bridget had a combination of amazing weather. 50 many things have to come good donte to set a record like that. many thanks indeed for that. great britain and bryant squad been announced today ahead of their tour to new zealand, this is how it shapes up. there are no praise u nfortu nately shapes up. there are no praise unfortunately culminating in saturday plus plus a pretty grand final and he's engaged, more on that ina final and he's engaged, more on that in a moment. is that heart ache in there? and they pay for two players and josh johnson and elected there? and they pay for two players and joshjohnson and elected to stay joins us on the programme tonight. what have the candidates been for you? we what have the candidates been for you ? we know what have the candidates been for you? we know saturday's grant by now you? we know saturday's grant by now you got married on sunday, as far as beacons go that's got to be up there. it's been outstanding. it's been a great experience for the

club. but also it was great and had enjoyed it and it's been nasty for the club and expense area.... enjoyed it and it's been nasty for the club and expense area. . .. i'm sure your wife was delighted that you did not show up with a black eye. i gathered uad to find out whether or not you have been named on sunday, you gave a find your phonejust in case on sunday, you gave a find your phone just in case it did on sunday, you gave a find your phonejust in case it did not on sunday, you gave a find your phone just in case it did not go off while you are walking up the aisle. yes likely that did not happen. disappointing therefore tommy cannot make it after what's been a great season make it after what's been a great season for him but praying for your team—mate. you two have been at the heart of what's been good about soccer this season. he's been great. we managed to make the squads outstanding and i'm glad and i'm

great friends at hand and he helped make game tremendously over the yea rs. make game tremendously over the years. all the fans love him and the clu b years. all the fans love him and the club loves him. you are on the brink of making your debut, your first international cap, you will be take —— praying tonga and new zealand and papua new guinea, what are you hoping to get out of the store? i'm excited for the experience and i wa nt to excited for the experience and i want to work up and train up and... hopefully that toy does not cap —— class with your honeymoon. thanks for speaking to us tonight. you can follow all of those matches across the bbc. we finished tonight with a man who clearly has not lost his competitive instincts. he might have won primary four times. clearly that

was not enough for him because the former goalkeeper is back but this time on the ice having retired from football last season he's playing in goal currently and this is their game against us it was tied went down to a shoot out, saved to penalties. not a bad day. we could not afford all the deer, so i'll escaping with the match all the time because of football i did not have time to play rugby self i was doing it as my hobby and when i could and for about 25 years i could not at all and for about 25 years i could not at allandi for about 25 years i could not at all and i got this first opportunity and glad it happened because it's like a and glad it happened because it's likea dream and glad it happened because it's like a dream from childhood dream to come and play one game and no one

would ever take us away from me so it's really nice. enjoying being back. that's all on the programme tonight, plenty more to come on bbc means. six authors from around the world are competing for this year's booker prize for fiction. margaret atwood and sir salman rushdie are among the nominees hoping to take home the fifty thousand pound prize. rebecca jones is at london's guildhall where the winner will be announced tonight. it promises to be quite a party. 500 guests will be enjoying a champagne reception before heading through to the main hall for a three course meal. among them the six writers shortlisted for the booker prize

this year and i'm delighted to say we arejoined by this year and i'm delighted to say we are joined by two of them now. shortlisted for her seventh novel and bernie being shortlisted for her eighth novel. thank you both. if i might start with you lucy, your book ta kes might start with you lucy, your book takes us inside the mind of a woman in ohio who makes cakes for editing and she's a mother and it's a book about modern america and i wondered why you chose such a particular singular focus why you chose such a particular singularfocus to why you chose such a particular singular focus to tell such a wide story? i'm most interested in how modern america women and i think my face are neglected so the whole book is really about motherhood. and bernadine in contrast your book is about 12 different women mainly black, british, and a picture of contemporary britain. are there

stories if you are overlooked in fiction? absolutely i do. i feel there aren't enough writing black women in british literature. i think this year there are two of us who have published novels about black british women so i wanted to publish a book that had 12 very different kinds of black women and it to sort of people the pages of a novel with all the possibilities of our lives. and you have got bankers and clean eyes and a farmer and stretching from adolescence to old age. lucy, we can't not talk about the length of your book. it is a thousand pages long and if it were to win tonight it would be the longest book ever to win this price. it's also told in a single sentence. my question is did you conceive the novel in that way oi’ you conceive the novel in that way ordid it you conceive the novel in that way or did itjust somehow turn into that? i have to admit i did not concede it that way because it was quite a surprise for me when i wrote

it in different sections to save my computer from breaking down. it in different sections to save my computerfrom breaking down. so when i put it all together it turned out to be huge. that was fun. fun for you as a writer, did you wonder what kind of challenge it might be for your reader? i've always written novels of 200 pages before and they we re novels of 200 pages before and they were changing in their own way. i don't mind challenging the reader, i think they need it. your book is also stylistically daring. there are some. my when you actually look at the page it's almost set out a poetry. do you see it as an experimental thing? definitely it's an experimental novel because i have shaped the language on the page in such a way that people take the spacesin such a way that people take the spaces in between the sentences as

their gaps and they are more. but there aren't that many. i call it a poetic patterning on the page while the notice list novel. i don't see it as poetry. i would not want this form to put anybody off reading your books either. just a quick word about the price, which you a command? sure. i would about the price, which you a command? sure. iwould not about the price, which you a command? sure. i would not mind i would not say no. i think so, yes. good luck tonight and congratulations to being shortlisted. thank you both and we will bring you the announcement of the winter live here on the bbc news chart —— channel in a special programme and that's at half past nine this evening so join us for that. we have the prospect of some intense rainfall across parts of england and wales in the coming highways and the met office particularly concerned about the southwest of england and east anglia and we are looking at thunderstorms pushing into the evening and we get

a couple inches of rain in some areas out of these thunderstorms in areas out of these thunderstorms in a short space of time particularly hazardous if taking to the road. rain pushing its way north through the date and putting out into the north sea by the end of the night. still some rain to come from northern england in the best showers further west. if you chilli spots across northern scotland but fogged around first thing across essential parts of england and wales and lingering clouds for the northeast of england but in comparison today, a much drier date night winds and seeing some sunshine as well. their top temperature is in mid—teens, more rain in the wings tuesday into wednesday.

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