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Hello. Our top stories: Funerals are due to begin for some of those | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
killed in the Brazil nightclub fire. More than 230 are confirmed dead. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Most weres. French-led troops in Mali secure the airport in Timbuktu | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
before an operation to re-take the town from militants A fifth day of | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
violence in Egypt, after President Morsi called for dialogue to | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
restore national unity. Plus, two centuries of Pride and Prejudice. | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
The book Jane Austen described as "her own darling child, celebrates | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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And we start in Brazil, which has declared three days of national | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
mourning after the nightclub fire in which 230 people, mainly | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
students, died. Grieving relatives have begun the grim process of | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
identifying their loved ones. These are live pictures from inside the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
gym where dozens of coffins are laid out in the city of Santa Maria. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
The first funerals are due to begin shortly. Inside these coffins, the | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
bodies of the young people of Santa Maria. Lives cut short by the worst | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
nightclub fire in over a decade. Relatives listen anxiously. Many | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
don't know whether their loved ones are among the hundreds who perished. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
One of the most popular discos t Kiss nightclub was packed with | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
young party goers. A flare set off on stage by the band lit the blaze. | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
Thick smoke filled the club and people rushed for the one exit | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
which was open. Amateur video shows survivors and workers dragging | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
people out of the smoke. The building's fire safety license | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
expired last year and the owners are being called in by the police | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
to give testimony. Only one has appeared so far. Officials say an | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
investigation is under way into the cause of the disaster. Aware that | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
the world's eyes are on Brazil ahead of the World Cup and the | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Olympics in the next few years. As the details of the tragedy are | :02:40. | :02:49. | |
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becoming clearer, the national I asked about the emotional impact | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
this disaster is now having on the country. At this moment, the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
country is pretty much caught up in a horrible mourning and sadness. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
The news is still sinking in. The investigating efforts are kick- | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
starting. Some questions coming up are, how is it possible something | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
like that happened? What could have been done to avoid it? One of the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
owners of the club was at the police station last night and he | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
admitted that the license of the club to operate expired last | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
December and the fire department has also informed that the fire | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
security license of the club was also expired last August. So the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
question now is, what could have been done to have avoided this | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
tragedy? What can be done in the towure to make sure it doesn't | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
happen again? How fire are fire certification regulations and also | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
adhere rapbs to them? Well, the standards are international. You | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
have to have a fire licence to operate any venue. As I was saying, | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
it is pretty much international standard. Brazil is a big, big | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
country N the capital cities like Rio and even the capital, you would | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
see lots of efforts to enforce these laws and regulations. The | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
problem is that to keep track of everything that is going on in such | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
a big country, it is really, really difficult. What do you think the | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
effect is going to be on the psych ki of the country. It is such a | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
fun- -loving country. People love go -- fun-loving country. People | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
love going to clubs. Brazil is known for its easy nature and we do | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
enjoy partying. I think, for a couple of weeks or maybe months, | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
people will be a little bit weary and not really want to go out to | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
celebrate that much. I don't foresee a sense of a fear of going | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
out to clubs annual everything. This is pretty much an exception. | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
The emotions in Brazil. France says it is liberating Mali, as it puts | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
it, little by little. France has taken control of timbubg -- French | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
troops have taken control of tick buck tue airport. Operations are | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
under way to re-- Timbuktu airport. Operations are underway. | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
I asked Thomas Fessy, who is in Bamako about the advance of the | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
French troops. Well, very little information is coming out of | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Timbuktu for the simple reason that they are cut off. It has been like | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
that for days now. The little information we have is that the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
French managed to get hold of the airport and to secure the airport | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
with the Malian forces last night. Some paratroopers, French | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
paratroopers and Malian soldiers were deployed overnight and were | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
trying to find a way into town at dawn. We expect these troops to | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
enter the town. Whether they are facing resistance - that is the | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
main question mark, as we speak, from residents that I was able to | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
get on the line, who fled Timbuktu just a couple of days ago, fearing | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
some fighting. I was told that on Saturday, only two days ago, | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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Islamist militants were still in town. What about the way in which | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
this is being done? The French troops will be abiding by the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
principals of warfare. There are reports that the Malllyian forces | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
have been involved in some very unpleasant acts, which have been | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
violating prisoners and killing them. Yes, exactly. There are | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
worrying signs of potential revenge attacks and reprisal attacks, in | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
fact, against certain ethnic communities or people accused of | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
having collaborate -- collaborated with Islamist militants. This is a | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
concern which is growing north, as the Malian army is now entering | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
little by little these towns which are re-captured, mainly by the | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
French military. An officer did tell me that they were putting | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
pressure on the Malllyian authorities, they were doing | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
everything possible to make sure these kind of acts wouldn't be | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
repeated. Again, the French military officer said, we don't | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
have eyes behind our heads, so we cannot know exactly what is | :08:03. | :08:11. | |
happening when we leave. Thomas Fessy there in Bamako. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Egypt's Cabinet has approved a draft law, giving the Army the | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
right to arrest civilians. Detainees would go to a civilian, | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
not military court. Overnight President Morsi appealed to the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
opposition to join him for talks, that is after a fifth day of | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
violence. 49 people are known to have died since Friday. This | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
morning there have been more demonstrations in Cairo. Police are | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
fired tear gas at protestors who were throwing rocks. President | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Morsi has warned he'll take more action if violence continues. Let's | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
go live now to Cairo and to our correspondent. First of all, this | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
reported change, or at least modification of what the Army can | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
do if there are civilians on the streets. That's right. It's an | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
extension of the powers of the military. Already we have seen the | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
military, perhaps controversially, come back on the streets, | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
particularly in Port Said on the Suez Canal in the past couple of | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
days, in an effort to restore the security there. After President | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
Morsi announced that this state of emergency would stay in place in | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Port Said and two other cities, perhaps it was inevitable that | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
these powers would be extended to the Army. We understand that in | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Port Said, when riots broke out on Saturday, that the police actually | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
withdraw from the streets. Certainly they were the targets of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
a lot of the anger of the local people. Just to put it in | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
perspective, because President Morsi is currently under attack in | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
different locations for different reasons. In Port Said t reason for | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
this latest spell of violence is that on Saturday, the verdicts were | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
delivered in this court case. 21 local people were sentenced to | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
death for their involvement in Egypt's worst ever football | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
violence, in an incident that happened last year. Now the local | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
people say that actually the police and lack security were responsible | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
for those events which took place last year and the relatives in the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
courtroom first of all started to attack police officers. At least | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
two police officers were killed. And then fires took place all | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
around Port Said. That is when the military was brought in there. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Habit the state of the police - just building on what you have said | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
there - this sense that the whole police force and system has become | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
dysfunctional, that they are never really there, even for local crime | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
and patrols, during this sense of tension. There is a security vacuum | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
in Egypt, if you compare the situation to before. This is | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
something which affects ordinary people across the country. It is a | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
major cause of concern. One of the main criticisms that is directed at | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
President Morsi, who has been in power now for seven months. The | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
other thing we have seen in the last few days, because it is now | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
two years, people are celebrating and marking the two-year | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
anniversary of that uprising, that overthrew Mr Morsi's predecessor, | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
President Hosni Mubarak, but they have quickly, these demonstrations | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
turned into protests with people making that point that he has | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
failed to carry out much-needed reforms, particularly to the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
interior ministry. When protests began two years ago they began on | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
police day and people were complaining about the brutality of | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
the police services. That is why there's enormous anger that still | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
something has not been done to improve the Security Services here. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
Thank you for that update, with the Army being given new powers. Now, | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
the trial is due to open shortly in Madrid of a Spanish doctor accused | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
of running of the biggest doping rings for professional cyclists. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
Police say they seized 200 bags of plood when they raided the offices | :12:12. | :12:21. | |
of the doctor. Prosecutors allege the blood belonged to world famous | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
cyclists who were part of a doping ring, including the doctor, his | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
sister and three former cycling coaches. Well, the BBC's | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
correspondent is reporting that the trial has been delayed. He's been | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
at the courthouse, where the world's media have gathered, at | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
least for the scheduled opening of the trial. So this is the slightly | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
chaotic scene at the courtroom here in Madrid where the man at the | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
centre of this trial is already inside. His office and apartment | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
were raided by Spanish police in 2006. They recovered 200 bags of | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
blood and frozen plasma. Now, in this trial, we will see evidence | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
that that blood - the bags of blood, belonged to cyclists. The World | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Anti-Doping Agency says back in 2006, after the raids took place, | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
they were told that the blood belonged to athletes from several | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
sports. That's why there's a persistent rumour that some of the | :13:23. | :13:31. | |
evidence, gathered a @time in 2006, has gone -- at the time in 2006, | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
has gone astray. The Spanish anti- doping agency, they say they have | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
not seen any evidence to back that claim up. This trial will look at | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the charges against the doctor and four others that they broke the | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
public health laws here in Spain. They are not going to be tried | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
because they organised this elaborate doping ring per se, | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
because doping was not a criminal offence in Spain when the raids | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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took place. You're with BBC World Scientists may have been getting it | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
wong regards smell. A theory is being debated by scientists. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Research suggests that the radicals may be right. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
We have this report. Smell, it is evocative, sensual, | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
and ifpb tensely personal. I like that one. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
The fragrance industry spends million billions creating new | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
smells. B but we have little idea how smells work. So making new ones | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
is a bit hit and miss. There is some serious chemistry | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
going on here, in the air and in our brains, but there is fierce | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
debate by how a spirits becomes a smell. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
It is easy enough for me to pick a smell that I like, but today there | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
is more insight to what is going on in my nose. It may not be because | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
of the shape of the molecules rising from this but down to the | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
way that they move and vibrate. It is a controversial idea. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
The research is less a popular but a fascinating theory, but here is | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
the test. If shape is the thing that works, two mole coups -- | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Kewells of the same shape should smell the same thing, but they | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
don't. What is changed is the way that the molecules move. If that is | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
the key to smell, we could take the guesswork out of making fragrance. | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
You cannot always say what it is going to smell like. This is a | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
further step, hopefully on the way to making a predictive model for | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
saying that is that and it has these vibe rations, it will smell | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
similar to that. I prefer that one. | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
The idea could help us understand this most primal, yet most misunder | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
stood of the senses. Now, traffic cameras in China here | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
are capturing an escape for two men in eastern China. The heavy truck | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
was taking a corner at an intersection. It tips over. The | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
heavy container toppled over, but look in the middle of the picture | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
there, a motorcyclist, waiting at the traffic lights. He narrowly | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
misses being hit. Ouch! There you can see how narrow that escape was | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
at the traffic lights in China. You are with BBC World News. These | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
are the headlines: Funerals are due to begin for some of the 230 killed | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
in a nightclub fire in Brazil. A fifth day of unrest in Egypt. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Mohammed Morsi invites his political opponents for urgent | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
talks. Now to the careen peninsula. | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Signals from the north suggest an imminent third nuclear test, but | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
South Korea is urging them not to go ahead. Saying that the situation | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
is serious. It has been added that there must be an effective response. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
North Korea carried out weapons tests in 2006 and 2009 it launched | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
a long-range missile last month. It led to tighter sanctions from the | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
United Nations. Our correspondent is on the | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
southern side of the demilitarised zone with North Korea. | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
That is right, Nick, we are close to the demilitarised zone. This is | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
the last point of South Korea you can get to before entering the | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
restricted area. It is a popular place for South Koreans to protest | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
against the North Korean regime. The atmosphere is more tense than | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
normal, give than North Korea said it would carry out a third nuclear | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
test. Nowhere more tense than for the soldiers patrolling down at the | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
front here. I spent a day with a South Korean unit to find out what | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
it is like to live and work inside the DMZ. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
Every day for 60 years someone has patrolled the world's last Cold War | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
frontier. Today it is Lieutenant Yoo Kak-Joo. 24 years old, a keen | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
marathon runner, with a love football and a girlfriend who | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
worries become home. -- back home. The small stretch of | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
border he defends lies at the western end of the DMZ. The | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
landscape is bleak, the fasyilities are rudimentary, and the | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
temperatures today are below minus 20. Twice a day, Lieutenant Yoo | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Kak-Joo and his men walk this line drawn by the United Nations 60 | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
years ago, checking for signs of disturbance in South Korea's | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
perimeter defence. The old enemy, North Korea, 200 kilometres away. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Inbetween, a buffer zone is packed with landmines and dotted around | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
the southern side of the minefield, there are telephones for stray | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
defectors to call across for help. The army would not tell us when | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
someone last called. It take as good deal of calories to survive | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
the cold. Lucky that one of the conscripts here is a trainee chef. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
South Korea's in-coming President talked of reducing the obligatory | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
National Service, but with the burst rate declining, some worry it | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
will leave the country vulnerable. TRANSLATION: In a front line | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
position it is less about the hierarchy and more about a sense of | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
brotherhood. We eat, sleep and serve together it is high stress | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
but I try to lead my men well. Right up by the border, Lieutenant | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Yoo Kak-Joo and his men practise live fire exercises. The new | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
generation of conscripts has been tarred by military veterans as too | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
soft and too cautious. One soldier here told me he gets | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
scared at night listening to gunfire from the north. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
For the soldier here, two kilometres away, North Korea can | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
seem threatening. This frontier is scattered with sites of old battles. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
The last military conflict between the north and the south was only | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
two yes,, but in his New Year's address this year, the north Connex | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
South Eastern leader talked of ending confrontation with the south. | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
With South Korea, China and Japan starting with new leaders, many are | :20:47. | :20:55. | |
hoping there is a chance for a political thaw. | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
Sense then -- since then, North Korea has defied the UN to say it | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
will press ahead with a third nuclear test. A sobering thought | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
for the evening patrols. If this relic of the Cold War ever turns | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
hot again. This handful of conscripts will be then facing a | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
different kind of conflict to the one that their grand fathers' | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
fought. America's North Korea envoy has | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
been visiting the region. Talking to the leaders and including South | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Korea's President about how to handle relationships with the north. | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Pyongyang's last week gave them lots to talk about. | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Lucy, given the unpredictability of the situation with Kim Jong Un, | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
when you talk about a chance for a political thaw, do you think that | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
there really is one? At the beginning of this year there were | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
signs that we were reading that suggested that there was a chink in | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
the armour that was opening. New government governments coming into | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Japan, career, China, the Americans having elections, everyone thought | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
this could be a chance to set the records straight to start with a | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
fresh slate, but since then, as we have seen, there are signs that the | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
new leader in North Korea, Kim Jong Un, is really not going to listen | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
to anybody. Not to United Nations sanctions or to the main ally in | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
Beijing with those things in -- off the table. With that not working, | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
it is difficult to see what anyone else can do. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Lucy, literally on the southern side of the border with North Korea. | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
Jane Austen described her book, 'Pride and Prejudice', as her "own | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
darling child". It was published 200 years ago in 1813. It still | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
sells up to 50,000 copies a year, in the UK alone. The BBC TV | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
adaptation in the 90s, brought the book to the attention of a new | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
audience. Not least because of a newly invented scene, featuring | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
Colin Firth as Mr Darcy. David Sillito is in the southern English | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
village of Chawton, where Jane Austen spent the last part of her | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
life. There we can see that book, David. | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
Well, it is a cake, really. That darling child is being celebrated | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
here in a house where Jane Austen lived. Joining me now is Joanna | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Trollope and Professor John Mullen. It sense, from the author of Sense | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
And Sensibility, a first novel, a bobbing you have up dated. The | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
audacity of updating a Jane Austen? That it temperity, but it is a | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
tribute. I have taken exactly the same story and exactly the same | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
cast of characters. I have transposed them from 1809 to 2013. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Do 21st cntries characters transpose Perfectly. That is a | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
genius of Jane Austen. A place for every single person in that book, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
nowadays without any kind of adjustment, you will see. | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
John Mullen, do you think that 200 years on, all of this hoop la of | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
'Pride and Prejudice', I mean we like watching the television series | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
but does the bobbing justify it all? Well, like many Jane Austen | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
aficionados, I wince a bit from the film adaptations. The hope is that | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
it sends people back to the book. To open it, read a sentence and it | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
justifies all of the hoopla and more. She writes like an angel. | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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It is Cinderella, isn't it? Miss Bennett meeting Mr Darcy? No, not | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
remotely. Jane Austen never leaves you empty-handed. You go back when | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
you know more. When you get older. The book is deeper, darker, richer, | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
more interesting every time. You can read it at a level but you are | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
missing most the iceberg if you do. What are you missing? Who is Mr | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
Dargsy? That is the very difficult thing for a novelist to do. He is a | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
character whom you believe in, he does not know what he himself wants | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
and desires. Elizabeth Bennett is the same. So it is extraordinary as | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
a reader you know more than they do about themselves, somehow. That is | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
the amazing thing when you are reading it. When you go back to it, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
I would say that you becomes a clever as Jane Austen herself when | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
reading, but when you put the book down the effect is gone, but that | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
is the wonderful thing about reading it. You become a live, | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
perceptive, witty, entertaining as a reader while you are reading it. | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Is it still funny 200 years on? is extremely funny, but that is | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
picking up from what John was saying. She invites the reader in, | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
not just to go along on the journey of the story with her but to find | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
her characters funny. She has a keen sense of the ludicrous. She is | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
saying that we will tease this person a bit. Look at Mr Kolyuns. | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
There is grip, -- Look at Mr Collins. | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
Well, there is grit? Marriage was a serious business, this is not just | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
about romance.$$NEWLINE Joanna Trollope, professor John, thank you | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
very much indeed. A celebration of 'Pride and Prejudice', 200 years | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
after it was delivered here to this very address in Chawton. | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
David, thank you. Brazil has declared three days of national | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
mourning after a fire in a nightclub. There is the scene in a | :26:48. | :26:53. |