norman davies has written books before. book, latest book, he circumnavigates the globe to explore in some of the remotest places — stories of settlement and migration, driven as he puts it by the primeval urge to, "get up and go". welcome. it's one thing to think that we all have an urge to get up and go, it's quite another thing to do it. you are not a young man. and you set off and you circumnavigated the globe to all kinds of places that you must never have imagined that you would get to. what drove you on? i've no idea. the primeval urge? you get to a certain age, i received an invitation to australia but i don't like long flights so i decided to go by easy stages and take my time. and then i realised why come back the same way, just keep going, it took several months but it was a tremendous idea at my age! and the story you have followed, really, is the story of human movement, of migration, which of course is a very contemporary problem, obsession, but it is one that you see as fundamental to explaining how the world

norman davies, author of beneath another sky, thank you very much. thank you very much. weather has certainly been causing disruption over the last couple of days and we are not out of the woods yet. more ice and snow and strong winds. ice is developing widely across scotland and northern ireland, northern england as well, temperatures as low as —i2, perhaps —14 across rural scotland. a very cold start. further south this band of rain turned to snow as it bumps into that cold air. the met office have issued an amber "be prepared" warning for the extent of the snow. this is the region where we are most likely to see that destructive snow, through central wales, the midlands, northern england, five to ten centimetres pretty widely but we could see more than that. this band of rain, sleet and snow, on the southern edge mostly falling as rain but there could be some sleet or snow mixed in. further north toward sheffield we're likely to see significant snowfall, and the wind is a real feature. gusts of around 60 mph. the northern half of the country much quieter, still a few

norman davies, author of beneath another sky, thank you very much. thank you very much.s been a weekend of wintry weather which has caused significant disruption with snow, ice and strong winds. sennybridge in mid—wales saw 30 centimetres with disruption to travel and power networks. the main problem through tonight is ice, sleet and snow showers easing towards southern england and wales but many areas will see slippery conditions developing into the early hours of monday morning. the overnight temperatures in the towns and cities, a few degrees below freezing but in the countryside is —10 or even —12 degrees, especially with snow cover and clear skies. if heading to work or school on monday morning during rush hour, watch out for potentially icy conditions around. attention turns on monday to an area of low pressure causing disruption across portugal, spain and france, very heavy snowfall towards the alps and on the northern edge of that we'll see heavy bursts of rain developing across south—eastern parts of england and east anglia with the wind is picking up here. ther

norman davies, author of beneath another sky, thank you very much. thank you very much.a stormy day across northern britain. gales in excess of 90 miles an hour. not like it everywhere. in the lowland closer to 50 or 60. we have had interesting pictures of strong gusts of wind. in the afternoon in many parts of the country it was beautiful. a weather front sweeping across the uk with the rain in the morning and the skies then cleared. so fine weather around. it has not been all bad. this is storm caroline. still making its presence felt in the far north of scotland. impacting parts of scanned knava. lots of isobars. still strong winds. but we are focussing on the snow showers through the course of friday. northern scotland, northern ireland, and the north—west of england, wales, possibly into the midlands, maybe into the south—west of england too. in some areas, seeing five or ten centimetres but hit and miss, not all towns and cities, and even up not all towns and cities, and even up to 20 centimetres there. through the course of the night, the snow showers are falling

my my guest on meet the author this week is historian norman davies who leaves his usual european territorygate the world in a global journey into history. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. our guests joining me tonight are the political commentator jo phillips and nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror. the mail on sunday reports that theresa may had to intervene in a stand up row between the defence and foreign secretaries in the house of commons the observer leads with a warning that the eu is under pressure not to give the uk a better trade deal than other non—member countries get after brexit. the sunday express says leading brexit supporting mps want the uk to make clear it will walk away from any trade deal they don't think is good enough. the sunday telegraph goes with tensions within the cabinet over the meaning of the commitments the prime minister made to move the brexit talks on. and the sunday mirror reports that some delivery drivers are working 1a hour days, and earning less than the minimum wage. let's dip i

and at 7.30 meet the author will speak to writer and historian norman davies.d evening and welcome to bbc news. an amber weather warning has been issued for much of england and wales as heavy snow continues to cause disruption for travellers across the uk. over 100 flights have been cancelled at heathrow and passengers have been stranded on planes for hours that have landed at the airport but are unable to dock with the terminal. elsewhere a further 50 flights have been cancelled at stansted and flights at birmingham international, east midlands and belfast international airports have been affected. a number of motorways and a roads, including the mi and mao have been dealing with temporary closures due to numerous breakdowns and collisions. rail lines have also been impacted — a landslide has halted crosscountry train services between birmingham and bristol for the rest of the day. electricity supplier sse says up to 2a,000 homes in 0xfordshire, berkshire and wiltshire are without power. and school closures have already been confirmed for monday across worcest

katharine hepburn, alfred hitchcock, angela davis, marlon brando, and on one of the more memorable and notorious shows, gore vidal and norman mailer. he also featured rock 'n roll musicians to a degree pretty unusual for the time, including john lennon and yoko ono, jimi hendrix, janis joplin, david bowie, judy collins and joni mitchell. i was pretty excited to announce also that today the apb will launch an amazing new exhibit on this website that will make public television's first coverage of the senate watergate hearings available -- i am breaking all over. [laughter] carla: television's sole coverage of the senate watergate hearings available online for the very first time. [applause] carla: this was one of the most popular series in public broadcasting history. the library of congress has digitized all the master videotapes of the coverage we 1989,ed from weta in and with their permission are making them accessible online to anyone in the united states. the broadcast created what dickc cavette called watergate junkies, to refer to himself another to watch the hearings incessantly. it was created this summer by a libra

mr davis hopes to head off a rebellion by tory mps who are threatening to defeat the government over its brexit plans in a vote later today. let's return to our assistant political editor normannt that we got this morning from the government does not yet appear to have won over sufficient rebels. at least not the ones i have been talking to. the government is good to try to keep the pressure on some of the younger conservative rebels, reminding them that theresa may has just bounced back after a difficult few months. do they really wa nt to difficult few months. do they really want to raise questions about authorities again? do we really want to possibly helpjeremy corbyn? you can see the squeeze put on them. is that there's not enough, i would see is that the government would have to find some sort of compromise to defeat. defeat would be a significant moment. we can mull over that. we have a former conservative cabinet minister with us. this is a serious moment? actually, i do not think that it is. i am sorry to disappoint you and your viewers. most people have not actually been reading amendment seven. it says you cannot use statutory instruments to withdraw under other wi

mr davis is saying the government hasn‘t done the preparation needed to do itsjob." normanhere are no impact assessments on the effect of brexit on key areas of the uk economy, saying what about the auto motive sector and what about aerospace, what about financial services. david davis is saying no, no, his argument they have got so much to do with brexit it would be a waste of their resources to start compiling the reports and they are trying to get some huge over arching trade deal so they don‘t want to get bogged down in individual areas. however, they don‘t want to get bogged down in individualareas. however, i guarantee you there will be plenty of brexit critics who will say this just goes to show the government hasn‘t got a clue what it is doing. it hasn‘t done work to see what the impact will be on major parts of the british economy. so i suspect there is going to be a right old row about this. cheers, norman, thank you. right, ok. back to our mini audience of voters, both leave and remain voters. a number of business people. how do you react to the news that there a

this morning, david davis claimed it would be hard to predict the economic effects of brexit, but said officials would do the work "at some stage". our assistant political editor normanmith is in westminster. let us talk about those talks on the phone between theresa may and arlene foster. a short phone call we gather? some relief but at least a phone conversation has taken place because there was a lot of hope that they would at least have spoken to each other yesterday, it did not happen for another day to pass without any phone call would be a pretty ominous sign. so at least they are talking. it is quite clear when you speak to those around arlene foster that they are in no hurry. i was talking to one dup person this morning and he said to me that we are talking about issues which will matter for generations to come. so it is important we take our time to get this right. so they are not in any hurry to meet the timetable of the eu council next week. that is a problem for mrs may because she has to get a shift on if she is to nail down a deal by next thursday because the danger if she does not is she gets pushed towards simply having to walk away without a deal an