It s midnight. We start with the 1st of 5 titles by the celebrated American crime and psychological novelist Patricia Highsmith in 15 minutes Charles duns leads the cast as the main storyteller. Of the 1st of 5 stories taken from the Anthology Kiss Kiss by roll down. The writing motif continues assume a Gregor discusses favorite paperbacks with Ann Widdecombe and Kate Humble from 2009. The American author Patricia Highsmith is probably best known as the writer of novels like The Talented Mr Ripley and strangers on a train but she also published 8 collections of short stories in the 1st of 5 titles for this week Dan is on a ship which he thinks will take him to his island but this is no ordinary ship greatest darkie reads one for the islands. The voyage wasn t to be much longer most people were bound for the mainland which was not far at all now others were bound for the islands to the west some of which were very far indeed Dan was bound for a certain island that he believed probably
Republic being established in the year 509 b.c. . The Roman Forum was the center of commercial and civil life during the centuries of the Roman Republic people would gather here to buy and sell to hold elections to listen to speeches and to watch the triumphal procession it s a great Congress of the hundreds of years. It was here that you could hear Roman luminaries such as Cicero one of Romney s greatest orator is the statesman Cato the Elder even Julius Caesar not far from here in the Senate House Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and his coconspirators and it was here in 27 b.c. On this very spot where Caesar s nephew Octavian took the name of all Gustus and was a claimed by the Senate and people of Rome as the state s 1st emperor. From here you could see the great temple of Jupiter who was the supreme god of the Roman people crowning the Summit of the Capitol Hill. It was here in $390.00 b.c. That the city of Rome was secretly infiltrated by a group of Gallic soldiers who s
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Coming up 2 legendary Queens Dido and Cleopatra inspired some of the greatest operatic music of the 17th and 18th centuries in a special concert called serpents and fire the b.b.c. Proms pays tribute to these 2 iconic women with the Austrian soprano and a professor who the critics have held as glittering and compelling singing both tragic Queen s She s joined by the thrilling it s highly an ensemble dino on Monaco and there found a conductor Giovanni Antony for a problem full of passions to duction and tragedy with music by handle and personal including one of the greatest of all operatic arias Dido s lament. The. Oh. Join me Georgia man for the serpent and fire here on the b.b.c. World Service. Neil Nunez with the b.b.c. News the Russian president Vladimir Putin and leaders of 4 other countries that border the Caspian Sea have signed a convention that settles its legal status the deal signed in Kazakhstan has taken more than 2 decades to thrash out there s Danny a behind the Caspian
And ensemble dino on Monaco and there found a conductor Giovanni Anthony for a problem full of passion seduction and tragedy with music by handle and personal including one of the greatest of all operatic arias Dido s lament 2 2. Join me George a man for the serpent and fire problem here on the b.b.c. World Service. Well I m Marion Marshall with the b.b.c. News the Turkish president of Adarand as want to United States that Turkey is preparing to trade in currencies other than the dollar the latest salvo in an escalating dispute Mr Edmund said deals where in this issue with China Iran Russia and Ukraine the 2 NATO allies are at odds over an American preacher who s been detained in Turkey From Washington here s Chris Butler 2 presidents known for their often aggressive rhetoric appear to be lining up for a fight on the surface the dispute between Donald Trump and rage up tie up to one is economic but President Oda one feels that it s actually a political decision and that Turkey is bein