missed it, but i knew country and i missed it, but i know it was a big deal. what is interesting is that there is a whole generation who have forgotten all who will never know what twin peaks was about, and they are saying, what is it all about? but it did harold this golden age of television that we continue to celebrate over and over again. —— herald. we continue to celebrate over and overagain. —— herald. for every auto creating these programmes, these long, corrugated narrative arc series, they'll credit david lynch and twin pea ks series, they'll credit david lynch and twin peaks for pioneering what was possible. it was a bit weird, wasn't it? it didn't make any sense! it was great television, wasn't it, caroline, like nothing we have seen before? caroline, like nothing we have seen before ? obviously caroline, like nothing we have seen before? obviously i was only a young child when it first came out! but i saw it later, it was baffling, i somebody in biology class join a diagram, who was doing what, because it was incredibly confusing. but it was television like we have never seen before, i am really looking

forward to seeing what they do. seen before, i am really looking forward to seeing what they dom isa forward to seeing what they dom is a revival, and what david lynch probably uniquely has managed to do is recruit a very impressive number of the original cast members, so u nfortu nately of the original cast members, so unfortunately the log lady is no longer with us, but she did film her scenes before she died, in 2015, so she will be back on screen, along with some other strange folk. she will be back on screen, along with some other strange folkm really said some careers allied, didn't it? kyle mclachlan is back as agent cooper, he will probably be ordering some damn fine coffee. some famous faces, a lot of people are writing articles, where are they now? the wackiest characters countdown, they are going to keep us imprint for countdown, they are going to keep us imprintfora countdown, they are going to keep us imprint for a few weeks yet. you have to watch the first one first,

01’ have to watch the first one first, ori have to watch the first one first, or i will be even more confused! that is it... where are we?! that is it for the papers, but tony and caroline will be back at 11:30pm. don't forget, all the front pages are on the bbc news website, you can read a review, that is seven days a week on the bbc website. you can see us week on the bbc website. you can see us there, posted shortly after we have finished. and now it is time for meet the author. a great house with a great wall around it. we are in mid—17th century england at a time of religious strife when many lives are touched by danger and intrigue. then we are in the same house three centuries later in the grip of the cold war and living through the whole story of the berlin wall from start to finish. and witchwood, the house, a stage where some of the dramas of our own time are played out. peculiar ground is a fiercely

ambitious novel by lucy hughes—hallett, stretching across centuries and telling the tale of tolerance and strife, imprisonment and the instinct to be free. welcome. the house, witchwood, is in a way the central character of this book. did it come first? did you have the idea of a place, an enclosed place, in which all this might happen? yes, absolutely. and, as you say, the house is, it's not perhaps the central character, but it's the character that holds all of the story together because although the berlin wall does play quite a large part in this novel, but very few of my characters are allowed to go to berlin, and i found as i was writing

sometimes they needed to go off to london and to germany, but i had to keep bringing them back for the story. it had a technical purpose that was very useful. but it has also got a sort of moral purpose in a way, because it is enclosed at the very beginning of the story. mr norris is laying out the landscape, and the wall is being built, and it is in a way a prison. yes, there is a moment in the book when mr norris, the landscape designer, is talking to his friend the architect, and they ask each other, "is this a paradise we are making here, or is it a prison?" and i wrote that rather sort of off the cuff, as you do in a long book, it's just one line. it's the theme of the book. afterwards i thought, yes, that is what it's about. it's about enclosure, and of course it's about all sorts of other things like falling in love and having children and dying and doing all the things that humans do, but insofar as there is a theme that can be summed up

in a sentence, it is a book about walls and what happens when you try to wall yourself in and you may make a garden or you may find yourself trapped inside. it's also a story about how we are doomed to repeat the awful experiences of humanity again and again down the centuries. absolutely, yes. i mean, there was a moment when i was writing the first draft, of actually the last section of the book in which people are walking out of london in 1665 to escape from the plague and the roads out of london are crammed with refugees, migrants. and as i was writing that section, the newspapers were full of pictures of roads crammed with migrants trying to walk their way into safety and a better life in europe. and i hadn't set out to write a book about the migration crisis,

but as you say, history repeats itself. history repeats itself in all kinds of ways, because at the time when we first encounter the house, the grounds are being laid out, it is just before the restoration in the 1660s and it's a time of darkness, of a lot of espionage, of a lot of betrayal and violence. it was a much more turbulent time for individuals. i think when you look back at history people tend to remember it as a dark time. absolutely, i think in the sort of popular imagination, charles ii is the merry monarch, and he comes back and the theatres reopen, and they are tossing oranges around, and everyone is having a lovely time, but one has to remember that all those people are living in the aftermath of a full generation of civil war. everyone has got something to hide, everyone is suspicious of everybody else. so in the first and last sections of my novel,

which i set in the 1660s, i wanted not to explicitly, but just to suggest that tension, that feeling of things going on behind closed doors, and mysteries. you are dealing the whole time with what is unsaid, which is as important in the kinds of situations you are imagining here, as what is said and what is put on the table. yes, i did an awful lot of crossing out. the way i write is to write a draft and then go over and over and over it and each time it gets shorter. so a lot of what might have been explicit in the first draft has vanished from the finished book. and i think that in a way that is the rest of the iceberg, so you are left with a visible tip. but it's important to the finished product, i think, that at some point i did know what was being said, and i cut it out. you excised it.

and that is what produces tension, it is what produces fear, it is what produces, i suppose, alarm and a feeling of threat. yes, and in the 17th century, there is quite a lot of magic. i don't believe in the supernatural at all, everything has a rational explanation, but the supernatural of one era is simply the unexplained, so that there are things going on which seem particularly alarming because we don't understand. that might be because science has not yet progressed far enough to explain, or it might be because indeed someone is deliberately keeping a secret. 0r because in part we have an affection for the unknown and the need for the unknown, not simply giving a name to the inexplicable, but there is something attractive about the feeling that things

are going on in a way that we can't quite understand. yes, i think one of the great things about fiction whether as a reader or a writer, it allows you to live a life that is slightly larger and more interesting than your own. i am struck by the title. "peculiar" is a very interesting word to use about this house, a solid, a wonderful place to live with wonderful grounds as we see them being laid out at the beginning of the book, and of course the confining wall. why "peculiar"? well, it's a phrase from a hymn. "we are a garden walled around, a sacred place, peculiar ground." and the word "peculiar" has changed its meaning over the three centuries covered in this story, and it has always meant set apart, different. it has now become to mean odd and a bit weird, but in its original meaning it

simply means reserved, enclosed, set apart from the rest of the world. so the house is peculiar, but it also contained in it everything about humanity that we recognise. yes. the thing that holds us altogether. great country houses are very useful as a novelist or for film—makers or whatever, for the same reason that pubs are. everyone has to go to the pub an inordinate amount, because if you can get your characters together under one roof, then things can start to happen between them. and a great country house is, of course, a place for parties, a place in which a rich and glamorous life can be led, but it's also a business, it's a place where a lot of people can work. far too many novels are just about who's going to bed with whom, a very interesting question, but we do actually spend our lives, most of us, most of the time, working, and i like to show

the gamekeepers gamekeeping and the foresters looking after the trees. we get to know the life of witchwood very well indeed in peculiar ground. lucy hughes—hallett, thank you very much. thank you. a little bit of rain through the coming week, but generally the week ahead will be much drier and considerably warmer as well, particularly into the second half of the week. at the moment, a bit of warmth building today, high pressured to the ease, low pressure to the west bringing air from the south. this weather front has been producing rain across scotland, through this evening confined to the highlands and islands, 12 showers in northern ireland, but fading away overnight, clear skies, a dry night. gentle south—easterly winds will

stop things from dropping too much. rural areas will be into single figures, double figures in towns and cities. high pressured to the east, low pressure to the west, dragging in southerly, warmer air. the complication comes from the cold front which will bring more cloud across northern ireland, occasional rain, the odd heavier burst, pushing into the islands of western scotland. really, for most of you, a fine start to monday, long sunny spells across southern and eastern areas, patchy cloud in the west, a little bit of cloud building here and there, cloud will be hazy in western areas. first of rain over western areas. first of rain over western scotland, the odd shower further east. temperatures in northern scotland limited to the low teens, but further south it will feel even warmer than this afternoon, temperatures widely into the 20s for england and wales, mid 20s in south—east corner. rain pushing from west to east across scotland, heavier bursts mixed in amongst that. that cleared into the

north sea through the night and into tuesday, and through tuesday high pressure builds on the day of this day. we are on the northern flank, westerly winds, low cloud here and there across weston areas, particularly across the hills and on the coast. in eastern areas, longer spells of sunshine, temperatures taking a step back compared with monday, but feeling warm in the strengthening sun. as high pressure builds through the day into wednesday, temperatures will rise once again. so wednesday, there will still be some low cloud, particularly to western scotland, northern ireland, threatening some rain and drizzle. good long sunny spells, temperatures widely into the 20s once again. and we notched them up 20s once again. and we notched them up even further into thursday and friday, even more in the way of sunshine developing. give up to date online. from me, take care. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11. donald trump has told the leaders of more than a0 muslim nations that they mustjoin forces and play their

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