having to find the children were having to pay? it's not properly explained how they are paying to go on the sites. they are obviously achieving it because as i said, nearly half a million children and doing this. this adds to the other abuses of these industry, like fixed odd betting terms. if you grow up in a household where scratchcards, during the lottery, all that is a to attlee make ends meet, if that looks normal, if that is normalised behaviour for children, that they are going to copy it. might children, we have a family laptop and every time something is downloaded, we can see it. but children are so tech savvy. let's turn to the express. rogue agents gazumping. housing is supposed to be top of the gunmen's agenda and one

of the ways they think they are going to clean up the housing market —— top of the government's agenda. the feeling is that a state agents need to be curbed and trained, and that it should be easier to buy a house. and maybe through that way, the government hopes to get the numberof the government hopes to get the number of houses that are selling up, because currently, transactions have slumped. it is going down in london, in terms of the canary amber coalmine but in a home—buying democracy, you need more homes. the sunday telegraph, what do you make of this, bonnie? jfk, back to a paragraph, or give you mind,...m is trump's right shiny object of the week. to deflect us from what

israeli going on. he holds up —— deflect us from what is really going on. he announces he is going to release the jfk files on thursday, it is probably a load of garbage. it was 25 years ago. everybody went, oh, my god, let's get these out there, 25 years later, there is that resident holding up a shiny object saying, you will see who killed jfk. the glamour of the kennedys is undiminished. and you excited? i will be interested to read it. remember, trump is a conspiracy here rest. but he had doesn't read so he hasn't read it, hejust rest. but he had doesn't read so he hasn't read it, he just wants you to read it, a bright shiny object,

bright shiny object! there you are, donald trump doesn't read, you heard it here. dojoin bonnie and myself at 11:30pm. in the meantime, it is meet the author. . william shakes here had a younger brother rick church, and we know less about him than we do about the bard. the historical novel —— novelist bernard cornwall brings it to life. the brothers are leading more or less separate lives, tell of rivalry, jealousy, and a little blackmail, set during rehearsals for the first night of the summer nights dream. welcome. it isa

it is a change of scene for you, bernard, because you are best known as someone who writes in battle mode. what is it that fascinates you about 15 905 and mode. what is it that fa5cinate5 you about 15 905 and theatre in london? it is the beginning of a whole new industry. before the 15 705, there we re industry. before the 15 705, there were no permanent playhouses, no theatres, if you like, and the first one is built in 157a and 12 years later, they are in full flow, and we have a whole new industry in london, the only city big enough to support it. shakespeare's the only city big enough to support it. sha kespeare's government the only city big enough to support it. shakespeare's government works in the theatre. i misspent my summers onstage and i have done for

the last 11 years, and that experience absolutely fascinated me. what was it like in shakespeare's time putting on a play? is it any different today? it is an attempt to recreate the world of shakespeare's theatre. you've brought in as the narrator of this tory, rickjudd, one of shakespeare's brothers, he was a real man, we know he existed we know almost nothing about him so we've got a wonderful blank sheet of paper. i love blank sheets of paper and richard is the most blank of all. there were three brothers and we know something of the first two. edward became an actor and i'd much too young and is buried in southwark cathedral but richard, we have his birth date and death date and one court mention in between where he is fined for not attending church, and

thatis fined for not attending church, and that is it. he is a completely black slate. i think it is most unlikely that he went to london and became an actor but why not? and to explain that the brothers are a strange, more or less, partly due to professional rivalry, and then you weave a story which involves a lost play, lost manuscript, and it is all 5et around the rehearsals for the first rehearsal of a midsummer nights dream, which of course is a play about putting on a play, so we can see where you're going here. play about putting on a play, so we can see where you're going harem isa can see where you're going harem is a play i love, i have twice played in it. that may be the reason i chose it. i know the play quite well. you know the plot, most people you ask they can't remember.m well. you know the plot, most people you ask they can't remember. it is very convoluted, it has a lot of main tours, i'm a great believer

that shakespeare's knew what he was talking about when he said the two are traffic on the stage. usually, you play down to about two hours plus an interval, and there is a lot going on in those two hours, there really years. it gives you an idea of the firmament of the playhouses of the firmament of the playhouses of the firmament of the playhouses of the time. you are given the audience entertainment of every kind in the course of the evening and it is almost participate to re—, isn't it? the playhouse wa5 is almost participate to re—, isn't it? the playhouse was a whole new idea. the play has moved on and you didn't see again for weeks or months is that of needing three four place to yourself going, you need 30 plays a year. the playwright is born. if they had not been a permanent theatre, if it wasn't that bricks and mortar, we wouldn't have

shakespeare. he wouldn't have been needed, nobody would have been willing to pay him to write those plays. he was writing for money and making a great deal of money. writing for money, and making a great deal of money. the way to make money was to be a shareholder, and owner, of the company, and he is. it's quite natural that a story like this would bubble up. jealousy, professional rivalry. the theft of a text, because of course there was nothing to protect. no, there was no copyright. if you were an actor, you didn't get a copy of the play to learn your lines. you just got your part. so, if you were playing duke theseus, you would have the line, you know, hippolyta's line "i've never heard such such silly stuff, this is the silliest stuff that ever i heard". and then you would get your lines. and you would have to work out what else was going on! yes, it was like a jigsaw puzzle. you'd have to go, who's next? and you would have to do that in rehearsal. if you had too many copies of the play, someone's going to steal it, and if they steal

it, then their company is going to put it on and you have no redress at all. so if you've got a great play like romeo and juliet, or midsummer, you certainly don't want the admiral‘s men across the river putting that on because you are losing half your audience. and that is the main spring of this plot? yes. i would like to think that the main spring of the plot is can we possibly make a success of this ridiculous play with fairies in it? but, who knows? and in writing this story, which has elements of a romp about it, what does come through is your affection for the whole business, the fun of it and the stagecraft, and the smell of the greasepaint, as it were? yes, it is a huge affection. i like to think it is a tribute to everyone who works in the theatre, for all the pleasure they give us. when you had finished constructing the story, in terms of plot, and then given richard the characteristics which you were able to make up because we know nothing about him, did you find at the end that you got to know his brother at all better, or not? yes. i got to understand what william shakespeare was doing in the sense of being a sharer in a theatre company. and, the pressures

on him to produce plays. there is this huge pressure to have new material all the time. and much of it is dross. but nevertheless, benjohnson was writing for the admiral‘s men, shakespeare's writing for his own company. there is pressure producing. "come on, will — we need plays". a remarkable writer like you has had such worldwide success with a whole string of novels, pretty much all set in the past but not entirely, but most of them. you must find yourself coming back to the core subjects that engross people and keep them interested, and the rivalry between two brothers is one of the classics, isn't it? yes, rivalry or conflict. somebody once said that every good novel begins by asking a question that the reader did not know that they wanted answered. it's got a very good opening line, this one.

can you remember it off the top of your head? "i died just after the clock in the passageway struck nine", i think it is! well, it's not a bad beginning, and beginnings matter, don't they? beginnings matter, very much so. it was kurt vonnegut who said a novel begins by asking a question the reader did not know they wanted answered. and that actually, in a sense, is what you do. i mean, harry falls in love with anne, but harry is already married to catherine. you're off, because you want to know how it will end. bernard cornwell, author of fools and mortals, thank you very much. thank you. hi, there. let's take a look at the latest on brian. storm brian has been moving across the uk bringing blustery conditions. rain clearing

away from south west england but rainfor away from south west england but rain for the rest of us. there have been some very exposed seams with stronger gusts sparred inland, the a rts have stronger gusts sparred inland, the art5 have been a0 to 50 miles an hour. it has not been particular windy, we get days like this all the time in the autumn. those blustery winds will continue to dry in some lengthy spells. the rain clearing away from south west england to be followed by showers and they could p0p up followed by showers and they could pop up anywhere overnight. a mild night, temperatures are nine to 11 celsius. the pig chivers sunday morning, as brian works out into the north sea. three sunday morning, the band of rain will pushing to parts of the midlands, addicted to meet it

in. once the rain band has cleared out of the way, it is a sunshine and showers kind of setup. they get apps opening up in the showers and more of us will have drier weather. the cooler day. here is the pickjust the monday. —— picture. 0ften cooler day. here is the pickjust the monday. —— picture. often quite cloudy, mist and fog over the hills in wales, eventually brighter skies and a bit of sunshine here. looking at the weatherford tuesday, we will have the... a cloudy day with bursts of rain. the best of any sunshine across northern and eastern scotland into law and eastern parts of england as well. temperatures coming up, highs of to 16 degrees in the north, 17 or 18 further south, and thatis north, 17 or 18 further south, and that is a sign of things to come. 0n thursday, the winds come up from a

long way south and temperatures on thursday could reach 22 celsius, a temperature we would normally see in july, not this late in october. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11:00pm: the catalan leader says his people cannot accept "illegal" measures decided by the spanish government, as he calls on the region's parliament to act against them. translation: this is the worst attack against the institutions and the people of catalonia since the military dictatorship of general franco. the head of the world health organization says he is rethinking the appointment of zimbabwe's president mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. president trump is planning to open up secret files on the assassination ofjohn f kennedy. and a big shock in the premier league, as newly promoted huddersfield beat manchester united for the first time in 65 years. and in half an hour,

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