across a bit sick. my neck she came across a such a charismatic lady. what was she did not even of the publishers will publish it, it had been critically well received but they we re critically well received but they were not sold foreign issues, so she was really staggered by the success of small island and was able to pay off her mortgage and allowed her to live in a much more free way and not have to have that terrible anxiety that many writers have all the time of their writing. in your conversations with her, did she ever discussed her feelings of the literary world had presented other black authors today? what were her thoughts on that? she, these books that she wrote were in the 1990s and she said that the attitude then and when you're thinking about 20 odd

yea rs when you're thinking about 20 odd years ago, it's not a long time, but a lot has changed in that time. at that time, they just a lot has changed in that time. at that time, theyjust did not expect books that have predominately black characters to sell. they seemed to have this idea that if the character was not going to be universal, then it wouldn't sell and they could not imaginea it wouldn't sell and they could not imagine a black character to be universal and be read by white people and enjoyed by them. so small island is a wonderful book in that sense because the essential characters are two black characters into white characters and the way their lives connecting intersect what made that book a success, so they could imagine the other couple's lives completely in the great strength was focusing on the every day and at one point, before she had the success, wind rush was her story. what did she make of last yea r‘s her story. what did she make of last year's scandal? i think she wasjust

really horrified at the whole thing that it happened to the wind rush generation, it is a shame. it's terrible and saw those things that just make you feel like you need to, it's deeply shocking and her father came off the wind rush and her mother both had shocking experiences of racism, so many of then, and it wasn't until she was delving into writing small island that she found out some many of her parents experience that, they didn't really share that with her growing up stop so share that with her growing up stop so she grew up with a sense of denying her a jamaican heritage being slightly ashamed and embarrassed by it it was quite a walk towards consciousness that changed her. thank you so much for sharing your memories of her, thank you. the headlines on bbc news...

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us through this week plus ‘s cinema releases mark kermode, what have you got for us? very mixed bag, we've got the kid that would be king an arthurian update. a private war, a drama about marie colvin. so the kid who would be king, kind of a retelling of king arthur? yes, a new movie, he plays this bullied kid named alex, he and his other equally believed friend stumble upon a sword bullied friend stumble upon a sword and they pull it out and they take it back home and they realise that with, someone is the sword and the stone. this now rises a curse of morgana coming in to wreak havoc and the other way to overcome this curse, they have

to band together, much as arthur did, including the kids that once believed them so that they can once bullied them so that they can overcome this resurrected evil. here is a spectacular clip. everyone's vanished! everyone's disappeared! alex! what are you doing?! alex! they're just made of bones! we can kill them! there's two more! we can't out run them! what are we going to do? hey, can anybody drive? we lost one! it's catching up! 0n the left! get the last one! and everything will go back to normal! hold on!

where did you learn how to drive? mario kart. the king story that you have never seen told before. you see from that clip, it's that spectacle, kind of like what you would expect from a harry potter movie. but this is much closer to the spirit of the children's film, it's aimed at a younger audience and it struggled to find an audience in america that's because i think it since ability is too british. basically, it is a story of a group of disparate kids who have to put aside their differences in order to to control the fact that as he did an attack of the block really does believe that the future belongs to the younger generation and he seems to have great faith the youngsters in his films and what i really liked about this was it was quirky and odd and it was not ashamed to be what it was, which was a really sort of good, romping the movie but with it's heart completely in

the right place, and betty younger audience with spectacle despair. and i suspect it will do a lot better here than it did in america because i expect in america theyjust didn't quite get thejokes, they did not get the tone of it. but i was really charmed by it. i thought it had a magical spell to it, that i was really charming and i really enjoyed it. a private war, story of marie colvin. i'll be interested to know if you think about this one, she went to the most dangerous places and paid the highest price for. this stars rosamund pike this stars rosamund i think she does a brilliantjob i think she does a brilliantjob of sinking her teeth into the role, and for people who say that it's very convincing portrait. i think there are two problems, the first is, it's a very good documentaries about marie colvin like under the wire which really gets to the heart of it, the second thing is that it's, the script isn't as good

as this story. it's like it's written, the same writer and is an awful lot of clunky exposition and the central idea that marie colvin, that she did not want to be the centre of the story that she was interested in, she wanted to get the truth out there. that said, with those reservations, i think it is terrific and in the current climate, any film that celebrates news journalists going and getting the proper story at the time where despots are trying to underwrite news journalism, i think it has validity. idid i did interview the director, he was saying that it is a portrait of obsession and she was an obsessive. it was not a biopic, he made things a cartel which is extraordinary. i think this is less strong than some of his documentaries, but i do think

there are things that are good about it. jellyfish. is a very low budget british picture, yelling that she has to work in an arcade to bring in money for her younger siblings and incapable of looking after the family, the mother is signing onto the families in great financial dire straits, so she is carrying the burden of care to make caring for herfamily. there burden of care to make caring for her family. there is burden of care to make caring for herfamily. there is something burden of care to make caring for her family. there is something that her family. there is something that he thinks he should challenge all this pent—up emotion that she has into stand—up comedy. here's the clip. stand up. i am standing up your act, stand up as in comedy. two minutes. no swear words. jokes? i

wa nt minutes. no swear words. jokes? i want you to find out what comedy is. here. ten. here. write these names down. higgs, richard pryor, george carlin. chris rock. frankie boyle. what i like about this is the subject matter is bleak, it is about a teenager with a great burden of caring responsibility that's put in a position that no one should be put in and she's tough and i think you really invest in her character and the vivacity of the character offsets the grimness of the subject

matter and you really do believe in her situation. a great performance and receive the dynamic of this young woman carrying the weight of a family in the weight of responsibility and somehow, this idea of turning into a standup act offers a possible note of redemption. i think it is a very interesting first feature and it reminds me of a film i spoke about a few months ago called pincushion i think was very low budget, but had a kind of real honesty to it and i think that we should expect to see very good things from the director of the somme in the future. what is best out at the moment was yellow i love, i thought at that event lyrical beauty to it andi at that event lyrical beauty to it and i really want people to go out and i really want people to go out and see it, it is hard to find a audience or something so low—key. i

think this is actually better than moonlight. i thought it was absolutely wonderful. best dvd? it's about coming to terms with grief and using a spectacular backdrop, i thought it was a really great film but i was delighted that you, since i last saw you, you saw leave no trace, which is my film of last year. i thought it was stunning andi last year. i thought it was stunning and i did not even know it was your favourite film of last year! and i stumbled on it and i never heard of it and it's just a beautiful portrait of a father, daughter relationship and a guy who has ptsd who just wants to be alone from the rest of the world. in their living off grid in these pacific northwest and thereby back into society and they have to learn to reintegrate. but i loved about it is that it's been completely overlooked which is a real shame because i thought it

was best script, best film. the thing i love most about it is show don't tell. there is no point in it when the cast sits around and says this is what the scene means, you mean this to me and i mean the steve. it doesn't do that at all, it's all with looks. so you knew nothing about it was yellow absolutely nothing. which is sometimes the best way to see a movie no word of mouth, you can see it and you can love it or hate it. it isa it and you can love it or hate it. it is a complete unbiased recommendation, i didn't tell you to go and see at the site completely by accident and you left it. it was my film of the year. is that on dvd now? it should be at the oscars but it is in. for this week, thank you very much for watching from both of us, goodbye. this is bbc world news today.

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