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Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again. Following hot on the heels of the success of The Audiobook of the Year (or, more precisely, 12 months later), The Audiobook of the Year (2018) bravely delves behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the past 12 months. Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI.

The Audiobook of the Year is a feature-length edition of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish. Each week over a million people tune in to find out what bizarre and astonishing facts Dan, James, Anna and Andy have found out over the previous seven days. Now the gang have turned their attention to the news of the past 12 months.

In this second series of Peacebeams for Kids we take you on a journey that will help you to worry less, smile more, and practice kindness to yourself and others. Designed to be helpful, soothing, and kind, these short meditations will help to lift your spirits, warm your heart, and remind you to smile as often as possible!

This audiobook contains a series of guided meditations on the subject of love and the different elements that make love arise in our lives. This is a gentle exploration of the grandeur and capacity of each human heart.

In this first series of Peacebeams for Kids, we take you on a journey that will help you to build self-esteem, practice kindness to yourself and others, learn how to calm yourself with your breath, and how to take a different perspective on the difficult emotions we all experience from time to time. Designed to be helpful, soothing, and kind, these short meditations will help to lift your spirits and warm your heart.

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.

During the six long years of the Second World War the British psyche was changed irrevocably. British men and women on both the war front and at home were forced to take life-altering decisions, independently. What no-one could predict were the consequences on the family and on society of these independent journeys by husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, siblings. Nobody would ever be the same.