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just a reminder that The Booker Prize winner will be announced on | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
just a reminder that The Booker Val McDermid has written almost | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
just a reminder that The Booker books but she did not start until | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
many years a report on tabloid books but she did not start until | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
many years a report on tabloid newspapers. Her latest book is the | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
eighth to feature two of her regular characters. Psychological profiler | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Tony Hill and his friend Detective Carol Jordan. Familiar to viewers of | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
This is the eighth book featuring Carol Jordan and Tony Hill and | :00:31. | :00:46. | |
without giving too much away, they both find themselves in a different | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
place at the start of the book to where they have conventionally been. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
How far with a long—running series like this do you feel you can push | :00:58. | :01:14. | |
things and change to relationships. expectations, I think about my | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
expectations. This was never meant Singing, the first book, was planned | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
as a stand—alone book, but as they went forward, I saw the potential in | :01:26. | :01:35. | |
the characters. Also in the kind of things they could investigate and | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
the cases and the things they could tell us about society. I do not | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
the cases and the things they could finished the retribution, which | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
the cases and the things they could them in a difficult place, I had to | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
to say, I will stop writing this regroup and to figure out what would | :01:56. | :02:10. | |
to say, I will stop writing this series. Because you could end up | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
effectively rewriting the same book. Yes, and we all know that writers | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
you do not want to churn out books Yes, and we all know that writers | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
you do not want to churn out books that have nothing to stay —— nothing | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
series, so when I come back to Tony to say. I try to keep fresh and | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
series, so when I come back to Tony and Carol, I have been away from | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
them for a year, but they have not been in the front of my head and it | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
is almost like meeting of friends. This is where you were last time, | :02:42. | :02:54. | |
where are you now wish to mark how did you deal with the burden of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
where are you now wish to mark how happened to you before? —— where you | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
now? The story of how things are for Tony and Carol is very important. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
And there is a serial killer in Tony and Carol is very important. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
book and a number of women are something you get asked from time to | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
time. The justification for some pretty graphic descriptions in your | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
novels, this one in particular, pretty graphic descriptions in your | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
violence against women. You are justification for that. —— for that? | :03:23. | :03:36. | |
The word entertainment is difficult But I would say that what I am | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
writing novels that have a lot of social commentary about the way | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
writing novels that have a lot of live now. It would be incredibly | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
naive to say that these crimes of violence do not exist against women, | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
big do, domestic violence, date rape, stranger violence —— they | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
big do, domestic violence, date Women overwhelmingly are victims of | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
extreme sexual violence and to not write about it seems perverse. But | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
when you write about it, dealing very directly with what violence is | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
the line that you can cross past two very directly with what violence is | :04:09. | :04:26. | |
technology to help police solve to cross. I often think, have I | :04:26. | :04:49. | |
technology to help police solve crimes, so you have DNA, CCTV, it is | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
the first novel in which I have crimes, so you have DNA, CCTV, it is | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
boss cameras or an oughtn't plot device. And from the point of view | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
of police and a crime writer, that is a gift. As a citizen, are you | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
alarmed by the intrusiveness of is a gift. As a citizen, are you | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
Yes, I am very alarmed. I find the survey was state very disturbing. It | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
is all right if you are on the right side of it and you have a benevolent | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
government, but we have set in place the tools that a non—benevolent | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
government could use to clamp down One of the accusations tabled by | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
journalists is that they pay for information and sometimes corrupt | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
elite —— corruptly, they pay police officers, and that is criminal. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
elite —— corruptly, they pay police you recognise that from your days as | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
We would pay for a tip and sometimes you knew it was coming indirectly | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
from a police officer, you would be paying their wife, but 50 quid, | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
from a police officer, you would be not thousands. You took a police | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
officer for a drink and you built up a contact and they helped you if | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
they could. But the level and scale of corruption seemed shocking, the | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
idea these officers at Scotland of corruption seemed shocking, the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
of newspapers. I found it quite could be bent and were in the pocket | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
of newspapers. I found it quite be a tabloid journalist and I did | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
which has been coming out recently. be a tabloid journalist and I did | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
which has been coming out recently. Maybe we should have held the line | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
more and said to the editors, we are not doing this. It is hard to do, | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Do you think the newspapers will and It is hard to see how when we see | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
what the Daily Mail has been up It is hard to see how when we see | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Miliband. It seems impossible the the blackening of the name of Ross | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Miliband. It seems impossible the tabloid press will put themselves in | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
order —— Ralph Miliband. But I resist state control over newspapers | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
because that is what fascist regimes do not democratic socialist regimes. | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
It is a thorny problem and I do | :07:10. | :07:13. |