Passage Across the Mersey
Book
When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a...
Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood
Book
A bestseller in England and celebrated as one of the great memoirs in many years, The Road to Nab...
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
Book
'Briggs is an engaging and amiable guide though the mysteries of wartime cryptography ...a...
Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living
Book
Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is...
Colder: The Illustrated Story of Britain's Greatest Polar Explorer
Book
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die...
Doctor Crippen
Book
In 1910 Cora Crippen, an unsuccessful music-hall artiste known as Belle Elmore, was murdered by her...
J.M. Coetzee & the Life of Writing: Face to Face with Time
Book
J.M. Coetzee is one of the world's most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the...
A Manual for Heartache
Book
When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable...
Turned Out Nice Again
Book
This is an exploration of our preoccupation with the weather, as heard on BBC Radi 3: Changing...
Call the Midwife - Season 3
TV Season
Your favorite midwives return for a new season of BBC's immensely absorbing and popular, set in...
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