2025-01-18
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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 modernity.
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.
Auf shopifypunkte Radio hello, I'm Luke Jones.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
In bbcos conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.
And this time we hear from people living through the fires in Los Angeles.
It's been described as one of the costliest natural disasters in American history.
Our guests describe fleeing the advancing fires and watching the houses burn.
We also hear how communities are coming together to help those who are displaced and firefighters explain to us the extent of the challenge.
You can't even have people safely in that operational zone with 70, 80, 90 mile an hour winds blowing because it's a fire rainstorm.
That's truly what it is.
And there's not enough water on the planet that can shut that down.
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