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help lifting uk stocks. now it's time for meet the author. it's probably the most famous love story in the world. two youngsters ina story in the world. two youngsters in a fatal embrace, their whirring families unable to let them live out their dreams. but this is not shakespeare's story. it isjuliet and romeo. the tale retold by the novelist david hewson said in the same place, verona, and firmly in the last days of the 15th century. with their lives given new twists and new histories. how do you turn shakespeare into a novel? this book, this novel started life

as an audio book. it was done to be listened to. tells the story about that, because it's fascinating. listened to. tells the story about that, because it's fascinatingm was a one—man that i wrote with richard armitage who can play any pa rt richard armitage who can play any part you push at him. her recording about two years ago here in london, and richard said to me when is the book coming out? it never occurred to me that there would be a book because it was a script. when it came out lots of said when is the book coming out? i decided to decided to try to turn it, having turned a play into an audio book to turned a play into an audio book to turnit turned a play into an audio book to turn it into a novel. the arty change the structure of the original, tends to make this audio book how would you describe the transition that you made from the drama we all know to the one—man play? it fascinates me the difference between drama and novel

fiction. both of them are very similar in some ways and very different in others. there's things you can you can't infection and vice ve rsa . you can you can't infection and vice versa. the key thing i had to add in was the internal voice because the drama you have an internal voice u nless drama you have an internal voice unless you break the fourth wall and you can do that speaking directly to the camera. we don't want to do normally because it's not naturalistic. in a novel we expect to hear the internal voice of the characters. i had to invent these internal voices as these back stories. they don't have time for it in drama. what we see in the novel is the whole pay—to—play of the life ofa is the whole pay—to—play of the life of a character being laid bare. in the course of the play that can't happen. with all the brilliant psychological insights of a shakespeare play. here you have got to invent so much. absolutely. we

need to know why mercutio is such a weird, funny and unhappy character. why do you decide that was in his case? he came from venice, he was one of the important people in venice and fell in love with a high—class lady who was found doing naughty things. in early casanova and lucky to escape with his life. you don't have to worry about trashing six beer because the character is the same, even the nurse has a back story. the nurse had a back story because we don't know really who she is in the book, i'm making her this working—class woman who got kicked out of a fishing village. it was fascinating when richard did the play because he saidi when richard did the play because he said i hope you like the accent i'm giving her. isaid i am said i hope you like the accent i'm giving her. i said i am sure it will be fine and then he performed in the accent be fine and then he performed in the a cce nt of be fine and then he performed in the accent of the nurse in the play, this woman was bromley. they taught

me an awful lot about, i learned so much from him writing this book. you need to try to be real. the accent worked perfectly. and it tells you where she comes from. the other thing that's a very vivid in the book is the sense, and write about this in the preface, if the sense of italy and that moment. right at the end of the 15th century where everything was happening. even machiavelli is busy writing. the politics of the place is heaving. and you want to bring also bear.|j did. we know that he wrote a story when the story was set. it's1499 is when the story was set. it's 1499 is a fence when the story was set. it's1499 is a fence that runs right through the

middle of the story and it's the renaissance. most of the people are sitting on the other side of the fence which is the pre—renaissance mindset that says you are there to do what god tells you, butjuliet crucially it's on the other side. the opposite side where she wants to be free. one of the things that springs out of this book very powerfully apart from your conviction that it's one of the great immortal stories is your obvious love and indeed adoration for italy. they can't be made up, that must be real. that's very real. i spent a couple of weeks walking around verona looking at the relocations. they say this is the balcony. the real city is wonderful. it is wonderful. the real bits had nothing to do with them, there never was a romeo and juliet, but it's very important that books have a very important that books have a very firm and multidimensional

world. you don't want to just see it which to spell it and feel it and know what it tastes like. i dug up menus from 1499 with disgusting stuff and that is what they have at the banquet. i wanted people to feel it there. you have done it with this great confidence, but you have also done it with a certain degree of boldness. you've ta ken done it with a certain degree of boldness. you've taken quite a few liberties. we won't go into it, there's a couple of ones that we will go into, but did you worry about that at all? the things that changed i hope i have changed in the spirit of the story. for me it's story butjuliet. spirit of the story. for me it's story but juliet. that's spirit of the story. for me it's story butjuliet. that's i called it juliet and romeo. it's the story of fighting for the right to establish your own identity and not having it forced upon her by her parents, with a church or by society. and the structure of the story of the warring families and the impossibility of this love because it crosses that terrible boundary.

that core is still there. that is the structure of the story, because that's what makes it tick.|j the structure of the story, because that's what makes it tick. i think so andi that's what makes it tick. i think so and i think the relationship between romeo and juliet is actually much more complex than we often appreciate. it's not simply a love story, love is a label we stick on lots of things from infatuation to passion, to friendship to support. i wa nted passion, to friendship to support. i wanted to cover all that in a way romeo is a bit of a twit. all of you wa nts to romeo is a bit of a twit. all of you wants to the hot girlfriend because all of the poetry has told him that's what life is about. juliet is facing a death sentence. she's facing a death sentence. she's facing a death sentence. she's facing a forced marriage to a man she hates which will take out all of the intellectual life that she wa nts. the intellectual life that she wants. really, this is about her and in the end i think she feels that romeo is in fact part of this escape route. it is selfless and also

selfish. if somebody wanted to plunge into verona in 1499 what would you tell them to expect?|j think would you tell them to expect?” think you tell them to expect a very troubled place, because that world, the way it's paralleled today it was full of hope and science and culture and experimentation. it was also full of danger. we had the catholic church in florence just full of danger. we had the catholic church in florencejust down full of danger. we had the catholic church in florence just down the road. we have machiavelli working. we have michelangelo and da vinci working. we also have the pope in rome and the east directly through venice. at this playground and everything. if the hotbed of all kinds of passions and fears. there's a back—up for story. david hewson, author ofjuliet and romeo. think

you very much. thank you. good evening. today puzzled whether story has been a sunny one. just about most of all the way up to the north of the uk. that's how it looked in edinburgh a little bit earlier on. blue skies and sunshine to be had. a lovely end to the day here for weather watcher in the centre of london. and as we go through tonight we will stick with those clear skies and as he conceived of the salad picture this not been a huge amount of clout around today. extra clout beginning to strea m around today. extra clout beginning to stream its way in towards northern ireland in the western side of scotland. that will continue to work its way in, but for south and east working clear skies in it will turn quite chilly. you can see the green shade in here on our attempt 01’ green shade in here on our attempt or profile. very close to freezing even the towns and cities perhaps down to two or three degrees. especially for eastern scotland as

not as cold for northern ireland and west of scotland here. more in the way of clout. that's a good there'll bea way of clout. that's a good there'll be a cloudier day across the northwestern areas. may even see a few spots of rain gracing the cross scotland. another beautiful day with sunny spells and after that start temperatures will do relatively well. up to 17, 18 or maybe 19 degrees. its high pressure that ta kes degrees. its high pressure that takes us out of friday and into the start of the weekend. the big day on saturday of course. cup finals in football both know which of the border and took the hand apart also wembley around 19 or 20 degrees. and of course the royal wedding and the forecast for windsor is set fair with sunny skies and mostly friday afternoon. two pictures up to 20 or 21 degrees. wherever you are spending stops today same. a bit of extra clout in the northwest in another system starting to show its hand here. all the while as

temperatures continue to nudge upwards and 21 degrees across parts of the southeast. if you're going to the second half of the weekend things go downhill across northern ireland and scotland. this weather find a fairly active as it fights its way in and you will see outbreaks of rain and the odd heavy burst at times. east of scotland down into england and wales. sunday will bring large amounts of sunshine and apache clout at times. maybe missed not close to the coast but away from their temperatures up to 21 or 22 degrees, but cooler we have that weather front of towards the north and the west. generally speaking estate settled at to go into next week but the northwestern areas prone to systems with a bit of rain at times. that's all from me now. is is hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source.

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