Alastair Cookes Letter from America: 1946-2004" is a defining collection from his legendary BBC Radio broadcasts that guides us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States. Alistair Cookes " Letter from America" interpreted nearly sixty years of changing US life for the rest of the world. Covering key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through Vietnam & Watergate to September 11 Iraq & anticipating the 2004 elections this book provides a defining collection of Letters from his legendary BBC Radio 4 broadcasts. Encompassing portraits of the great & the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King & topics as varied as civil rights golf jazz & the changing colours of a New England fall each Letter contributes a captivating portrait of a nation
- & of a man. " Cooke was the special relationship". (" Daily Mail"). " Such experience wisdom & education are unlikely ever again to combine in one journalist". (Mark Lawson). " There is never going to be anyone else like Cooke a chronicler of amazing times". (" Daily Telegraph"). " The range of Cookes experiences was awesome but he always had the personal touch". (Jeremy Vine). " No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world.. .the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar & yet so utterly foreign". (" Independent"). Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) enjoyed an extraordinary life in print radio & television. " The Guardians" Senior Correspondent in New York for twenty-five years & the host of groundbreaking cultural programmes on American television & of the BBC series America Cooke was however best known both at home & abroad for his weekly BBC broadcast " Letter from America" which reported on fifty-eight years of US life was heard over five continents & totalled 2 869 broadcasts before his retirement in February 2004 far & away the longest-running radio series in broadcasting history."
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Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love & forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is that many who claim to be transformed by Christs love are deeply even murderously intolerant of criticism. While we may want to ascribe this to human nature it is clear that such hatred draws considerable support from the Bible. How do I know this? The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter & verse. So begins Letter to a Christian Nation" Sam Harris hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism & blind belief. With deceptively simple arguments he demolishes the myths on which Christianity was built challenges believers to open their eyes to the contradictions of their faith & warns us of the dangers of Americas ever increasing unification of Church & State." ...

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelous path to living well & living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style this book transcends genres & categories: its part guidebook part memoir part poetry
- & pure delight. Here in short essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters & taught her lessons about compassion & fortitude. Whether she is recalling lost friends extolling honesty or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women. Like the rest of her remarkable work Letter to My Daughter entertains & teaches. It is a book to cherish savour reread & share.
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This comes with all the tools & inspiration readers need to create their own cool lettering. The 5 stencil pages make it simple to get started & then they can move on to tracing copying or improving upon the 10 alphabets commissioned from different illustrators. The book then goes on to give instructions for projects like book & file covers room signs personal logos cards & much more. Pack contains: practice paper plastic stencil pages marker pens pencils rubber & pencil sharpener. ...

This starter pack is designed specifically for nursery & pre-school teachers. Each teaching resource has been carefully selected to help even the youngest children learn the alphabet sounds & shapes & develop their phonics skills in a fun way. All products come in a bright box for easy storage. Pack
Includes:: Early Years Handbook Early Years Handbook CD Alphabet Frieze ABC (hardback) Living ABC Software Big Picture Code Cards Alphabet Songs CD Handwriting Songs CD A-Z Copymasters Early Years Handwriting Copymasters
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Fully cross-referenced with the new Letterland Teachers Guide" these carefully structured workbooks help children move from recognising initial sounds to word building. Stimulating activities provide reinforcement & consolidation of word level skills & are suitable for group & independent work. Size is A4/8.3"x 11.7" 4 per pack." ...

In 1953 at the age of 41 Kathleen Ferrier Englands greatest lyric contralto lost her courageous battle with breast cancer. Her huge appeal to a wide audience
- in concerts on records on the radio & in the opera house
- has ensured her name endures to this day despite a career which lasted barely ten years. In just half that time this former telephone exchange operator was singing on stage at Covent Garden before royalty at private parties & at New Yorks Carnegie Hall. This collection of letters & twelve years of her personal diaries was first published by Boydell Press in 2003. Here an enlarged paperback edition contains a new chapter revealing her growing importance to the BBC an additional 90 letters together with much revised material & a selection of moving tributes. Published to mark the centenary of her birth in 1912 the book of more than 400 letters provides a vivid picture of a life which illuminated the war & post-war years of austerity & hardship. Kathleen Ferrier was surely fun to know. Her personality was a mix of extreme modesty & self-determined ambition topped with a mischievously blunt sense of earthy Lancastrian humour. She is known for her glorious voice but through the pages of these fascinating letters & diaries we get to meet the real person. DR CHRISTOPHER FIFIELD is a conductor music historian lecturer & broadcaster. He is the biographer of Max Bruch (Boydell Press 2005) & conductor Hans Richter & the author of a history of the music agents Ibbs & Tillett.

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Nothing in the papers not the most vivid & heart-rending descriptions have made me realise war like your letters Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton 17 April 1915. This selection of letters written between 1913 & 1918 between Vera Brittain & four young men
- her fiance Roland Leighton her brother Edward & their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable & profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland Monseigneur is the leader & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward Immaculate of the Trenches was orderly & controlled down even to his attire. Geoffrey the non-militarist at heart had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotisms sake. Victor on the other hand possessed a very sweet character & was known as Father Confessor. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism disillusionment & personal tragedy.
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*A very funny book indeed.
- Michael Palin * It made me laugh with wicked glee.
- Sunday Express A hilarious collection of witty

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It was if they came from another planet reflected one Suffolk farm worker remembering the arrival of the Yanks in 1944. They took the place by storm! recalled an old lady
- with a twinkle in her eye because more than the place it was the young women they took. The tall courteous big-spending strangers often became the first love & sometimes the love of a life. In Over Here" Jack Rosenthal tells the story of one such romance particularly significant to him as he would become its offspring. Using letters preserved by his mother Rosenthal reconstructs the relationship from the day of its beginning in March 1944 to its culmination in marriage in July 1945. With the stories behind linked weddings the narrative ranges from a dramatic escape after the fall of Hong Kong to the nightmares of the Arctic convoys & is supported by lively insights into the histories & social circumstances of the four families involved."
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