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An immersive audio drama based on the original memoir The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May. This series compels you to walk with Katherine on her journey along the line of the South West Coast. In this adaptation, Katherine’s story is recreated as an immersive sensory journey detailing a different way of being in the world -and becomes a different way of experiencing an audio drama.

From the Author of How to Disappear Completely: 1999 Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he's looking for, he's seen him on the cover of the NME. Drawn across oceans by fame and fate, Aston is keeping his diary empty to make sure he's available. Won't commit to anything until it's everything. London, however, has other ideas. When a virtual stranger calls Aston a few hours before his death, fate catches up with him, derailing his barely-made plans. Amid a hundred boozy evenings and romantic deadends, a mystery unfurls. ...

"Besserdechnyj" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, vtoraja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". V jetom mire v chesti par i jelektrichestvo, nauka podmenila soboj religiju, a magija - udel nemnogochislennyh izgoev. No granica real'nosti i preispodnej tam chrezvychajno tonka, i adeptam nauchnogo znanija s velichajshim trudom udajotsja sderzhivat' natisk infernal'nyh tvarej.

Despite having attended formal school for only a few months in his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison was nurtured at home by his mother, a former schoolmistress, who instilled in him the foundational skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. With an insatiable curiosity and a relentless spirit, Edison transformed his knowledge and passion for technology into groundbreaking inventions, overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities along the way. This engaging book delves into the remarkable highs and lows of Edisons life, illustrating how he turned adversity into triumph. It covers his ...

"Padshij" - fantasticheskij roman Pavla Korneva, tret'ja kniga iz cikla "Vseblagoe jelektrichestvo". V jetom mire v chesti par i jelektrichestvo, nauka podmenila soboj religiju, a magija - udel nemnogochislennyh izgoev. No granica real'nosti i preispodnej tam chrezvychajno tonka, i adeptam nauchnogo znanija s velichajshim trudom udajotsja sderzhivat' natisk infernal'nyh tvarej. Jelektrichestvo sil'nee magii, no ne vsesil'no i ono. Byvshij detektiv-konstebl' sysknoj policii metropolii Leopol'd Orso - sijatel'nyj.

In this world, science took the place of magic. Meanwhile, the transition from the era of steam to the epoch of Sublime Electricity is already underway. But magic hasn't simply disappeared without a trace. It still exists, concealed in the blood of the illustrious. Detective constable Leopold Orso of the metropolitan police counts himself among their number. He was bestowed a talent that allows him to bring others' fears to life. Leopold didn't go looking for trouble.

New Babylon is the capital of the mighty Second Empire. Dirigibles drift over the city, steam trains race down its tracks, and the factory chimneys never stop billowing smoke, even for a moment. The hegemony of science is unquestioned, and yet magic hasn't disappeared from the world. It remains dissolved in the blood of those who are called Illustrious. Hardline reductionists find that hard to accept, but it is not in their power to change the longstanding status quo.

Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world of science. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the headquarters of a major manufacturing company, giving the town its nickname: Electric City.

Slippery McGuire sells Archie a patent on electricity! Don't miss Archie speaking Yiddish. Ed Gardner, Alan Reed, Eddie Green, Charlie Cantor, Gloria Erlanger.