in his car off, he was shot down, in his car was still sitting there with all of his kit in it. ijoined the br, because i wanted to fly but here we are flying two, three, four, six times a day sometimes! what else do you want? a bit of excitement thrown in? it was good. i must say for that reason i enjoyed it. there was probably not a lot of time for emotions, was there at that time?|j look emotions, was there at that time?” look now at the list of the squadron andi look now at the list of the squadron and i do not suppose i could put a face to more than about a dozen of the names. yet there are about this link, there are about 30 or a0 pilots. but i cannot put a name to more than about ten or 12. let me bring you some breaking news out of washington, donald trump is saying

the chief officer of the empire mental protection agency, scott pruitt, who has been under intense pressure over the last few days has resigned tonight, and donald trump makes it clear that he was running out of patience with scott pruitt. there will be more on that any outside source coming up at 9pm. now that we met the wing commander, it is now time for me the author. a guilt ridden, angry boy on the loose on the western australian outback and his quest for manhood, love, perhaps even some kind of spiritual peace. an unlikely friendship with a permit ike man who was once a priest an unlikely friendship with a hermit like man who was once a priest and who is damaged as well. and tim winton, one of australia's great novelist told this brutal, unforgiving, raw story with great passion and without a trace of sentimentality. the shephard's hut is told in the voice of the boy, jesse clacton and it crackles with the rough in a sense of his language. an innocence that by the end of the story has turned into something quite different.

welcome. the two principal characters in this story, who carry it all, are difficult people. they are both to some extent guilt ridden and damaged. why do you expect a reader to become so involved in them and to follow them on thisjourney? it is a good question. i am not sure i have the answer. my experience of writing the book was finding those characters and following them in almost the same way as the reader does, in discovering what they are about. with a sense of compulsion, really? yeah. so they... i had one character and follow him until he bumps into another character. and it is... it is just happenstance in the first instance and then,

you know, rewriting later on, because just to make these opposites match, one is a 15—year—old, borderline sociopath, a boy and the other is an older, man and they both lost in their way. so of all the gin joints in all the world, you know. eventually, but it is the nature of it. a place that seems empty, if you spend long enough in it and you are looking, you will come across things. a classic kind of hook on which to hang a tale. that moment, where everything changes and it takes a certain form, just by the chance, meeting of these two characters? just by the chance meeting of these two characters? yeah. this boy... hiking through the wilderness, really, with nothing but a high—powered rifle, some ammunition, a backpack... and words. and a bottle of water. and just for him to meet another person...

it goes from a sort of survival story and you are inside the mind and the lexicon of this profane, angry, damaged boy, entirely until these two people meet and they hit sparks off one another and suddenly there is a different kind of language striking sparks off of the boy. and vice versa. there is a transformation of sorts which we will talk about later. but, how did you get inside the head of this angry, damaged, profane boy? because his voice has an authentic feel to it. it never flags, it is there from the beginning of the book to the end. how did you do that? it is tricky. well, i did not get into his head, he got into mine. it was... it was an inconvenient flash of inspiration, i suppose. i was writing another book entirely, but this scene where his father

is killed just arrived in my head unbidden. and actually unwelcome because i was... it was distracting. it had nothing to do with what i was right in the middle of at that day. but it was so vivid and i wanted to see where it went, literally. i tried to go back to my novel for a couple of weeks and realise that i had been derailed by this intervention and followed the hate of that voice to see where it was going. and to keep it real, it felt real to me. i knew it was a confection because i am a novelist. but it is kind of almost a sort of secondary form of experience, when it is working really well, it is as if it is real. once this journey begins, the death of the father, the flight because of what he fears might happen in unjustly to him, might happen unjustly to him, it is a journey that

you have to stick with. you have got to know how it ends. yeah, you feel... i felt, as the author, like i had my coat caught in a pram rack on the back of the bus and just dragged along behind the bus. running sideways to keep up and, i hope that is the experience for the reader. the language helps because it is, he is a rough time and he is a rough dime and he is an adolescent. he is not fully formed. so it is pouring out of him in a... in a rough—hewn way. yeah, it is a sort of hot torrent and it is profane and spiky and... 200 pages of bad language and poor syntax. and i got paid for that. but i think it is... it is something about the passion in his voice, the anger and the hurt and the longing that you go with that somehow, because at first blush, he is a piece of work. you would not give him a lift in your car. you would not have him in your home.

and i would not recommend having him in your head for two years as i did. you stay with them long enough, it is a little bit like standing in that landscape long enough until you get some familiarity, when you look and you see that you're looking at more than you notice, and with them you have time enough to merge as someone we are interesting in, and we're hoping for the best for. that is interesting, we hope for the best for him. that is an intriguing observation. we will not say how the book ends except that there are unexpected events at the end. what we know is that he is hunting for something, it is notjust escape. he is hunting for what he would call love of some kind. with his cousin, and he thinks this will be a relationship that would take him somewhere. that is a positive side from the beginning, it is a quest. he is learning for decency,

as he called it. peace and decency. he feels that no one has ever been decent to him except for this girl that he is walking 300 km to. she is the only person in the world who cares about him. because of the damaged man he meets is a priest or an ex—priest, there is inevitably a kind of spiritual context, not an overtly religious theme, they are not searching for god in any sort of obvious way. but there is that angle to it, that is quite a profound strand in the book, isn't it? yeah. because the, this guy, denton mcgillis, the spoiled priest, he has what the boy does not happen and that is language and education. he comes from the great world. and he has a kind of conference with ideas and even if he has use them superficially most of his life, and then in bad faith, but he does provide a kind of role

model as a way of being a man to the boy that he has not had before. a quick piece of growing up. and alsojust, he has never discussed any ideas with anyone before. the yearning questing nature of the boy changes the man and some of the knowledge and experience changes the boy because there they are in the middle of nowhere in a great expanse of nowhere in a great expanse of salt lakes, the greatest sky you are ever going to see in your life. you have perspective. you know, you just become dandruff on the side of the great beast of the earth. you have written before in books and novels about the power of the landscape, the power of the solitude you can find there, the nature of that place. it is clear that western australia just haunts you every hour of your life. even if you are a hello youth as i was when i first went out camping and hunting in that

landscape, eventually just by the nature of the differential in size and scale of it and you, you are forced... you are forced outside your comfort zone mentally and as well as physically. i want to ask you finally is this, it is the question i think anybody would begin to ask themselves as they go on this journey, and it is this, how much has he changed and in what way by the end of the book? yeah, that is the sort of central question, really. he is a different boy to the kid that we first know in the beginnings of the book and he has been through, you know, violent and profound and often comical experiences. i think he is a different person at the end of the book, whether he is different enough as a boy, so that he is, you know, our daughters and sisters and friends won't fear him,

remains to be seen. he wants to be decent. he wants peace. tim winton, author of the shephard's hut. thank you very much. good evening, it has been a day of large extremes across the uk, we had plenty of dry weather and lots of sunshine but the heat was in england and wales and most specifically in derbyshire, temperatures got up to 31 derbyshire, temperatures got up to 3! celsius today. a combination of heat and sea breezes lead to some torrential downpour is and thunderstorms here, with a flash flooding in tunbridge wells. those we re flooding in tunbridge wells. those were the showers come you can see the mainjust in land from were the showers come you can see the main just in land from the coast along the south, it did not lost to

bash last two will long. —— did not last too long. we will see below cloud encroaching on the eastern side of england on the breeze off the north sea. pretty warm and muggy night and parts of the england and temperatures today were much lower than they were yesterday. sunshine on the way, dry weather for 99% of the uk, the low cloud gets pushed away by a westerly breeze. we will see cloud for a while and we may catch a few thunderstorms again and simmering, across perhaps kent and also sussex. 30, 30! simmering, across perhaps kent and also sussex. 30, 30 1 degrees for england and wales, around the low 20s for scotland and northern ireland, yet to warm up. but it will, high pressure builds across the uk and pushing the high—pressure northwards. saturday a dry day,

plenty of sunshine a well dunn around and fair weather cloud developing, workload coming into the northwest later on in the day. temperatures should be building and rising in pushing their way northwards to scotland and northern ireland and here we will see the heat building back in again in 26 degrees also in a few places but again 30 or3i degrees also in a few places but again 30 or 3! across parts of england and wales. it is going to be a scorching weekend for england and wales. harrop dunn hardly a cloud in the sky —— hardly a cloud in the sky. nothing very much, but still a lot of heat across much of uk and most temperatures still 30 or 3! celsius at bells. heading into next week, we are not going to see any rain really to speak up so it will stay dry. no end in sight as far as thatis stay dry. no end in sight as far as that is concerned but it will be hot both by day and by night with temperatures at best right about the mid—20s.

hello, i'm kasia madera, this is 0utside source. in breaking news, donald trump has announced his embattled environmental protection agency chief scott pruitt has resigned. britain struggles to explain the latest nerve agent poisoning in wiltshire, and point the finger at russia once again. moscow denies responsibility. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explain exactly what has gone on. at least one person has died and almost 50 are still missing after a boat capsizes in high winds and rain in thailand. staying in thailand and the bad weather there is also hampering the efforts to rescue i2 teenage boys and their coach from a cave. we have the latest on that. and we'll speak to scott donaldson, the first person ever to kayak,