Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities.How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees. Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving. Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nursery. Holiday events, including balls, pa...

Who will become a mummy…It’s 1324 BC in Egypt – the time of King Tut. The high priest Nebamun and his brother Iramen, the embalmer, are standing ready at the embalming slab.Nebamun feels trapped and surrounded by death. Will he ever be able to escape his duty and be happy?He could have lived a happy life, but today he must mummify a young woman and her daughter, drowned in the Nile reeds.Mother and daughter will meet in the afterlife…

The latest collection of little known baseball stories from the acclaimed author of Tales from the Dugout.Mike Shannon, top-selling author of the critically acclaimed baseball classics Tales from the Dugout and Tales from the Ballpark, returns for a third success to deliver a brand-new collection of more than 100 true stories and never-before-told anecdotes that come straight from the insider's circle. Entertaining and masterfully told,

This program is read by the authors (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker), Laura Orrico and Joe Praino, with special appearances by an all-star cast of comedy giants, including the film's stars, Julie Hagerty and Robert Hays, as well as Beau Bridges, Barry Diller, Michael Eisner, Peter Farrelly, Bill Hader, Jimmy Kimmel, John Landis, Patton Oswalt, Trey Parker, Molly Shannon, Sarah Silverman, Matt Stone, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Dick Chudnow, Ken Co...

A collection of full-cast dramatisations and original radio plays from master storyteller Ted Allbeury – plus bonus programmesDescribed by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He b...

失った幸せを、いつかまた手に入れたい。あの賛美歌の歌詞のように。■メグは宝飾品メーカーに勤めるシングル・マザー。ある朝、社長のネイサンに呼び出され、意外なことを頼まれた。週末に彼の実家で開かれるパーティに、一緒に来てほしいという。母親が次々と女性を紹介するのにうんざりしているらしい。ひそかに憧れていたネイサンの誘いに、メグは胸を躍らせた。週末は思いのほか楽しく、ネイサンもメグに好意を抱いたようだ。ところが、ネイサンが家に送ってきてくれたとき、メグを出迎えたのは、その存在をひた隠しにしてきた三歳になる娘だった。メグが絶望的な気持でネイサンを振り返ると、彼は茫然とした表情を浮かべていた。メグが、ネイサンにも胸に秘めた悲しい過去があると知ったのは、それから間もなくのことだった……。