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