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Welcome to Hanging Out With Ant & Dec — the podcast where two best mates, with very busy lives, get to just hang out together. And you’re invited! Join Ant & Dec every week for a good laugh and catch up. It’s the nation’s favourite duo as you’ve never heard them - no scripts, no time pressure - just mates hanging out. New episodes out every Thursday, and an additional episode on Monday.

In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'duties'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told. Often wilfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay.

Following in the footsteps of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, Tout Sweet is now a classic of the French memoir genre, cataloguing the disasters–and triumphs–of a former newspaper fashion editor, who waves goodbye to her glamorous city lifestyle and extensive shoe collection, to renovate a run-down house in rural France. Acquiring a host of new friends and unsuitable suitors, she learns that true happiness can be found in the simplest of things–a bike ride through the countryside on a summer evening, or a kir or three in a neighbour's courtyard.

‘Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?’ Glamour Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young...

What would it take to walk away from your dream life in Monaco and a global, multi-million-dollar business? Wind back the clock on any Australian or New Zealand woman in her thirties or forties today and you'd probably find a Triangl bikini tucked away in her swimwear drawer. The uniquely...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this hilarious instant classic, the creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood. “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps...

This program is read by the author, with contributions from Pamela Adlon and Gwen Rainbow. "The production of the audiobook...is so rich with sound effects, additional voice actors and music."—The San Francisco Chronicle "Tart, sassy, and hilariously funny from start to finish, Rainbow’s...

In rural Brazil, a little girl was told she had no future. She kept dreaming of a life beyond the fields.In Hanging by a Thread: A Memoir of What Holds Us Together, Marcia Regina Cook shares a deeply personal story of childhood trauma, motherhood, adoption, grief, immigration, faith, resilience...

For more than thirty years, Mark Dapin has been hanging out with crooks, and both types of cop. In this gripping, often funny and always surprising book, he sorts the tall stories from the truth about true crime, showing us what some of Australia’s most famous felons are really like. Mark...

On September 30th, 2026, the State of Tennessee gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital. She survived both.The country was stunned, but states had been botching executions for nearly four hundred years. This book tells the true stories of eighty-one of them, from a hanging in Oxford in 1650...

The Red Bull X-Alps is the world's most extreme race. With only a paraglider and a pair of hiking boots athletes attempt to cross the Alps from Salzburg in Austria to Monaco. In this book, British athlete Jon Chambers brings you even closer to the action and reveals his personal story of his 2011 race. In doing so he reveals the harsh reality of what it takes to compete in this uniquely demanding challenge: the physical and mental hardship, equipment, extreme conditions, strategic thinking and lucky escapes.

Short snippets of a full life. Brought out of poverty, a late-bloomer in education, and with eyes on the wrong goals, God reached out to me to quench my true thirst. The result of His faithful love has given me this incredible uncommon life. Let me share some of it with you. Let me share some of the water from His well.

The Hanging Judge of California probes outrageous decisions by the Federal 9th Circuit Court in overturning death penalty verdicts. California Judge Donald A. McCartin, who sent nine men to death row, speaks out in fury when convicted child killer Rodney Alcala's verdict was overturned after 23 years. The audiobook chronicles Alcala's crimes and trials, as well as the horrific murders committed by eight other killers who were sentenced by McCartin.

The eighteenth-century hanging of a schoolteacher for concealing the birth of a child out of wedlock has appeared in local legend over the last few centuries, but the full account of Ruth's story has never been told. Drawing on over two years of investigative research, author Carolyn Marvin brings to light the dramatic details of Ruth's life and the cruel injustice of colonial Portsmouth's moral code. As Marvin uncovers the real flesh-and-blood woman who suffered the ultimate punishment, her listeners come to understand Ruth as an individual and a woman of her time.

welcome to Hanging In The Hideout Podcast I’m Your host Hollywood. I’m an active duty Police Officer looking to break out from the daily stress of the social climate and the unrelenting politics that have infiltrated our way of enjoyment. I’m a huge fan of the way things used to be during the reign of Jay Leno, David Letterman and the family sitcoms. You can’t turn on a TV, get on social media or have a conversation without politics rearing its ugly head or having to tread lightly in what you say. Here folks, you have found it. The humorous safe zone! I plan on embarking on all the ...

A number one New York Times best-selling author, Harvard Law School professor, and tireless defender of civil liberties unearths a little-known letter by his hero, Thomas Jefferson, and shares its secrets. The letter illuminates Jefferson’s views on freedom of speech in a way that has important implications for the country today, particularly in the struggle against terrorism. This book is about the remarkable letter Alan Dershowitz found, how he found it, and why it matters not only to him, but to us today. 

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Historically THE CLOSET has been a place of storing what is precious, a place of hiding, a place for keeping secrets. But in my closet, I want us to spend time hanging out, learning, growing, and unloading what holds us back. Let's work together to heal and to be the best we can be for ourselves and for others. Come and hang out in my closet.

With over one third of our lives spent working - our job makes a major impact on the quality of our lives. Grab a drink & join the corporate millennial trio, Cruz, Chase & Henry as they discuss working life & the challenges it brings - this is the Low Hanging Fruit Podcast. Follow the podcast on Instagram @LowHangingFruitPod and check out your hosts on IG or TikTok @TheCorporateChase @ChampagneCruz & @ThatCorporateLawyer

In May 1928, the body of George Edey was discovered on his Saskatchewan farm, leading to the swift arrest of a deaf and mentally disabled farmhand named Mike Hack. Following a three-day murder trial, Hack was quickly convicted and sentenced to death. Denied clemency, in January 1929 he was hanged in the courtyard of the Regina Jail at twenty-seven years of age and buried in an unmarked grave. Prairie Justice dissects this case, revealing its implications for important themes in the history of the Canadian criminal justice system.