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Following the deadly events of Dancers in the Wind, freelance journalist and single mother Hannah Weybridge is thrown into the heart of a horrific murder investigation when a friend, Liz Rayman, is found with her throat slashed at her dental practice. With few clues to the apparently motiveless crime, Hannah throws herself into discovering the reason for her friend's brutal murder.

A sparkling sequel to the legendary Round the Horne, Stop Messing About! continued the comedy tradition, reuniting Kenneth Williams with both his former foil Hugh Paddick and his Carry On co-star Joan Sims. Included here are all 26 episodes of the all-nude radio show, complete with favourites such as ‘Crackerjackanory with Mother’, ‘Feeble Fables’, ‘Clarence J Mousepartner’s Problem Corner’ and movie spoofs including 2002: A Space Oddity; The Dirty Half-Dozen and A Fistful of Denaro.

A full cast performance starring Joan Greenwood and Stanley Holloway.

Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Famous fans choose their favourite writers for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives. For 20 years, Great Lives has been a cornerstone of the Radio 4 schedules, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. Each week, a well-known personality is invited to select someone who has inspired them. They then discuss the 'Great Life' with the presenter and a guest expert to decide whether their hero really merits the accolade.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Una dura crítica al capitalismo en la obra más surrealista del autor. Considerada por la mayoría de críticos como la mejor obra del autor, en "Poeta en Nueva York" llegan a su punto culminante los procedimientos formales lorquianos, que sirven de base a una radical protesta social y a una penetrante indagación metafísica. Federico García Lorca es uno de los poetas españolas más reconocidos. Nació el 5 de Junio de 1898. Además de poesía escribió obras de teatro y también fue director de teatro.

Tør du stå i dit eget lys? De fleste af os nedbryder os selv hver dag med tanker som fx: "Jeg er ikke god nok, jeg er ikke klog nok, jeg er ikke smuk nok, jeg er for tyk," vi bliver vores egen største kritiker og bruger al for meget tid på at slå os selv oven i hovedet, med alt det vi ikke er og kan. Men tankerne er ikke sande. De kommer fra vores barndom og forfølger os hele livet, hvis vi ikke stopper dem. Hele livet igennem skal du være sammen med dig selv, så hvorfor ikke være din mest trofaste og kærligste ven?

"The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse" is an adaptation of the Aesop fable "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" by Beatrix Potter. In it, a country mouse named Timmy accidentally ends up in the house of Johnny, a town mouse. After experiencing all that the town has to offer, Timmy decides he prefers his quiet life in the country. But how will country life suit Johnny when he comes to visit?

London, 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India, and Britain is at its peak of worldwide power. James Falconer works as a barrow boy in a flourishing London market owned by Henry Malvern. But James hungers for more. Turning away from family tradition, he dreams of building an empire of stores like Fortnum and Mason’s and believes that Henry, along with his daughter and heir Alexis, could offer him a way to climb beyond his beginnings. But tragedy and betrayal threaten the dreams of both James and Alexis - and jeopardise everything they hold dear....

Cassie Morgan has run away. After seven years spent waiting for her mother to return, she flees her dreary boarding school and sets out to find her. But the world outside her school is full of hidden magic and children have been going missing. With the help of a talking cat and a flying broom, Cassie escapes to the enchanted village of Hedgely. There she will begin her training in the practical skills of witchcraft with the Hedgewitch, who watches over the Hedge, the vast forest that marks the border between England and Faerie.

Cassie Morgan needs to earn her Sapling pin to get one step closer to passing her Witch's Licence. To do this, she's set a challenge of training a beginner witch by the Hedgewitch - but the newest member of her coven is not what she expected. Meanwhile, the wicked Erl King is luring witches up and down the country to his side, with promises of unimaginable power. Those who stand against him are running a deadly risk.

Nos hallamos en el siglo XX y ante un mundo que ya no tiene secretos, en el que no quedan tierras por descubrir ni mares por surcar. Países cuyos nombres, en la anterior generación, eran apenas conocidos, se encuentran hoy sojuzgados por Europa, sirviendo a sus necesidades. Los barcos se remontan, actualmente, hasta las fuentes del Nilo, que durante infinidad de tiempo se buscaron en vano. Las cataratas Victoria, que un europeo contempló por primera vez hace medio siglo; producen ahora energía eléctrica.

Invitados por Japp, Poirot y Hastings deciden pasar el fin de semana con él en la pequeña localidad rural de Market Basing. Mientras disfrutan de un buen desayuno, son interrumpidos por un agente de la policía local, que le pide ayuda a Japp con un problema: Walter Protheroe, el solitario propietario de una gran mansión local, Leigh House, ha sido encontrado muerto en su casa. Supuestamente se ha suicidado, pero el médico local sostiene que es imposible.

La acción se desarrolla inicialmente en un estudio de cine en el cual Redburns el jefe de la productora es conocido por su mal temperamento y por ser una persona antipatica. Redburns es encontrado muerto en su residencia y ahora hay que encontrar al culpable, pero no es facil. Debido a su caracter varios son los sospechosos entre ellos se ven involucrados 2 estrellas de su ultima pelicula el señor Walt quien fue despedido por el mismo Redburns y una actriz muy famosa Valerie Sinclair quien es vista en la escena del crimen.

Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer, to find escape in the clouds from his own complicated family. However, the Battle of Britain makes a pilot's life a dangerous way to flee reality. Eva has her own passionate longing: to become a painter. When Eva's Jewish mother disappears to Germany, she is left alone with her elderly father. Both Eddie and Eva come of age at a time that teaches them that happiness is always fleeting, but there are things worth living - or dying - for.

This is the true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it!

It's radio noir at its best! Raymond Chandler's hardboiled private detective digs into the dark underbelly of postwar Los Angeles in 20 tense radio mysteries. Gerald Mohr stars as Philip Marlowe, following the clues and plot twists through tales of suicide and secrets, death bed confessions and the old double cross, the missing and the murdered.

"Turn me on in 50 words or less and I'll follow you home," writes editor and erotica aficionado Alison Tyler about her collection Got a Minute?. When it comes to a breathless, clothes-in-a-heap romp or a naughty tease before the elevator doors slide open, who hasn't fantasized about quickies?

Un príncipe oriental inicia en Londres un romance con una muchacha de dudosa reputación, a la que regala un rubí emblemático que desaparecerá junto con la joven.

Asesinato. En este corto poema el autor relata en forma de diálogo un crimen que realmente ocurrió en la calle 42 de Nueva York. El relato de la violencia que este acto físico supuso le sirve al poeta para plasmar el dolor de su ánimo. Ciudad sin sueño. Intenta transmitir el poeta su propia insatisfacción por analogía con la noche, la vigilia, que no le permite dormir ni soñar ni encontrar alivio o esperanza. Navidad en el Hudson. En este poema identifica el protagonista su sensación de soledad con respecto al resto del mundo en el río Hudson.