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News of the Times podcast is based on a combined love of history, psychology and sociology with a fascination for the human story throughout time. How have things changed from over 300, 200, 100 years ago? This podcast covers the stories between 1700 and 1921. The stories are collected and relayed, word for word, as written in historical publications. Bitesize story content is uploaded daily (Series 2). Our full length episodes and time headline are uploaded every Tuesday (Series 1 and 3). We hope you enjoy! :) Hosted by Robin Coles

All around you, minds are shaped by social media, ads, junk food, drugs, the news, and other stimulation. It is easy to give in to these influences and never offer your gift to the world. It is easy to let yourself be molded into a mindless employee, a greedy consumer, and a broke patient.

L'édition anniversaire du best-seller mondial ! À l’occasion du 25e anniversaire, Robin Sharma a préparé une toute nouvelle préface qui vous inspirera à vivre avec plus de courage, d'équilibre, d'abondance et de joie pendant la période la plus sombre de notre époque. Publié en plus de 70 langues, ce bestseller international #1 répond aux questions les plus importantes de la vie. Plusieurs millions de personnes se sont servies des connaissances que l'auteur partage dans ce livre pour mener une vie réussie, sereine et altruiste.

Jubiläumsausgabe des Weltbestsellers Der Mönch, der seinen Ferrari verkaufte! Anlässlich des 25-jährigen Jubiläums hat Robin Sharma ein brandneues Vorwort vorbereitet, das den Hörer dazu inspiriert, in der dunkelsten Zeit mit mehr Mut, Harmonie, Fülle und Freude zu leben. Dieser internationale Nr. 1-Bestseller, der in über 70 Sprachen veröffentlicht wurde, beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen des Lebens. Mehrere Millionen Menschen haben das Wissen, das der Autor in diesem Hörbuch vermittelt, genutzt, um ein erfolgreiches und glückliches Leben zu führen.

What magical beings inhabit Earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. Here are seven tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. Vividly imagined and written, they transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.

Parenting isn't easy, and it's normal to worry. Lynn Lyons, therapist, author, and speaker is one of the world's experts on helping parents, kids, and teens manage anxiety. She talks with co-hosts sister-in-law Robin Hutson and brother Ed Gerwig in a weekly podcast full of laughs, and practical advice without the psychobabble. Since 2020, they've been talking about anxiety and worry, their love for Mr. Rogers, and the crazy things the mental health field gets WRONG about anxiety. Anxiety Expert Lynn Lyons has been a therapist for over 35 years. She's an author of 3 books with a new one coming ...

The year is 1492, and Cristopher Columbus has just sailed the Ocean Blue. But in the town of Kessel, Germany, the club-footed Adolphus von Kessel finally finds the strength to leave his hometown after he is invited to work for Doktor Lommel, a well-known physician who works in the large, prosperous town of Wiesbaden. Leaving behind his rural life, Adolphus becomes a Barber-Surgeon apprentice with Dr. Lommel, and marries Sofia, a pretty and well-adjusted girl who even has a daughter, Hilde.

The black X of the Aramach marked the spot where Princess Charlotte’s life was destroyed. Her fiance has been kidnapped by rebel insurgents and war threatens to crumble her kingdom if he’s not safely returned. Somewhere in the midst of her inner circle, traitors are plotting to prevent their two kingdoms from uniting. Deciding it’s time to take matters into her own hands, Charlie storms from the castle on a mission to save her betrothed.

Hannah Mills, local photographer, is struggling for work and to pay her rent. Great-aunt Dorothy comes to the rescue from beyond the grave after she leaves Hannah a first phase Indian Chief Navajo blanket, a very rare item worth at least a million dollars. That kind of money would set Hannah up for life. But, before she can take it to auction, her niece is kidnapped and a ransom demanded - the blanket. Hannah has to go to France to get her niece back, but she has no money to get there until she robs a bank.

An established actress across stage, screen and radio, Celia Imrie is most well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, including the spoof Acorn Antiques. With notable film appearances including Bridget Jones’s Diary, Calendar Girls and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Imrie has now narrated and published her latest audiobook, Sail Away. Celia Imrie talks to us about her new book, what we can expect from it and her successful and varied career as an actress.

Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative just as much as metaphor is a key tool in the scientist's surprisingly literary toolkit. In this unique anthology, authors have collaborated with leading scientists, to bounce literary, human narratives against purely theoretical ones, alloying together real stories with abstract ones, to produce truly extraordinary results.

Antonia Hodgson joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel, A Death at Fountains Abbey.

Audible Exclusive. Author F. G. Cottam joins us to talk about The Going and the Rise, part of The Cology series.

Author, cartoonist and screenwriter Andy Riley has delighted us with an exclusive interview talking about his first children's book.

The action is on the page, on your device, and out of this world! This multiplatform series is part sci-fi, all action-adventure. And you don't have long to wait -- 6 books are coming all in one year! Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save our planet are six essential elements...

This is the 2015 edition of the memoir of BBC/ Masterpiece Theatre actor Robin Ellis, the original Captain Ross Poldark in the BBC classic television series. This expanded edition includes an all new chapter documenting Robin's return to television as part of the new series produced by Mammoth Screen, on behalf of the BBC and Masterpiece/PBS, with Aidan Turner as the new Poldark.

A riveting novel in which old friends must excavate the formative event of their childhood - a murder - and determine how to pit truth against justice. Hutch Van Buren is 15 years old, playing sports and searching for arrowheads in a small industrial town in Ohio with his three closest friends when an altercation between the comrades and Petey Sanchez, a troubled 17-year-old, leads to Petey’s accidental death. Together, Hutch and his friends become ensnared in a web of secrets and moral dilemmas.

Every activist started out as a kid‚ and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems‚ often in the middle of extraordinary circumstances. Martin Luther King, Jr., loved fashion and argued with his dad about whether or not dancing was a sin. Harvey Milk had a passion for listening to opera music in different languages. Dolores Huerta was once wrongly accused of plagiarizing in school.

Elise Carmichael is a court sign-language interpreter who reads lips all the time. As a widow with a young son who is deaf, lipreading is simply second nature, until the day she reads the lips of someone on the phone discussing an attempt to be made on a senator’s life - a senator who just happens to be her mother-in-law. Before she can decide what she needs to do, she receives the information that her son is rushed to the ER and that she must leave. Then she later sees the news report that her mother-in-law has been shot and killed.

Welcome to the all-encompassing Museum of Everything – feel free to take a wander round our infinite gallery of strange exhibits, stranger exhibitors, disgruntled guides and obsessed visitors. The items on display range from the Elgin Tiddlywinks to the birds and the bees, and you can learn about the history of wicker and the origins of scampi, enjoy a display featuring the worst-selling author of Victorian times, get inducted into the Mock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and discover the real identity of Jack the Ripper.