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Peter Turner visits the Audible Studios to talk about his book Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. Peter Turner is a writer, actor and director whose CV boasts extensive work in theatre, film and television. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a memoir following the unlikely, playful and passionate relationship between Peter and Hollywood superstar Gloria Grahame.

Award-winning and best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson visits the Audible Studios to talk about her latest book, Wave Me Goodbye. For the first time, Jacqueline takes her young listeners to the Second World War, giving insight into what it was like to be sent away as an evacuee. A moving tale of friendship and bravery, Wave Me Goodbye tells the story of 10-year-old Shirley, evacuated to the country with two boys from East End London, to live with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley.

Legend Phil Tufnell visits the Audible Studios. Phil played 42 Test matches and 20 One-Day Internationals for England between 1990 and 1997 and has become a firm favourite on our television screens since his retirement in 2002. He's also the author of several books and is here to talk to us about his latest: Tuffers' Cricket Hall of Fame: My Willow-Wielding Idols, Ball-Twirling Legends...and Other Random Icons.

Simon Scarrow joins Laurence Howell at the Audible Studios in London to discuss his latest book.

The international media has been predicting the 21st Century as China's century. This book explains why. Subjects include international relations, the economy, trade, government, technology, and media.

Jennings and Haughton traveled the globe and penetrated the world's fastest companies to witness the methods used by quick, dominant leaders in business ranging from retail sales to fast food, from financial services to communications. If you want to think faster, all the information you need is here. You'll find lessons from the speediest international companies on how to become faster than anyone else in today's ever-changing business world.

The narrator pledges to donate 50% of his proceeds to The Royal British Legion Poppy Day Appeal - please support. The Fourth of August [1914] was the day that Britain entered into World War One. This poem by Laurence Binyon reminds the British public of their heroic past, and that the travails that lie ahead are justified by the righteous cause, and by following in the footsteps of those who fought before they will vanquish the foe.

Vous avez été fan de Miss Bricola des célèbres séquences du "Professeur Décodeur" des Snuls ou encore de sa légendaire Martine, vous avez été friands de ses chroniques radio dans le "Café Serré" de Matin Première alors vous serez charmés par son premier Stand Up ! À 40 ans, plus qu'un scoop, c'est une surprise, Laurence se jette, en hauts talons, avec fard et paillettes, mais sans filet, dans la nouveauté !

Gala d'humoristes - La Belgique est-elle à vendre ? La France semble en tout cas très intéressée par notre patrimoine artistique et culturel et certains sont bien décidés à démontrer à l'Hexagone, que tout ce qui se passe de ce côté de la frontière vaut une petite fortune. Laurence Bibot, entourée d'une belle bande de joyeux fous du plat pays va donc faire un tour d'horizon de notre royaume en épinglant ce qui se fait de meilleur et surtout de plus absurde chez nous.

Poetry can sometimes be elusive, the real meaning layered beneath another. In this volume American poets give voice to their nation, their hopes, and their aspirations. Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson are joined by Poe, Holmes, Dunbar, and others to pleasure our ears and minds with a rambling stroll through their works. It doesn’t define America, but it captures her mood and the flavours of her soul in the early days of the American dream.

Audible exclusive. We invite Lindy West to the studios to talk about her new novel, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman. 'A memoir about the issues that have shaped my life. How to deal with trolls, feminist criticism of comedy and body image - to name but a few.' About Shrill: 'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry.'

Audible exclusive. The delightfully funny Susan Calman visits the studios to talk about what to expect from her new book - Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate. Susan discusses how she tackles depression - cracking open and shaking off the 'crab of hate' and the journey she took writing her book. 'Nothing makes me happier than talking about depression. Packed with stories, humour and a bit of the serious stuff, I will literally write the book on how it feels to be told, 'Cheer up, love.''

When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings a seemingly flat moon magically transformed into a dynamic, crater-filled orb and a large, black sky suddenly held millions of galaxies would have on civilizations.

Local TV news reporter Karli Lewis has one goal: escape the Iowa cornfields and podunk local news scene and hit the bright lights of the TV networks of Chicago. From drug busts to house fires and a devastating flood, Karli's career is on the rise, thanks to her talented and dizzingly handsome yet enigmatic news photographer, Jake Gibson. Chicago may be calling Karli, but Jake is a dedicated hometown boy and is staying put.

Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the most important figures in American urbanism, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities one of the most important books on cities. However, because of her David-versus-Goliath battles with "power broker" Robert Moses and the urban-renewal establishment, Jacobs has received more attention for being an activist than a thinker, despite having written a list of influential books on cities, economies, and other subjects.

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from English and Irish Literature. Here is the legendary Ralph Richardson starring in 'Private Rooms' adapted from the original tale by J. B. Priestly and ‘My Uncle Toby’, adapted from Tristram Shandy, the original tale by Laurence Sterne. Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950s by the late Harry Alan Towers.

Meet Key West native Renita Daughtry - 22, wide-eyed, gorgeous, and very much in love with love. In other words, an irresistible target for professional impostor and pathological liar Richie Pestucci, who plans to charm her into utter helplessness. But there's just one problem. Renita's seeming naiveté masks a lot of savvy and a will of velvet-coated steel, and it isn't long before Richie, now smitten with his intended victim, starts to wonder just who is gaming who.

Quicker is a near-future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine, Ell Donsaii, is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep. At once shy and concerned about her social skills, yet well loved by those around her, she finds herself at the center of a terrorist plot at the Olympics.

A collection of 19 essays on the constitutional, moral, philosophical, and practical aspects of the U.S. government's failed War on Drugs. For Vance, the fundamental issue in drug regulation is individual rights. He does not at all deny that these drugs can cause great harm; but the issue of regulation is not to be settled by balancing the benefits and harms of open access to drugs against the benefits and harms of their regulation or prohibition.

Our house is on fire! Who will answer the call? Is there one idea that can save the world? Is there one idea that can bring us all together - no matter what our faith, our politics, our culture - to do what is necessary and right in the face of the enormous challenges that confront us - environmentally, economically, socially, and spiritually? Poet/philosopher/genealogist Laurence Overmire believes he has found an idea that can do just that. It is a very old idea, but we have not paid attention to its glaring ramifications.