Showing results for "Doctors" in Contemporary Fiction

Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. In this complete BBC Radio collection, we meet the surprising Dr Finlay as he is welcomed to the practise with a black eye. Over the course of these series the early years of Dr Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.

Es ist das Jahr 1939, und auf dem Campus der Universität Indiana ist eine Revolution ausgebrochen. Alfred Kinsey, Zoologe, beschäftigt sich mit dem sexuellen Verhalten von Männern und Frauen - rein empirisch natürlich. John Milk, Student und ehrgeiziger Provinzler, gerät in seinen Bann und in seinen engsten Forscherkreis.

T. C. Boyle erzählt die Geschichte eines genialen, fanatischen Helden und porträtiert dabei die prüde und heuchlerische Gesellschaft des Amerikas der vierziger und fünfziger Jahre.

Der monströs-verrückte Doktor unternimmt die Fahrt ins Bad nur, um einen missgünstigen Rezensenten seiner Werke zu verprügeln...

She lives for love, poetry and revenge. Her mother is considered a living saint; her father a man of science and logic. The daughter's lifelong mission - to destroy the family that murdered her father, distorted her mother's reputation, and ruined her country - is fulfilled on the day she invites the president of the nation to lunch.

I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he allowed to know in a land of slavery? As to looking at the argument through the medium of the Register, Willum Marigold come into the world before Registers come up much,-and went out of it too.

Chefarzt Dr. Maximilian Breitfelt ist erfolgreich, seine Patienten vertrauen ihm und seine Kollegen bewundern sein Können. Was keiner weiß, er leidet seit langer Zeit unter erektiler Dysfunktion, wacht immer häufiger in einem nassen Bett auf, und seine Panik vor roten Ampeln schränkt sein Leben täglich weiter ein. Er glaubt zu wissen, warum das alles so ist, hat er doch bereits vor 25 Jahren in einer Therapie die schreckliche Wahrheit erkannt.

Hörspiel über das Lebensnavigationssystem und über Verträge zwischen Himmel und Erde...