Lee Mack Bafta award-winner & host of BBC Ones They Think Its All Over" stars in his first BBC Radio 2 series. Lee Mack host of BBC Ones " They Think Its All Over" star of ITVs " The Sketch Show" & BAFTA Award winner stars in this hilarious six-part comedy show as heard on BBC Radio 2. Participating in the manic mix of sketches & st&-up are special musical guests Toyah Willcox Midge Ure Suggs Sophie Ellis-Bextor Tom Robinson & Tony Hadley. Lee is also joined by comedians Noel Britton Mick Miller Milton Jones Rhod Gilbert Mike Wilmot & Aussie Trevor Crook. Ably assisted by long-suffering sidekick Angela Mc Hale & house band leader Steve Brown (" Knowing Me" " Knowing Yous Glenn Ponder") Lee Mack brings you a new show for the 21st century. Where else can you hear Tony Hadley playing cops & robbers & Suggs amid ghostly goings-on? Just dont ask Midge Ure about Band Aid... Fast-moving well executed & blindingly funny stand up
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Lee Miller is possibly the 20th centurys most famous woman photographer. During her extraordinary life she came into contact with a wide range of people including many of the most celebrated & influential artists writers actors fashion designers & socialites of the last century. The photographs include not only Pablo Picasso Max Ernst Dora Maar Igor Stravinsky Henry Moore Colette Marlene Dietrich Fred Astaire & a host of others but also pictures of unsung individuals engaged in war work. Most memorable of all are Millers pictures of victims & perpetrators of Nazi oppression
- some of the most powerful images from the last century. These brilliant portraits are shown together for the first time. Throughout the book Richard Calvocoressi demonstrates the originality & artistry of Millers work while exploring the relationship between the photographs & her fascinating life.
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Lee Miller was one of the most extraordinary photographers of the twentieth century famous for her portraits & devastating photographs of World War Two as well as for her legendary beauty. An art student & a Vogue" model she was a close friend of artists such as Picasso Cocteau Max Ernst & Paul Eluard & became a muse of Man Ray & the Parisian surrealists. One of the few female photographers to enter Hitler's Germany she was the first to access his Munich home & among the first to document the liberation of the concentration camps. Carolyn Burke captures Lee Miller in all her complexity unveiling the glittering art world of the thirties & forties of which she was a central figure. Meticulously researched beautifully written this is an enthralling account of one of the most fascinating women of her era." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition & fine buildings to match. Its prosperity founded on the wool trade is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving & furnishings while the towns eighteenth-century expansion produced elegant Georgian parades & squares with homes for wealthy merchants. They now stand cheek-by-jowl with solid proud warehouses & offices of the railway age in a wonderful variety of styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic Moorish & Egyptian. The civic pride of Victorian Leeds has as its crowning glory the grand Town Hall testament to the talent of Cuthbert Brodrick whose Corn Exchange & Mechanics Institute make powerful use of dark & gritty local sandstone. Along the banks & wharfs of the River Aire & the Leeds & Liverpool Canal now being revived for twenty-first-century living are unique & nationally important industrial survivals including the inspired Egyptian-style Temple Mills & the unforgettable campanile of Tower Works. The twentieth century gave the city its outstanding university campus & recent regeneration has led to a revival of the citys public spaces & famously ornate & opulent Edwardian shopping arcades & markets. In the suburbs & beyond lie comfortable mansions & major Victorian churches while survivors of a different past can be found in the parish church of Adel one of the most complete Norman churches in Yorkshire the romantic ruins of Kirkstall Abbey & the mighty C17 mansion at Temple Newsam. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Leeds in the Fifties Sixties & Seventies" is a fascinating collection of photographs of the city from the archives of the " Yorkshire Evening Post". All aspects of daily life in the city are documented in these images including buildings transport & the people of Leeds: tradesmen office workers postmen millworkers shoppers. Although the book covers a comparatively recent chapter in Leeds history the changes in the city have been dramatic. In the 1950s the buildings of Leeds were black with soot & mill chimneys still dotted the landscape. Steam trains & trams transported people around the city while those with motor cars could drive up & park outside the citys department stores without charge. By the end of the 1970s the city was already a very different place & the pace of change has continued unabated. Buildings have been demolished or remodelled traffic has been redirected along the inner relief road reducing congestion in the city centre & the blackened buildings & mill chimneys have almost disappeared. The people of Leeds also appear in these pages: tradesmen office workers postmen millworkers shoppers
- all aspects of daily life in the city are documented. The images in " Leeds in the Fifties Sixties & Seventies" are sure to bring back memories for many Leeds residents & will provide the younger generation with an insight into how the modern city has developed from its industrial past."
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He made you cry with laughter with Paint It White now the celebrated Leeds-supporting cartoon-drawing painting-&-decorating eccentric Gary Edwards is back. It turns out that his first book was only an undercoat & now the story of his crazy life following Leeds needs a second coat. No wonder: Edwards you see has seen every Leeds game
- competitive & friendly anywhere in the world
- since 17 January 1968*. During those 37 years he's been there done that & bought the T-shirt. So after subtle prompts from his travelling companions he's back with more tales that simply would not fit into the first volume. There's barely a pub in the land he can step into without some well-meaning soul coming up to him & demanding ' Loved the book Gary! When are you going to do another
- with me in it?' So here it is
- another fabulously entertaining collection of travelling tales & friends remembered. Eventually. In this follow-up instalment of high gloss & drama Edwards recounts how he befriended a real-life Leeds-supporting Dalek convinced Rolf Harris that the earth was flat was accosted by firemen while trying to paint a fire engine white appeared on the sides of buses with his face painted in Leeds colours & received letters from the Queen & the Prime Minister after he complained about David Beckham getting an OBE! Leeds United: The Second Coat is another hilarious account of the scrapes adventures & moments of comedy that a life's passion for Leeds United has brought Gary Edwards. *OK he missed one but he still has the match ticket & only a strike by Spanish air traffic control stopped him getting to a one-off friendly in Toronto.



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Leeds United Miscellany is full of fascinating facts figures trivia stats stories & anecdotes all relating to the long & colourful history of the Whites. From memorable matches to favourite sons this book tells the tales which have shaped the football club into the force it is today. Written by Joe Mewis the book follows no set order chronological or otherwise but has plenty to keep any United fanatic coming back for more whether its the most dramatic moments on the pitch or off-field shenanigans such as the cruel fate of David Harveys pet monkey! ...

Leeds United On This Day chronicles the fascinating history of Leeds United for each & every date of the year. Ever since they were established from the financial ruins of disbanded Leeds City in 1919 the Elland Road club has put its fans through the emotional mixer like no other side. From the dizzying highs of the Revie glory days to the depressing lows of relegation & financial implosion all of the moments that make supporting Leeds United the rollercoaster ride that the Elland Road faithful cant live without are featured in this book. Leeds legends such as Billy Bremner Jack Charlton Peter Lorimer Eddie Gray Gordon Strachan & Lucas Radebe to name but a few all take centre stage as the book features all the title wins cup successes European adventures major transfers & boardroom struggles from United s history. ...