence officers are named as suspects in the poisoning of former spy sergei skripal and his