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    A loyal tribute to 10 glorious years from BBC Radio 4's Week Ending team. From the archives of the legendary satirical radio comedy series Week Ending comes this compilation of satirical and sardonic sketches based on Margaret Thatcher's first 10 years as prime minister.First released on cassette as Ten Years With Maggie, this has now been reissued as a digital download for the first time, on the 30th anniversary of Mrs Thatcher's coming to power. Written by David Baddiel, Guy Jenkin, Rob Newman, John O'Farrell and many others, it features the vocal talents of Sally Grace, Bill Wallis, David Tate, Jon Glover and Chris Emmett. Week Ending became the nerve-centre of new writing in British...read more

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    Smith Show Media presents Watsons read by Susan Baker. Learn about life and an easy way of...read more

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    What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East. Robert Olen Butler's "Mother in the Trenches" performed by Kathleen Chalfant, Tom Bissell's "War Wounds" performed by Oskar Eustis, Charles Johnson's "A Soldier for the Crown" performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Tim O'Brien's "The Things They...read more

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    A powerful and moving anthology of poems, both familiar and less so, from the eighteenth century to our own days in the long shadow of the bomb. The poets evoke the glory and the horror, the exhilaration and the despair, the humanity and the insanity, of war. The selection of poems, both familiar and less so, provides an illuminating context both for the bitter denunciation of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and for Katherine Tynan's portrayal of the First World War as necessary, just and Christian, while other poems consider the devastating impact of war on those friends, family and loved ones who remain behind. The collection also includes...read more

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    In Voices of Change, a group of Canada’s most accomplished young environmentalists outline bold visions for how we can fight climate change and create a sustainable way of living.   The twelve essays in Voices of Change, by fifteen inspiring youth leading the climate change movement in Canada, explore the most challenging issues around climate change, from sustainability to activism. The contributors, from all across the nation, describe their own work developing successful initiatives that have positively brought about environmental change—from creating a “Library of Things” in Waterloo, Ontario, to an ocean-education program in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The...read more

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    This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of Charley Case, readings from God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson, and much much...read more

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    Folge 7 & 8 Violettas goldener Käfig öffnet sich – die Millionärstochter darf im Studio 21 Klavierunterricht nehmen. Auch für Tomás wendet sich das Blatt: Der ehemalige Pizzaboy bekommt eine Assistentenstelle bei Violettas Klavierlehrer. Beto schlägt Tomás sogar für ein Stipendium vor. Jetzt könnten sich die beiden problemlos sehen. Nur dumm, dass Tomás sauer auf Violetta ist. Da kommt ihr die Einladung zu einem angeblichen Kostümfest gerade recht. Heimlich schleicht sie aus dem Haus, taucht als Engelchen auf und wird zum Gespött der Schule. Natürlich steckt Ludmila dahinter, aber die schiebt die Intrige einer zweiten Konkurrentin in die Schuhe: Francesca, die ebenfalls...read more

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    Folge 3 & 4 Zu ihrem Geburtstagsfest trägt Violetta ein hübsches Kleid ihrer Mutter. Wieso ist ihr Vater Germán darüber so wütend? Und wieso hält er alles, was an ihre Mutter erinnert, vor Violetta geheim? Auch ihre Tante Angie ist nicht ehrlich zu Violetta, sie spielt weiter die Hauslehrerin, da sie die beginnende Freundschaft nicht zerstören will. Da findet die Verlobte von Germán heraus, dass Angie eine Betrügerin ist ... Violetta will Tomás endlich ihren wirklichen Namen sagen, kommt nicht dazu und folgt dem Pizzaboten zum Studio 21. Hier nehmen die Streitigkeiten zwischen zwei Schülergruppen immer mehr zu. Auch die Aufgabe des Direktors, gemeinsam eine Musik und einen...read more

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    A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selections from the epics of Homer and Hesiod. The contemporary rhapsode performs the classical poetry of his or her language, culture, and tradition. Any particular collection and arrangement of poems for performance I term a “rhapsody.” In general terms, a rhapsody is an ecstatic expression of feeling and enthusiasm. In music, a rhapsody is an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation. The poems in this rhapsody comprise a number of poems that I have performed in public and known for much of my life as well as...read more

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    A fascinating collection of short stories by some of the greatest Victorian female writers. This anthology covers every theme from spirits and the occult to love and sexuality to sentimentality and romance to social observation and critique. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt 'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith 'A Dream of Wild Bees' by Olive Schreiner 'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield 'Squirrel in a Cage' by E. M. Delafield 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin 'The Artist's Secret' by Olive Schreiner 'The Marquise' by George Sand 'Mansize in Marble' by...read more

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    A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. - Summary by Gina...read more

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    Few ghost stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. Featuring work by Jerome K. Jerome, Rhoda Broughton, R.L. Stevenson and Violet Hunt, this second collection of eight enduring horror stories, some well-known, others less familiar, transports you to a candlelit fireside to hear tales of cursed paintings, mysterious locked chests and the consequences of promises...read more

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    Dit is een verzameling van kort Nederlandstalig proza van allerlei aard - fictie en non-fictie. Uitgekozen en gelezen door vrijwilligers van...read more

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    Dit is een verzameling van kort Nederlandstalig proza van allerlei aard - fictie en non-fictie. Uitgekozen en gelezen door vrijwilligers van...read more

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    Dit is een verzameling van kort Nederlandstalig proza van allerlei aard - fictie en non-fictie. Uitgekozen en gelezen door vrijwilligers van...read more

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    A collection of short stories written by some of the greatest female writers of all time including Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield and Winifred...read more

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    GS Fraser, John Laurie and Frederick Worlock amongst others read a collection of Scotland's finest poetry featuring Robert Burns, William Dunbar, Mark Alexander and Hugh...read more

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    A selection of some of the best short stories about Vampires ever written. Includes The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet, Fragment of a Novel by Lord Byron, Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker, and Count Magnus by M.R....read more

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    A collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written including works by Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, Saki and Katherine...read more

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    Brought to you by Penguin. This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collection spans forty years, as dub became a powerful cultural and creative force. With roots in the reggae culture of 1970s Kingston, dub poetry uses the vivid expressions of everyday spoken language to describe and challenge the experience of life on the margins. Early dub poetry took on police violence, slums and poverty. Later, as Caribbean migrants arrived in countries like Britain and Canada, dub poets faced new...read more