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End of Gays? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 38min
Banning gay propaganda can backfire. Spectacularly. In the 1980s, when the UK Government of Margaret Thatcher outlawed the "promotion" of homosexuality, gays were still semi-criminal. As well as immoral, ridiculous, disgusting, diseased, and after your kids. Since then, however, UK gays have been promoted more rapidly and giddily than almost any persecuted, despised group in history. In just a generation or so they have achieved legal equality, civil rights, and even respectability. Today they are gay married by the Conservative Prime Minister, no less. Homosexuality has joined the golf club. And sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking they all have their own TV chat show nowadays. But, asks the English writer Mark Simpson in a provocative and personal essay, perhaps gay people are in danger of becoming victims of their own success. Perhaps the biggest problem they face in the UK and much of the West is no longer overt homophobia, but rather the rapid falling off of it. At least for their survival as a distinct group with their own identity, culture, clubs, hankie semaphore, and sensibility. "The Gays" have been shaped and defined by their long struggle against prejudice and their experience of their difference. But what's left of gayness when the homophobia stops? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Mack. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017584/bk_adbl_017584_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Our Ken, Series 2: Classic BBC Radio Comedy, Hörbuch, Digital, 426min
Kenneth Horne is joined by Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and Pat Lancaster in the second series of the classic weekly radio show. Between 1958 and 1964, Beyond Our Ken was one of radio's most popular comedy shows, with a regular audience of 10 million listeners. A hilarious mix of sketches and music, packed with witty wordplay, comic catchphrases and larger-than-life characters, this fabulous forerunner to Round the Horne remains just as funny today. In these 14 episodes, written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took, listen to some extraordinary incidents from Kenneth Horne's week and enjoy special 'Hornerama' investigations into the worlds of show business, communications, the film industry, shipping and many more. Say hello to Rodney and Charles, follow roving reporter Cecil Snaith to the depths of the Red Sea and join Felicity and Ambrose as they are shipwrecked on a desert island. Plus, there's a spoof of Any Questions? featuring Hankie Flowered, Ricky Livid, Fanny Haddock and Arthur Fallowfield and musical interludes from The Fraser Hayes Four and Pat Lancaster. So join urbane host Kenneth Horne and friends for more fun, puns, merriment and madcap humour from the much-loved comedy show. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002469/bk_rhuk_002469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Sheltering Rain (eBook, ePUB)
The captivating debut novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and the new bestseller Still Me.****'Page-turning . . . Be sure that your bookmark is a hankie.' - ElleOn Coronation night the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, 21-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiance again for a year. In 1980, 18-year-old Patricia's rebellion is to run away to from County Wexford with her illegitimate child. Fifteen years later Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents she doesn't know, and finds that time in Wexford seems to have stood still.When Sabine, her mother and grandmother are brought together, not only is a deeply buried family secret is discovered, but also some fundamental truths: about the conflict between love and duty, about women's choices, and about mothers and daughters.****'An enjoyable read' - Sunday Express'An emotional roller-coaster' - Company'Beautiful and very moving' - Lesley Pearse'Rich and deep and full of wonderfully realised characters' - Anne Rivers Siddons- Shop: buecher
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After You
***THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT IS LOVED AROUND THE WORLD, AND IS NOW A FILM STARRING EMILIA CLARKE AND SAM CLAFLIN***'Matches Me Before You. Funny, sad and wise, you'll be using a hankie as a bookmark' Mail on Sunday'Moyes totally delivers. With its twisty plot, characters you fall in love with, weepy bits and witty bits, this is pretty much perfect' GlamourLou Clark has lots of questions.Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home.Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.And will she ever get over the love of her life.What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.Then, one night, it does.But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.Open it and she risks everything.But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in . . .'This beautiful story is perfect. Will have you brimming with tears and grinning in equal measure. L-O-V-E' Closer'Wonderfully warm. Moyes manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love. Unputdownable' Sunday Express'Classic Jojo - fans will love it' Heat'Satisfyingly brilliant' Sun'I read this in one sitting. It is impossible not to root for Lou' Stylist- Shop: buecher
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After You
THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT IS LOVED AROUND THE WORLD, AND IS NOW A FILM STARRING EMILIA CLARKE AND SAM CLAFLIN 'Matches Me Before You . Funny, sad and wise, you'll be using a hankie as a bookmark' Mail on Sunday 'Moyes totally delivers. With its twisty plot, characters you fall in love with, weepy bits and witty bits, this is pretty much perfect' GlamourLou Clark has lots of questions.Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home.Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.And will she ever get over the love of her life.What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.Then, one night, it does.But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.Open it and she risks everything.But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in . . . 'This beautiful story is perfect. Will have you brimming with tears and grinning in equal measure. L-O-V-E' Closer'Wonderfully warm. Moyes manages to break your heart before restoring your faith in love. Unputdownable' Sunday Express'Classic Jojo - fans will love it' Heat'Satisfyingly brilliant' Sun'I read this in one sitting. It is impossible not to root for Lou' Stylist- Shop: buecher
- Price: 9.99 EUR excl. shipping