Meghan O’Rourke, Troy Patterson, and Michael Agger discuss Jaimy Gordon's book, Lord of Misrule. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program.
Interview with Dan Gardner; News Items: Piltdown Anniversary, Hydrogen Production, Voyager Leaves Solar System, Slushball Earth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Alien Plants vs Animals; Science or Fiction
Is Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg a good choice for Time’s Person of the Year? What’s been the most undercovered story of the year? What’s been the biggest surprise of the year? And will it be a happy new year for 2010 high-fliers Chipotle and Netflix? In this installment of Motley Fool Money, we answer those questions and talk tech with Forbes Magazine San Francisco Bureau Chief Eric Savitz.
Local government budgets are being cut. More or Less looks at how the pie is sliced and finds everything depends on Wokingham (yes, really). Plus: we take a look at inflation and consult the magic More or Less monkey.
Everyone wants to make more money. Learn 3 simple strategies to increase your income and manage your money so you have more financial security-and more money in your bank account.
Andrew Marr talks to the conductor Semyon Bychkov about Tannhauser, Wagner's tortured artist, out of place in conventional society. While the scientist Mark Miodownik takes a measure of the world, and asks 'Does size matter?' in this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Author Susan Hill ponders kindness, grief and miracles and the television screenwriter Tony Jordan forsakes EastEnders to take on 'the greatest story ever told', the Nativity.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
Aurelian defeated the breakaway western provinces and reunified the Empire in 274 AD. The next year he was assassinated by officers who had been tricked into committing murder.