by fidel castro in 1967, announcing that che guevara had died. throughout it has been a solemn ceremony, although it has a large presence of schoolchildren — there is an an emphasis on youth when one speaks of che guevara in cuba. they have been repeating the slogan, we will be like che. a key part of the cuban education system. dignitaries, comrades who fought alongside him, members of his family. they all see him as a hero, as an example to youth in cuba and around the world. not everybody sees it that way. his critics see him as a man who was bloodthirsty and cruel. however, saying that here today is sacrilege for these people. they see him simply as a hero. and at 9.30 tonight, will grant looks at what che guevara's legacy has been in cuba — in our world now time for meet the author.

peterjames created a detective, roy grace, who leads an army of readers through the routine and mystery of his work. apparently straightforward crimes are not quite what they seem. we care about him, we sympathise with him, we worry on his behalf. the police procedural novel has an enduring appeal and in need you dead, the latest roy grace story, peter james produces another taught and hypnotic tale. welcome. peter, why do you think so many people get hooked on policemen and women and the trials and tribulations of their everyday lives? well, i think good crime

fiction actually reflects the world in which we live, in a better way than any other genre. i started my career writing spy thrillers. not very good ones! i'd just had my first book published and we got burgled. a young detective came to the house to take fingerprints and he was married to a detective and he said to me, if you ever want your research help with the police, give me a call. my then wife and i became really good friends with them, had a barbecue and all of their friends, as is normal, were also cops, everything from response, traffic, neighbourhood policing, child protection, crime scene investigators. as they told me their stories, i started to realise that nobody sees more human life in a 30—year career than a cop. i think part of my love of crime is seeing the real world. what we also get in these roy grace novels, it moves through time, a glimpse of what is new, the new equipment, the new technique

the new way of looking at something. beginning to inhabit that world. yes, the police and the villains are always playing catch up with each other. the villains use the internet for their activities and the police cotton on. every now and again, the police are the innovators and i've used a couple of examples in recent novels. one is a forensic podiatrist called haydn kelly, who discovered that he is a world authority on gait analysis and is used regularly by police forces. somebody‘s gait is as unique as their dna. just by a single footprint... you can't disguise it? can't disguise it, james, he could pick you out walking in a crowd. the other thing i've used in my latest book is very low—tech, after the london riots the police were trying to identify the looters and they were all wearing hoodies and baseball caps. you and i can probably recognise 23%

of faces we've ever seen. the average cop, with all their training, can only do 24%. the world best computers, 25. but scotland yard discovered there's a tiny group of people, they've nicknamed them super recognisers, who can pick out somebodyjust by the flair of the nostrils, the shape of their lips, the earlobe, and they've got people who can get 95% accuracy. they've already had 150 convictions from the riots just using these people, who are a mixture of police and civilian volunteers. one of the problems with discussing a novel like this, a thriller, need you dead, is that we can't talk about it in any great detail because we give away what happened and people want to know. but it's another story in which the things are not as they seem and what appears to be rather straightforward and simple and the beginning, a cut and dried case, suddenly becomes much, much more complicated, and all kinds of avenues open up.

as you say, that's life, isn't it? we think something is clear and we know really that it never is. yeah, i love walking down the street and looking at houses and thinking, what's really going on behind those doors? that's also part of the fascination of genre. for me, you read what seems to be a simple story and it gets deeper and deeper. also, i see myjob, as an author of crime thrillers, to keep the readers on their toes and guessing. my third stage play has been on tour and i was doing a q&a onstage, with shane ritchie and laura whitmore a few weeks back and a guy in the audience said, why do you make the endings so damn hard to get? and i said, i think i've done myjob, sir! as long as you don't play tricks. there's a kind of honour among crime writers, it seems to me, that you mustn't pull a fast one, that makes the reader feel tricked. they may feel confused,

they may feel stupid that they didn't spot it, but it's got to be fair, somehow, don't you think? you've always got to play fair, i agree. part of the attraction of the crime genre, people love doing puzzles, most of us love doing a crossword or whatever it is. every major crime, murder or whatever it is, is a huge puzzle and the detectives have to painstakingly piece together, bit by bit. if you're doing yourjob right as a writer, you're seeding a few of those clues out to your readers as well, so you don't want them to get ahead of you but you can't suddenly have, and in one bound, he was free, kind of ending. i was fortunate to spend some time with ed mcbain, evan hunter, his real name, who was a master of this form, the 87th precinct novels, anyone who knows them in new york. he was one of two writers

who got me into crime writing. really? yeah. his style was just fabulous, there was a chandler—esque quality. he used to spend hours, days, weeks with new york cops, looking at how they sat, what they ate, quite apart from the technical stuff, absolutely immersing himself in it and writing his beautifully chiselled novels. how did you get into it, his work? i'd been weaned, obviously, on the english traditional crime novel, agatha christie, dorothy l sayers. but with all of those books there was a kind of tradition, you start with a dead body in chapter one and the rest of the book is kind of a puzzle to solve it. first of all, graham greene's brighton rock was the first time i'd read a crime thriller where the victim is still alive at the end of chapter one. and the menace created in the first paragraph of that. the first line is great, "within three hours of arriving in brighton, hale knew that they meant to murder him." you have to read on.

and then somebody said that i might like ed mcbain and i read conman first and then i've read everything he wrote. what i love about that style of storytelling is that a), incredibly gripping, and b), you really feel ed mcbain knows what he's talking about. people who read fiction are smart from the fact they really but people don'tjust want a good story, we want to learn something about life and the human condition. talk about roy grace. when we first meet roy grace in the first novel, dead simple, he is 39, just coming up to his 39th birthday and his wife, sandy, who he loved and adored, has vanished from the face of the earth. he literally comes home and she's gone. and for ten years, that was when he was 30 and for ten years he's been looking for her, doesn't know if she's been abducted, kidnapped, run off with a lover, and he functions as a very effective homicide detective but all the time he's wondering,

is she going to suddenly turn up? and during the roy grace series, which is obviously ongoing, i seed a bit more about what happened and speculations. and i chose that route to go because what really good detectives do is solve puzzles and i thought, rather than having a detective with a drink problem and a broken marriage i thought it would be more interesting, because today a detective with a drink problem wouldn't last 2a hours in the british police. much more interesting to have a detective with a private puzzle he couldn't solve. i always joke about roy grace, but slightly serious, if i was ever unlucky enough to have a member of my family murdered, roy grace is the detective i'd want running the investigation. and the reader knows that and they are with you all the way. peterjames, author of the latest roy grace novel, need you dead, thank you very much. jim, thank you very much. hello again. as was the case with saturday,

at its best there was nothing wrong with sunday, as evidenced by one of our weather watchers in york. however in other parts of the british isles, there was indeed a lot of cloud around. no rain here off the suffolk coast, but it was a pretty close—run thing. there were showers to be had little bit further offshore overnight, and we willjust reinforce the cloud coming in over scotland, weak weather fronts dragging rain from the heart of scotland and pushing it towards the northern isles. not a cold night or a cold start to the new week, but it will be fairly disappointing first up across parts of scotland. enough cloud for there to be the odd bit of rain on a not too strong south—westerly breeze. northern ireland, quite a bit of cloud around, the odd bit and piece of rain, but really not amounting to very much. the greater part of england and wales starting dry, although away towards the south—west, the clouds sitting

very low across the moors, so watch out for some hill fog, and there will be some drizzly rain here. that may well fade with time, the cloud trying to lift with the brightness coming through, but you get the sense that although there will be a lot of dry weather to start the week across much of the british isles, the sunshine will be patchy across the greater part of england, wales, the north of england, scotland faring a lot better. and the cloud filling in across northern ireland to finish off the day. i don't think there will be any great issues with the weather for the football. come tuesday, another set of fronts will tumble down across england and wales, bringing the prospect of some rain, then things brighten up for the greater part of the day until we bring in the next set of weather fronts from the atlantic to spoil the latter part of the afternoon through northern ireland and the western side of scotland. now, these fronts do have a good deal more about them.

you notice the number of isobars, so the wind quite a feature of the day on wednesday and if you are anywhere near that front, you will be seeing quite a bit of rain. so wetter and windier in the middle part of the week, rain at times for sure, but once we get towards the end of the week, things could turn warmer, especially in the south. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8.00pm: it's thought the catalan leader will stop short of making a unilateral independence declaration, as a pro—spain rally attracts hundreds of thousands of supporters. we love catalu nya we love catalunya as one country. we love spain and spain is one. we understand there is a problem, but this is not the way to solve this. "i am not someone who gives up", theresa may insists she'll stay on as prime minister, despite calls from some

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