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Stella Gibbons

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Miriam Margolyes, John Westbrook, Patricia Gallimore, Jane Knowles, Victoria Hamilton, Adjoa Andoh, Joan Walker, Full Cast

Three full cast dramatisations of Stella Gibbons’s wise and wonderful classic novelsStella Gibbons, best known for her 1932 novel Cold Comfort Farm, is unrivalled when it comes to bringing great stories of women, love and romance in the 20th century to life with wit, charm and compassion. Listen now to three of her best novels dramatized with a full cast featuring some of the nation’s best-loved voices.Cold Comfort Farm. St...

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Wynyard Browne

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Stephen Murray, Geoffrey Beevers, John Samson, Isobel Black, Jane Knowles

A BBC Radio 4 production of Wynyard Browne’s classic play about a 1950s family homecoming at Christmas.It is Christmas Eve and the family are gathering at Reverend Martin Gregory’s Norfolk vicarage. A soldier son destined for Oxbridge, two elderly aunts with a passion for chatter, a cousin with a military background and a pair of daughters who are both hiding secrets join the vicar to celebrate the festive season.But family tensions soon come to the fore, and as skeletons tum...

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Jane Price Knowles, Ellen Cole

Finally, here is an enlightening and empowering book that defines motherhood from a feminist perspective and then explores the implications of that definition. Feminist authors examine some of women’s full, rich, and varied thoughts and experiences about motherhood. In contrast to the too often accepted male notions of what constitutes a “good’mother or a “normal” family, this important book presents a comprehensive and balanced view of motherhood--as women have observed and experienced it...

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Nancy Mitford

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Full Cast, Timothy West, Prunella Scales, Jane Knowles, Amanda Root, Teresa Gallagher, Pauline Letts, Edward de Souza, Elizabeth Proud

BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmesThe eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life. An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly funny prose. Collected here are adaptations of her two bestsellers, the ...

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Henry Oakeley, Jane Knowles, Michael de Swiet, Anthony Dayan

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500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the College, while others have had an influence that can still be felt in its work.This, the sec...

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Carrie Jane Knowles

As it passes from owner to owner, Ashoan's Rug tells the story of how the work of art is not in the creating, but in how the artwork changes lives. A literary magic carpet ride!

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Benjamin Carp, Alyssa Fahringer, Caroline Grego, Jonathan Hancock, Scott Knowles, Jane Manners, Richard Mizelle, Sarah Naramore, Ashley Rogers, Thomas Wickman

Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their historical contexts.

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Sandy Hotchkiss

“A practical and accessible book about one of the most prevalent personality disorders of our time.” —Drew Pinsky, M.D.In this groundbreaking book on narcissism, clinical social worker and psychotherapist Sandy Hotchkiss shows you how to cope with controlling, egotistical people who are incapable of the fundamental give-and-take that sustains healthy relationships.Exploring how individuals come to have this shortcoming, why you get drawn in...

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David George Haskell

WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.” —Science FridayThe author of Sounds Wild and Broken and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees...

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Janet Evans

Tapping is one of the fastest and easiest ways to address both the emotional and physical problems that tend to hamper our lives. Using the energy meridians of the body, practitioners tap on specific points while focusing on particular negative emotions or physical sensations. The tapping helps calm the nervous system to restore the balance of energy in the body, and in turn rewire the brain to respond in healthy ways. This kind of conditioning can help rid practitioners of everything from...

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Steven Vogel

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what organisms can do and offers innumerable opportunities for evolving fascinating ways of challenging those limits. Here, Vogel explains these interactions, examining through the example of ...

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Jason Scotts

If you are interested in learning the best ways possible to improve mental health then you need a copy of "Exercise For The Brain: 70 Neurobic Exercises To Increase Mental Fitness & Prevent Memory Loss." This text is written in a fashion that is easy to understand and the author himself has used quite a number of the techniques outlined in the text to his own benefit. As more and more persons seek better ways to retain and improve their memory this text is well timed. It gives the reader t...