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On the review show tonight, vampires and werewolfs, journalism

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and another Danish killing. The lucrative Twiel light movie

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franchise reaches its fourth installment, Breaking Dawn part 1,

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does it still have bite. A new Hunter S Thompson collection,

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has the Godfather of Gonzo stood the

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test of time. A new series of The Killing starts on BBC Four, what

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has happened to Sarah Lund's famous knitwear.

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Stuart Maconie reports on the new album from Kate Bush.

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Kate has now assumed a level of industry that makes Stephen Fry

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seem positively workshy. And we will end with live music

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from Benjamin Francis Leftwich. The review show is a little shorter

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tonight, as we have generously donated ten minutes to Children in

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Need. That won't inhibit my guests, Ian Rank kin, Kerry Shale and Andy

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Hayman. If you are an teenage girl, you won't be surprised to hear a

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Twilight film is out. It grossed nearly $2 million at the box-office.

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The Twilight Saga series was inspired by the writer in a dream.

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The saga has just been that. Develop ago devout fan base, who

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hungrily devoured the novels and the film adaptations that followed.

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This time the producers have done a Harry Potter, spliting the last

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book into two girls. The first is Breaking Dawn, focusing on the

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marriage of Robert Pattinson, and the all too human, Bella. The daing

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he is of having partner who might sink his teeth into you, aren't

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solved after marriage. That's impossible. Can this happen?

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course the story of blood thirsty vampires seeking out young virgins

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is nothing new. From the eerie Nosforatu, to The HBO series, True

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Blood. Yet Ian Meiers's take on the

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vampire -- Stephaine Myres is different, the books are influenced

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by her own moral values as a Morman. Guiding it to its conclusion is

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Bill Condon, the last big hit he had is Dream Girls. It is focusing

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on the impossible love triangle between bella, Jacob and Edward,'s

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conveniently a werewolf sworn to kill vampires. It has largely

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captured the female audience, but spliting the films has it given

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Twilight more life or sucked the bite out of it. It is a huge

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worldwide phenomenon, I don't mind admitting I'm a massive Twilight

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fan, are you in the Twilight camp? Well, to be my usual diplomatic

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self, I thought it was a pile of tosh, from beginning to end, it is

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definitely a vampire movie without any bite whatsoever. It goes at a

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bad pace, it didn't grip me, I was in an audience of hundreds of

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teenage girls. They didn't seem to be gripped, they gigled a lot. When

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the action does happen. You have these ferocious wolves rampageing

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through the forest, they have a wolf pow wow, they start to talk in

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human voice, at that point I almost fell off my seat with laughter. It

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is risable. I can't understand the phenomenal success of it. But I

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haven't read or seen the first three, I certainly do not think it

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is stand-alone movie. You need the backstory to make it work. I didn't

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have it and it didn't work. Kerry, it is a very interesting point to

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jump in, at the moment in the story, it is quite a complicated story. We

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have had three movies up until now. Were you leaping in fresh, did you

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keep up with what was going on? did have to leap in fresh. I didn't

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know the books, or the movies. I actively avoided them in the way I

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actively avoid a lot of things. Why? Did I hear the word be a

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stennepbs, it seem to have a social - abstinence, and it seemed to have

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a social agenda and I didn't agree with it. It was a terrible movie

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with the dialogue awful. Some of the acting was interesting, a lot

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of it was very bad. It did make me think. In fact I only saw it a few

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hours or so, I have been thinking for a few hours. I had a kneejerk

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response to the idea of no sex before marriage or you die. In the

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last little while, I have sort of come round to thinking, well,

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that's not in itself necessarily, I mean, that's none of my business to

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say whether anybody has sex before marriage or not. Because life is so

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sexualised for young teenage girls, and young teenage boys, and much

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more than when I was growing up, and I don't like that, and I don't

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think it is good. So I began to think maybe the agenda this movie

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might not be a bad thing. In fact everybody was very polite when I

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saw it. I saw Hard Day's Night when it came out, girls were literally

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pissing themselves and screaming. With this they were listening very

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closely and being very attentive and respectful. I thought that was

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interesting. The audience I was with were very attentive apart from

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the giggley moments. They giggled at the sex bits. The audience were

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thrilled, they were the target audience the teenage girl audience.

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Do you think there is a problem with attempting to judge the film

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if you are not part of the target audience. We are not the

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demographic for this film, and they are not watching this programme

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either. We can say what the hell we like. Kerry and I went to the same

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showing, we were stalked by security as we went in. They

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obviously thought these guys ain't coming to see Twilight, they must

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be coming to bootleg it. They checked our bags to make sure there

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are no video equipment with us. What other reason could we have to

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see Twilight. Bits of it I enjoyed, I was looking at the structure,

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without getting too, you know, here was a two warring families, much as

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Romeo and Juliet. In this case it is a human girl between the two

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warring families. We have seen this tension and set up in lofts myths

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and sagas down the ages. People with special powers and what that

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can do to you, tear you apart and rip you from your family and your

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friends. How it alienates you from the rest of the world, how do you

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try to fit in, especially as a teenager. In some ways it is about

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teenagers who feel different and are trying to fit in, or looks a

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though they fit in. That is every teenager. A lot of stuff happening

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just below the surface of what isn't a terribly gripping film.

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you not think that the fact that this is a film that, it has a 12

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certificate, a teenage girl audience, but it was dealing with

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material which for some people they would find more likely to be in a

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Kronenbourg movie, profoundly weird and strange? I didn't realise it

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got a 12, towards the end it has a lot of blood and guts on the

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operating table. You mentioned Kronenbourg, the thing that went

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through my mind during the pregnancy, was part Rosemary's Baby

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and part The Brood, there is a weird pregnancy and the child

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inside might be a demon. That was going on as well. And pop culture

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hits, little references to things you would just about catch. It

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wouldn't be my idea of a great night out. Kerry, you had a problem

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with the acting? I have a problem with that sort of acting. Normally

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they play, in films that I see which, are about the parents of

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kids like this. They come in and do a few scenes and Government it is

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all that sort of things, where you have a little scrapie thing, and

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everything is sort of like that (? Little voice). I could understand

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about 75% of the dialogue. They were miced to the hilt, they must

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have had them inside their later ranks, you couldn't understand them.

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It is LA modern, they all grew up doing teen series. Robert

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Pattinson's diction is that much better than the others. The girl, a

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very good actress, Kirsten Stewart, God I wish somebody would get her

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to learn how to move her lips just a little more. You began by saying

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you thought it was absolute tosh and you didn't see any merit at all,

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could that be you not being up to speed with the mythology. That is

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why I brought the issue up. I'm not offay with the first three movies.

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But it should work as a stand-alone piece of work, surely. You don't

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have to see all four parts to identify with it. This is more of a

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phenomenon, these things have their built-in audience. I did feel a

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step behind. Having seen all the movies, this is the one that is the

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least stand-alone, it is the one you absolutely have to have seen

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the other ones to be up to speed with it. I would encourage you to

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see all three of them back-to-back and open yourself up to the

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Twilight side. Why do you think it is so good? I think they are deep,

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interesting, profound and funny, all in Strangeways.

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Any way, the fact of the matter it will be a huge success, regardless

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of what the panel thinks, make your own mind up. Richard Thomas was as

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name mus for his wild -- Hunter S Thompson was someone who made his

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name for wildlife pictures as anything. Most people are surprised

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I walk on two legs. They think I'm a violent version of a comic strip.

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Hunter S Thompson committed suicide in 2005 at the age of 67. No God,

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help us, Jesus, why does this happen at the end. Whether the

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writing is himself or his alter ego Raoul Duke, he railed against the

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establishment, in his comics, and spoke to a disenfranchised

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generation. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a collection of of

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Hunter S Thompson's writing for Rolling Stone over four decades. It

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shows the evolution of his Hallmark, Gonzo journalism. Narratives of

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Gonzo, the writer's personal style, takes precedence over any notion of

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productivity. The central problem is you are working overtime to

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treat this thing as straight or responsible journalism, in truth we

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are dealing with classic irresponsible giberish. He would be

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better off trying to make chronological sense of highway 61,

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Mr Tam bour reen Man, or Naked Lunch, despite that, I suspect the

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point still stand, the real nub of the problem is I resent any

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attempts on how I should write my Gonzo journalism, this is rude and

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irrational, but I tend to operate that way, now and then. Johnny Depp

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famously captured the extremes of Thompson's character in Fear and

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Loathing in Las Vegas, more recently playing another version of

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the writer in The Rum Diary. But on the evidence of his writing

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alone, does Thompson deserve his status as legend and icon. I used

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to be able to stand in the back, observe stories and absorb them.

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Now the minute I appear in a story I become part of it.

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Has the writing dated? The writing has not dated. The writing is a bit

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like Dillon, it is a poet, it is poetic in its invective. There is

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certain things that surprised me, in this country there is mentions

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of Eugene McCarthy, McGovern, and even George Romney, people in

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America don't even remember them now. I found that a bit odd. I

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think the collection is a bit reverential, I think the collection

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of his letters to Yen Winter it is over-reverential. He's saintly in

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his mad, drug-fuelled way. The writing does hold up, it is

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brilliant writing. It is interesting to use the word

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"saintly" in collection with Hunter S Thompson. So much of his writing

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was demoniacal, do you have a piece that stands out as central in the

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collection? Funny you should ask that. I have this bit here. The bit

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read so well by whoever did that was a bit tame. And this is more

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like Hunter S Thompson. "our President is America's answer to

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the monstrous" this is about Nixon while he's President. "our

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President is America's answer to the Monday trous Mr Hyde, Nixon

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speaks to the werewolf, the shies ter, speaking the unspeakable,

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bleeding hard and warts on nights when the moon comes too close. "he

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did an obituary of Nixon, the most vicious thing you could read. It

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goes on for ages, called He Was A Crook. It is monstrous invective,

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brilliant and funny and short. My problem with Thompson, even as a

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kid, I used to read his stuff in Rolling Stone. I hardly finished it,

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they didn't edit him well. They fold in on themselves sometimes, it

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was like I took too many drugs, and I'm hung over and they are making

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me write this article. One of the interesting things about Thompson

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is trying to pick apart the mythology and the real man. What

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did you discover about the real Thompson in this? There is a the

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problem I had with Thompson, even reading the non-fiction is

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wondering how much is he making up. He was always at the centre of

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everything, you think is it feasible that he was at the centre

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of everything. The first piece I read from this book was about him

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going to interview Ali, just after he had lost, it starts off with the

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memories of Ali's promoter meeting Hunter S Thompson in the hotel

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lobby, where Thompson has lost his wallet. He enmities out these

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suitcases and bags and bottles of whiskey are flying through the air,

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shorts, underwear, the whole lobby of this five-star hotel is

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scattered with the stuff, until he gets to his shaving bag, and there

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is the wallet. Obviously that is not Thompson, that is someone else

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reporting what Thompson did. This myth is real. A lot of this crazy

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stuff that I thought he was making up actually happened. The story of

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him meeting Ali is brilliantly written and struck turbgsd he knows

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a lot about boxing -- structured, and knows a lot about boxing and he

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watches the fight with Spinx, it is talking about an extraordinary time

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and an extraordinary man. interview is the least interesting

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part of the piece? He's very funny. But so much of this reads like it

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needs to be performed, it needs to be read out. We talk about the fact

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when the faxes would come in off the mojo, they would read them to

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each other in the offices of Rolling Stone, it feels like a

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performance piece? He has a visceral and muscular style of

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writing, agree with Kerry, it feels very contemporary, eventhough the

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subjects, his objects are historical. I loved it, it was a

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great joy having this for a week, and dipping in and out of it and

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reading a couple of chapters every day. A real, real joy, it reminded

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me just how important he is as a writer, actually. Extremely

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important. You were particularly struck by the Pulitzer divorce

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case? Stick a pin in any of the chapters in the book. This one I do

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love. It is probably one of the most, God it is the most vicious

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description of the idle rich I have ever come across. And the

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description of their greed and their hold on power. Their

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arrogance and that moral corruption that they have and their life tile

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styles. It was brilliant, the piece is called -- lifestyles. It was

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brilliant the piece is called A Dog Took My Place. It is about the

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divorce of the Pulitzer, Pete Pulitzer was a 53 millionaire, a

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hot bachelor, he married a lass from the wrong side of the tracks,

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it was a few lasted, they had a couple of, and a messy divorce.

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These are people who spend a million dollars on household

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expenses. Millions go on unknown. There was drugs, incest, beastality.

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Alleged. Keep me on the right track. It sounds like a serious den of

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iniquity. At one point when Thompson is reporting on T he's

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talking to the barman. He says, he asks the barman how did he feel. He

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said "like a God dam animal, like a beast, I look at the scum and the

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way they live, and I see the shit- eating grins on their faces and I

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feel like a dog took my place". That is how they made him feel.

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Absolutely fascinating, how the rich look after their own, they

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pull up the barricades. These days they make a Channel 4 series and

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everybody would think they are charming. That idea that Thompson

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is talking about, it eludes back to F Scott Fitzgerald, the rich are

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not like you and I. This was written by someone who

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studied writing, it is not the ramblings of someone off his head

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on chemicals. He was off his head, but his classical training. I don't

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think he went to university. I read in the book that he typed out the

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Great Gatsby on his portable typewriter to just get the rhythm

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of the writing. Do you think you would have wanted to spend time

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with him on the strength of this? No. Not just in the strength on

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this, but on everything else I know about him. I wouldn't last five

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minutes. There is a quote by George Bernard Shaw, it says "reasonable

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people adapt themselves to the world, unreasonable people attempt

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to daipt the world to themselves, change, therefore, is only possible

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through unreasonable people" I think Hunter S Thompson is a

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wonderful unreasonable people. Nobody thought this year's sleeper

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hit would be a 20-part Danish crime driver. It attracted over half a

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million viewers, that gave the actress Sofie Grabol a cult

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following, and the chunky knit sweater too.

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Two years have passed and Sarah Lund has been demoted by the police

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force, and is working in passport control at a Danish ferry port.

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The murder of a female lawyer, discovered tied to a post in

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Copenhagen's memorial park, results in Lund being recalled to work on

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the case with her old boss Leonard Brix. A lot of women come up to me

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and say we want to be like her, she's so strong. Up until that

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point, I had, for some reason, always played very emotional

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characters, and I remember thinking I would like to play a person who

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is not able to communicate, who is very isolated and at peace with

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that. I have actually found it very, very difficult to play her. But I

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think it was because I discovered that it was so much in my bones as

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an actress, to always put emotions in everything.

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I imagined her being a man, and that was sort of my entrance into

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that character. Series two consists of only ten episodes compared with

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the 20 of series one, yet the unusual writing style and shooting

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schedule remain the same. This writing, he insists on writing as

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we go along. We get the script on Friday, and then they start

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shooting Monday. If he sees something, if you add something as

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an actor, he will start writing in that direction f he gets inspired.

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Scandinavia seems to dominate the crime genre at the moment, across

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film, television and books. Is there anything about the territory

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which has made it the new home for noir, and what is it about Sarah

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Lund in particular that connects In this first episode, it takes its

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time to set out its stall to show us the characters, there is not an

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action-packed first episode. How do you feel about that space that the

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drama is allowed? Well, very envious, obviously. The Rebus

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novels got to a situation on ITV they were 45-minutes per book. Here

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you get a series of ten hours. It is allowed to take its time, lots

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of characters are introduced, we have a three-dimensional sense of

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them, how they relate to each other. We have all the avenues and the red

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herings that the viewer will stick around to explore. The novelty is

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gone because they can't repeat the trick. You have seen the series,

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you know where it is set, what she's going to be like, you know

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she will wear chunky knit sweaters. I was sitting there going this

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feels a little bit like Manhunter, the film. And oh, this is a wee bit

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like the early Prime Minister Suspects. It didn't have that fresh

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-- Prime Superintendant. It didn't have that fresh feeling, but --

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Prime Suspect, but it didn't have that fresh feeling. But comparing

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it to Manhunter is a high water mark? It is, but you feel things

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should have moved on. You see it in episode one and going into the

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house and piecing the crime scene together. You think that is a

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straight lift, that is not a homage, that is a straight lift from

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Manhunter. It is still an engaging character, and she's surrounded by

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new engaging characters. There is a political subtext to it and also

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the threat of terrorism, international terrorism, and what

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that's doing to Scandinavia. We know how current that threat is.

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Not just international terrorism, but domestic terrorism as well.

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have obviously your own experience of playing police characters, how

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did this work for you, did it feel original and fresh? It absolutely

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did. I didn't see the first series at all, I came new to it, I loved

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it from beginning to end, I was gripped. There is a real truth to

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it. It is the way they underplay everything, it is very muted, I

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loved that. It is understated in terms of the acting, direction,

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even the soundtrack, the music score. The script, beautifully

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understated. I feel the director has a very tight control of the

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helm of that ship. I think he paces it absolutely spot on. So therefore

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you are pulled into this almost like nether world, this dark,

:25:48.:25:51.

mysterious cloudy world that you never see the light of day. I was

:25:51.:25:55.

very gripped, it was extraordinary stuff. I loved the idea that they

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don't glamorise her at all. She's not running around in an Armani

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suit with gloss lipstick. She looked like she tumbled out of bed

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in the morning. I love how she feels her way through the process

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of detection. When you say it feels understated, in comparison to home-

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grown dramas? I think so. In this country we play to the camera, we

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present the performance, remember than inhabiting, and letting the

:26:25.:26:29.

camera observe us doing that. I think they do it beautifully, they

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really do. Which makes them utterly believable as characters, as

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detectives. There is obviously this political backdrop going on all the

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way through. I felt watching some of it, there would be references I

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wasn't getting, did you feel the same? Yes, as a matter of fact, the

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killing takes place in a place called Memorial Park, I was moved

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to look it up. Because I thought there is something missing there

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that we, the English audience aren't getting. So Memorial Park is

:27:00.:27:10.
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this park where the nas did Is, and the Nastenkacy and -- -- the Nazi

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fighters took the Danish and executed them and they turned it

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into a park. This woman is found chained to a pole, they shot the

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resistance fighters against these poles. So everybody in Copenhagen

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would know that, I didn't know that. So now I do. There is plenty, you

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never know what's important. I noticed a mention of dog tags in

:27:40.:27:43.

the little clip there. At the beginning I watched the first five

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minutes two or three times, I had the option having a DVD at one

:27:47.:27:52.

point Brix walks on and he says will somebody should shut that dog

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up, and I thought could that be be a clu. It is like a giant cross

:27:57.:28:01.

word and everything is connected. At the end with the dog tags, I

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thought maybe it was a clue, because that seems to be important.

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But you just don't know. It could be anything from her eating an egg,

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her little apartment. This is part of a broader landscape of what is

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so-called Scandinavian noir, how much are these stories defined by

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the I can't remember they come out from, how much are they landscape

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influenced? I think hugely. I think that's one of the attractions of

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Scandinavian crime fiction is it seems very widescreen. It is a

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metaphor of the crime you are going to get. It is grey exteriors with a

:28:40.:28:45.

lot of repressed anger and emotions that will have to burst through at

:28:45.:28:49.

some point. Place that feels on the edge of the world. And maybe feels

:28:49.:28:55.

cut off from mainland. So you get people thinking they will get away

:28:55.:28:59.

with anything. Or people who grew up with a distorted view of

:28:59.:29:03.

morality. Tooth feels like a place anything could happen way from the

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eyes and conscience of the world. Scandinavian crime writers are

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becoming very influenced by the American thriller. You are getting

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a lot more books like the Thomas Harris novels, than say the

:29:16.:29:19.

traditional English and European crime novels. It is safe to say,

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despite the reservations about seeing this before, the general

:29:23.:29:26.

feeling is everybody is anxious to see the next episode. Or the whole

:29:26.:29:30.

series. It is one of my favourites. Thank you very much.

:29:30.:29:35.

Kate Bush, you wait six years for a new album and two come along at

:29:35.:29:43.

once. Breaking the silence since 2055 Aerial, Director'S Cut was a

:29:43.:29:53.
:29:53.:29:54.

re write of some new songs, The Word has six new songs on it.

:29:54.:30:01.

It is a disturbing business being a Kate Bush fan, not that she has

:30:01.:30:07.

anything as prosaic as fans, but disorientating nonetheless. Having

:30:07.:30:13.

spent 30 years being roughly as productive as eastern island statue

:30:13.:30:18.

makers, she has now had a level of industry that makes Stephen Fry

:30:18.:30:23.

seem workshy two, albums in a year, the latest 50 Words for Snow.

:30:23.:30:28.

Kate's sainthood and the reference she has been held, particularly by

:30:28.:30:33.

men of a certain age, is understandable, it seems to puzzle

:30:33.:30:39.

and amuse her more than anyone else. It is not hard to see where it

:30:39.:30:45.

comes from. 177, and punk scourged earth policy has instituted a year

:30:45.:30:49.

zero for British music where anything goes. Enter a doctor's

:30:49.:30:54.

daughter from Kent, who is in her own winsome way as shockingly

:30:54.:31:00.

original as Strummer and others, dreamly beautiful, and gifted,

:31:00.:31:09.

singing about long dead Victorian novelists and novel the Yorkshire

:31:09.:31:15.

movies. There are in fact some remarkable parallels with Emily

:31:15.:31:19.

Bronte's extraordinary debut. How would someone who was a provincial

:31:19.:31:24.

schoolgirl made this stuff mysterious, sexy and utterly self-

:31:24.:31:29.

possessed. Wherever it had come from, it made her an overnight star,

:31:29.:31:35.

and set a temple that would serve her for the next three decade. It

:31:35.:31:41.

made her the example for many performers over the years,

:31:41.:31:45.

including Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud. That brings us to 50 Words

:31:45.:31:49.

for Snow, a gorgeously seasonal collection of wintry and

:31:49.:31:52.

contemplative chamber pieces, that I think is right up there with the

:31:52.:31:56.

best thing she has done. Not that Kate cared, but also as a boy

:31:56.:32:03.

entranceed by the Kicking Side and the Lionheart, this is the album I

:32:03.:32:06.

have wanted her to make for years, with the piano and her voice, the

:32:06.:32:11.

best it has ever been, to the fore. It is daring and experimental,

:32:11.:32:17.

closer to Joany Mitchell than Peter Gabriel or Elton John. Like

:32:17.:32:21.

everything she has done but more so, 50 Words for Snow is completely

:32:21.:32:24.

captivating and completely Kate Bush. We can't know what she will

:32:24.:32:28.

do next, but we know it will be breathlessly anticipated, and

:32:28.:32:34.

always worth listening to. Next week Martha Kearney will be

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here with guests, including Maureen Lipman and others. My thanks to

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David, Kerry and Ian. Stay tuned for Later in 15 minutes, featuring

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a compilation of the best performances from the last series.

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The review show does a great line in talented singer song writers,

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tonight is no exception. Here is Benjamin Francis Leftwich

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performing Pictures. # If you crash a car

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# In your best friend's house # Would he be quiet

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# As words came out # Of their mouth

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# Stop # Don't do it

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# I have been waiting for it # Stall

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# I knew it would come # If you find a God

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# Next to your girlfriend's bed # Would it be hard to

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# Sort out your spinning head # Stop

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# Don't say that dear # That you wanted him here

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# Stop # Don't give him the clear

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# Take a picture of this # Take a picture of them

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If you are afraid don't be # I have the whole thing planned

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# We will start in the ocean # Baby

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# And when we find the land # We will be thankful too

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# All of our friend # That they didn't leave us

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# As we got to the end # Take a picture of this

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Take a picture of this # If you find your faith in

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# Your parents' God # Don't be so quick to

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