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The BBC TV soundtrack of the acclaimed Jackanory multi-voice reading of The Hobbit. Broadcast to mark the 3000th programme of the much-loved children's series Jackanory, The Hobbit was transmitted over two weeks and 10 episodes in 1979. It told the gripping story of Bilbo Baggins and his band of dwarves, who are on a quest for the treasure guarded by the fearsome dragon Smaug. As he leaves his cosy hobbit-hole and travels into the wild, Bilbo's adventures begin.

2020 Audie Award Finalist for Best Short Stories/Collection Audiobook For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These...

Seven timeless Greek Aristophanes’ Greatest Comedies in Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations Comic theatre was a hugely popular art form in ancient Greece, and the 5th-century playwright Aristophanes was one of its greatest exponents. Acclaimed as ‘The Father of Comedy’, he wrote 40 plays...

In "Business Spotlight Audio 04/2022" für März hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. Es wird die Frage diskutiert, ob Elon Musk Vorbild oder Risiko ist. Sie erhalten Einblick in die weltweite Papierknappheit und in die Situation berufstätiger Frauen in der Türkei. Sie bekommen Tipps, wie Sie eine Sitzung gut vorbereiten und wie Sie als Führungskraft Loyalität zeigen.

Beyond the fear and chaos of contemporary life, there is good news to share. A new era is at hand: the era of sustainable superabundance. In this era, the positive potential of humanity can develop in truly profound ways. The key to this new era is to take wise advantage of the remarkable capabilities of 21st century science and technology: robotics, biotech, neurotech, greentech, collabtech, artificial intelligence, and much more. This is not a vision of returning to some imagined prior historical period - to some supposed bygone golden age.

Machen Sie sich manchmal Gedanken darüber, was ein gutes Leben ausmacht? Seien Sie dabei in einer Gesprächsrunde aus Mitgliedern des Spotlight-Teams und deren Sicht auf diese uralte Frage. Ebenfalls in dieser Spotlight Audio Ausgabe 12/2023: Eine Reise von den pulsierenden Straßen in Cape Town zum malerischen Cape Winelands und in das atemberaubende Kap-Florenreich. In English at Work erfahren Sie, wie Sie in beruflichen Telefonaten eine fröhliche und optimistische Ausstrahlung vermitteln.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.

In dieser Sonderausgabe von Spotlight Audio gibt es 60 Minuten Texte, Dialoge und Übungen zu wichtigen Redewendungen, mit denen Sie Ihr Verständnis und Ihre Sprechfertigkeit in Englisch verbessern können. Finden Sie die richtigen Worte für einen guten ersten - oder zweiten - Eindruck im Kapitel über Begrüßung und Small Talk. Beim Thema Gesundheit lernen Sie Ausdrücke über Ihr Wohlbefinden. Und schließlich können Sie mit dem englischen Vokabular im Kapitel "Gemeinsam Essen" einen Restaurantbesuch und ein Essen zu Hause mit Freunden und Familie richtig genießen.

Entdecken Sie in der Ausgabe 10/2022 von "Spotlight Audio" einige wirklich magische Orte in Großbritannien. In "A Day in My Life" lernen Sie eine Perückenmacherin kennen und sehen ihre Wunderwerke. Um beim Thema Wandel zu bleiben - könnte ein Ausflug zu einem geheimnisvollen Leuchtturm eine Frau wieder auf den rechten Weg bringen? Erfahren Sie mehr in der Kurzgeschichte. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio“.

The singularity is the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the associated transformation of the human condition. Spoiler alert: That transformation will be profound. Despite the importance of the concept of the singularity, the subject receives nothing like the attention it deserves. This book seeks to dispel the confusion, to untangle the distortions, to highlight practical steps forward, and to attract much more serious attention to the singularity. The future of humanity is at stake.

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not to go looking for them.

When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming, or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry. It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet is under threat as the infection spreads, consuming everything before it. A band of survivors on the Eastern coast of Canada watch as their world falls and crumbles to ruin. The infection seems relentless. More than that, it seems to be learning, adapting, and evolving faster than they can fight it.

The Age of Ideas provides that knowledge. It takes the listener on an incredible journey into a world of self-discovery, personal fulfillment, and modern entrepreneurship. The book starts by explaining how the world has shifted into this new paradigm and then outlines a step-by-step framework to turn your inner purpose and ideas into an empowered existence.

It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form...and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares.

In Why Veterans Run, Jeremy Teigen explains the tendency of parties to elevate those with armed forces experience to run for high office. He describes the veteran candidate phenomenon by examining the related factors and patterns, showing why different eras have more former generals running and why the number of veterans in election cycles varies. With both quantitative and qualitative analysis, Why Veterans Run investigates each postwar era in US electoral history and elaborates why so many veterans run for office.

Four more extended episodes from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, specially compiled by producer Jon Naismith 'ISIHAC is still unmissable. It remains the most thrillingly anarchic panel show in any media you care to name' Simon Mayo, Mail on Sunday ‘The funniest comedy quiz show of them...

Killing Me Softly introduces Key West private eye Gideon Lowry, who moonlights as a piano player at a local jazz club. When Virginia Murphy shows up one night to ask him to investigate her sister's death 40 years earlier, Gideon is led down the darker side of memory lane where secrets linger. Some are buried as deeply as the paradise that was once Key West, now entombed in concrete. Key West's Hemingway Days is in full swing in Night and Day, when Gideon is pulled into the world of a famous nightclub singer known only as Asia.

Key West P.I. Gideon Lowry is no longer drowning his sorrow in rum these days. He's just drowning, and in desperate need of a lifesaver. Enter Katy Morgan of a local escort service, just the woman to see him through another lonely night. But by the morning after, it's Katy who hits rock bottom - her body is found on the kitchen floor of her trailer, way beyond anyone's help. The gruesome discovery plunges Gideon into a quarter-million-dollar mystery.

Gideon Lowry is playing his weekly piano gig at a quiet hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That's where Asia finds him. She's trying to find her estranged husband, who's lost in the reverie surrounding his obsession: Hemingway. But Asia doesn't want him back, she wants a divorce. As the Hemingway festival builds to its crescendo, mainland violence pays a nasty visit. There's an evil dancing behind the carefree facades of Duval Street, and it will take every sun-bitten ounce of Gideon's Conch resolve to reel it in...

A political thrill ride as current as today's headlines. President-elect Maggie Mathews - the first woman voted into the nation's highest office - is felled by a ruptured brain aneurysm just 10 days before her inauguration. While she lies in a coma, her vice president-elect attempts to conceal his past, and with help from chief of staff Bruce "Skeeter" Jamison, he gambles he can keep his dark secret from coming to light.