he. the story the inevitable that he. the story makes an interesting point, that tesla has been really dependent on investors' willingness to keep funding the development of their cars without actually getting any profit, just the assumption that they would be getting profit, that they would be getting profit, that they will come as driverless cars become ubiquitous. it is a question of how long that kind of confidence gained can go on with a company like tesla. any time something like this happens, you wonder how long it'll be prolonged. when you look at the development of technology, it is just one of the steps forward on that road. it is very sad that it does, but elon musk, he was at stephen hawkins's funeral, but the paper says he had a lot of frustration with wall street and he has taken it out on twitter. there isa has taken it out on twitter. there is a lot of expectation from this man? a really interesting time for tech companies. elon musk is a big

personality. there are lots of big personalities in the tech world. the story references amazon and uber, also having a difficult time. we have heard a lot about new regulations on facebook. perhaps most threateningly, a crisis in consumer confidence. the point at which tech stops being new, flashy and exciting and perhaps starts being concerning to the average person who might get into a d riverless person who might get into a driverless car, that is where profits might start to plummet. thank you very much for your thoughts. thank you henry zeffman and jessica elgot, you'll both be back at half 11 for another look at the stories making the news tomorrow. coming up next, meet the author. sir antony sher‘s portrayal of king learfor the royal shakespeare company was acclaimed as a crowning achievement in a major career. the role is so demanding it is often described as the arrest of acting,

and in his new book he captures every step of the journey, in a year of the mad king: the lear diaries, he charts the months involved in researching and rehearsing and performing one of shakespeare's's most challenging parts and the obstacles he encountered along the way. sir antony sher, you have played many of the greatest roles in shakespeare from richard iii to shylock and now king lear, and you have also written fiction and nonfiction and plays, so what do you see yourself as, an actor or a writer? i quite like the fact that i do both and in fact i'm an artist

as well, i paint and draw. many of the illustrations are in the books. i have a restless personality and i'm a workaholic. so just one of those things wouldn't be quite enough to feed my habit. it is good to be able to keep going between the three. does the writing and painting and acting, do they complement each other? yes, well, the drawing and sketching, i do when i'm developing a character to work out how they might look or even how they feel. and the writing, well, in the theatre journals, it is a diary adapted from my diary, and ifind doing a diary every day very cathartic. you off—load all the stuff that

might be troubling you or indeed exciting new about the work, so they do we've into one another. here you are, keeping this diary as you embark on what you say is one of the most challenging roles you have ever played. for people who don't know king lear that well, why is it so difficult, that part? because it has a kind of epic quality. it's no accident that at the centre of shakespeare's's play there is this almighty storm. you find lear shouting at the storm. he's arguing with a storm. and that's the kind of size

of the part, you sometimes feel that as an ordinary human being you are not enough for the part, that the part requires a force of nature. it requires you to be a storm yourself or stop especially in the first half of the play because he has these huge scenes with huge rages, one after the other. enormous power and force coming off him, and later in the play it becomes gentler and quieter which is much easier to do. you write in the book about your fear of failure, your inability to scale this mountain that is this role, and some people might be surprised by this given your vast experience but that was how you feel? every time you come to one of the great shakespeare roles you risk failure but you also have this incredibly challenging exciting and frightening task of,

can you match the genius of shakespeare's writing. because he creates these astonishing characters. will you be able to interpret them in a meaningful way? the production is directed by the artistic director of the rsc who is also your partner and the man you marry in the course of the book. i was struck by how much input you had into things like the casting, the design, the cuts that were made to the text, and i wondered, is that normal or do you have special privileges because you are in a relationship with the director? i think any leading actor would be invited by the director to comment on some of the things

which are going into making up the production. especially in the way the design... because, you know, if you were a director you wouldn't want your leading actor to discover on the first day of rehearsals that they are playing it in modern dress when they thought they might be in period costume. in terms of casting, i didn't have much to do with that at all, although he might say to me, what do you think of so and so for a certain part? i would probably say, great, let's try and get that person. you reflect on parallels with your life and the life of lear, the first issue was your faltering

health, your bad shoulder. how useful were those real—life experiences in preparation for the role? at the time they didn't feel useful, they felt too close for comfort. i also had two members of my family passed away and some other people that i knew well passed away. it felt quite strange. running through the play king lear is to paraphrase lear, the smell of mortality, a sense of the fragility of life and human life, that's a terribly strong theme in the play. and here i was rehearsing the part and acting those things but also experiencing them in real life. so it was a strange time.

that was often a bit painful and difficult but thank goodness it worked out in the end. you mention a couple of times in the book the possibility of stopping acting. are you just toying with that idea or is this a serious possibility? apart from anything else, i've spent my career as a classical actor mainly, mainly as a shakespeare actor, and i've run out of parts because he wrote three great parts for older actors, prospero, lear, and i've done the three of them now. i'm not quite sure where i go next. female roles perhaps?

in the book you talk about approaching adrian noble who ran the rsc in the 905 about playing cleopatra. maybe this idea was ahead of its time. with the gender casting being something that is now up for discussion, yes, but unfortunately i'm a little too old for cleopatra now! i might stand a better chance of getting it now than i did at the time when adrian noble simply said, if i gave you cleopatra every leading actress in this country would lynch me. so things are a bit different now. exactly, how times have changed. so if you are toying with giving up acting, would you ever give up writing? no, i mean, that's what... the writing and painting is what i would do if acting did come to an end. let's hope it doesn't.

sir antony sher, it has been lovely to talk to you, many thanks. thank you. another dose of winter for some other us today. troublesome weather on the roads, particularly across the northern part of the uk with that snow. rain as well, and any snow that has fallen has been quite clumpy, wet, that sort of thing. tonight, the northern part of the country will continue to snow falling. this is the low pressure that brought the bad weather in the south, in the last day or so. we had rain in the south and then it moved further north and bumped into the cold air. that is why we saw snow from yorkshire northwards. this is around midnight. mostly rain now across northern ireland, the lake district is also rain. starting to turn to rain across the south west of scotland. across the southern uplands, the lowlands, still a

period of snow to come around midnightand period of snow to come around midnight and beyond. this is where the cold air will keep sitting through tonight and into tomorrow, here is the south—west, the wind blowing out of the south—west, much milder weather. by early on tuesday morning, the temperature will not have dropped much across the south, nine or 10 degrees, just a degree or so nine or 10 degrees, just a degree or so above freezing. let's have a look at the weather map for tuesday itself. we are still very much under the influence of the area of low pressure. quite a big low pressure. that will be driving the weather as well. so, a blob of white, in place across scotland. further wintry weather to come at least in the morning and the first part of the afternoon. this is tuesday, even see afternoon. this is tuesday, even see a tour nine o'clock. we are looking at the snow turning to sleet, really, by that stage. most of it will have melted. not a pleasant picture. still a lot of cloud and rain around from northern ireland and much of scotland. for the bulk of englund and wales a bright and

pleasa nt of englund and wales a bright and pleasant today. some showers around, not completely dry day across england and wales. it will be lot better. towards the second half of the week, wednesday is going to bring lots of big showers around, possibly some hail and thunder. look, a big change on the way on thursday. i think a much brighter day for many of us. lighter wind, more sunshine. a little cool because it starts off fairly chilly. towards the end of the week, the thinking is that the air will be coming from the south. southern and south—eastern and eastern parts of the country could be in for a very mild friday. the buyer. —— goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines — winnie madikizela—mandela — the south african anti—apartheid campaigner and former wife of nelson mandela — has died at the age of 81. the south african president said she was the mother of the nation. she was not only an inspiration but

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