Charles Dickens - The Spirit of Things. Rachael Kohn: Red-nosed preachers, wastrels and waifs, cold hearted clergymen and arrogant judges filled the pages of Charles Dickens' novels, all to a purpose; to spread a message of Christian charity, which he found wanting in the England of his day, including the Church.
Hello, welcome to 'Charles Dickens' Religion' on his 200th anniversary. This is The Spirit of Things, I'm Rachael Kohn and you're tuned to RN, or online. Reading: [Charles Dickens quote] Ours is an age of great religious activity. There is much zeal for the common cause of Christianity, but more for the success of particular denominations. Rivalry added to zeal has led to the employment of improper persons as Christian teachers. Rachael Kohn: Most of his readers got Dickens' message.
And yet, as a great comic writer whose characters were re-created in music halls, and as a sharp social observer who influenced Karl Marx, Dickens' religion can be overlooked or sidelined. Grace, when did you first start to read him? Cecilia Ekbäck’s new novel Wolf Winter - Books + Jane-Frances Kelly - Conversations with Richard Fidler. Bob Brown - Conversations with Richard Fidler. DBC Pierre on the loss of meaning and the 'horror of disconnection' - The Drawing Room. Once the wild and daring rock star of literature, Booker Prize winning author DBC Pierre speaks to RN Drive about the 'horror of disconnection' and the loss of meaning.
Forget dragons and the bloated fantasy novels they can be found within. 'In the modern day, we don't need monsters for horror. All we need is to be disconnected from Wi-Fi and mobile signal.' Things are being driven toward the black and white, so you're either with us or against us. You're either good or bad. DBC Pierre seems as fascinated with modernity as he is repulsed by the feverish communication that comes with it.
The Booker Prize winning author of Vernon God Little says that while he once obsessed over language, in a time when messages are typed out with one thumb he has become far more enamoured with meaning. 'Language has become abbreviated,' says Pierre. 'We're living in a time when we're not expressing subtle and nuanced meanings so much anymore. Where does that position him then as an author? New evidence suggests dementia is affected by the ageing heart muscle - Ockham's Razor. A growing body of evidence suggests that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are less like diseases caused by toxic proteins or invading organisms and more like a natural condition of ageing.
Professor Jonathan Stone takes a look at how your heart is probably killing you, one beat at a time. The beat of our heart is symbolic of life, of energy, of courage and determination. Yet scientists are beginning to take seriously evidence that if we live to old age, the heart destroys us. It does so in a terrible way, pummelling the brain beat after beat until its small blood vessels burst, and lesions, tens of thousands of them, erode its circuitry, until the brain shrinks around the debris, its function failing. Slowly, relentlessly—this evidence suggests—the beat of the heart destroys the memory, the intellect and the personality of the person it had so long served to keep alive.
For scientists working on dementia, this is a challenging statement. There are five players in this tragedy. Sunday Profile from ABC. Bbc who's left holding the baby. Chinese airlines threaten Qantas' Kangaroo Route - Breakfast. Qantas is facing a new competitive threat on the Australia to Europe route from Chinese airlines, which are now expanding rapidly outside their domestic markets.
In a rare interview, China Southern Airlines CEO Tan Wengeng told Sheryle Bagwell that Australasia was seen as ‘a natural testing ground’ for the company. China Southern Airlines is Asia’s biggest airline, carrying almost 90 million passengers last year. In 2012, it took on Qantas' Kangaroo Route with the launch of its own 'Canton Route' from Australia to London via its Guangzhou hub in southern China, with fares up to 30 per cent cheaper than other major airlines.
President and CEO of China Southern Airlines, Tan Wengeng, is seen as a rising star in the Chinese Communist Party. He said Australasia was a popular region for the rapidly growing Chinese tourism industry. ‘Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland tend to be more appealing destinations for Chinese tourists. Podcasts and Downloads - Documentaries.
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