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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Callow, actor and director, known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, and the BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew...

Best-selling author of Italian Ways Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250 miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to look at Italy past and present.

Milan, 2020. Drawn abruptly from his reclusive life in London for a friend's funeral, Frank finds himself in the eye of a pandemic he had barely registered on the news. From the relative comfort of his balcony at Hotel Milano, he surveys the train station across the piazza, seeing the mad dash for the last trains, hearing the sirens and watching the police stop people in the street. He feels himself remote from it all. Then, one night, the sound of a child's footsteps leads him to discover a family sheltering secretly above him: a family who need his help.

Morris Duckworth teaches English to the pampered rich of Verona, and Morris is not pleased. Living a meager existence in a squalid apartment, he regards his privileged students with envy and disdain, first wreaking revenge by petty theft and then, like all good criminals, graduating to grander larceny. When one of those students, a beautiful but vapid heiress named Massimina, falls in love with him, Morris can almost smell upward mobility.

Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe...'TEACH US TO SIT STILL is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health.

Morris Duckworth can't get over Massimina, or Mimi, as he likes to refer to her. But then, he should have thought of that before he kidnapped and killed her. Only now, living in Verona and married to Mimi's sister, does he appreciate how much he misses her and how blindly he has stumbled into a trap of fate. Struggling to adjust to his good fortune, with a lavish house and cushy job, our unsavory hero finds that his new success is rife with tribulation: not least his pushy bride's staggering sexual appetite.

Landscape photography questions are answered by our core team of Tim Parkin and Joe Cornish with monthly featured guests. Part of On Landscape magazine.

Detta är en podcast där vi kommer lägga fokus på världens bästa hockeyliga, NHL! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bienvenidos a Air Time, el podcast de parques de Danolo y Tilldrop. Somos Dani García (Danolo) y Màrius Tomé (Tilldrop). Únete a nosotros cada domingo para charlar de parques temáticos y de atracciones, montañas rusas, novedades, y cualquier tema de actualidad relacionado con este mundo que tanto nos apasiona. Un podcast hecho por y para los entusiastas. ¡Sube, tiembla, grita, repite!

There are endless stories in a school of 1,900 students. Meet the people at Kingwood Park High School in Texas through the newest channel on KP Media Podcast Network.

Att 2021 kommer bli ett speciellt år, det är vi nog alla överens om. Att det finns podcasts utan innehåll, det är vi nog också överens om. För att få ett "bryt" från denna trend kommer Aronsson och Park göra en unik podd, med innehåll.Låter det spännande?Innehållet i denna podd kommer att vara Hockey och Tennis i en unik kombination, blandat med mycket annat surr.Välkomna Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies but will he reach her in time and will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing and his mind is racing and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Should he reconsider the separation from his wife? Why does he feel so utterly confused and paralysed?

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