Showing results for "peter" in European

Peter Tinniswood was best known for his popular TV series The Home Front and I Didn't Know You Cared and award-winning novel A Touch of Daniel. But he was also a prolific writer for radio, where he created a host of wonderful characters - often funny, sometimes poignant and always totally believable. This compilation brings together six of his finest monologues, as well as his comic play The Governor's Consort.

Peter Sellers, rightly regarded as a comic genius, lived a life full of success and excess - fuelled by indulgence and wild mood swings. Dying at an early age in 1980, Sellers left no autobiography, no revealing record of his life and feelings. This audio play aims to fill that gap.

Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe", a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with specific memory yet never hermetic or provincial. Milosz addresses many of the major problems of contemporary poetry, beginning with the pessimism and negativism prompted by reductionist interpretations of man's animal origins.

Hvad er det, der gør os til dem; vi er? Er det lige dele biologisk arv og det miljø, vi vokser op i? Eller handler det om, hvordan vi forholder os til den bagage, vi har med os? I "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" vil en række kendte danskere fortælle om den arv, som de bærer rundt på i livet. I denne episode af "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" kan du møde forfatter Peter Øvig, der voksede op med en mor, der led af en bipolar sygdom. Mens han skrev bogen "MIN MOR VAR BESAT" blev han ramt af en svær depression og måtte til sidst indlægges på en lukket, psykiatrisk afdeling.

L'histoire raconte l'histoire d'un homme, qui sans le vouloir va contracter un pacte avec le diable, en échangeant son ombre contre la bourse de Fortunatus, ce qui aura des conséquences importantes sur le cours de sa vie.

Während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges, der Mitteleuropa auf Jahre verwüstete und ein Drittel der Bevölkerung dahinraffte, entstanden Gedichte, die noch heute zu den Höhepunkten deutscher Lyrik zählen - von Autoren wie Andreas Gryphius, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau oder Martin Opitz.