i want to tell you now about the crime novels by television presenter richard osman.hardback by a british author. the books were inspired by his own mother and the retirement village where she lives. it may look a tranquil scene, but this retirement village in sussex holds a dark secret. lots of the stuff in the book is in the geography of this place, and in the first book someone is murdered in this car park, right here, and plenty more murders this way. these are the sedate surroundings that inspired richard osman to write his thursday murder club novels, about four elderly amateur detectives who live in a retirement village. it�*s home to his mother brenda. we have a thursday knit and natter club, but we don't have a thursday murder club. not yet any way. you have to be careful with the knitting needles. you never know. you could be right there. richard, one of the joys about the books is the way they portray elderly people. this is a group of people who are overlooked, who become invisible, who are underestimated and actually, culturally it�*s important to represe

the crime novels by the tv presenter richard osman have sold more than 5.5 million copies.spired by his own mother and the retirement village where she lives. now, for the first time, our arts correspondent rebecca jones has been behind the scenes to visit the real—life setting for the books. it may look a tranquil scene, but this retirement village in sussex holds a dark secret. lots of the stuff in the book is in the geography of this place, and in the first book someone is murdered in this car park, right here, and plenty more murders this way. these are the sedate surroundings that inspired richard osman to write his thursday murder club novels, about four elderly amateur detectives who live in a retirement village. it's home to his mother brenda. we have a thursday knit and natter club, but we don't have a thursday murder club. not yet anyway. you have to be careful with the knitting needles. you never know. you could be right there. richard, one of the joys about the books is the way they portray elderly people. this is a group of people who are overlooked, who become

these are the sedate surroundings that inspired richard osman to write his thursday murder club novelshis mother brenda. we have a thursday knit and natter club, but we don't have a thursday murder club. not yet any way. you have to be careful with the knitting needles. you never know. you could be right there. richard, one of the joys about the books is the way they portray elderly people. this is a group of people who are overlooked, who become invisible, who are underestimated and actually, culturally it is important to represent the fact they're not, but also, as a detective, being invisible is perfect, so i sort of have my cake and eat it. so thank you for your cultural invisibility. but while the village and its residents inspired the book, the characters aren't based specifically on brenda and herfriends. you have a little bit of that person and a little bit of that person, rolled into one. there's some very interesting people here. and we've had a couple in the secret service, haven't we. we have, we have. real spies. mi5. it was fascinating, - having coffee with them. so no th

the crime novels by television presenter richard osman have sold more than 5.5 million copies, a thirdwn mother and the retirement village where she lives. now, for the first time, our arts correspondent rebecca jones has been behind the scenes to visit the real—life setting for the books. it may look a tranquil scene, but this retirement village in sussex holds a dark secret. lots of the stuff in the book is in the geography of this place, and in the first book someone is murdered in this car park, right here, and plenty more murders this way. these are the sedate surroundings that inspired richard osman to write his thursday murder club novels, about four elderly amateur detectives who live in a retirement village. it's home to his mother brenda. we have a thursday knit and natter club, but we don't have a thursday murder club. not yet, anyway. you have to be careful with the knitting needles. you never know. you could be right, there. richard, one of the joys about the books is the way they portray elderly people. this is a group of people who are overlooked, who become invisible, w

plenty to spark richard osman's imagination for the next two books in the series, and while brenda is his biggest fan, you can always rely on your mum to keep your feet on the ground. i think the books are very good. i've thoroughly enjoyed then. come on, you prefer hilary mantel to... no, i don't. really? no. cj sansom. yes. yes, there we go. absolutely. sorry, you can't compete there. listen, it's good. murders up here, murders up here. and there's still more to come from the thursday murder club. steven spielberg has bought the film rights. rebecca joan, bbc news, east sussex. —— rebecca jones. time for a look at the weather. here's susan powell. even in, it was a day of sunshine and showers across the uk, producing beautiful sunsets across the isle of man. —— even in, it was. tomorrow it is a similar mixture, more sunshine and fewer showers. we had some pretty lively showers sinking south tonight out of northern ireland into the midlands —— out of northern england into the midlands. a few feeding in further north. to the east of the showers, quite chilly overnight, perhaps three d

plenty to spark richard osman's imagination for the next two books in the series — and while brenda isking too bad for most of us — predominantly sunny spells, with a few showers here and there. let's have a look at the satellite picture — and the cloud cover across the uk this evening and overnight will be varied. this is the satellite picture from the last few hours, and here's the forecast — you can see clusters of showers moving across england and wales, reaching the south by the early hours of thursday morning, and a few showers elsewhere carried on a northeasterly breeze. cloud cover will be varied, as will the morning temperatures, perhaps four in norwich, ten celsius closer to windward coasts further west. now, here's the big picture across europe on thursday — this flabby area of of low pressure, but a more vigorous low pressure heading our way for friday, and that spells wind and rain. but not on thursday, so just a just a scattering of showers here and there on thursday. here's that weather front approaching us — decent enough temperatures, 17 in glasgow, but i think more ty

she tells us what inspired her to step into richard osman's size 14s.the labour leader, in a couple of minutes. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london, i'm alice salfield. doctors in west london have taken a potentially life—saving clinic outside — to the middle of portobello road market. once a month, people can drop by to have their heart and blood pressure checked without an appointment. they're aiming to help those who perhaps normally wouldn't go to the doctor or are anxious about catching viruses in a surgery. we've actually found one case of a patient who's got a fast heart rate — he had to go to a&e, so his heart was actually really high. and because we've got the portable ecg machines now, we can tell it straight away. he didn't have to go by ambulance, but he did have to go in. and hopefully we saved a life, which is, you know, really good. a london council is calling for a ban on the sale of substandard e—bike chargers. these pictures show the damage done in a tower block flat when a battery m

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