the best-selling novels include cicero chaudhry divvied petrology, an officer and a spy and conclave. several books have been filmed including a ghost which is directed by roman polanski. his work has been translated into 37 languages and is a fellow of the society of literature. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome robert harris. [applause] we are experiencing a remarkable moment with films and television shows and upcoming biography sparking a renewed interest if your focus on the novel is on nebo chamberlain and your take is a little more sympathetic than we are accustomed to seeing. can you tell us what motivated you to write about him and the conference? >> thank you for that kind introduction. i suppose in a way it is because of that, but i wanted to write a book 30 years ago i did a documentary about the agreement and talked to the pastor who accompany the chamberlain on the plane and chamberlain stalker. it was fascinating and i realized i grew up thinking i knew about nebo chamberlain that was wrong in approaching it and even the then although i've nevr written a novel i hear

the legendary she will simulate the city of rome stood on the capital in a cicero's day his writings tennis. she is suckling romulus and remus the twins said to have found a drone both they and the city owed everything to her. at the foot of the capitol hill is the roman forum. in the first century a.d. julius caesar had homes on the site demolished to make way for four of his plans were carried out by subsequent emperors. after the fall of the roman empire the christians built their churches on the foundations of the old temples. before him fell into ruin. when jurists now walk mussolini's ground via day forty imperioli to the colosseum there is one point where they always pools for stone reliefs trace the growth of the mighty roman empire from the foundation of the city in seven fifty three b.c. to its full in the year a d. three hundred thirty by the modern calendar year i think that. all the way. that a sham. all that why. the forum extends southward as far as the palatine hill from here we have the finest view of the capital. and there. in the form and on the color chinese built

with me is iain anderson, who's founder of the international communications agency, cicero group.elcome back. you have been in need deepin welcome back. you have been in need deep in brexit since i last saw you. let's wait through some of this news. much of it is very important. some would argue that it is a bit of a game changer this week. if we start with what the daily telegraph and organisations like bloomberg are saying, it could be an explosive row about to start off tomorrow on the pa rt about to start off tomorrow on the part of those in brussels who are going to, it is expected to say, that the uk, britain, has to allow a free—flowing border between the north and ireland. that's exactly right. i was in dublin ten days ago. i heard the irish prime minister leo varadkar talking i heard the irish prime minister leo va radkar talking about this i heard the irish prime minister leo varadkar talking about this in a very uncompromising way. his deputy simon coney hasjust very uncompromising way. his deputy simon coney has just been very uncompromising way. his deputy simon coney

with me is iain anderson, who's founder of the international communications agency, cicero group.need deep in brexit since i

iain anderson — executive chairman at cicero groupjoins me now. irregular here.r. this story came to the fore yesterday, when we heard that a huge stake was brought in guy millar in terms of shares —— diamler. yes, they are looking at whether or not they have broken some of the rules in germany. they own almost 10% of that company and germany's have rules were unique to declare whether you move above three 01’ declare whether you move above three or 5% of ownership. it looks as though they have gone straight in to get 10%. they were rebuffed by diamler back in november. they have marched in and bought 10%. a lot of companies in the west generally are grappling with whether or not they wa nt grappling with whether or not they want this chinese investment, and china has a lot of investment to give, but the question is whether or not the chinese after the tech that diamler has been developing. that is the concern, this story is on our news up the concern, this story is on our news up as the concern, this story is on our news up as well. that is the worry, what is ch

this and, again, there are many other figures that we could illustrate this with, but i have here cicero and mock velly both from the an chents as well as for more modern thinkers. now, the thesis that i advance in my book is this. both the hebrew and christian biblical traditions must be studied alongside these other perspectives if we want to truly understand the ideas that shape, that inspired the founding of the american constitution republican and our great experiment in republican self-government and liberty under now law. i'm speaking of the bic blikal contrac traditions. and i'm speaking with the christian tradition. and i've shown that here. but also they're drawing on protestant ideas. and particularly influential we have john calvin. again, we could illustrate each of these points with oth ore figures, b -- other figures but there's a variety of perspectives that americans are reading, studying and drawing on. and my point here is the bible must be included in this -- in this range of perspectives that they are drawing on. interestingly, george washington identified the bible

representing this, and there are many other figures we could illustrate this with, but i have here cicero and machiavelli, both from the ancients, as well as from more modern thinkers. the thesis that i advance in my icok is this -- both the hebre and christian biblical traditions must be studied alongside these other perspectives if we want to truly understand the ideas that shape, that inspired the founding of the american constitutional republic and our great experiment in republican self government and liberty in law. i am speaking of the biblical traditions as we find in the hebrew scriptures and more broadly about that christian tradition. i have illustrated this with a depiction of the apostle paul. in the american experience, they are drawing on protestant articulations of political ideas . particularly influential, we have john calvin. we could illustrate each of these points with other figures, variety ofthere is a perspectives that americans are reading and studying and drawing on. my point here is the bible must be included in this range of perspectives that they are drawing o

she was the one who fought for israel by slaying a cicero and when he went to sleep took a tent peg and drove it through his skull. that's a good biblical text. and in doing so, she exemplified courage. this played fairly well in the revolutionary period. preachers picked up on this and connected deborah and yiel as two women who would fight and who were mighty in battle. so this was the most -- based on what i could find. the curse of ma razz was the most sited biblical verse for like 100 years from the king philip war to the american revolution over 100 years. and here is another one by the way that got a good bit of play. from jeremiah. curse be he who does the work of the lord deceitfully and curse he -- and i want to specifically talk about peter and paul a little bit. among the various texts and wartime, there was a lot of old testament narrative. and we can make -- that makes sense because there's a lot of war in the old testament. a lot of battles and armies and a lot going on. people drew on these texts over and over, they had something write for the pickings. but passiveist te

representing this, again there are many other figures we could illustrate this with, but i have here cicero and machiavelli, both from ancients and modern thinkers. the thesis i advance in my book is this, both that he break and christian biblical traditions must be studied alongside these other prospectives if we want to truly understand the ideas that shape, that inspired the founding of the american constitutional republic, and our great experiment in republican self-government and liberty under law. i'm speaking here of course of the biblical traditions as we find in the hebrew scriptures, also speaking more broadly about that christian tradition, and here i have illustrated this with a depiction of the apostle paul. but also in the american experience they're drawing on protestant articulations of political ideas. and particularly influential, we have john calvin. we could ill straight eaustrate these points with other figures. but we have to keep in mind there's a variety of perspectives americans are reading and studying and drawing on. my point here is the bible must be included in

. ♪ ♪ cicero, eel barrio donde vivÍa al capone. dinero, foto familiar y nÚmero de telÉfono.. aparte de lo que pueda pensar el show va lo que yo y mi camarÓgrafo pensamos. quedamos realmente impresionados con la juventud. muchÍsimas gracias, muchas gracias. sigan asÍ, oíste? ustedes son muchachitos todavÍa, pero van por buen camino para ser buenos hombres. karla: guau! [[aplausos] la cara de llorar, los que menos se esperan la entrega. jorge: por alguna razÓn salieron temprano, creo que era el dÍa de martin luther king. nos ponÍan esa situaciÓn porque habÍa muchos niÑos en la calle. alan: estaban muertos de frÍo, a dÓnde iban esos niÑos? jorge: ahÍ ahí 50 $, ellos iban a comer al restaurante. alan: con 50 $ ese dato pues comprar cualquier cosa. karla: tengo que decirlo, porque me conmoviÓ muchÍsimo ver que estos muchachitos adolescentes, a veces usamos que son inmaduros y que lo mejor crecen sin valores y sin la moral que muchos pensarÍamos que nos inculcaron nuestros abuelos. quiero felicitar pÚblicamente a sus padres, porque sus hijosson el reflejo de lo que tienen en su ca

catalina island garcia of cicero, 20 years old, a smiling, outgoing young woman who planned to be a teacher. juliana mehant, 30 years old who served our country in the united states army and army reserve and went to n.y.u. to study to become a teacher. ryan mace of carpentersville who was fun and funny. he was inspired to work as a counselor. and daniel parmenter, 20 years old, a rugby player who lost his life because he shielded his girlfriend from the shooter. it is heart breaking to think of what these five young people could have accomplished in the ten years since that horrible day. we mourn their loss and our hearts go out to their families again. we remember and honor the wounded who still bear the scars of that terrible day. we renew our thanks over and over again to the law enforcement officers and first responders who headed toward the sound of gunfire that day and who treated the victims after they were wounded. we commend the many members of the n.i.u. community who stepped up in the days that followed, working to persevere through this tragedy with heavy hearts but unbroken spi

but no, the former slave who taught himself to read through the words of sis irowe -- cicero and washington went on to be history's most eloquent witness against slavery. he denounced the bloody institution in a thousand speeches, and from the pages of his own abolitionist newspaper, "the north star." and he denounced slavery firmly from inside the american tradition. like many radical abolitionists, frederick douglass was at times profoundly ambivalent about his own country. indeed, there was a time in his early adulthood when he affirmatively hated the united states, preferring this union to union with slave holders. but -- with slaveholders. but frederick douglass later came to a different conclusion about america. when he read the nation's founding document, he did not find codified defenses of slavery. to the contrary, he found that the compromises the founders had made to slavery were meant to under mine that institution over time, not to sustain it. what douglass found in the founders was quite different than what he had expected to find. their message, he later said, is we the peopl