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In an era of fake news and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them. The first ever book from the iconic programme marks 60 years of programming with 60 world-changing stories. Covering everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the emergence of Brit Art and space exploration, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Today explores events as they happened and reveals how they changed the world around us.

Would you like to be able to eliminate discomfort, have less anxiety, sleep better with a clear mind, and beat depression? For the longest time, mindfulness through meditation techniques have been used to treat a number of ailments, allowing you to live a happier and healthier life! Using meditation healing techniques will also help with chronic illnesses, inflammation, your immune system, energy levels, focus, overall happiness, and much more! With decades of tested strategies, this audiobook will show you the most effective way to use meditation to benefit your well-being!

Inspired by the ruins of an ancient Cistercian abbey at the bottom of her garden in Norfolk, she begins to research the monks' lives who once resided there and realises how much we may have to learn from monasticism. Renouncing the world, monks and nuns have acquired a hidden knowledge of how to live: they labour, they learn and they acquire 'the interior silence'. Monk's Medicine is a quest for that hidden knowledge - a pilgrimage to 10 monasteries round the world, from a Coptic desert community in Egypt to a retreat in the Japanese mountains.