shots or 14—under. hend led by three shots going into or iii—under. hend led by three shots going into the final round but missed several chances to win, as fitzpatrick closed out for his fourth european tour title. wasps have made it two out of two in rugby union's premiership. they've gone top of the table after winning 17—10 top of the table after winning 17—10 to worcester. la roux proved the decisive score. worcester still without a win after two matches and sit bottom of the early league standings. and after victory, james anderson has returned to ranked one in in bowlers. later tonight, the top seed world number one rafa nadal will start as favourite when he takes on south africa's kevin anderson in the us open final. the spaniard going for a 16th grand slam title while anderson

is making his debut in the final of a slam. nadal‘s won all four previous meetings. of course winning or losing the final is a big challenge. i'm happy about all the things that happen to me and i'm going to fight to try to win another title here. still a great season for me. if i win more grand slams of course i will be happy but it's about being healthy and feeling myself well and competitive. that's already happened in the close of the season. that's the most important thing for me. that is all the sport for now. you can that is all the sport for now. you ca n follow that is all the sport for now. you can follow the us open final. keep up—to—date with the rest of the sport on the bbc sport website. that's www. bbc.co.uk/sports. sport on the bbc sport website. that's www.bbc.co.uk/sports. now time for meet the author, see you soon. claire tomalin is one of our great biographers.

her subjects have included samuel pepys, jane austen, dickens and hardy. now she's done what many biographers don't do — she's written about herself. a life of my own, is her story, her family and her loves, the tragedies and joys in her life; the literary world in which she found her calling, her craft, welcome. having spent so much time dealing with the detail of other people's lives, trying to sort out truths from falsehoods, was it difficult to take the plunge and hold a mirror up to your own life? i think it was the most difficult book i have ever tried to write. i found it very painful and i asked myself quite often, should i be doing this, shall i go on with it, shall i give up? there are a lot of tragedies in your life which we might touch on but as a whole,

it's an extraordinary life, full of fun and friendship as well. why did you find it so tough? because i had to address, really, really sad things that happened, particularly the death of my beloved and wonderful daughter, susanna. who took her own life? who took her own life. and i wanted her to be there. i felt she was such a remarkable person. and i also feel that the care of depressed young people, we all know, it's not as good as it ought to be, and i suppose i blamed myself in a way, that i hadn't kept her alive. you had to deal with your feelings, you husband, nick tomlin, who was killed, in the yum kippur war, a terrible tragedy but you have had ups and downs of extraordinary kind during your marriage and it's tough to write about that? yes. but i saw, i learned

something from it. i saw that first of all, probably i shouldn't have married him. we were great friends and lovers and we had fun together but we were not really soul mates. and every time he ran off with a blonde and i was left with the children it had a good effect on me, because i thought, i've got to cope, i've got make my life, i've got to get a betterjob. and if you look at my life, when i came to look, i saw that each time he did something really dreadful, i grew and progressed so that most sadly, i mean it was terrible when he was killed, but i had in a way been prepared to cope. and in dealing with your own feelings at the time, in the 50s when you were a student through the 60s the tumultuos 70s, fleet street, the literary world, it must be difficult to write about friends and friendships with real honesty? well, i think my friendships with terry kilmartin who, was literary editor of the observer,

who was a wonderful friend to me, with kyle miller with neil atherton, with michael frane, who in the end became my husband but for many years was a friend to me, with sarah foreman, who was at the sunday times, who i must not leave out, marina warner, victoria glendenning, who was a great friend, because we both had children, we were both making our way in the literally world and we had such fun together. you moved in that literally world of newspapers, magazines, the new statesman, the sunday times, you became literally editor and in the late ‘60s and the 70s these were exhilarating times, in that world, weren't they? i was very lucky. i meanjournalism was booming. i had these brilliant friends and it was a very entertaining world to be part of, yes. and newspapers and magazines in those days, to an extent which i think it isn't there now, really cared about the original poetry, the job of the critic,

about what the literary pages should do. it was thought as being important. i thought they were very important. i thought they really mattered. well they did. i thought to address literature and the arts seriously and write seriously about them and entertainingly, which he these very, very funny review vorax like the brilliantjohn cary, i thought that was very important. and i thought each week, i must make my pages the best pages. there must be something on my pages, that everybody has to, people who don't usualally look at the book page, will want to read, and that was my goal. in some ways, it's a book, in part of course, about your family, but also about what it was like in that era. through the ‘60s when things opened up, when a sort of deferential social attitude gave way to something wilder and more spontaneous. our sexual life changed.

well, absolutley, that was it. i mean i put in the book, the moment in 1963, when i'd had my fourth baby, and i went to my gynaecologist and he leaned forward over the desk and held up a packet and said "i think you might like these. these are pills that will stop you getting pregnant." and i said, "yes! yes! absolutely!" and i saw at that moment that things had changed between men and women. there's a great deal in the book about your growing affection for the english language, for literature, your discovery of thomas hardy, for example, whom you came to deal with as a biographer much later in life and the start of yourjourney into samuel pepys, and mary woolstonecraft of course. with mary woolstonecraft, i was a0 when i wrote that book, my first book. and i fell in love with the whole process with research and writing. and i realised at once that i had found my mitre. and you would always do that. but then i couldn't. i had to earn my living.

you can't earn your living from writing biographies. so i was very lucky to have the job at the sunday times and when i left the sunday times after wapping in 1986 i was able then, in my 50s to start on my career as a writer and for the next 25 years i wrote historical biographers and i was very, very happy doing it. well, there's an enormous amount of happiness in this book, despite all the ups and downs and indeed the tragedies, you seem to be somebody who is somehow able to cope to a remarkable degree? yes, well, that is true but you do have to cope. if you don't cope... what's left? you might as well give in. and i think i learned to cope a bit in childhood. i was a child who was disliked by my father and loved by my mother. and i had that curious experience as a small child of realising this, of being well aware that my father didn't like me, and that my mother was my supporter and the person who loved me. your father was french and lived into his 90s. yes. how did the relationship change?

i think when he began to realise that i was a clever child. when he began to want to have a divorce from my mother, he spoke to the family doctor and said, you know, what about the children. she said, "well you don't need to worry about claire, but a she's very clever." this had never occurred to my father. he was always surprised. very surprised when i got into cambridge, very surprised when i got a first. he said, "that's all very well, you need secretarial training." i mean at my wedding to michael, when he was in his 90s to which he came, he said, "you never cease to surprise me, claire!" i began by asking you how difficult it had been to decide to do this and to write honestly about your own life, the difficulties, the joys and the sadnesses, what was it like when you finished, what did you you feel when you finally sent off that manuscript? i felt maybe i shouldn't publish

this book and i hadn't written quit enough. written quite enough. and my very good editor, anita butterfield, wrote me a letter saying, "look, there are things you haven't said, there are things you haven't really said about writing your books and that matters. " and she made me write some more. it was very good advice. are you happy you've done it? yes, i am happy i've done it. i mean, when i was young, andre doitch said to me, "you've had an interesting life, you should write a novel." but i said, "i'm not a novelist." but then i began to think but i have to a story to tell. everybody has a story to tell. your life is material, you know. even if, i mean you have to deal with everything, an affair with martin amis, which everyone would notice. my most famous affair. well, it was an office romance and it was very short and it was very delightful. and there we are. these are the things that make up a fascinating life. thank you. claire tomalin, author of a life of my own, ina

in a moment i'll bring you news of an unsettled week to come here at home but nothing on the scale of the weather being experienced on the other side oaf the atlantic. this is hurricane irma sliding across the florida keys where it's caused power cuts, brought winds, sustained winds of 130mph and expect those damaging winds flooding rains and a major storm surge to continue as the storm gradually drifts north over the next 24 gradually drifts north over the next 2a hours or so. back home it's quieter but certainly not completely quieter but certainly not completely quiet this week. a cool windy week with heavy downpours. we have a weather front sweeping east. patchy rain along the south—east. heavy showers blown in on increasingly strong winds. the isobars showing that tonight we'll see some really strong winds, particularly for western coastal areas. gales are likely. heavy showers, perhaps with the odd rumble of thunder. where the winds stay that bit lighter in

north—east scotland, could be a chilly night, but generally temperatures 130—10. travel disruption possible for the monday commute. gale force winds in places, heavy showers too. a blustery morning across parts of northern england. heavy showers here. similar story for northern ireland. a chilly feel to the weather. hefty showers for north—west scotland. maybe some glimmers of brightness across eastern scotland for a time. through the day we'll continue to see blustery winds, gusty winds as well with heavy thundery showers. we could see hail thrown in as well. there'll be some bright or sunny spells between the downpours and temperatures no great shakes around 13-19. tuesday gives something of a chance to draw breath. a quieter day with

spells of sunshine. a few showers around, but late in the day we'll see this area of rain spread from the west, increasingly strong winds as well. windy weather in places on tuesday night. into wednesday and thursday it stays blustery and cool with sunshine and heavy showers. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm. hurricane irma slams into florida with winds of up to 130 miles per hour. around a million homes and businesses are without power. we have seen the largest evacuation in florida's history, peoplejust migrating north and trying to get out of the path of the storm as it came up through the florida keys, 110w came up through the florida keys, now gearing up the west coast. there is also a risk of tornadoes and the storm surge is predicted to be up to 15 feet high in some places. this is a life—threatening

situation. remember, in sw florida, the storm surge comes after the strongest winds, do not think the storm is over when the winds slow down. this is the scene live in