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Mr Punch Presents: Sunset Boulevard, nominated for 11 Academy Awards, Billy Wilder’s brilliant 1950 film is about the flamboyant silent-movie star Norma Desmond played by Gloria Swanson and her pitiful attempt to stage a comeback to the silver screen through her friendship with a young, opportunistic screenwriter, played by William Holden. Re-created for the radio with the original stars in this special radio production.

Cuando Allegra conoce al apuesto y misterioso Hunter en la boda de su hermana, se embarca en un tórrido romance con él. Sin promesas. Sin compromisos. Sin preguntas. Como Hunter dirige un imperio multimillonario en Nueva York y ella vuela por todo el mundo en su trabajo como directora de eventos para Titan Racing, sus caminos no volverán a cruzarse.

Just a kid from Akron, Ohio, who is dedicated to uplifting youth everywhere, LeBron James knows the key to a better future is to excel in school, do your best, and keep your family close. I Promise is a lively and inspiring story that reminds us that tomorrow’s success starts with the promises we make to ourselves and our community today. Featuring James's upbeat, rhyming text, this book has the power to inspire all children and families to be their best.

Olive está acostumbrada a tener mala suerte. Ya sea en el amor, el trabajo o cualquier otro aspecto de su vida, esta siempre está al acecho. En cambio, Ami, su gemela, tiene tanta suerte que ha conseguido organizar su boda a base de sorteos. Pero lo que es un sueño para su hermana es sinónimo de pesadilla para Olive, que tendrá que pasar toda la ceremonia con el detestable Ethan Thomas, el hermano y padrino del novio. Lo que nunca hubiese podido imaginar es que el enlace acabaría con una intoxicación alimentaria que afectaría a todos los invitados salvo a ellos.

When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.

Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior, advocate, and winner, Gloria Allred is all of these things and more. Voted by her peers as one of the best lawyers in America, and described by Time as "one of the nation's most effective advocates of family rights and feminist causes", Allred has devoted her career to fighting for civil rights across boundaries of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, and social class.

Tilly is overjoyed when an estranged relative comes to Heritage Cove wanting to make amends. But as she lets him in to her life and Tilly’s Bits ‘n’ Pieces—the shop she owns and loves—her friends aren’t so sure whether everything is quite as it seems. Benjamin’s parents run Mistletoe Gate Farm, selling Christmas trees, wreaths and mistletoe. Benjamin and Tilly have been falling for one another since the summer but will family complications put an abrupt stop to what is looking like a burgeoning romance?

1948, Berlin. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace; but Russian troops have closed all access to the city. Roads, railway lines and waterways are blocked and two million people are trapped, relying on airlifts of food, water and medicine to survive. The sharp eyes of the Russian state police watch everything. Anna and Ingrid are both searching for answers - and revenge - in the messy aftermath of war. Both are living in the shadows of a city where the line between right and wrong has become dangerously blurred. But they cannot give up in the search for a lost child.

What if what you really need is right there in front of you, if you just take a moment to look up? Milly has been waiting for this moment forever, and finally it’s just an hour away - an interview with Vogue magazine and the opportunity to get her Louboutin-clad foot in the door. There’s just one problem - totally engrossed in her mobile phone, Milly doesn’t see the bus that is fast approaching - until it’s too late....

When professional organiser Kate Stone is asked to declutter Michael's home in time for Christmas, she's happy to help. He may be gorgeous, but Michael might just be the grumpiest, rudest man she's ever met. If he wasn't her best friend's brother, Kate would never have hung around! But underneath Michael's icy exterior, Kate is surprised to find a caring man who has struggled since his wife left. While she is more used to sorting messy sock drawers than messy love lives, Kate can't help making Michael her secret Christmas project.

Icing gingerbread men, arranging handmade toys and making up countless Christmas wreaths in her family's cozy little Christmas shop isn't usually globe-trotter Lexi's idea of fun. But it's all that's keeping her mind off romance. And, with a broken engagement under her belt, she's planning to stay well clear of that for the foreseeable future...until gorgeous single dad Cal Martin walks through the door!

The financial system of this world has always been extremely unstable. Inflation, recession and depression are always threatening. The economy can change fast. Overnight, people can go from rich to completely broke. But the good news is you don't have to be dependent on the world's economy. As believers, we're part of a different system. We can look to our God for supply, and His storehouses are always well-stocked. They're overflowing with abundance all the time.

This talk by Gloria Steinem - timely, timeless, and recommended for all genders - is a never-before-released recording that took place in 1993 in Salem, Massachusetts, in concurrence with the 300th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. In this incredibly enlightening and motivational audio program, Steinem puts into social and historical context the role of society in the treatment and mistreatment of women.

Emily Moon lives with her mother in an inn on a clifftop in the darkest reaches of Cornwall. After her father mysteriously disappears, her mother finds solace at the bottom of a bottle, and the only way to keep afloat is to turn a blind eye to the smugglers who send signals from the clifftops. But Emily knows that the smugglers killed her father to ensure his silence, and she will not let his murder go unpunished....

Early in the 20th century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers-common laborers, migrants, immigrants, black workers-unprotected by the craft unions. In the face of beatings, kidnappings, and lynchings by vigilantes, company detectives, and hired guns, the Wobblies organized in mining and lumber camps, the wheat fields, on docksides and in textile factories.

When great stars (like Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner) took their talents to the radio microphones, it was always a treat. But when these accomplished actors worked under the masterful direction of William Spier, it was radio's outstanding theater of thrills. You'll hear Angela Lansbury, Donald O'Connor, Gloria Swanson, José Ferrer, and more in well-crafted tales of doubt, double cross, and death. Steady your nerves for 20 classic tension-packed thrillers from 1947!

Forty-two letters written by Titanic passengers and crew, plus two documentaries relating survivors' stories and bringing the tragedy to life through the voices of the wireless operators. The largest, most luxurious liner in the world, the RMS Titanic captured the public's imagination. But four days into her maiden voyage, on 14th April 1912, she hit an iceberg and sank, taking the lives of more than 1,500 people.

The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be - and in so many respects were - at home, but they were not.

Siete mujeres. Un pasado que las une. Un viaje que lo cambiará todo. Desde que un escritor se presentó en su domicilio, interesado en los sucesos que ocurrieron hace veinte años durante un viaje que su madre, Julia, hizo a Egipto, Lucía no ha dejado de hacerse preguntas: «¿Por qué mi madre me habrá mentido? ¿Estará relacionado con lo que la prensa llamó La Tragedia del Nilo? ¿Será Egipto la clave?». En aquel entonces, el azar llevó a Julia y a seis mujeres de cierta edad a embarcarse en un crucero por el Nilo.

There’s nothing quite like a Christmas love story to get you in the mood for celebrating.... Cara doesn’t do sexy, and she only does ‘Happy Christmas’ under duress. She is, after all, a serious musician, and her stubborn streak is born from her struggle to recover from a serious injury. Javi lives for escapist fun - in his music and in his life - especially since he’s always failed at life’s more serious challenges, including marriage and fatherhood.