graeme dott, they were tied at 8—8, until carter, through so many challenges in his personal life came through and was pretty happy about it as well. these are live pictures from the crucible. kyren wilson playing mathew stevens, wilson needs just two kyren wilson playing mathew stevens, wilson needsjust two more kyren wilson playing mathew stevens, wilson needs just two more frames to go through to the second round, currently 8—3 up on the other table is marco fu, he's trailing his opponent 7—3. full coverage on the bbc sports website and app. racing 92 are through to the european champion cup final after a brilliant first half was too much for munster. it was the teddy thomas show in bordeaux as he ran in two tries in the opening twenty minutes, and then turned down a hat trick set up maxime machenaud. munster did recover in the second half, but the damage was done, and it finished 27—22. racing will meet leinster in the final on may 12th in bilbao. there were six fixtures in the fifth round of rugby league's challenge cup today.

with minnows york city knights of league one up against super league's catalans dragons. york city gave a good account of themselves and the match was tied at 10—10 shortly before half time. but catalans pulled away after the break, scoring three more tries to eventually win by 3a points to 22. elsewhere, whitehaven, leigh centurions and hull kr were all amongst the winners. as were toronto wolfpack who just came past barrow. and that is all from sportsday, all the sport on bbc news throughout the evening, next is meet the author. a contemporary crime writer takes on one of the great stories of ambition and revenge. jo nesbo‘s macbeth has as its central character a policeman, not a warrior who,

nonetheless, murders his way to the top. listening of course to the siren voices of the witches on the way. they are drugged—up prostitutes. and being egged on by his wife in this retelling of the story, known simply as lady. he ushers in a time of bloody chaos and this is hardly a plot spoiler, because it is macbeth, leads to his own distraction. it's one of eight re—writings of the plays in the hogarth shakespeare series. jo nesbo rewrites the bard. welcome. was it scary to take on a story like this that everyone knows? not really, because where i come from people don't, well they know the story, but it's not

like in the uk where you read shakespeare in school. in norway we read henrik ibsen in school. actually my relationship was not so much to shakespeare as it was to macbeth, because i saw the movie when i was in my early teens. i was so fascinated by the story that i would actually go and get the written edition of the play in english at the age of 13 or 14, i didn't understand one sentence. but the power of the story is so visceral, it is such an elemental story that it just draws you on. you are expressing there with the imagination what the imagination does with this tale. for me it was the first time that i had come across a story where you are sort of manipulated by the storyteller to sympathise

with what seems to be the protagonist of the story, and then suddenly a few minutes later you are caught on the wrong side, the dark side, and you are sort of forced into trying to understand and sympathise with the villain. you've kept it in scotland. one of the ways you get us into this world is with a fantastic description of a drugs bust that goes wrong at the beginning. and it strikes me that's the kind of thing you just love, the thing that explodes all over the page. the play is fast—paced and so is the book. it needs to be. it is set, it could be set in scotland, i use the scottish names. you just say it's a northern city. it's more newcastle in the 70s in get carter with michael caine. did you feel constrained

with working in the names? macdufff is duff, hecate is an underworld figure. you had to have duncan. did that bother you 7 there were a few too many macs for norwegian taste and so macduff was the only name shortened. let's talk about what makes a really good crime thriller of the kind that you write. what is the secret of that genre? what is it that keeps you going in it? the big difference between the harry hole series and macbeth is that the harry hole series is who did it crime mysteries and macbeth is a why did they do it mystery. then again, the protagonist, the heroes of the story are similar. they are both half protagonists and half antagonists.

and while harry is flirting with the dark side, of course macbeth is taking the full step into the dark side. the thing about harry as a policeman is that he does everything he can to put you off, i mean, he is pretty unpleasant. his relationships are all over the place, he's a drunk and all sorts of things. and yet we like him. why do we like him? i think because we can relate to his sins. i think it's him being, making the wrong moral choices are more intriguing and interesting to us than him making the right moral choices and he will do both. there's a read over to macbeth there. because however monstrous his behaviour is, and he perpetrates a terrible deed, his wife is no more attractive in this book than she is in the play as a character anyway. and yet we've got a sneaking

understanding of why he does it. that is why people keep coming back to macbeth. like you said, it's really fast—paced and things happen and it's an action story and even though you have long monologues you still have to find the answers. why is he going over that edge? there are many people standing on that edge and looking at an opportunity that they will not grab. because they have to cross that moral line. macbeth does. and although there are suggestions in the text of why he does it, still it's the question you have to come up with the answer for yourself. will people believe that he can go just like that to murder of a king from the prophecy, and the belief and ambition? we know that some people do, and that's why we believe in him.

because we know it's possible, however horrible. in the play when macbeth is presented with the prophecy the instinctive thing is his reaction that he will be stunned and almost scared. it's as if he already at that point can see himself becoming a murderer because of the prophecy. in my novel it's a little bit different, i have stuck more or less i've been very loyal to the play. not out of loyalty but because i realised there's a reason why it's a classic. you really can't change it. it's a beautiful construction. but in my novel he strikes a deal with the three witches which in the novel is not a supernatural element, but they are very... they're definitely on the dark side.

they are striking a deal with macbeth that if he kills duncan he will himself became ~ so maybe in a way it's more understandable. but it's still at the start of the story. he's loyal to duncan and he's a protagonist. you believe that he's the defender of good causes, that he is sort of an idealist. but what he is doing both in the play and the story is using the rhetoric to convince himself that it's the right thing to do. and it has got to be that way around, and not the plot that throws up a character who happens to be good.

you find the right character and move away. the stories are not about murders or thrones, they are about people, real people like you and i making moral decisions. and conflict within that character. that's what it's all about. that is what i've been writing about since i started and that is very much at the core of the story of macbeth and that is why when i was asked, can you write a novel based on a shakespeare play i said i can't write any play but if you give me macbeth i would definitely do it. well, you've done it. jo nesbo, thank you very much. thank you. good evening, after a taste of summer good evening, after a taste of summer in the last few days changes are afoot, the unusual warm weather we've had is thejet are afoot, the unusual warm weather we've had is the jet stream are afoot, the unusual warm weather we've had is thejet stream dragging warm we double weather from iberia,

for the week ahead and atlanticjet strea m for the week ahead and atlanticjet stream of sin and in the second half of the week we are on the northern flank of it and slightly colder air. in the week ahead it's back to normal, spring weather as you would expect, some nicer bits but some hefty downpours and when the showers come it will feel cooler than it has done of late. a cooler might tonight, evening storms across east anglia clear and showers continuing across parts of scotland and northern ireland, clearer conditions to the south and east and a cooler night then we've been used to, all of us turn into single figures for the monday morning commute, fresher than used to that there will be sunshine to the south and east, sunny spells in the west to begin with but cloud increasing for all into the afternoon, tidiest northern ireland, outbreaks of rain coming and sliding into western scotland, turning across western fringes of england and wales, cloudy and dump towards the rest of the day. temperatures towards the east of the country but with sunny spells out,

between 15 and 18 in eastern england pleasa nt between 15 and 18 in eastern england pleasant enough. to finish the day outbreaks of rain and asbo across most of the uk linked into this weather system. notice how this trailing front will linger across southern counties and suffered to stay a cloudy day in the south with brighter spells developing for a time before it clouds again later as a wave on the weather front pushes in bringing more rain. into northern ireland and scotland and the far north of england sunshine and heavy showers developing as we go through the day and a bit of a north— south split, 10—14 in the north, potentially brighter skies and to the south. the last dregs of mild pushed away as we go through into the middle of the week. all areas will much much fresher in this fresher air mass, showers on wednesday, stance and sonjim, showers in the west and developing widely, some heavy with hale, thunder and gusty winds, temperatures 11—15d. similar values

and thursday and friday, showers most frequent and heaviest towards the north and the west, fewer showers, drier in the south and east. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm. four british people die and 12 are injured in a coach crash in saudi arabia. the collision happened during an umra pilgrimage. the travel agent who organised the trip has spoken of his shock over the accident. obviously it's devastating, obviously it's going to be more devastating for them, losing part of the family. we send people, we look at them as part of our family, as well. social media companies must do more to protect people online or face new laws, that is the warning from the health secretary, jeremy hunt. and in a record—breaking london marathon — sir mo farah finishes third. commentator: mo farah will also collect a british record, as he crosses the line! sir mo's time of two hours, six minutes and 21 seconds,

is a new british record.