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Jimmy Edwards stars in this spin-off from The Navy Lark, chronicling life in and around the higher echelons of British United Plastics Ltd Following in the footsteps of The Navy Lark, The TV Lark and The Embassy Lark, The Big Business Lark aired for 13 episodes over the summer of 1969. Blending...

Have you ever come face-to-face with the devil? In a tapestry of sports, business, and dating, there is an evil presence that is not quite visible to anyone: the Bedroom Strangler. A serial killer who scales 15-story buildings, enters through the balcony, and stealthily slithers under the bedroom bed, with the sole intent of raping and murdering innocent women in their sleep. He has been classified as the worst serial killer in Ontario's history and Canada's most dangerous criminal ever, operating at the height of London's 40-year serial killer period, from 1974 to 1978.

What the Iron Holds follows four generations of the Francom family across three continents and eight decades—from the red dust of Uitenhage in the Cape Colony to the Atlantic crossings, the thousand miles on foot across the American plains, the Black Hawk raids, the polygamy underground, the Colorado River in January, and the quiet Utah bench-land where a family finally stopped moving and started building something that would last.

It is January 1965 in a World in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went horribly wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. In the United States a new President has entered the White House; in Britain the country will shortly be going to the polls for the first time since the October War. But with the return of ‘normal’ politics there is no return to the ‘normality’ of the old, now lost World order.

Clay falls into a seemingly endless pit which takes him to a place which feels home. How many times have we gotten to a road and chosen either a right or wrong turn. The turn, or choice, affects the rest of our lives.

Continued adventures of Clay Johnston and his companions.

Clay and his wife, Megan, have returned home with their new puppy, Layla. Layla will be full of surprises throughout Clay's life. The future and the past will destroy any ideas Clay and Freddie had of normality. To be a parent can be a surprise to both the parent and the child. Layla is the reincarnation of Trouble.

Robert Hummel owned a business that built fallout shelters all around the world. And he had managed to make a fortune in doing so. His company decided to branch out and convert a 1960s abandon missile silo complex, into a very luxury condo nuclear bunker, built for the ultra-rich. He ended up selling each one for several million dollars. No money was spared in building his ultra-luxury complex.

Follow a young man who no longer wants to live, and just when he is about to give up on life, a dark mysterious woman drops into his life so unexpectedly. Shaking his life upside down. After the sexual tension comes to a head between these two, the journey that these two will inversely embark on will truly end up proving to be a dangerous journey that neither of them may survive from.

An absolute must-listen for all who enjoy their horror with gallons of blood, lashings of guts, and dollops of severed body parts! Madame Gray has personally selected a plethora of blood-soaked tales of terror and gruesome demise, each one brutally crafted to chill the soul and turn the stomach of even the most hardened fans of the macabre.

A former spy investigates the murder of an old colleague - and uncovers a conspiracy that takes him back to the horrors of the Second World War. A Russian spymaster tells the tale of his nefarious plan to get an agent inside the Oval Office and to bring down American democracy, with devastating results for the future. Enter a world of masterful suspense, action-packed adventures, and thrilling twists with James Quinn's Clandestine.

Dark Roads is a collection of journeys to dark places. Mysterious places where murder and mayhem happen to ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. Suspenseful and thrilling, Dark Roads will haunt, intrigue, and entertain the listener.

It all started just before midnight in July. Radio DJ Gil Oldfield gets a call from his son that shocks him, but leaves him unprepared for his arrest and the downward spiral that would follow. In rapid succession, he loses his wife, his children, his livelihood, all his assets, his reputation, and the association with his religious community.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Children in 2020: Old Fairy Tales and Video Games for Today's Children and experience the compelling world of fairy tales and video games.

Jim Nightingale is a law man used to chasing really bad men in the name of justice, but when he returns home from his posse after a long pursuit, his life is turned upside down. Nightingale is brought low, lower than he can live with so his answer is the pursuit of justice with a big dose of revenge.

Patrick Dunnigan, a successful gentleman gambler running a regular table game in a grand hotel in Kansas City, receives a disturbing letter from his uncle, Ethan Brooke. Seems the old man is spooked about developments in the little town of Sundown, New Mexico. Two local business men in town, Race Keene and Emmett Culpepper, are after the timber on Ethan’s property and his neighbors’ land. According to Ethan, the men have hired a group of gunslingers and thugs to pressure the farmer’s to give up their land. The tough old man is afraid for the first time in his life.

Jim Sutter, a diminutive, sad-eyed drifter with a hidden past, rides into the South Dakota cowtown of Bitter Creek in a time of savage drought. Set upon and beaten by toughs, he is rescued by widowed rancher Jenny Olds, whom he soon comes to love. Jim decides to stay on with Jenny and soon finds himself in the middle of a blood feud between the powerful cattlemen's association and the sodbusters, led by fiery Lucas Brand. Hugh Tallant spearheads the fight for the ranchers, seeking to crush the sodbusters who control the vital Bitter Creek River.

Montana-based detective and gun repairer Ulysses Underhill is coerced into joining a posse hunting down Israel Hagan, a thief and alleged killer. Ulysses, who once was a vigilante but is now trying to leave his violent past behind, prevents the posse from summarily executing Hagan. In doing so, however, he makes himself an enemy of Sheriff John Crumley. Facing the noose, Hagan employs Ulysses to track down the real killer.

This is both a western and a murder mystery. In 1870 Deputy US Marshal Davy Reece postpones plans to return to his former life as a scout in order to investigate the murder of his friend and colleague, Marshal McLuhan. He has to deal with two equally eccentric but very different sheriffs and with the madame of the brothel where the marshal was killed. He learns the killer was a woman, probably a cowgirl, who may be among a largely female crew on a cattle-drive across the western plains from Wyoming to Kansas.

Welcome. I am Nitram. Now, image if you will, that your mortal life is just one chapter in an eternal journey. When souls in the Cosmic Realm debate whether wisdom can be shared or must be earned through experience, one soul volunteers to find the answer. Across eleven mortal lives…from ancient farmer to modern engineer, from enslaved Southern Black man to a mountain hermit, he learns that compassion without courage is hollow, that knowledge without wisdom can cause harm. And that all religions point to the same profound truths.