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This collection of three of Henrik Ibsen's most well-known and important plays is voiced by a sparkling cast and features music, SFX and a full soundscape. Born in 1828, Norwegian playwright, theatre director and poet Ibsen, wrote in Danish yet lived for many years in Italy and Germany. Heralded as one the most distinguished dramatists after Shakespeare, by the early 20th century A Doll's House became the world's most performed play.

Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parchment with quill pens, and Muggle legends come to life in the form of werewolves, witches, and magical spells. This book is the first to explore the real history in which Harry's world is rooted. Did you know that bezoars and mandrakes were fashionable luxury items for centuries? Find out how Europeans first developed the potions, spells, and charms taught at Hogwarts, from Avada Kedavra to love charms.

This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one hectic year in the eye of the showbiz storm, cut with a heavy mix of the day-to-day goings-on in Bexhill, where Harry lives at home with his mother, occasional Filipina fiancée Lay Dee and a dog who has a job at the airport. Follow Harry's attempts to become a judge on X Factor and his efforts to meet the Welsh chanteuse Duffy at Warwick Avenue.

Please note, this audio edition alternates between sections written and performed in the Orkney dialect, and their English translations. Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet...

Harry Graf Kessler hält in seinem Tagebuch den ersten Revolutionstag der Novemberrevolution 1918 fest, es ist ein beeindruckendes Zeugnis eines der wichtigsten Tage der Deutschen Geschichte.

Der geniale Vorleser Harry Rowohlt mit der tiefergelegten Stimme parliert elegant über Gott und die Welt. Bzw. mehr über sich, denn wen interessiert schon Gott, wenn er etwas von Harry Rowohlt über Harry Rowohlt erfahren kann. Und als Erzähler schöner Abschweifungen kann ihm niemand das Wasser reichen.

Read by the author, Harry Josephine Giles. Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and...

Was ist der American Dream? Harry Graf Kessler besuchte 1896/97 Amerika und ging dabei eben jener Frage auf den Grund. Auf der Reise lernt er kanadische Holzhütten, den New Yorker Geldadel, chinesische Bordelle in San Francisco und den amerikanischen Präsidenten Harrison kennen.

Six hilarious satires from the ingenious Molière, France’s original master of comedies: "The Imaginary Cuckold", "The School for Husbands", "The School for Wives", "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope".

Dem Vater schmeckt der Kaffee nicht! Zum Geburtstag schenkt ihm die Mutter deshalb eine nagelneue Kaffeemaschine, die neueste und beste auf dem Markt... aber wie war das noch? Wo muss nochmal der Spiritus rein?

Was ist der American Dream? Harry Graf Kessler besucht 1896/97 Amerika und geht dabei eben jener Frage auf den Grund. Seine Reiseroute führt ihn bis nach San Franzisko und auch hier betrachtet er die amerikanische Gesellschaft scharfsinnig, aber auch mit augenzwinkerndem Humor.

Was ist der American Dream? Harry Graf Kessler besucht 1896/97 Amerika und geht dabei eben jener Frage auf den Grund. Er beginnt seine Reiseroute in New York und beschreibt scharfsinnig, aber zugleich humorvoll die amerikanische Gesellschaft.

"Lillichens Verlobung" von Hermann Harry Schmitz ist eine Geschichte über Liebe, Schicksal und adeligen Elternstolz. Graf Eberhard Unstrut von Felsenhorst möchte seine Tochter mit dem Grafen Bodo verloben, doch Lilli hat sich bereits in einen anderen verliebt. Und dieser ist arm wie eine Kirchenmaus.

Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence, and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A "green classic" read with natural resonance by its author, it rarely fails to strike a chord in the hearts of those concerned with the abuse of our planet.

Sheridan's most famous play, The School for Scandal, has been called 'the best existing English comedy of intrigue'. A favourite with audiences and critics alike since its premiere in 1777, this play is a classic English comedy of manners. Full of satirical wit, it subverts the Georgian social mores of its day with subtlety and charm. This historic recording features Edith Evans, Cecil Parker and Harry Andrews: Some of the finest actors of their generation.

This poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by the author.

Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists. Why? Because he is haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon, and the other two are convinced they are Einstein and Newton. But are these three actually mad? Or are they playing a murdererous game with the world at stake?

Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles - Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he's about to lose it to the IRS unless he can pull off one more deal. A stellar cast performs this hilarious send-up of modern-day Hollywood.

Shakespeare's drama tells the story of a young man who can only come into his own upon his father's death and the father who longs for immortality. Using only Shakespeare's words, this adaptation tells the deeply personal story of Prince Hal's coming of age and his relationships with two father figures: the mistrustful King Henry IV and the hilarious, irrepressible Falstaff. A Court Theatre Production.