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Een persoonlijke gids van Emma Heming Willis, de vrouw van Bruce Willis, over het zorgen voor een dierbare met dementie, zonder daarbij jezelf te verliezen. De dag dat Bruce Willis werd gediagnosticeerd met frontotemporale dementie (FTD), kregen ze een foldertje mee met de opmerking dat ze over een paar maanden maar terug moesten komen. Dat was het. Zonder hoop of enige begeleiding verliet Emma Heming Willis het ziekenhuis, met het gevoel dat haar wereld instortte.

How did Lin-Manuel Miranda become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century? Daniel Pollack-Pelzner traces Miranda's path from a friendly but often isolated child to the winner of multiple Tonys and Grammys for his Broadway hits Hamilton and In the Heights and his songs in Disney's Moana and Encanto.

Over the years Joanna Lumley has kept private notebooks, filled with her favourite writings, thoughts and quotes. Now, for the first time, she opens her Book of Treasures to share some of her many and varied jottings with listeners. This collection of favourite writings, interspersed with narration from Joanna, features the lines of her favourite authors, from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson, pearls of wisdom that she has heard or read, and nuggets of trivia and miscellanea that have made her happy.

Once called "the most gifted character actor of our time," Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) was part of the illustrious Barrymore acting dynasty. Although he garnered success on stage and screen and was a talented actor, writer, director, visual artist, and composer, he never escaped the shadow of his family. Barrymore won the Academy Award for Best Actor in A Free Soul and was nominated for Best Director for Madame X. He is best known for his role as Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life and as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge.