Résultats pour "Audiobooks" dans Adaptations

It is a simple question that is as profound as any we can ask: “Who am I?” Dr. Vikram Anthony is that rare person who believes the answer is relatively simple. I am my work; I am my skill; I am my mind. It is only when the noted surgeon faces his own mortality that the answer gets more complex. And the opportunity for a new life–a decidedly different life–opens a world of possibilities he’d never imagined.

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distort. It is not intended to do anything but show us things as they are. At Oxford, though, there is a very particular window that reveals a very particular view. It is a view that defies all laws of nature and science. And when a detective is called in to investigate, he is startled to find that view opens a window into his own life–and a mystery he has never been able to solve.

It is June 1940. The war against Hitler’s forces is raging. And the tide is turning against the British. In this hour of despair, Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives a mysterious letter from an even more mysterious woman, offering a Faustian bargain and a promise of victory. But if Churchill accepts, will he be condemning his nation’s very soul?

Henry and Nomi are thrilled to find out they’re going to be parents. There is so much to think about, so many decisions they’ll need to make, about feeding schedules and childcare and schools. But there’s one decision they never would have imagined facing, and even considering the choice is a minefield of emotions and experiences and expectations. After all, the only thing that hangs in the balance is the course of their child’s life.

Mit Samantha gehen immer merkwürdigere Dinge vor. Ihre Albtraumhaften Visionen verstärken sich, in ihrer Nähe geschehen immer seltsamere Dinge. Romeo hat aber keine Zeit sich um seine Freundin zu kümmern. Er hat mit eigenen Problemen zu kämpfen. Es geht um die Vorherrschaft der Währung. Die Bank mit der meisten Macht wird siegreich hervorgehen. Guildenstern ist auf dem Vormarsch. Mit seiner neuen klugen Strategie, der Erstellung von Papiergeld hat sich sein Vermögen vervielfacht. Romeo wird mit dem Luftschiff seines Vaters und mit Artemis zur Festung Guildensterns geflogen.

Dr. Schneider bekommt Besuch von der Erde: Seine beiden Söhne, Roland und Martin, wollen einige Zeit bei ihrem Vater wohnen, der auf der Raumstation Orbit Challenger nach einem neuartigen Medikament forscht. Den beiden Jungen fällt sofort James Wingrove unangenehm auf; als kurz nach ihrer Ankunft eine Explosion im Labor ihres Vaters stattfindet, wird Wingrove sofort von den beiden verdächtigt.

In this Audio Play, an award winning stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic gothic novel is brought to life.

Tief in den Kerkern des Imperiums schmachten die beiden Männer, die X und Amon einst auf ihre Mission aussandten: Graf Falkenfels und der weise Zauberer Sir Gavvendyl. Der grausame Leichenlord will den Standort des Konzils der Elemente aus ihnen herauspressen und dazu ist ihm jedes Mittel recht. Einem Mitgefangenen enthüllt er dafür ein anderes Geheimnis: Die wahre Identität des Blutgenerals. Des gefährlichsten und blutrünstigsten Schlächters der imperialen Armee – und seine tragische Geschichte.

Adran erwacht einsam auf einer Insel und muss, nur vom Liber Elementis Magicis begleitet, um sein Überleben kämpfen. Dabei stößt er auf zahlreiche Mysterien: Warum bebt die Insel? Was sind die seltsamen Laute, die in der Nacht ertönen? Warum verschwinden ganze Flüsse in Sekundenschnelle? Wäre das nicht genug hat Adran mit einem ganz alten Problem zu kämpfen.

An unassuming woman wanders around the landscape of hell accompanied by a dammed priest and a '60s-style teenage demon activist. The trio is sometimes helped and sometimes hindered by a god-like being with dysfunctional split personalities called the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Heaven and Hell.

The terror of the coming of the Martians is all but a distant memory, a bad dream that has faded with time. All George wants is a quiet suburban life – but at breakfast one morning his newspaper reports the shocking discovery of a Martian cylinder, found intact and unopened, and carefully transported to London. Could it be from the first alien invasion and are Martians still alive inside after more than ten years?

When the first Martian cylinder crash lands in England, Ogilvy the astronomer barely survives the deadly heat ray from the attack by aliens. He then accidentally stumbles upon the truth about the Red Weed and sends vital evidence to scientists in France on board HMS Thunder Child, but the ship is attacked by a Martian tripod.

Ellen Ripley al fin regresa a la Tierra, sólo para descubrir que LV-426 - donde la tripulación de la Nostromo se encontró por primera vez con los letales xenomorfos - ha sido re-bautizada como Aqueronte. Protegidos por Marines , los colonos transforman el tormentoso planeta contra las adversidades. Pero ante las brutales condiciones de vida y las luchas diarias en un nuevo mundo, hay humanidad y esperanza. Anne y Russell Jorden - dos colonos que buscan la fortuna que no encontraron en la Tierra - esperan a su primer hijo.

Alan Corday, a smart yet desperate young man, is about to find out. His family fortune squandered and the woman he loves unattainable, Corday will go to almost any length to change his luck. But his desperation leads him into harm’s way—and into the hands of one Captain Jocelyn and his crew. Shanghaied from the spaceport at New Chicago, Corday is taken aboard the Hound of Heaven, a craft bound for the stars…on a journey through hell.

The Daleks have devised a plan that will deliver a decisive victory. General Landen and her fleet are all that stand in their way. And then there's Kade....

The universe is in grave danger. The very fabric of time and space is being altered. The Doctor and Lucie must race against time to prevent the destruction of everything they hold dear. They may have to sacrifice everything to save the universe. Even themselves....

Roanoke Island, 1590. The TARDIS materializes in the past, and the Doctor's companions, Professor Litefoot and Henry Gordon Jago, find themselves prisoners of the natives in the New World. But there's something strange here - stranger than even the colonists, led by Englishman John White. What are the ghostly children? And who is the Old Man of Croaton? The travellers are about to discover the secret of the lost colony...and it may cost Jago's life.

On their mission to explore the Mariana Trench at the very bottom of the ocean, the deepest and most inhospitable place on Earth, the crew of the deep sea vehicle Erebus make an unusual and startling discovery. A battered blue police box. As the Doctor, Romana and K9 join them on their journey, the submariners soon discover that the TARDIS is not the only unusual find lurking on the sea floor.

The Great Space Elevator is a marvel of human engineering, a transit tube stretching from the equator up to a space station held in geosynchronous orbit. When the TARDIS lands in Sumatra in the future, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are captured by guards just as the station loses power. Together with Security Officer Tara Kerley, the three travellers take a one-way trip on the elevator to fix the problem and find themselves confronted by a powerful alien force that threatens to wreak chaos on Earth.

Sheridan Moorkurk has just been elected president of Earth...And what's more, she's starting to hear voices. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Romana encounter a mass of aliens heading to Earth - aliens who have already made the mistake of upsetting the infamous Cuthbert, all-powerful CEO of The Conglomerate, by destroying one of his space platforms. Will the Doctor and Romana be able to avert interspecies war that will destroy all life on Earth?