shared of a shame if that shared experience is gone. it's all very well sitting there, people watching different things, it's not the same atmosphere. it is a different kind of shared experience. people like to tweet along, get involved on social media. they want to watch things like that reason but they are not engaging with people in their living room, they are engaging with people in the twitter sphere. with box sets you have so many episodes available to you almost immediately that it is never ending. there's something about people staying up too late, because they knew they were tired but they still wanted to watch the next one and became very tired. might have an impact in the workplace. yes. well, better doing that than going out drinking something. with things like netflix they automatically roll onto the next episodes with your laptop is over there, you think, oh, next episodes with your laptop is overthere, you think, oh, i'll stop it, oh, it started. might as well watch another 20 minutes, it's quite evil! thanks very much indeed for coming in. the headlines on bbc news: the bank of england cuts its growth forecasts and warns that uncertainty over brexit is weighing on businesses and households. a judge has condemned the state of mental health support for young people, saying the state could have blood on its hands over the case

of a suicidal teenager. a surgeon who carried out needless breast operations has had his 15—yearjail sentence increased to 20 years by court of appealjudges. an update on the market numbers for you — here's how london's and frankfurt ended the day. and in the the united states this is how the dow and the nasdaq are getting on. now on bbc news, it's meet the author. victoria hislop has been having a long love affair with greece and her bestselling novels have led her army of readers from island to island and into the greek experience. in cartes postales, she takes a new step: you see the pictures, from the mysterious postcards that begin to arrive one by one for ellie from... she knows not by whom at the start. and it is the story of a journey of discovery to greece and its past, its culture, its whole history that

unravels the secrets of the cards. welcome. this is a novel about postcards, or at least it begins with the arrival of postcards. and we actually see them on the page! now, what made you decide to do that? i wanted to give my readers real, live images of greece. when i'm researching i always take a lot of photographs myself, so when i'm back in england writing i'm surrounded by them. you put them on your wall? desk? put them on the wall! i print them out in a very old fashioned way. so you're in greece? i am in greece! i thought why can't i share images of greece with the people who read my books?

why not? the idea for the story... did it come from this notion you wanted to show pictures? yes. in other words it was that way round, rather than the other? absolutely. it was the starting point. and then the idea of postcards as a linking thing, thejourney of this poor broken hearted man around the country... sending these postcards back, that sort of grew organically out of it. in effect it is a mystery story in part, it's also a story about loss and inability to manage emotions i suppose. you talk about this man, wandering in a sense aimlessly? he is. and very few people ever have the opportunity to go on this aimless... in a sense it's aimless, but he needs to recover himself. in that case, why is he so interesting to us? why do we care about him? i'm glad you do! if you didn't you wouldn't

finish the book! for me i wanted to write about a man experiencing these emotions, because i think a lot of books i read written by women tend more to explore the woman who's been dumped and y'know. .. how she survives that. and i think certainly my hope is that as he moves through the months of this journey, we see a change in him. i suppose that's the cliche of writing a novel. it's a journey revealed to us very slowly. yes. it's an emotionaljourney, a real journey, and the girl receiving the postcards he's sending, she begins to follow behind him. piece it together. from a great distance. yes. always an alluring thing. i'm writing about greece and i always if i put this man in,

let's say, harrogate town centre to start this journey to recover his sense of worth... whether he eventually would. maybe i should do it! but greece, to me... the landscape that you find in greece, the people that meet and befriend you, there's always something to be felt and be learned. there have been many novels over the years, going back to lawrence durrell and famous captain corelli and so on. it's happened before. but there is something that draws people in to the history and the culture and customs of greece? yes. and actually for me, the 20th century history of greece is so fascinating, complex and full of drama. it provides me with endless ideas. the book i've just started to write.

and tragedy, of course. much tragedy. every ten or 15 years in greece — there's something fairly spectacular that happens, whether it's occupation, civil war or an earthquake. economic collapse. last but not least! and all of these things have a huge effect on the human history of a place. how a family manages to survive all these catastrophic things that take place there. yes. it is a story about resilience, in a way? it is. the greeks do survive. right now, you think how do people really manage on 400, 500 euros a month? what's your answer to that? one of the big factors is the importance of the family. you're very rarely living i,000km away from your grandma, aunts. the old networks are still there?

absolutely. and the sadness about what's happening now in the 21st century is that so many young people are moving out of greece to find work, find a life. so i hope that they will go back eventually, and most of the young people who i meet who are greek, at university, or have careers here, actually dream about going back to greece — that everything will get better. it's a great tribute in a way to the power of the place? i think so. it still offers so much that doesn't actually get damaged by the economy. what's it given you over the years? great question. more or less all my inspiration. i can't really step off the plane before i'm thinking of an idea for a story. very much inspiration. and why do you think that is? is it the richness of the... the texture of the place?

i think, yes. this vein of history i feel that i've never really explored, even in my own country. i think i know more about the history of greece in the 20th century than britain. and the pictures are yours? they're taken by a photographer who i travelled with. taken on your own travels? simultaneously with the travels. which was a very exciting way to work. most were images, sites, totally unexpected. for example, there's a ritual that happens every year on the 6th of january, a race to find a cross that's been thrown into the sea by a priest. and the day that happened, i knew nothing about it. so we travelled to somewhere on the west coast of greece and that morning the bells were chiming

from 6am till 10. so i went down into the town to explore, saw the waterfront and people gathered... the very first week of january, about 30 young men in their speedos, quite a cold day! what is this! ? then learned all about this tradition, swimming out for the cross on the day of the epiphany. so all those photos were unexpected, the story was unexpected, the mystery i imagined was not something i'd planned. but when it came along it seemed perfectly natural? absolutely. all the stories, more or less, i wrote the beginnings of them in the car as we travelled from one place to another. it just came? very much so. a source of inspiration, to travel!

which is how a story should come about. victoria hislop, author of ca rtes postales, thank you very much. thank you. summer remains on hiatus. low pressure firmly in charge of the scene at the moment, it has been a pretty unsettled day. southern areas very windy, shallots blowing through quickly. further north with lighter winds, quite a few heavy showers. some rumbles of thunder particularly across north—eastern scotland where oui’ across north—eastern scotland where our weather watchers captured some really impressive townscapes, however if you are on your summer holidays i suspect you will be looking for a bit more blue sky than this. what about the prospect for the next few days? still firmly in charge is the low pressure. drifting across the north—east of scotland, the spend of a weather front for

feeds or persistent rain southwards across scotland through the night. some showers for northern ireland into northern england, eastern and southern areas should stay largely dry and overnight averages of 12 to 15 degrees. friday dawns pretty sorry for parts of scotland, these are areas of of rain sinking southwards, heavy bursts across parts of the north—east where it will also be quite considerably windier than was today. northern ireland, brightness to start the day. a few showers, the north—east england parts of the midlands and east anglia, the south—east, should bea east anglia, the south—east, should be a largely fine and dry start to the day. 16 degrees in london at eight o'clock. a few showers blowing in across the south—west. i say blowing, the wind will not be a strong across southern areas as it was today. plenty of spells of sunshine. for northern ireland and northern england, quite a few showers again across scotland where will continue to be windier than it was during today. most places around

i7 was during today. most places around 17 to 20 degrees, but somewhat to me had across the saab eats corner with highs of 20 degrees. —— some warmth to be had across the south—east corner. we are essentially stranded between high pressure from the south—west to settle things down and low pressure which is just hanging around up to the north—east. could see quite a clump of showers across wales, parts of northern england, east anglia, perhaps the south—east through the day. through the day, some dry weather, some spells of sunshine, temperatures a little disappointing, i6 sunshine, temperatures a little disappointing, 16 to 2! degrees. sunday looks fine and dry for most of us after what will be a chilly start, but things go downhill in the west with rain moving into northern ireland later in the day. that's all from me for now, you can check more details online. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is 0utside source. in the days after he took office back in january, donald trump spoke to a number of world leaders. now, transcripts of some of the conversations have been published by the washington post.

they make interesting reading. venezuela's chief prosecutor opens an investigation into claims of fraud during the weekend's election of a new assembly. the head of the libyan national army warns italian ships that approach libyan waters without permission that they'll be repelled. and in the past few minutes, paris st germain have confirmed the signing of brazilian striker neymar ona signing of brazilian striker neymar on a five year contract.