. >> these are works of art at their greatest level, and you would not -- you cannot pick up a dickensk and read a little but of it for pleasure. you will not get the same pleasure you would get picking up a dickens book and reading it from beginning to end. >> with neil, you do not chopped up, say, the beatles' "abbey road." chop, change, rearrange. the editor of "pop justice" feels nothing is lost by decent editing. >> the idea is that the bad songs are pretty bad. let's just get rid of them. let's keep the goods that. there's so much music around that it is so easy to find and so easy to listen to whatever you want. just get to the good stuff. >> meanwhile, back at classic album club [inaudible] somewhere on site two -- side two. >> listening to a whole album like this really brings up something for me. >> were you move tonight? >> yes, i get moved every time i come. >> it is over. a ballet classic from beginning to perfect, hi fi, stereo, vinyl ending. >> let's just update you on some more breaking news. ireland's prime minister has retained control of the ruling party. he won a mo

but it was so like the dickens but.whenever the dickens book somebody approached me and said we are doing a series about people who are still important in our world today. and i said, is dickens on there? and they said no. i said, and, lots of times when i joined a series i fill in what i perceive as a gap. but, you know, i'm still working on my own novel. i publish a novel this year called private lives, which is about a woman married to a crackpot scientist. so i was in that mode. >> host: were you inspired? were you writing at the same time? >> guest: i was right at the same time. now, crackpot scientist in my novel once worked at the naval observance. he wouldn't have fit in. any of these come with any of these guys. he was a true crackpot at. >> host: how do you write two books at the same time? >> guest: that's something you try not to do actually. you just get too far ahead of yourself and you think i will finish that one by the time i start that would have been turned out that you get efficient -- you didn't fin

. >> you can pick up a dickens book and read a little bit of the home and get a lot of pleasure, buton't get the same pleasure that you would get from and to end. >> i will sing a lullaby. >> they feel nothing is lost. >> the bad songs are pretty bad. just get rid of them. this is good stuff. there is so much music around. it is easy to listen to whenever you want. >> listening to a whole album really brings something out. i get moved every time i come. >> it is over. he from beginning to perfect. >> you can continue that dispute. thank you very much for watching. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get the top stories from around the globe and click-to-play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporation

the justification is that so are charles dickens letters, tolstoy's letters, you can learn something about the man who created the things that you love. >> this is unlikely to be the last time that j.d. salinger is in the news. there is talk of further correspondence and unpublished manuscript. a year after his death, the author famous for being shy cannot escape the public eye. >> drug smugglers and mexico have been caught on video using an old invention, a catapult, as a new way to smuggle drugs. it is the middle of the night on the border and these men are unaware that they're being sold by u.s. national guard patrol. they are attempting to launch packages of marijuana across the border sense using at catapult. the contraption was reportedly found near -- arizona. they have seized nearly 16 kilograms of the drugs but the smugglers escaped we have heard of giving up a second chance at one -- they seized nearly 16 kilograms of drugs and the smugglers escaped. we have all heard of giving of a second chance. a couple divorced decades ago. now they are married again. >> when they got m

>> officer dickens. president newlin: use the other mic. >> officer takens, central police department department standing in for officer matthias, the regular permit officer. i discussed this with officer matthias prior and basically those conditions we'd like to see placed on for obvious reasons. we have residents in the close area and we don't want quite that much sound to be disruptive to the neighborhood any more than it already is. colosseo is a nice restaurant. it's not a personal issue. we don't want microphones in the hands of the opera singer. if you're an opera singer, you can be well heard without a microphone and we don't want the singing amplified. we don't have a problem with the background music amplified. that's basically our position. president newlin: o.k. >> isn't it true, though, that the doors are to remain closed at all times and are still subject to the sound ordinance, that music can't emanate from the establishment? >> that's right. but not to increase the possibility of serving

exists because prosecutors fought like the dickens all through the 1980's and i used to get it introduced now d.n.a. evidence is. as most of market when it shows that somebody didn't do it i used to be a reporter and it's and they teach us how it's not news when a plane lands safely when when newsweek ran a ran the cover of roger coleman who i'm sure richard knows where you as he was the hero of the anti death penalty movement for almost two decades he was a man executed in one thousand nine hundred two for the murder who won the mccoy virginia or ricky mcginn executed for stephanie flannery's murder in and in two thousand and texas both on the covers of time and newsweek these men are innocent you never heard about them happen and the reason you haven't is because subsequent d.n.a. testing proved beyond all doubt that they did it now i'm not saying that just because to say most cases of people who were held out to be innocent means that justice is a work in progress and i think you always after do better i i i've worked on the on capitol hill in trying to get d.n.a. more available in fac

. >> dickens style. >> i was interviewing lady gaga.hotel, and i go out and i leave the restaurant and it's 11:00 at night and the pubs have just closed and the amount of people just come pouring into

i mean is it dickens? without being grandiose? is it a great russian novelist. >> the world is... my friend chuck close. i know you've had him on this show. a great painter. he does wonderful oversized portraits. he will spend all day working on a pore of somebody's face. i do that. i'm working on a very small piece. this is only after 40 years we stand back and say does this add up? so to my great surprise it's actually coherent as a kind of novelistic story. it certainly... i was... i have never been in a position to think out where these stories are going so i tried to picture this book the most essential story arcs. with the foundational characters and the successor characters and i've tried to give a sense of what it felt like to live during those 40 years not so much all the sign posts and all the various things that happened during that 40-year period. more like what it was like to be alive during those four decades. >> charlie: if you can give that sense of these were the things that were squirreling around. >> right, right. i mean that political and social context is alwa

the producers had these like, these carolers come dressed in charles dickens sort of costumes. >> jimmyeless people. >> jimmy: that's so nice to say. >> they were singing carols, and there was surf and turf for lunch, and there was a huge party afterwards and a dj. we just cried. crying and crying, and the makeup kept running in during scenes and they'd clean us back up, because we are suppose to be happy in these scenes. and we're like, "i don't want to go." we would screw up the takes so they'll have to keep us here longer. >> jimmy: apparently there's like a big secret or something for "big love" this -- >> there's a big -- i have a big secret. >> jimmy: you have a big secret. >> i have a really big secret. it gets revealed. and it -- i like -- it's going to wreak havoc. >> jimmy: what -- can you hint? -- is huge a hint? >> what can i say? i guess they can't fire me anymore. [ laughter ] i don't want to ruin it for anybody. so i'll tell you what it isn't. >> jimmy: i could do that too, i guess. [ laughter ] >> it's this kind of big, like i'm not -- you don't find out that marjean was

. >> dickens style. >> i was interviewing lady gaga.eave my hotel, and i go out and i leave the restaurant and it's 11:00 at night and the pubs have just closed and the amount of people just come pouring into the street urinating and vomiting is so not elegant. >> i'm with you. it's interesting americans look to britain as this great bastion of decency. >> it's not. >> americans are much more polite than britons these days.

charles dickens, president and jackson, davy crockett came from the south. it was considered that much of an unusual turn of events that you could have industry in sort of a pleasant atmosphere. the workers would be well treated and get the industry would be profitable, which it was. that lasted for a generation before the women workers began to resent the conditions under which there were forced to work. they amplify their feelings in a journal they themselves had created call low offering which was the first magazine published and written by women in america. in goal offering it did a great advertisement for the low miracle to show that the workers are so enlightened than happy and have so much leisure time that they can produce this literary journal. of course it turned out to be a bit of a facade and the workers began to complain. they were being made to work 12 and 14 hour days. the air was filled with cotton dust and very uncomfortable. so they did not use the word strike. they said turnout. they're literally turn out of a factory, marched down to the

approaching the bridge from the freeway there was no fraud trees palo alto on towards the bridge the dickens out very quickly. i would say approaching the bridge might be as dangerous as getting on it. fog the, i guess it will be that way for a while. choir rainout it will get busier. back to you. >> thank you, we will visit with him throughout the morning keeping tabs on the conditions. moving on plants and he railed in fremont homes and new industrial hub were dashed. redevelopment planning is off the tracks down and fremont dan kerman intel's latest. >> when tesla took over the plant in by all of it this land at the north and in the land of the son of a reporter for sale city officials have some grand plans for the two parcels. >> green text, industry. perhaps are in deep. some residential. some retail and commercial. and entertainment. >> by known to him and the rest of the city union pacific rim road has some unused tracks and real cars have plans of its own. >> we did not know anything about it to the other day. in december union pacific bought the 160 a. planning to turn into a railya

and dickens pulled away and i embarrassed in a manner, deniro looking down at his shoes and he finally raises its head, into my eyes and says, what's all this u.n. shit? [laughter] he said it. dick was a leader of men and women and interns. [laughter] widely prone to endless troubles, never paralyzed by self-doubt [laughter] endlessly searching for legendary feat, seemingly immortal. you know, i think everybody in this room felt it was a feat to get through any meal without talking about dick hol rooke. we talked to him all the time. for many years to come, we'll still be talking about him. because it was like the rest of us, dick was, only much, much more. [applause] >> .holbrooke, that holbrooke was the way my mother referred to richard. she was a discerning women. she recognized early in the 1960s his pores, his intelligence and his charm. that whole holbrooke she declared is my fifth child and so in a stroke, my friend from saigon days he came my brother. polly fritchey did another thing. she helped introduce richard to the washington he aspired to enter, the city of statesmanship

and dickens pulled away and i embarrassed in a manner, deniro looking down at his shoes and he finallynd says, what's all this u.n. shit? [laughter] he said it. dick was a leader of men and women and interns. [laughter] widely prone to endless troubles, never paralyzed by self-doubt [laughter] endlessly searching for legendary feat, seemingly immortal. you know, i think everybody in this room felt it was a feat to get through any meal without talking about dick hol rooke. we talked to him all the time. for many years to come, we'll still be talking about him. because it was like the rest of us, dick was, only much, much more. [applause] >> .holbrooke, that holbrooke was the way my mother referred to richard. she was a discerning women. she recognized early in the 1960s his pores, his intelligence and his charm. that whole holbrooke she declared is my fifth child and so in a stroke, my friend from saigon days he came my brother. polly fritchey did another thing. she helped introduce richard to the washington he aspired to enter, the city of statesmanship of power, of ambition and he too

now, the bullets didn't hit any of them but sure scared the dickens out of them. mike doyle of the county sheriff's department said a rancher spotted a white pickup truck fleeing the area on the mexican side after the shots were fired and think the drug cartel may have been firing those shots to divert attention away from what was going on there in order to get drugs smuggled across the border. the reason i bring all this up once again is because we sent $17,000 national guard troops to deal with the oil spill in the gulf and it was something we should have done. we should have dealt with that problem as quickly as possible to make sure we stopped any environmental damage that might accrue from that and help the people of louisiana who were suffering and the other border states down there. but we haven't done anything but send about 1,400 national guard troops down to the border or close to the border and many of them have been withdrawn and we've got to do something to protect that 1,980 mile border between us and mexico. americans can't go within 50 miles of the

and dickens pulled away and i embarrassed in a manner, deniro looking down at his shoes and he finally u.n. shit? [laughter] he said it. dick was a leader of men and women and interns. [laughter] widely prone to endless troubles, never paralyzed by self-doubt [laughter] endlessly searching for legendary feat, seemingly immortal. you know, i think everybody in this room felt it was a feat to get through any meal without talking about dick hol rooke. we talked to him all the time. for many years to come, we'll still be talking about him. because it was like the rest of us, dick was, only much, much more. [applause] >> .holbrooke, that holbrooke was the way my mother referred to richard. she was a discerning women. she recognized early in the 1960s his pores, his intelligence and his charm. that whole holbrooke she declared is my fifth child and so in a stroke, my friend from saigon days he came my brother. polly fritchey did another thing. she helped introduce richard to the washington he aspired to enter, the city of statesmanship of power, of ambition and he took to it with enthusiasm

and dickens pulled away and i embarrassed in a manner, deniro looking down at his shoes and he finally raises its head, into my eyes and says, what's all this u.n. shit? [laughter] he said it. dick was a leader of men and women and interns. [laughter] widely prone to endless troubles, never paralyzed by self-doubt [laughter] endlessly searching for legendary feat, seemingly immortal. you know, i think everybody in this room felt it was a feat to get through any meal without talking about dick hol rooke. we talked to him all the time. for many years to come, we'll still be talking about him. because it was like the rest of us, dick was, only much, much more. [applause] >> .holbrooke, that holbrooke was the way my mother referred to richard. she was a discerning women. she recognized early in the 1960s his pores, his intelligence and his charm. that whole holbrooke she declared is my fifth child and so in a stroke, my friend from saigon days he came my brother. polly fritchey did another thing. she helped introduce richard to the washington he aspired to enter, the city of statesmanship