2025-01-10
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Discover how to lead a better life in our age of confusion.
Enjoy this BBC audiobook collection written and presented by best selling author Oliver Berkman, containing four useful guides to tackling some central ills of busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance.
Our lives today can feel like miniature versions of this relentless churn of activity.
We find we're rushing around more crazily than ever.
Somewhere when we weren't looking, it's like busyness became a way of life.
Start listening to Oliver Epidemics of Modern Life.
Available to purchase wherever you get your audiobooks.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, lots of people came and they're all very, very angry.
Emotions are high.
This is only moments before we found ourselves trapped in a horrifying nightmare.
Things have really escalated.
They started beating up my local producer outside.
They all attacked him and then they started attacking the car and now they're not letting us leave.
This is the last recording we managed to get before we were attacked by a hostile mob of hundreds.
But how did we end up here?
More on that later in the program.
This is the documentary on the BBC World Service.
I'm Sahar Zand and this week I'm in Bangladesh for the second of a two part Heart and Soul special.
We're investigating violent attacks on the Hindu minority following the collapse of Sheikh Hasina's government in August 2024.