Creator: David Attenborough
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $101.95
Review Life on Air / Chivers Audio Books:Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited. In this volume of memoirs David tells stories of the people and animals he has met and the places that he has visited. Sir David's first job - after Cambridge University and two years in the Royal Navy - was at the London publishing house Hodder & Stoughton. Then in 1952 he joined the BBC as a trainee producer and it was while working on the "Zoo Quest" series (1954-64) that he had his first opportunity to undertake expeditions to remote parts of the globe to capture intimate footage of rare wildlife in its natural habitat. He was Controller of BBC2 (1965-68), during which time he introduced colour television to Britain, then Director of Programmes for the BBC (1969-1972). However in 1973 he abandoned administration altogether to return to documentary-making and writing. Over the last 25 years he has established himself as the World's leading Natural History programme maker with several landmark BBC series, including "Life on Earth" (1979), "The Living Planet" (1984), "The Trials of Life" (1990), "The Private Life of Plants" (1995) and "Life of Birds" (1998).
Creator: Christopher Scott
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-09
Review A Donkey in the Meadow / Soundings:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $84.95
Review C'Est La Folie / Ulverscroft Large Print:In 2004, Michael Wright turned his back on Blighty to begin a new life as the owner of a delapidated 15th century farmhouse called ‘La Folie. ’ This is a comic memoir about a clinically social bloke rejecting the world of parties and attempting to learn how to become an old-fashioned man. From the Hardcover edition.
Publication date: 1995-09-01
Dewey code: 790
Price: $16.99
Review So Far, So Good (Hodder Headline audio) / Hodder & Stoughton:Paul Eddington's career ranged from stage roles in Ayckbourn, Frayn, and Pinter to television roles in the comedy series The Good Life, Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. In this book he recalls the childhood which set him on the road to acting and his lifelong Quaker faith. He traces the highs and lows of his career and includes among many entertaining memories, the days when Jim Hacker and Paul Eddington became confusingly intertwined in the public mind. For over 30 years he battled against skin cancer and this book is a testimony to his immense courage in surviving it.
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- Written By: David McCullough
Creator: Narrated By: Edward Herrmann
Publication date: 2003
Review John Adams (John Adams, John Adams) / RB:9 Hours /6 CassettesJohn AdamsAbridged Cassette9 Hours /6 CassettesWritten By: David McCulloughNarrated By: Edward HerrmannGenre(s): Biography , NonfictionISBN: 0-77435-0473-9
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Review Winston Churchill Speeches Compilation / Argo:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $64.95
Price: $83.24
Review Caddie: The Autobiography of a Sydney Barmaid / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 1988-09-12
Review Cricket: Introduced by the Author: The Golden Age (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:E. W. Swanton presents cricket recordings in which players give their own accounts of historic matches and events, from Cobden's hat-trick at Lord's in 1870 to the end of the 1930s. Fry, Hirst, Rhodes, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Larwood and Bradman are among the great players who relive memorable moments.
Creator: Barrett Whitener
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-06-09
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $120.00
Price: $84.27
Review The Borrowed Years: 1938-1941, America on the Way to War, Part 2 / Books on Tape:
Publication date: 1996-10-31
Review Tales of the Old Gamekeepers / David & Charles Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1997-01
List Price: $69.95
Price: $184.57
Review Vets Might Fly (Vet) / Chivers Audio Books:A few months of married bliss, a lovers' nest in Darrowby and the wonders of home cooking are rudely interrupted for James Herriot by the Second World War. James Herriot's fifth volume of memoirs relocates him to a training camp somewhere in England. And in between square pounding and digging for victory, he dreams of the people and livestock he left behind him. 'There are funny cases, sad cases, farm animals and pets, downright farmers, ladies of refinement, hard-bitten NCOs and of course, the immortal Siegfried and Tristan' - "The Sunday Times". 'Another winner. as always hilariously funny' - "The Sunday Telegraph". 'It is a pleasure to be in James Herriot's company' - "Observer".
Publication date: 1998
Review Hemingway in Key West: A Video Biography & House Tour (Vhs) / Seascape:
Creator: Frankie Dettori
Publication date: 1996-11
Review A Year in the Life of Frankie Dettori / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Michael Tudor Barnes
Publication date: 2005-07
Price: $84.95
Review My Early Life / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Marvin Miller
Edition: Unabridged, 10 Audio Cassette (Volume 1), and 8 Audio Cassette (Volume II)
Publication date: 1980
Review The World According to Garp, Volume I (10 Audio Cassette), and Volume II (8 Audio Cassette) / Cassette Book Library, ABC Inc.:
Creator: Hywel Bennett
Publication date: 1991-07-01
Review In My Wildest Dreams (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:This book covers from Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist. At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas' story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street reporter, with hilarious experiences to relate, and then became the bestselling author of "The Virgin Soldiers" - the novel that, although scandalous in its day, is now recognised as a classic of its kind. He is also the creator of "Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective", which has been adapted into a popular television series. In 2005, Leslie Thomas was awarded an OBE for services to literature. With a new introduction for this edition, this is an amazing story, and Leslie Thomas' magic touch brings it crackling to life with warmth, wit and laughter.
Creator: Author
Publication date: 1995-09-07
Review Billie Whitelaw...Who He? / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Lorna (Narrator)
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-01
Dewey code: 920
Price: $85.95
Review Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Library) / Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.:Lucrezia Borgia was a shrewd woman who used her beauty and intelligence to secure a key role in the political struggles of her day. Bradford brings to life the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world she helped to create.
Creator: Annie Aldington
Publication date: 2006-12
Price: $84.95
Review Call the Midwife / Soundings:
Creator: Donada Peters
Publication date: 1997
Review Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen (Unabridged) / Books on Tape:17 Cassettes, unabridged.
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Life on Air, A Donkey in the Meadow, C'Est La Folie, So Far, So Good (Hodder Headline audio), John Adams (John Adams, John Adams), Winston Churchill Speeches Compilation, Caddie: The Autobiography of a Sydney Barmaid, Cricket: Introduced by the Author: The Golden Age (BBC Radio Collection), The Borrowed Years: 1938-1941, America on the Way to War, Part 2, Tales of the Old Gamekeepers, Vets Might Fly (Vet), Hemingway in Key West: A Video Biography & House Tour (Vhs), A Year in the Life of Frankie Dettori, My Early Life, The World According to Garp, Volume I (10 Audio Cassette), and Volume II (8 Audio Cassette), In My Wildest Dreams (BBC Radio Collection), Billie Whitelaw...Who He?, Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy (Library), Call the Midwife, Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen (Unabridged)Top headlines: Book Excerpt: Vegetable Dishes I Cant Live Without: A book excerpt by Mollie Katzen. ›21:49 6 Oct, Sat Urban growers go high-tech to feed city diners: Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse. ›16:55 21 Nov, Fri Dr. 90210 shares his 7 beauty secrets: Looking to preserve your youth? 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