This is a BBC Radio 4 series presented by Justin Webb featuring eight seasonal letters from the great broadcaster. This selection contains eight of Cookes Christmas & New Year Letters from America" broadcast in December & January over the five decades of his career & covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre. Starting with his December 2001 Letter
- broadcast in the wake of 9/11
- he remembers introducing Leonard Bernstein to Handels Messiah muses on the creation of "A Christmas Carol" & shares his memories of two friends who died in 1977 Groucho Marx & Bing Crosby. Here too are Cookes reflections on Christmas in Vermont the early days of television in the USA cigarette advertising & sport the Millennium Bug & the Nixon familys first days in the White House. The Letters are introduced & linked by the BBCs North America editor Justin Webb who sets them in their historical context & adds his own observations. Cookes debonaire transatlantic tones are unmistakable...
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Lost: 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. Abandoned: Almost three months later two of the survivors emaciated & frozen reach the authorities & lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. Alive: The rescue team are shocked when they reach the crash-site. Food supplies have long gone & the remains of the dead lie scattered among the fuselage. It is only too clear how these passengers have managed to stay alive... ...

There are few characters in history about whom opinion has been more divided than the last Tsar of Russia Nicholas II & his wife the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. On one hand they are venerated as saints innocent victims of Bolshevik assassins & on the other they are impugned as the unwitting harbingers of revolution & imperial collapse blamed for all the ills that befell the Russian people in the 20th century. Theirs was also a tragic love story; for whatever else can be said of them there can be no doubt that Alix & Nicky adored one another. Soon after their engagement Alix wrote in her fiances diary: Ever true & ever loving faithful pure & strong as death"
- words which met their fulfilment twenty-four years later in a blood-spattered cellar in Ekaterinburg. Through the letters & diaries written by the couple & by those around them Virginia Rounding presents an intimate penetrating & fresh portrayal of these two complex figures & of their passion
- their love & their suffering. She explores the nature & possible causes of the Empresss ill health & examines in depth the enigmatic triangular relationship between Nicky Alix & their favourite Ania Vyrubova protegee of the infamous Rasputin extracting the meaning from words left unsaid from hints & innuendoes. The story of Alix & Nicky of their four daughters known collectively as OTMA & of their haemophiliac little boy Alexei is endlessly fascinating & Rounding makes these characters come alive presenting them in all their human

Dimensions & expertly leading the reader into their vanished world."



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TO LASSO A KISS! Waiting for Christmas by Judith Stacy Marlee Carrington has never had a place to call home. Arriving in Harmony Texas she is thrown together with Scrooge-like Carson Tate. Amazingly he reveals a seductive sense of fun
- & Marlee begins to hope that Christmas has finally arrived! His Christmas Wish by Lauri Robinson Morgan & Cora Palmer are married on paper but in reality theyre like strangers. Taciturn rancher Morgans demons have barricaded his heart against his wifes love. Until a kiss ignites the fire between them... Once Upon a Frontier Christmas by Debra Cowan Presumed dead rancher Smith Jennings returns home & will do whatever it takes to claim the woman he loves. But Caroline Curtis isnt the same woman he left behind...
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Dora & Boots go on a train journey to find their way to the circus. Little explorers can unfold the pages & peek under the flaps to discover all the animals on board the train. This is a perfect interactive adventure including twelve Spanish words. ...

Alfie & his best friend Bernard have a day out full of surprises when they go to meet a very great person indeed. Whats more there are secret dens to explore snowy skies birthday fun & a very unexpected visitor on a special night-time trip! Join our little hero & his friends & family in a celebration of all things Alfie... ...

This is an outstanding silver reference book that gives identification & dating clues for hollowware & flatware. The book features silver hallmarks for 24 countries including England France Germany Italy & Russia. It also

Includes:: British design registry numbers U.S. Design & Utility patent numbers & metric conversion tables. The book will help you to: discover the difference between silver items & items that just look like silver; identify important construction techniques & understand how they effect quality; Circa date a piece of silver & identify the maker; & know what makes a piece collectible & why.

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The humour the drama & the camaradarie on set & off is captured through the immortal lens of one of the worlds most legendary photographers. Bond girls from Honor Blackman & Shirley Eaton to Britt Ekland & Joanna Lumley recall their thrills & spills filming cinemas most enduring & alluring sex symbols; & the man
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- who made Bond share the facts & the fictions behind the creation of cinemas foremost superhero. All About Bond

Includes:: more than 100 of his photographs many never seen before & as an added bonus there is a unique pictorial record of the making of the first Casino Royale
- a comical 1967 extravaganza. Perhaps the greatest cast of major Hollywood stars ever assembled for one movie it starred David Niven as a retired Bond Peter Sellers Ursula Andress Orson Wells Deborah Kerr Charles Boyer William Holden George Raft Jacqueline Bisset & a young emerging talent called Woody Allen. all about bond By Terry ONeill




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All About Butterflies" is the perfect children's guide to the fascinating world of butterflies. Leading butterfly specialist Matthew Oates provides a clear & concise guide to over 56 species of British & European butterfly aimed at 8-12 year olds. This title features an introduction explaining definitions butterfly life cycles key facts & info about butterflies & all you need to know to become a butterfly expert. Beautiful artworks bring alive the amazing & colourful world of butterflies. Butterflies are grouped by family to help identification. Each entry gives essential info on when & where to look for the species how to identify it & what its caterpillar eats as well as amazing & little known facts about it. This work

Includes:: a ' Difficult words' section to explain scientific terms."

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Provides a foundation for GCSE examinations in Home Economics: Food & Nutrition. This edition

Includes:: chapters

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