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Poet, novelist, critic and campaigner Walter Scott invented the historical novel and shaped the world’s image of Scotland. His tales of heroism, romance and adventure were hugely successful, outselling Jane Austen and Lord Byron, and are still popular today. Included here are adaptations of five of the best-loved books in his ‘Waverley’ series, as well as two bonus programmes.

What would you do if you woke up to find all the grown-ups had disappeared? If you're like Lucy Dungston, you'll do anything to get to the bottom of it. With no grown-ups, chaos descends on Lucy's town. Kids are running wild, building roads of trampolines and eating cereal for every meal - but Lucy wants her mum back, and nothing is going to stop her. Not even the monsters who live in the upside-down world beneath her bed....

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.

The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen; the quintessential ‘artist in a garret’, entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31.

Charlotte and Perry long for summers at Cliff View, their gorgeous holiday home overlooking the turquoise waters of Pine Ridge. And now that city friends Amy and Linus have bought a property nearby, they plan lazy weeks of sun, sea and sipping rosé on Charlotte’s summerhouse veranda. A rising tide of resentment towards second-home owners is heading their way and small acts of criminal damage are escalating into something more menacing. By the end of the summer, families and friendships will be torn apart and Pine Ridge will be known for more than its sun-drenched beaches.

It's a beautiful day in Como, and the Caswell-Jones family are surrounded their nearest and dearest in their Villa Janus. But when Jonty Caswell-Jones is found dead in his study, it is clear the only suspects are the guests and the family. It seems all this time, tensions have been brewing, guests seething, and rivalries have reared their ugly head....

A sparkling selection of one-off comedy shows from Radio 4's Sunday night Stand Up Specials season: Since 2018, BBC Radio 4 has been making the nation laugh with its Stand Up Specials strand, featuring fantastic half-hour sets from a host of celebrated comedians. This wide-ranging collection brings together eleven of the very best acts, from established stars to new and emerging talent, as they 'zoom through angst from all angles' (The Guardian).

Mr. Dunford ist hätte allen Grund gehabt, sich des Lebens zu erfreuen. Er hatte eine gute Stellung in einem bekannten Industrieunternehmen und eine junge, hübsche Frau, die ihn über alles liebte. Doch Mr. Dunford war wettsüchtig und setzte regelmäßig hohe Summen auf Pferde. Als man ihn schließlich tot in seinem Stuhl fand, lag vor ihm auf dem Schreibtisch ein blauer Umschlag mit einem ebensolchen Brief. Es war das Forderungsschreiben eines ortsbekannten Geldverleihers.

Aeron had every opportunity to explain the horses that were haunting my drawings. I asked him several times about his crazy zombie-killing horse. He omitted to tell me he was the Horseman of Death until Leif let it slip he was the Horseman of Pestilence when he introduced himself to me. I don’t know who I’m madder at—Aeron for lying to me or me for just ignoring all the clues and telling myself there was no way it was possible and trusting him.

It is challenging to ask the people around you to follow a budget. The more you force people to limit their personal rewards, the more they want to spend. If you want your entire household to follow a budget, you need to "package" it in a different way. Most professional financial planners, for instance, prefer to call it "proper allocation of funds" to make their clients accept the idea of budgeting.

Schottland 1898. Der Anwalt Philip Aiken und seine Frau besuchen das Landgut Bencullis, welches jüngst von Aikens Schulfreund Douglas McLeod erworben wurde. Bei ihrer Ankunft wird auf einem zum Landgut gehörenden Cottage ein im Unterholz verborgener Brunnenschacht entdeckt, den der Gutsherr näher untersuchen lassen will. Angeregt durch den Fund des Brunnens berichten die beiden Männer ihren Gattinnen am Abend am Lagerfeuer von einer eigentümlichen Begebenheit, welche sie zu Schulzeiten mit einem ihrer Lehrer erlebt haben und welche sie sich bis zum heutigen Tage nicht zu erklären wissen.

Would you listen to this audiobook because inside are 42 secrets of influence helpful for reaching our maximum potential? As we create this audiobook to share with millions of followers online, we are grateful you are here with us today—because these strategies have made a fantastic difference in our lives! When we share what we do, we hope that more of us are empowered to claim our gifts and discover the courage to use them!

Are You Made for Success in Business? This collection of 8 Leadership Interviews with America's Top Business Minds on Finance, Strategy and Teamwork will educate you to take your business to the next level with inspiring success stories and clever strategies. Develop your business acumen through the knowledge shared from these highly sought after keynote speakers and business leaders.

Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Hear of the Black Death of the 1340s, the 1666 Great Fire of London, the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the 1793 Execution of Louis XVI, the Death of Vice Admiral Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and the American Civil War (1861-1865).

The 19th addition of this annual anthology exhibits a collection of short fiction from award-winning Southern authors and rising stars including Edward P. Jones and Silas House. Each story’s derivation is explained in an illuminating note from the author following the rich and entertaining tales.

Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he’ll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor’s suit—and the tailor won’t make one for him.

March 13th, 1997 is a date etched in the annals of UFOlogy. An infamous mass sighting of a colossal UFO has taken an interesting turn as two new witnesses working in law enforcement that night, have come forward with new revelations about the V-shaped objects flying over the Arizona sky that fateful night. The most documented UFO sighting in history has new leads that may finally bring some closure to the incident known as the Phoenix lights.

Der berühmte Geisterjäger Harry Price hat in seiner Karriere bereits unzählige Trance-Medien des Betrugs überführt. Als bei einer Séance in einer feudalen Stadt-Residenz der Geist eines Mädchens namens Rosalie beschworen wird, und Price keinerlei Merkmale einer Täuschung aufdecken kann, beschließt er, die Herren aus der Baker Street 221b um ihre Mitarbeit zu bitten. Der Meisterdetektiv soll herausfinden, ob Harry Price nicht vielleicht doch einem Betrug aufgesessen ist.

Die berühmten Märchen-Klassiker der Brüder Grimm als aufwendige Hörspiel-Neuvertonungen für die ganze Familie.