2025-01-11
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Discover how to lead a better life in our age of confusion.
Enjoy this BBC audiobook collection written and presented by best selling author Oliver Berkman, containing four useful guides to tackling some central ills of busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance.
Our lives today can feel like miniature versions of this relentless churn of activity.
We find we're rushing around more crazily than ever.
Somewhere when we weren't looking.
It's like busyness became a way of life.
Start listening to Oliver Epidemics of Modern Life Available to purchase wherever you get your audiobooks.
Hello, I'm Mark Lohan.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences.
This time it's conversations on dealing with trauma after vehicle ramming attacks, 14 people died and at least 35 more were injured when a drop driver of a pickup truck targeted crowds in New Orleans on New Year's Day.
There have been an increasing number of incidents like this around the world, and we bring together those who have experienced the trauma of an attack and those helping with the aftermath.
One of the things we try to do is just to be there, be a presence, and to let them know that they are being supported, that people care, and that they're not alone in what they're going through.
Bourbon street in New Orleans is one of the most famous roads in the United States, known for its bars, restaurants, music and lively nightlife.
At three in the morning it was still packed with revelers celebrating the New year when a man thought to be acting alone drove into them in what FBI investigators have described as a premeditated and evil act.
He was shot dead by police at the scene.
Less than a month earlier, a nine year old child and five adults were killed in a similar incident in the eastern German city of Magdeburg, where a car was driven through a crowded Christmas market.
The suspect there is in custody for murder.
These are among the latest in a series of attacks where vehicles have been used as a weapon, killing and injuring indiscriminately.