>> strange you ask me that because the next thing i'm about to shoot a film version of charles dickens' "david copperfield" set in the 1840s, it's for waont of a better worda family costume drama. i'm doing it because the book is a modern psychologically insightful book and it has a lot to say about how we behave with each other today. >> can't let you go without playing a clip from "in the loop" so we're going to play a clip and mindful of what you said, all these young hipsters with degrees from georgetown university, this is this clip. >> let's get started. my assistant should be bringing in coffee shortly. >> your assistant? >> yeah. so item, we need to have a conversation about the mood of the british parliament, the bumps in the road ahead and what not. >> i'm sorry i don't -- this situation here is -- is this it? i mean, you look like you should still be in school with your head down the [ bleep ]ing toilet. >> your first point there, the offense, i'm going to have to take it. your second point, i'm 22 but it's my birthday in nine days so if it would make you feel more comfortab

yes, charles dickens invented it, didn't he? with the christmas trees, plum pudding and turkey.vented and commercial companies do play a role in shaping the way we see things. maybe we will be the generation that invented easter trees. anyway, thank you very much, both of you. i hope to see you again very soon. but katy and then, thank you very much indeed. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers on our website seven days a week. and if you happen to miss the programme any evening in the week, you can was watch it later on bbc id there. our thanks again to katy and then, but for now, goodbye from us. hello there. many parts of the country is still struggling to deal with snow. it's not so much what is falling from the sky now but what has happened over recent days that is causing the big issues. look at this snow drift, five or six feet high. that was a weather watcher picture sent in from yesterday and toward southern wales, what appears toward southern wales, what appears to bea toward southern wales, what appears to be a greater completely buried in one of the

what the fortne was to charles dickens. it was love a steel --la bastille and the tale of two cities. there is an italian writer who wrote a book in which a young officer is posted to a on the upon a miss -0 eoponymous frontier, and he spends his time waiting for the moment when he can gloriously defend the stronghold. when the attack finally comes, he is too old to answer the call. i imagine also the honeycomb casemate's we see at fort knox. they remind me artistically of the italian engraver. this idea that these structures are prisons resonates because -- aan was a common on commandent of two different p.o.w. prisons. one can only imagine the effects this had on the diffident, sensitive, down easter. it was certainly not a duty he relished. in 1864, eastman took command of ,ort mifflin on the delaware below philadelphia. open as anow as public park and is under constant restoration and improvement. it is impossible to see this the area wheree he stood is now overgrown. but he would probably have delaware, which we see to

here last week on breakfast talking about exactly that. talking about exactly that. featuring charles dickensefore they cease to be legal tender. of them in circulation. notes depicting jane austen. also creating lots of happiness. while stuck in the snow. we have been stuck in this snow for two and a half hours. two and a half hours. what is a bus driver going to do? he is going to say... say... frightful, but the fire inside is delightful. delightful. # since we have no place to go... . # let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... he sang rather well. caught up in the traffic for over two and a half hours. two and a half hours. you have got to do something. to do something. i am not good at singing, but i love singing. he had a good voice. it was a bit festive. festive. has come in to try and cancel out any incorrect decisions. any incorrect decisions. to make the game more smoothly but it is not doing that at the moment. it is not doing that at the moment. technology, it is taking away from the game. the game. who were there for the tottenham cup replay with rochdale thought this. replay wit

when you imagine what the fort was to charles dickens. it was la bastille in the tale of two cities. or the chateau d'if in the count of monte cristo. on the left. i think about, i don't know if anyone knows the italian writer dino busati. he wrote a book in which a young officer is posted to a stronghold on the eoponymous ppe, and, the tartar ste he spends his time, polishing his buttons, cleaning his weapons, waiting for the moment when he can gloriously defend the stronghold. when the attack finally comes, he is too old to answer the call. i imagine also the honeycomb casemate's we see at fort knox. in the middle images. remind me artistically of the italian and graver whose work i'm sure you all know. this idea that these structures are prisons resonates because eastman was a commandant of two -- one notorious -- different p.o.w. prisons. during the civil war. manys, not at l myra which considered to be the andersonville the north. a lot of death and suffering. one can only imagine the effects this had on the diffident, sensitive, dow

for example, we as charles dickens reminded us in 19th century people worked about 65 hours a week. that has fallen by 22 hours week. and most workers today get three weeks of fade vacation in addition to the reduced workweek. in the domestic sphere we used to spend -- about 60 hours a week house work and by we, that really means women because house work traditionally and to larger extend today is gendered but thanks to the -- ubiquity of electricity, run aring water, and labor saving devices like refrigerators, vacuum cleaners washington cleaners and stoves which a majority have including a majority of poor households, the amount of time that we lose house work fallen from about 60 hours a week to -- about 15 hours a week. in fact, an entire day of a week of one withs life used to be called wash day. a day in which women did nothing but wash clothes, has been returned to our lives. thanks to the reduction in the workweek and the reduction in house, in house work, hrb of time has been increasing. even since the 1960s putting aside gainses from early 20th century if you were to see t

shoppers have until midnight tonight to spend paper ten—pound notes featuring charles dickens beforenk of england says there are still 200 million of them in circulation. they have been phased out since last september and replaced by polymer notes depicting jane austen. and finally there were 11 wins for the bbc‘s journalism at the royal television society awards last night including not one but two awards for this programme. victoria derbyshire was named network presenter of the year and she also picked up the gong for best interview of the year, for football abuse. congratulations, victoria. thank you. i want to thank you for following coverage of our stories on facebook and the bbc news website. we really appreciate your support. thank you. we really want you to get in touch with us this morning if you have experience of living with dementia, whether it is yourself or you care for somebody in your family oi’ you care for somebody in your family or placement with this condition. it is one of the most pressing issues of our time. we are talking about it a lot this morning and we wou

he came dressed as charles dickens for christmas carol storytelling.e even had a present for him, which is this. we are having trouble in the line. unfortunately, we can't see what the present was but we will try and fix it. it's back, i'm hearing. hello. sorry, we lost 2a moment but you're just saying that you have a present, you had a present for him. and there it is. he loved jesters. he was extremely well read. a massive historian of comedy. he particularly loved jesters. we had this for him, it's about 60 years old. we miss them terribly. he was incredibly generous. he was. iasked them terribly. he was incredibly generous. he was. i asked him how he would like to be remembered going back couple of months. and he said, just one word, jester. it is a very sad day because our book shop is a new brighton and he was loved by everyone. males as i'd love to mandy lubbers back. —— merseyside loved him and he loved us back. it's brilliant. when kenneth branagh made his version of hamlet comedy cast ken dodd as yorick. we go back into hamlet‘s childhood and