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Climate change wiped out planet Earth in 2054. However, the richest and most powerful one percent of society did not hesitate to escape to a space station. But what would that new society become if classism and fascism were what prevailed among them at the time our world died?

Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in 1999, Allison took medication for 20 years. Through her faith in God, she has overcome symptoms of Bipolar 1 and has been medication-free for over a year. She has never been happier. All is on! That is the spelling and motto of 55-year-old, recently ordained Martial Artists of the Faith, Pastor Allison Joan Hall. She holds a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate and a Blue Belt in Taekwondo. She taught high school Spanish and Art for Baltimore City Public Schools for 22 years from which illness forced her into early retirement.

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved. What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.

Hace cien años, en plena Gran Guerra, partió de Zürich un tren que hizo descarrillar el curso de la Historia. Stefan Zweiglo definió como un proyectil cargado de explosivos humanos y, yendo aún más lejos, Winston Churchill se refirió a uno de esos "explosivos" como el arma más terrorífica de todas las que Alemania había lanzado contra Rusia hasta entonces. Porque, en palabras del que fuera primer ministro británico, aquel tren transportaba "en un vagón sellado herméticamente, cual bacilo de la peste", nada menos que a Lenin.

Juan Augusto Suter, natural de Rynenberg, cerca de Basilea, de treinta años de edad. Tiene un gran interés en poner el vasto océano entre su persona y los tribunales europeos de justicia. Acusado de quiebra fraudulenta, de robo, de falsificación, ha abandonado a su esposa y a sus tres hijos menores. Sirviéndose de documentos falsos, se ha proporcionado en París algún dinero. Y ahora emprende el viaje, en busca de una nueva existencia.

(Goethe entre Karlsbad y Weimar, 5 de septiembre de 1823). Era el 5 de septiembre de 1823. Una silla de posta rodaba lentamente por la carretera que conduce de Karlsbad a Eger. La mañana aparecía envuelta en los primeros fríos otoñales, el viento azotaba con violencia los rastrojos y el cielo se extendía límpido hasta las lejanías del horizonte.

Nos hallamos en el siglo XX y ante un mundo que ya no tiene secretos, en el que no quedan tierras por descubrir ni mares por surcar. Países cuyos nombres, en la anterior generación, eran apenas conocidos, se encuentran hoy sojuzgados por Europa, sirviendo a sus necesidades. Los barcos se remontan, actualmente, hasta las fuentes del Nilo, que durante infinidad de tiempo se buscaron en vano. Las cataratas Victoria, que un europeo contempló por primera vez hace medio siglo; producen ahora energía eléctrica.

(Dostoievski, Petersburgo, Plaza Semenowsk, 22 de diciembre de 1849). El ruido de los sables, las voces de mando a lo largo de las casamatas, han turbado su sueño en medio de la noche. En lo desconocido pasan lúgubres y fantasmales sombras. Esas sombras le empujan por un camino estrecho, largo, inmensamente largo. Se oye el chirrido de un cerrojo. Se abre una puerta. Entonces puede vislumbrar el cielo, y un viento helado le abofetea el rostro. Aparece un carro, negro como el abismo. Y las sombras le empujan hacia aquel abismo.

En medio de los bailes, de los galanteos, de las intrigas y de las discusiones del Congreso de Viena, la noticia aterradora cae y estalla como una bala de cañón: Napoleón, el león prisionero, ha destrozado su jaula de Elba. Uno tras otro van llegando los mensajes: ha conquistado Lyón y ha expulsado al Rey; las tropas de fanáticas banderas corren a su encuentro; ya está en París, en las Tullerías. Han sido inútiles Leipzig y los veinte años de una guerra homicida.

When Marcia Hulme inherits her uncle's medical practice, she decamps from London to a remote island off the coast of Northumbria. There's not a lot to do in Paradise, other than fish or drink, and Marcia's soon missing her favourite restaurants, cinemas and theatres - and her boyfriend, Clem. But as she plans her escape back to the Big Smoke, she gets drawn into island life and discovers that swapping West End wine bars for the Wind O'Change pub is really not so bad....

Distinguished guests nominate a great musician for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives For 20 years, Great Lives has been a linchpin of Radio 4, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. In it, a household name is invited to choose one of their heroes to discuss...

One of the BBC's most acclaimed programmes, Great Lives has been a regular Radio 4 fixture for 20 years, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. Every week, a famous name is invited into the studio to nominate a figure from the past who has inspired them, and discuss their subject with the presenter and a guest expert.

Far from home, hope will keep them together. The plucky evacuees must come together in this heart-warming saga set in the Second World War for fans of Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin. In September 1940, after a year away from home, 11-year-old twins Connie and Jessie have finally settled into evacuee life in Harrogate. But when the brutal bombings in London begin, threatening their parents who live near the Bermondsey docks, their courage is put to the test.

Emily Fredrickson is left devastated after her husband, Matthew, is arrested for doing meth at their daughter's third birthday party. Her small town of Hibbing turns on her quickly as rumors circulate and the accusations and judgment get her fired from the job she loves. Greenrock Road is a story of heartbreak, hidden family secrets, and a mother's quest to make peace with the decisions of her past.

As a former Green Beret, I know how to follow orders and obey rules. I’ve learned to be patient, to look at a situation from every angle, and to live by a code of honor most men know nothing about. But when a motorcycle club puts a target on not just my hometown, but the five-foot-nothing blonde who unknowingly holds my heart in her hands, obeying the law takes a back seat to keeping my woman safe. I’ve never had something so precious to protect, and I’ve never been willing to cross so many lines to get a job done.

Destiny Lawson cannot believe her luck. On a run in the middle of the woods her freshman year of collage, she meets the man of her dreams, Bryan Fredrickson. He is sweet, handsome, and everything she dreamed of. Their relationship continues to strengthen and then one day he takes her back to the bridge where they met and asks for her hand in marriage.

Agent Nora Wexler rolls up her sleeves to tackle a new set of mysteries and killings in this riveting new sequel trilogy full of devastating revelations and action! Now a seasoned FBI agent, Nora discovers that having experience working for the bureau is much different than knowing what'll happen next. When a shooting takes place at Joint Base Andrews, she finds that the killer has committed suicide, but the question of what happened is more alive than ever. Meanwhile, her personal life threatens to explode when Travis takes up the case of another woman.

Nora and Travis are quickly forced back on the hunt for their primary target as the stability of the military continues to disintegrate, giving rise to a daunting force that threatens to change everything about the American way of life.

Fiódor Dostoievski (1821-1881) escribió su obra maestra Crimen y castigo - que se publicó por primera vez en 1866 - después de haber pasado cuatro años de su vida en una prisión estatal en Siberia. Ingeniero de formación, inicialmente había sido condenado a muerte por conspiración contra el zar, tras ser detenido en una reunión del círculo Petrashevski, grupo intelectual socialista al que pertenecía.

With three bossy, overprotective brothers looking over her shoulder, Tate Whitelaw was finding it impossible to become a woman. They still thought of her as a pigtailed little girl. So Tate hightailed it off the homestead - right into the manly arms of Adam Philips. She’d show everyone just how grown-up she was! The last thing that hardened rancher Adam Philips was looking for was a damsel in distress. He’d had enough of stray women! But his protective urges overrode his instincts to run. Soon he was comforting Tate in his arms...and his bed.