the city of backgrounds of charles dickens book, the keynesian city is with a obsessive realism. incredible social detail, and natural listic accuracy. so the world of, there is that world, that cityd lives in our imagine even today because it is created with such incredible attention to minute detail. and, a thing that i have always admired about him, he seems to be able to talk about the whole of society. he is not just talking about his own little patch. he can talk about a about aeries cokratz and murders, petty little shopkeepers, and anything happening in england at his time he is seems to be able to capture to put on the page. that breadth of vision, i tried to emulate it, in various books, certainly in this one. get out of your comfort zone. there is something important about writing. there is a way which the novel is like journalism. the novel is about reporting on the society. you know, spandau described the novel as a mirror walking down the road. you have to do that. you can't just w assume you know everything. for example in this novel, the nero golden, this evil, ol

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believe me, always affectionately yours, charles dickens. lowest temperatures of the season so far, down to —13 celsius in places. different tonight, a band of brain spanning different tonight, a band of brain spanning across different tonight, a band of brain spanning across the country. as that glitters away, temperatures are likely to fall the clearing skies before the next main band comes in. close to freezing. there could be a risk of ice to parts of wales and england and central and eastern scotland. likely to cause some disruption. a dry start to this —— to tomorrow morning across the east. the next weather system moving in bringing a pretty yucky morning to parts of scotland and northern ireland in western england. snow over the higher ground. around 4— seven degrees. a milder start than recently. similar in north—west england and wales and the south—west, some snow melt as well so south—west, some snow melt as well so this combined with the rain bringing some water. take care of that morning commute. eastern areas, cold and dry. the

they include charles darwin charles dickens and many others. the grave of william wilberforce is also here in eighteen zero seven after eighteen years of campaigning and opposing slavery he finally succeeded the first law banning the slave trade was passed after a ten hour parliamentary debate it's now bad the world over but what does that mean so in the world today we know there are about thirty eight million slaves. we need kevin bales on the channel islands of guernsey. the social scientist heads the wilberforce institute for the study of slavery and emancipation. bales is a renowned expert. when i first learned about modern slavery was back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and i picked up a leaflet at a public event and this leaflet said there are millions of slaves in the world today and i looked at it and i thought that that can't be true everyone knows slavery is finished it finished in the nineteenth century. that claim led to years of research. bale's entered a parallel world that he didn't think could possibly even exist. and that be

he's naturally showing its age, but this is charles dickens natural writing post, this is where he wrotectations." and a copy of "a christmas carol" published 1843, 6,000 copies sold out on christmas eve. it's a beautiful object, finely bound, gold lettering on the front and spine. the first book that dixckens evr published as a book. and the inscription there in color. the museum is currently sharing leach's pencil descriptions, and the one miser ebenezer scrooge. being dickens the story is naturally a tale of two cities. new york is celebrating this christmas with a special exhibition at the library. >> so this is the original manuscript of "a christmas carol" you see the revised pages, heavily revised. it's all pouring out of him. the level of artistry there is bouncie ing off the page. >> reporter: to see it in his own hand, ebenezer scrooge, bob cratchit and tiny tim. but would you have recognized him from 1850, then 38. in his 40s and 50s "a christmas carol" became one of his favorite readings in his tours. >> they was so brilliant. and the fact that he was also a brilliant actor w

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i'm a charles dickens fan so i was a cork for this going in.t i didn't know, i thought the title was a little pretentious before i heard it, it's about how charles dickens came up with christmas carol, but i didn't know what was at stake for him. he had had a bunch of failures, had been the toast of the town, now the butt of jokes. he self-accomplished the book, and christmas was not something that was celebrated like it is today, it was something that was kind of relegated to the poor. if you were well to do you didn't even acknowledge christmas and it literally transform the season and let people in society look at themselves which is what good fiction should do. christopher is mind blowing, he's the best ebenezer scrooge, and there have been many. it's a great film. >> brown: ann? mike mentioned dunkirk earlier. one movie that utterly enchanted me is their finest, a little movie about the british propaganda office trying to get the u.s. into the war, so they make a propaganda film based on a couple of evacuees, civilian boats that helped eva

their homes and communities or being forced back into institutions are more reminiscent of a charles dickens novel. this is wrong. and we are also here to show everyone that kids with complex medical needs and disabilities are just kids. they love to play, they love to learn, they love the muppets. americans, they deserve to have a government that protects them. today as a mother and one more voice of conscience, i'm asking everyone who can hear me can see these children to help us make es tothat christmas is t come are even more joyful than the past. god bless us everyone. i am privileged to turn the microphone back over to leader pelosi. mrs. pelosi: thank you very much, laura. at this point, i would say that we rest our case. how eloquent the statements are. but i do want to acknowledge voices of the future of your here. you heard them with their parents and their siblings. charlie, acknowledge she's a girl. she is been lobbying all year on the affordable care act. she made this painting which i have in my office as inspiration, and a constant imperative that we have to continue the fight

. >> reporter: designer michael moehler says you will catch a feeling of charles dickens. >> if you stay with someone and took them away and say we're england now. i think they would believe you charming, lend itself to christmas. >> reporter: each of the five residential home you will see will sing of a christmas carroll through each of their, different dazzling decor and design. >> christmas is one time of the year that should be overtop. >> we get food back, one of the holiday mood and two gives them ideas for decorating, warm, welcoming, as is chestnut hill. >> chestnut hill is, definitely house, if you want tickets to the tour you can get them on line put a lincoln our web site and also it starts atwoodmere museum. but, shannon, danielle can you toss it back to ukee and jessica, back to you, ukee and jessica. happy holidays. we are sending it to kate, kate, over to you. >> happy holiday. >> happy holidays. >> sorry, ukee and jessica. >> thanks, ladies, what a beautiful home tour and great night in chestnut hill or where i am at gorgeous, all lit up morris arboretum, winter garden ra

it is orrery fin story of christmas carol written by charles dickens of course. so what happens in this book, the film is directed by barrett aluri. barrett and the screenwriter susan coin created a wonderful world in which you see dickics writing "a christmas carol." he had six weeks to do it. he funded himself. he had financial issues. he knew he had to get this thing done. the pressure was on him. as he develops the characters and writes about them, they become alive to him so christopher columbus, i mean, christopher columbus, christopher plummer appears as soon as he discovers he will write about scrooge. so there is this wonderful, funny interplay between scrooge and dickens. so i have brought you a t-shirt. there is a line in the film that i have loved, it is the line is -- cspan: hold it up to my camera. you can read it. >> the line is no one is use less in this world who lightens the burdens of another. which talks all about generosity, generosity of spirit, pulling people up, helping people all of those things that we need today in our climate that is g

painted this as corporate welfare and tax cuts for the rich, some responding the poor fellow from charles dickens'sas carol, tiny tim. >> what we are doing is saying wealthy americans, big fat christmas present for you. tiny tim, we are taking your crotch away from you. >> like tiny tim, simon and his family find their future in danger because of the greed of those with power, the cruelty in the heart of the tax scam. >> the party could be over as republicans rush against a deadline to fund the government past friday as democrats led by nancy pelosi urge members to vote against the continuing resolution offered today by the house to fund the government until january 19th. the prospects of sending government workers home for christmas without paychecks is a daunting one but steve mnuchin says he is confident that will not happen. >> it is highly unlikely for there to be a government shutdown. the right thing to do is get a short-term funding and deal with these issues in january. >> here is where we stand. the house meet at 8:00 am and major components of the continuing resolution, children's health

either my dad would read charles dickens out loud or we would get out instruments and play. if you wanted to be in this family you better learn to play something. david: so famous musicians would come to your house? mr. collins: people would drop by. perhaps the best known though not at the time was a particularly sullen 18-year-old who showed up sort of being brought along by a more senior, experienced folk song writer and singer, and the young 18-year-old turned out was having his birthday in our living room and he sang a few songs, had a terrible voice, had no social skills. i was quite sure he had no future at all. that of course turned out to be bob dylan. david: did you ever meet him again? mr. collins: i did. david: did he remember you? mr. collins: no. he denies the whole thing. it was quite a bit later like maybe 10 years ago. david: you went to college at university of virginia. mr. collins: yep. david: you were an academic superstar? mr. collins: i was a bit of a nerd. i got excited about science in also. i should give testimony right now to the importance of havi

they include charles darwin charles dickens and many others. the grave of william wilberforce is also here in eighteen zero seven after eighteen years of campaigning and opposing slavery he finally succeeded the first law banning the slave trade was passed after a ten hour parliamentary debate it's now bad the world over but what does that mean so in the world today we know there are about thirty eight million slaves. we need kevin bales on the channel islands of guernsey. the social scientist heads the wilberforce institute for the study of slavery and emancipation. bales is a renowned expert. when i first learned about modern slavery was back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and i picked up a leaflet at a public event and this leaflet said there are millions of slaves in the world today and i looked at it and i thought that that can't be true everyone knows slavery is finished it finished in the nineteenth century. that claim led to years of research. bale's entered a parallel world that he didn't think could possibly even exist. and that be

some demanding republicans reauthorize health insurance for low-income children by invoking charles dickens's> what we are doing here today is saying wealthy americans, big fat christmas present for you. tiny tim, we are taking your crutch away from you. >> like tiny tim, they find their future in danger because the greed of those with power, the cruelty that is in the heart of the tax scam. >> reporter: policy sent a letter to all democrats urging them to vote against the continuing resolution because they feel their voices and input are not being heard. there is a lot in this, disagreement over the reauthorization of the surveillance act, disagreement over other things. the prospect of sending government workers home for christmas without a paycheck is a daunting one but steve mnuchin says that is not going to happen. >> it is highly unlikely there is a government shutdown, the right thing to do is let short-term funding and deal with these issues in january. >> the house rules committee take this up at 8:00 am in a few hours, separating the disastrous bill, they may would to get that out o

charles dickens classic tale. p perfect for this time of year. and we have craig wallace second year as scrooge. he came in the studio and said he was tad nervous from taking it over from ed who played it many years. but this year now that he's had a year under his belt he feels he's able to make the role his and more fun this year. another twist on this one, ghost of christmas past present and future, have a real world counterpart in the show. kind of like the farm hands in the show before they become the tin man, so you get to see them early on as little peasants and amongst us, the least amongst us should also be equals. so great time for the season. >> awesome. looking forward to seeing all of them. jason, thank you very much. >> and like he said it really is a tradition. and with this cold weather and possibility of little snow mixed in here feels like the holidays. >> and nice options to be inside to go to the show since it's cold and snowing. >> yeah, because we know when it snows people stop going to things. and you start seeing a reduced

saturday night live" took on the president last night in this sketch ripped from the pages of charles dickensng ghosts of the past. first, a michael flynn. >> oh, no. it approaches. >> i'm too scared to look. oh, thank god, steve bannon. you're here to save the day with your terrible white magic. wait. who are you? >> ho ho ho, merry christmas. [ cheers and applause ] >> it's i, hillary clinton. you donald have given me the greatest christmas gift of all, sexual gratification in the form of your slow demise. you have no idea how long i wanted to say this. lock him up! >> oh, boy. well that was "snl" last night. thanks for being with me today, sunday. cnn newsroom starts right now. >>> welcome to the cnn newsroom. we thank you so much for joining us tonight. first up, news that the senate judiciary committee is investigating president trump for obstruction of justice, this from democratic senator dianne feinstein who says the case against the president grows with every single tweet he fires off. listen to this. >> the judiciary committee has an investigation going as well. and it involves obst

. >> stephen: like charles dickens, like "a christmas carol. what did you think dickensian was. that word before. >> stephen: you learn something new every day. >> it's amazing. here's some coconut milk-- whoops. here's some coconut milk, and instead of using whipped cream, we'll take the top of the coconut milk and whip it. >> stephen: if you're lactose intolerant you can used the whipped coconut milk. >> absolutely, and it's so delicious. we'll plate this up. >> stephen: wouldn't you stir that? because now this is mixed in. >> sure, there you go, stir away. we'll attack a pear. >> stephen: one pear. >> a pear at a time, whipped coconut milk. and, here, you're going to do this. you're going to just -- >> stephen: uh-huh. >> mr. colbert? >> stephen: yup. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: okay. >> what is that, bourbon? >> that's bourbon. >> stephen: i can put the bourbon on the nuts? >> sure, put some right in. here you go. >> stephen: that's nice. >> give them a toss, totally fine. and we'll take some of our-- those juices just reduce down a little bit, and we pu

. >> so we've got bus stop buddy trying to dress him up like keys he's this charles dickens christmasecause it is go carolling day today. need to bundle up little more than yesterday. temperatures in the 30's, 40's , but quite breezy out there this morning, so it is making it feel little chillier than it is, cold front came through, and some clouds from that front are still hanging around. we didn't have any precipitation. there is rain to the south. but that's way down in north carolina. there is snow to the north. way up in up-state new york. so we're kind of sandwich inbetween, but we will have much chillier day today. don't be fooled into thinking it will be as warm as it was yesterday. it is 49 degrees right now. we have 13-mile per hour wind. and 52% relative humidity. we won't see sunrise until 7:19 tomorrow, we start the season of winter, so after that, days will start to get a little bit longer. so, 43 degrees by 9:00. forty-four by noon. just going to kind of stay in the mid 40's today. sunset time is 4:39. and throughout the rest of the region, we do see plenty of sunshine,

now you have sessions attacking the poor, talking about debtor arrest, which charles dickens spoke against this is very troubling. but we have to understand not only is it antithe good news, not only is it more like the grinch that stole christmas and the christ of christmas, it is connected to this, this, this white supremacist mind-set that links poverty and failure particularly black, brown persons as the gay way -- gatewo public support. here's hit on t. it also means, joy, the majority of the people who will be hurt will be white, white women and children. we fear, for instance, roy moore. sessions is from alabama, too. in policy he's no different than roy moore. >> wow. >> that's something that we should understand, in policy, in policy. >> absolutely. well, the reverend dr. william barber behind the moral monday movement, thank you so much. happy new year to you. >> thank you. take care. >> thank you. and i want to take a minute right now to spare a thought for the family of erica garner. she's the daughter of eric garner who died literally at the hands of a new york city police off

. >> in the village of chestnut hill, designer michael moler says you'll catch a feeling of charles dickensu blind folded someone and took them away, and brought them back, and we're in england now, i think they would believe you. it is charming, it lends itself to christmas. >> where each of the five residential homes you'll see will sing christmas carols through each of the different dazzling decor and designs. >> christmas is one time a year, should be over the top. >> we get a lot of feedback. one the holiday mood, two, gives them ideas for decorat ing. >> it is warm, welcoming. >> vittoria woodill, cbs-3, " eyewitness news." >> a beautiful site out there, at chestnut hill. get out there today, even have the festive flakes falling, too. >> exactly, we'll see some snow moving across the region throughout the morning hours, and also this afternoon, it will be moving in from south to north this morning. already starting to see that trend taking shape, on storm scan3, now, not all of this that you're seeing in white is hitting the ground. there are some spots getting in on some of their fir

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a heart warming take on charles dickens' a christmas carol. joining us to tell us more about that, tony award winning producer and director alexander fraser and the playhouse's education director michaela murphy, nationally renowned storyteller, actress and teacher. welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> thrilled to be here. >> let's start with you, audiences know the story of a christmas carol. how is this different and any surprises for audiences? >> we wanted to take this great story and do something a little different with it. so we set it in new hope. and it is absolutely the christmas carol that you know and love, but with a lot of local color thrown in and the whole thing ends with a big christmas show that ebenezer scrooge produces as his gift back to the community. and so they get to sing and dance, but it really is a christmas carol. and an extraordinary tale and i had forgotten a lot about it. but watching it and it has five actors. five great actors from new york, don stevenson plays ebenezer scrooge, he was in the producers on broa

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. >> think of charles dickens. >> right. >> how do amazon and ebay feel about this?tplaces. our job as a platform is to make sure there's legal and buying and selling. these are legal. you can see the markup by about 2,000%. i do think an enormous part of this problem comes down to a huge thing with 2017 which has been the dark side of platform technology. you see it with uber, you see it with facebook, and now you're seeing it with retail markets as well. so information markets, transportation markets and retail markets, we're seeing the same story which is these platforms that are amazingly successful at bringing down prices and get into the market have a dark side that because you're taking humans out of the marketplaces, there's less oversight so bad actors can do whatever they want. >> bring the humans back to the snoorkt right. bring them back. >> bring mom and back. >> in a safe way. >> hue the grinch bots stole christmas. that's a different show. derek thompson, thanks. >> speaking of gifts, it's the one moviegoers have been waiting for. up next we'll bring y

so just like charles dickens christmas carol, i'm sure my colleagues are being haunted by the coasts -- the ghosts of christmas past, present, and future. ghost of christmas past reminds ebenezer scrooge that he had with moneyn love than anything else. that is what republicans want -- privilege.rd greed does not make america great. opportunity makes it great. sweat. hard work. republicans yanked out the ladders of opportunity for teachers, for graduate students, families with student loans. recall the ghost of christmas present. he informed scrooge that tiny tim would die soon, unless scrooge changed his ways. republicans take aim at tiny tim. and millions of other families across america suffer by the raising of health care costs on millions more. with pre-existing conditions will be priced out of the market because you are destroying the affordable care act health care pool. over 1.7 million floridians right now depend upon the affordable health care act for their coverage. if that is not enough, republicans want to eliminate the medical dispense -- medical expense deduction. this

a christmas carol as read by simon callow — he'll be here to explain why charles dickens' classic story outside her body, has survived in what's thought to be a first in the uk. vanellope hope wilkins, who is three weeks old, has undergone three operations at glenfield hospital, in leicester, to place her heart back within her chest. the condition, ectopia cordis, is extremely rare, with only a few cases per million births. her parents have described her as a fighter. doug jones has become the first democrat in 25 years to wind a us. senate seat for alabama. it follows ato senate seat for alabama. it follows a to campaign against republican roy moore, who has so far refused to concede the result. —— eight bit campaign. president trump congratulated jones on a hardfought victory. there are more than 700 schools in england that have been struggling to improve for years, that's according to the chief inspector of schools. amanda spielman says this includes more than a 100 which for more than a decade have never been rated as "good" by ofsted. the government says it's targeting additional h

just like charles dickens' christmas carol, i'm sure my colleagues are being haunted by the ghost of past, present and future. the ghost of christmas past reminded scrooge that he lost the love of his life because he loved money more than anything else. that is what the republicans propose -- to reward privilege rather than hard work. greed does not make america great. what makes america great is opportunity and sweat and hard work. republicans yank up the letters of opportunity for teachers, for graduate students and families with student loans. recall the ghost of christmas present. he informed scrooge that tiny tim would die soon unless scrooge changed his ways. timblicans take aim at tiny and millions of others families across america, while imitating health coverage and raising health care costs on millions more. americans with pre-existing conditions will be priced out of the market because you are destroying the affordable care act health care pull. over 1.7 million floridians depend on the affordable care act for their health coverage. if that is not enough, republicans are p

a display by charles dick instance but spicer captioned it fdr's carol songs. spicer has since changed the caption fdr's book of dickens carols. i like it right there. there's the picture. fdr's book christmas carols. what would have made it better if he somehow went into the glass case and took it out and read it. that would be great. >> we're back after this. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ think of your fellow man, ♪ ♪ lend him a helping hand, ♪ ♪ put a little love in your heart.♪ ♪ you'll see it's getting late, oh please don't hesitate...♪ ♪ put a little love in your heart.♪ ♪ in your heart... ♪ ♪ in your heart... ♪ ♪ in your heart... ♪ ♪ in your heart. ♪ (vo) going on now, our subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen million dollars to those in need. real quick, good night to be marco rubio, he has already threatened to withhold support of the gop tax bill unless his fellow republicans expand the family tax credit. for now he holds a lot of power considering two gop senators are dealing with health issues that may keep them away from the senate. as we mentioned robin roberts she's getting a lot of fl