just as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in the book. But modern readers might not realize the extent to which their other ...

It is a pleasure to be here. My theme tonight is trade – so it is fitting that we are meeting on George Street, which is said to lie on an ancient trading route between farmed grasslands to the south ...

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone.

However, on Christmas Eve, he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner ... and how joyful life may be and the spirit of Christmas Yet To Come shows his fate. Scrooge finds that ...

What will be left of human civilisation in the geological record 100 million years hence? Justin Rowlatt speaks to the geologist Jan Zalasiewicz of Leicester University in an extended interview ...