Titres dans Arts et divertissement

From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis's unique life, Pulp, 20th-century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he'd rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process—writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.

Here is a new audio edition of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, available together in one download. Nearly 20 hours of ironic, witty, and wonderfully written drama is contained in this audiobook. The cast includes Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, David Haig, Rosemary Leach, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding, and Brenda Blethyn.

Nowhere is Mozart's maturity and mastery more apparent than in the chamber music he wrote during the last 10 years of his life. These 16 lectures take you deep inside the structure of Mozart's chamber masterworks to reveal his hand at work. This is an amazing opportunity to hear, study, and enjoy a selection of immortal musical compositions that Professor Greenberg calls "a blessing of inconceivable richness". You will learn the basic "language" that all 18th-century composers used to write Classical music. You'll also explore the subtleties of Mozart's technique as a composer: his ability to make art "artless".

In this BBC full-cast production of The Merchant of Venice, love, bigotry, greed, and justice are entwined. Shakespeare's classic play explores the eternal themes of love and hate, mercy and justice, with parallel stories centred on the moneylender, Shylock, and the lovers, Portia and Bassanio...

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can tell better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers - and also our brains - create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.

Neil MacGregor, Direktor des British Museum, beschreibt nicht nur 100 Objekte, sondern erschließt uns durch ihre Betrachtung immer auch ein Stück Weltgeschichte. Wer den hier versammelten Dingen - vom afrikanischen Faustkeil bis zur Solarlampe made in China - auf diese Weise begegnet, erlebt von der ersten bis zur letzten Minute ein intellektuelles und ästhetisches Vergnügen und eines der außergewöhnlichsten Radio-Projekte der letzten Jahre. Stoff genug für 22 Stunden spannender Unterhaltung, die von Hanns Zischler farbig und lebendig präsentiert werden.

La chanteuse et comédienne Morgan Touzé présente cinq pièces immersives 3D réalisées par son mari, le poète et pionnier du son binaural, Pascal Rueff. "Mon mari aime bien que j’incarne moi-même les personnages quand je voyage dans ses espaces-temps." dit-elle. Venez y plonger avec elle ! Ces voyages sonores, à écouter au casque, visitent vingt ans de prise de son 3D, du sud de la Crète à Tchernobyl.

To millions of fans, All About Eve represents all that’s witty and wonderful in classic Hollywood movies. Its old-fashioned, larger-than-life stars - including Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm - found their best roles in this movie, and its sophisticated dialogue has entered the lexicon. But there’s much more to know about All About Eve. Sam Staggs has written the definitive account of the making of this fascinating movie and its enormous influence on both film and popular culture.

Loriots legendäre Sketche haben Fernsehgeschichte geschrieben. Millionen Deutsche können ganze Dialoge auswendig, Zitate wie "Mit Ihnen teilt meine Ente das Wasser nicht" sind in den allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch übergegangen.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious. The rumour is that she poisoned her husband and was in love with Roger Ackroyd. When he is found murdered the following day, there is little to go on. Luckily one of the newest residents who has retired to this normally quiet village is none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot.

Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe's humanity. Marilyn's image is so universal that we can't help but believe we know all there...

Dans un livre audio à la fois recueil d'aphorismes, anthologie poétique et méditation théorique, Olivier Py nous offre ses "Mille et Une Définitions du théâtre". Métaphores, allégories ou anecdotes historiques nous font voyager à travers tous les théâtres, des Grecs à nos jours. Avec des accents lyriques et jubilatoires, il fait de cet art la forme de pensée la plus urgente de son temps, un art d'etre au monde.

A Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild Miss Marple with Ian Lavender, Joan Sims and Susannah Harker. Elspeth McGillicuddy is down from Scotland for a holiday and boards the 4:50 train from Paddington station to visit her friend, Miss Marple. During the journey, another train pulls alongside, and through the window Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a tall, dark man strangling a blonde woman. She reports what she has seen, yet no one takes any notice.

Welche positiven Auswirkungen hat eine schlechte Kindheit? Wie exhibitionistisch darf eine Frau sein? Was haben Sex und Kartoffelsalat gemeinsam? Und warum beteiligt sich niemand am Crowdfunding für meine Brustvergrößerung - es hätten doch am Ende alle etwas davon? Helene Bockhorst stellt sich schonungslos selbst in Frage und präsentiert Geschichten, die lustig sind - sofern man sie nicht miterleben musste.

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack of clues for Poirot - but which clue is real and which is a clever plant?

In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth. Exploring the canonical figures, from The Beatles and Boty to Warhol and Reagan, 1966 delves deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade through masterfully compiled archival primary sources.

As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with humans far too much. He also knows he’s the best at what he does. Technically, he’s the only at what he does. But even though Harry is the only game in town, business—to put it mildly—stinks. So when the Chicago P.D. bring him in to consult on a double homicide committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs.

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her. With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overheard back in Jerusalem: 'You see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?' Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he'd ever met.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, starring Lyndsey Marshal, Geoffrey Whitehead and John Rowe. Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive.

Acclamata dal Los Angeles Times Magazine come "la più grande saga nella storia delle graphic novel", The Sandman ha cambiato le regole del gioco, con il suo mondo letterario tenebroso, sospeso tra fantasy e horror, creando, nel contempo, un fenomeno culturale globale. Finalmente, Audible e DC presentano la primissima produzione audio della serie best-seller del New York Times scritta dall'acclamato storyteller Neil Gaiman (che ne è anche il co-produttore esecutivo).