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In this captivating 10-part series, Melvyn Bragg brings all his enthusiasm, experience and expertise to a subject that has enthralled him his entire life: the importance of the North in shaping the United Kingdom. Joined by special guests, he charts the ebb and flow of Northern power and influence, examining how one smallish geographical region came to have such an enormous effect on our culture worldwide: from science and philosophy to music and sport.

Durante su estancia en Nueva York (entre 1929 y 1930), Federico García Lorca escribió "Poeta en Nueva York", su poemario más famoso. Lorca se sintió profundamente impresionado por la forma de vida de la sociedad norteamericana y desde que llegó a Nueva York empezó a sentir un odio creciente por el capitalismo y la industrialización de la sociedad moderna. Le parecía repulsivo el degradante trato que la mayoría blanca daba a la minoría negra.

Sarah Meyer has lived a rather interesting life. Conjoined with a Demon that won't let go, she has been under the protective custody of the Sisters of San Francesco. Under the guidance of her mentor, Father Lucian, she helps solve some of the world’s most terrifying paranormal mysteries. These are her stories.

One of the definitive detectives of American crime fiction comes to radio - with a matchless mind, a relentless eye for detail, and just a bit of an attitude. That's Philo Vance - S.S. Van Dine's famous amateur criminologist of the 1920s and 1930s, ready for radio in the 1940s. Jackson Beck stars as Vance, with Joan Alexander as secretary Ellen Deering, and George Petrie as District Attorney Markham in 16 mind-challenging mysteries!

Diagnosticada con Bipolar 1 en 1999, Allison tomó medicamentos durante 20 años. A través de su fe en Dios, ha superado los síntomas del Bipolar 1 y ha estado libre de medicamentos durante más de un año. Nunca ha estado más feliz. Todo está encendido!!! Ese es el lema y ortografía de la Artista Marcial de la Fe, la pastora Allison Joan Hall, de 55 años. Tiene un Cinturón Negro en El Karate Kenpo y un Cinturón Azul en Taekwondo.

For 20 years, Great Lives has been a linchpin of Radio 4, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. In it, a household name is invited to choose one of their heroes to discuss with the presenter and a guest expert. But will their chosen person live up to intensive scrutiny, and merit the description of having led a great life? In this special collection, celebrating the programme's 20th anniversary, the very best episodes featuring musicians' lives are collected together.

Maizie Albright might have once played a (teenage) private investigator on TV, but she’s now living the (adult) part. Her (mother’s) name is on her business cards. Her (boss’s) appointment book is brimming with new clients. And her bank account has grown large enough to finally trade in her dirt bike for an actual new (pre-owned) vehicle. While the police begin their inquiries, Maizie starts her own case. She’s needling Black Pine’s wealthy do-gooders, threading through lies, stitching together clues, and ripping out false leads.

Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose - because, she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk.

Climate change wiped out planet Earth in 2054. However, the richest and most powerful one percent of society did not hesitate to escape to a space station. But what would that new society become if classism and fascism were what prevailed among them at the time our world died?

Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in 1999, Allison took medication for 20 years. Through her faith in God, she has overcome symptoms of Bipolar 1 and has been medication-free for over a year. She has never been happier. All is on! That is the spelling and motto of 55-year-old, recently ordained Martial Artists of the Faith, Pastor Allison Joan Hall. She holds a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate and a Blue Belt in Taekwondo. She taught high school Spanish and Art for Baltimore City Public Schools for 22 years from which illness forced her into early retirement.

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved. What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.

Emily Fredrickson is left devastated after her husband, Matthew, is arrested for doing meth at their daughter's third birthday party. Her small town of Hibbing turns on her quickly as rumors circulate and the accusations and judgment get her fired from the job she loves. Greenrock Road is a story of heartbreak, hidden family secrets, and a mother's quest to make peace with the decisions of her past.

While ex-celebrity Maizie Albright’s dreams of becoming a for-real private investigator have not exactly been dashed, they have been slightly thwarted. Her ex-manager and still-mother, Vicki Albright, has taken the helm of Nash Security Services while rebuilding her entertainment management company. Sometimes with the same clients. Like Chinese action star, Lili Liang, who’s making the film Unlucky 18 in Georgia.

As a former Green Beret, I know how to follow orders and obey rules. I’ve learned to be patient, to look at a situation from every angle, and to live by a code of honor most men know nothing about. But when a motorcycle club puts a target on not just my hometown, but the five-foot-nothing blonde who unknowingly holds my heart in her hands, obeying the law takes a back seat to keeping my woman safe. I’ve never had something so precious to protect, and I’ve never been willing to cross so many lines to get a job done.

Destiny Lawson cannot believe her luck. On a run in the middle of the woods her freshman year of collage, she meets the man of her dreams, Bryan Fredrickson. He is sweet, handsome, and everything she dreamed of. Their relationship continues to strengthen and then one day he takes her back to the bridge where they met and asks for her hand in marriage.

Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for 22 years and two months, precisely. So when she is offered a bed in St Jude’s Hostel for the Homeless, it means so much more than just a roof over her head. But with St Jude’s threatened with closure, Dawn worries that everything is about to crumble around her all over again. Perhaps, with a little help from her new friends, she can find a way to save this light in the darkness? And maybe, just maybe, Dawn will finally have a place to call home....

Hace cien años, en plena Gran Guerra, partió de Zürich un tren que hizo descarrillar el curso de la Historia. Stefan Zweiglo definió como un proyectil cargado de explosivos humanos y, yendo aún más lejos, Winston Churchill se refirió a uno de esos "explosivos" como el arma más terrorífica de todas las que Alemania había lanzado contra Rusia hasta entonces. Porque, en palabras del que fuera primer ministro británico, aquel tren transportaba "en un vagón sellado herméticamente, cual bacilo de la peste", nada menos que a Lenin.

Juan Augusto Suter, natural de Rynenberg, cerca de Basilea, de treinta años de edad. Tiene un gran interés en poner el vasto océano entre su persona y los tribunales europeos de justicia. Acusado de quiebra fraudulenta, de robo, de falsificación, ha abandonado a su esposa y a sus tres hijos menores. Sirviéndose de documentos falsos, se ha proporcionado en París algún dinero. Y ahora emprende el viaje, en busca de una nueva existencia.

(Goethe entre Karlsbad y Weimar, 5 de septiembre de 1823). Era el 5 de septiembre de 1823. Una silla de posta rodaba lentamente por la carretera que conduce de Karlsbad a Eger. La mañana aparecía envuelta en los primeros fríos otoñales, el viento azotaba con violencia los rastrojos y el cielo se extendía límpido hasta las lejanías del horizonte.

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.