Dot org This is. The o. Calexico. B.b.c. World Service at the 8 hours g.m.t. This is weekend with. Coming up the latest on a factory fire in the Indian capital Delhi which has killed more than 40 people in a crowded market area because this is really congested and also only populated it s very difficult for fire engines ambulances to get to this thought also democracy protesters in Hong Kong are hoping to rally huge crowds for a March we ll hear from a probe aging politician Becky hope that there will be a very peaceful one. It might be a good situation. And with us are our guests Maria mark around London based writer and broadcaster and stop there sing chief executive of the Joint Council for the welfare of immigrants here in the u.k. That s here and we. Baby say Neves Hello this is Gerry Smith s Indian police say a factory fire in Delhi has killed at least 43 people many of those who died were laborers who were sleeping in the building the huge blaze broke out in the city s crowded
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Suddenly it s Christmas but I don t see it. Yes they re working overtime sounds a little runts Christmas comes but once a year and goes on for too much. Christmas Carol as an December. November to it s no wonder we are depressed when the old saying it s. Finally January let s say golden eggs but here comes another heart shaped like the balance on. Sunday it s Christmas on ghost was the season is upon us box but. 7 it s a season it s a marathon retail eternity and it s not over till it s over and you throw away the tree no it s not over till it s all over and you draw the way that tree did still not the older you saw the train. Well. In December. And didn t wait until after Thanksgiving so here we go yes indeed it is Christmas and here on the style we have. Kind of a special way he was celebrating Christmas. And you ll pick up on the does we go along here. There s a variety of great Christmas songs out there I don t see Christmas carols I mean you ll hear a few what we call Christmas c
Like they could do anything at all it was obvious to a manual what to do the story of Troy the place of the Trojan War happened the walled city that they pulled the Trojan horse into and in doing research for this project I found out about this guy named 100 Schliemann. A man who also read those old stories and got obsessed he s born in Germany in 1906 like a businessman a merchant and Russia and then he moved to California during the gold rush and opened a bank it said that he would carry around like copies of Homer and he taught himself ancient Greek like in 2 years he taught himself ancient Greek which is insane to me . Just so he could like read the books and like the language of origin anyway but basically he like a mass is this huge fortune and once he has this fortune he decides he s going to find Troy at the time people weren t sure if it was a real place or just like a story like a band and it is kind of a dumb question but in that period did archaeologists even exist like wa
The Iliad and Odyssey the rhythm in school and it just gets to them one of the producers here at our show Emanuel was like that. The like heroes Hector I thought Agamemnon was such a diva. I love the we had to translate it in my Latin class and in addition to like translating passages I decided to make like a 9 by 3 foot Miro out of magazine paper depicting Aeneas is like Journey Into Hell but when you say magazine paper you mean you re cutting gutters out of a magazine I guess I mean I was you know I mean I was meticulously ripping teeny pieces of different colors of magazine paper and making like a mosaic behind say. And I remember that Jalal was on the mural for some reason which is wearing like a white dress the kind of Krishna So it s like a toga Yeah so she got to be Dido in how. Great Teacher signed a 20 page research paper on any subject in the world like they could do anything at all it was obvious to a man you know what to do the story of Troy the place of the Trojan War hap