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Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Archie is a stroppy Geordie socialist revolutionary while Professor Charles Gardner is a toffee-nosed snob. In theory, the immensely stupid 3rd Lt. Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall is in charge of the hut, but he is still struggling with even the most basic concepts....

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

The collected BBC radio adaptations of George Eliot’s pioneering Victorian novels, known for their realism and psychological insight. Includes Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

Revisit the world of Beatrix Potter in this timeless new audiobook edition. Featuring all 23 of the classic tales, this new collection features a range of award-winning and contemporary voices, including Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Lily James, James Acaster, David Harewood and Joanna Lumley. Whether you're looking to relive those treasured moments of your childhood or hoping to share some of your old favourites with your own little ones, there's no storybook world more pleasant than that of Beatrix Potter.

Bug has hit her 30s with a bump. An almost wedding, an almost ex-husband, and a bookshop that’s almost turning a profit. With the help of her best friend – free spirit, activist and all-round legend Winnie, she’s going to make it all come good. Probably. Definitely. Maybe. At least she’s got her friends around her. 

Thornton Wilder is one of America's most important literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times - for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - and is the only person to be awarded the Pulitzer for both fiction and drama. Included here are four of his key works, set in different times and places, but sharing the same fundamental motifs - the universality of human experience and our search for life's meaning.

Do you know that you can program your brain and mind for greater success? The answer is alpha brainwave level. Telepathic powers exist in all of us, they are part of the natural way we communicate with each other. Our brain beats at 14 cycles per second; the beta frequency. Very occasionally it beats between 7 and 14 cycles per second. This frequency is known as alpha frequency. Alpha is the key to becoming telepathic.

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit, he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War.

Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've selected some of BBC Radio 4's best nature documentaries to transport you to the great outdoors - and encourage you to take your own trip into the wild.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Hale Appleman as Vince; Tom Bower as Dodge; John Getz as Father Dewis; Amy Madigan as Halie; Robert Parsons as Tilden; Jeff Perry as Bradley; and Madeline Zima as Shelly. Directed by Peter Levin.

Brown fat is not widely known for weight loss because scientists are just discovering that adults actually have it in their systems. It was thought that only babies have brown fat and eventually lose it. After several studies, researchers have discovered the real truth. If you want to get healthier in all areas of life, then this book is perfect for you! The giant dieting corporations do not want you to know about this well-kept secret because they want to keep selling you their diet products that don’t work. Learn how to increase brown fat that will last and be healthier as well.

Cody Roche ist nicht nur jünger, agiler und bescheidener als Wayne McLair, seine Weste weist auch die exakt richtige Zahl an Knöpfen auf. Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden droht zu kippen, doch gilt es, ein gemeinsames Ziel zu verfolgen: die Goldreserven der Roten Schlange! Um der neuen La Zorra zu helfen, muss das Team ausgerechnet in die Höhle des Löwen ... in das Büro des Superintendents der DMP!

Part four of a multi-part documentary series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effects mavens examining the history of the horror, fantasy, and science fiction films, from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer, and up through the 1980s and beyond. Enjoy never-before-seen interviews and fun-filled facts about the stars, the producers, and the movies that made America want to go to the theater!

Sometimes cozy and familiar as Grandma's homemade scarf, sometimes cold as a frozen forest after a snowstorm, this collection of classic winter tales and poems is as varied as the season it celebrates. Featuring the masterful storytelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens and a host of others, this audiobook will keep the listener enthralled deep into the long winter night. 

Für den Meisterdieb ist es Zeit, endlich zu handeln, um den Schatz der Iron Rose aus den Händen der Mechanisten zu entreißen. Ein gewaltiger Plan wird ersonnen, dessen Anfang sich auf die berüchtigte Eisentochter konzentriert: Eve Crompton. Diese fällt ausgerechnet jetzt in die Hände des Kunstsammlers Elias Quarkenbush, der seine ganz eigene Agenda gegenüber Smokestack hat. McLair muss sich entscheiden: Stiehlt er ein Gemälde oder rettet er die rothaarige Tüftlerin?

Der Assassine Henri fordert Wayne McLair zu einem Wettstreit auf: Wer zuerst eine Laterna magica aus dem Hause Lord Radfords entwendet, soll auf alle Zeiten als der Bessere Schattenwanderer gelten. Für den Meisterdieb ist es eine Frage der Ehre, auch wenn sein eigentlicher Plan ihn bereits voll und ganz in Anspruch nimmt. Während McLair sich um Eve Crompton kümmert, überlässt er den falschen Franzosen seinem Team. Doch sind Cait und die anderen dem alten Feind des Gentlemangauners wirklich gewachsen?

Selling Simplified: How to Read People in Business is an audiobook that breaks down and explains the process of selling and how to read people so that anybody can learn to sell and achieve any sales goal. The maudiobook targets people in sales, business, and entrepreneurs. The tactics in this audiobook teaches people about how to sell and how to get ahead in business.

Eine Kugel die ihr Ziel verfehlt. Ein Unfall bei dem es keine Verletzten gibt. Eine Katastrophe die in letzter Sekunde verhindert wird. Willkommen in der Welt von Max Blanke. Max Blanke ist Patient der Taunusklinik. Sein Profil: Autoaggressiv. Paranoid. Schizophren. Der Oberarzt Dr. Vosshagen hat ihn bereits als nicht behandelbar abgeschrieben, denn trotz allabendlicher Fixierung an seinem Bett, wacht Max jeden Morgen mit einer anderen Verletzung auf. Schnitte, Schürfwunden, Blutergüsse. Um sich und seine Umgebung nicht weiter zu gefährden, wird Max mit Medikamenten ruhig gestellt.

A story of a man's reflections as he looks back about upon a life he had as a successful rock musician, and the lessons learned from those adventures. If you were ever in a band or loved someone who was, I think you will enjoy the community and shared experience.