![]() To ensure we maximised their safety, there was sometimes a delay between events taking place and content being posted to the site. However, conditions, in Africa in particular, were unpredictable. ![]() Updates, clips and images from the team on the road were posted to the site as the trip progressed. ![]() As well as undertaking Long Way Round and Long Way Down, they ran a motorcross team together for years, and Charley took on the Dakar Rally in 2006. As on Long Way Round, they were accompanied by Executive Producers/Directors Russ Malkin and David Alexanian.Įwan McGregor and Charley Boorman are best mates, and passionate motorcyclists. It is a follow-up to the Long Way Round trip in 2004, where the pair rode their motorbikes from London to New York, travelling east across Europe, Russia and the United States. The team arrived in Cape Town, South Africa on 4 August 2007. Leaving on, they travelled through Europe, and then Africa – from Tunisia to South Africa, via countries such as Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia - a total of 15,000 miles. ![]() ![]() Long Way Down is the most recent motorbike adventure with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. ![]()
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![]() Hartley famously wrote, they do things differently there. ![]() JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: The past is a foreign country, L.P. But first, we have a review of the new TV production of "Wolf Hall," courtesy of our critic at large, John Powers. Today on FRESH AIR we visit with author Hilary Mantel. The central character in Mantel's version is Thomas Cromwell, the Machiavellian adviser to the king. But "Wolf Hall" looks at that era's intrigue, betrayals and beheadings from a different perspective. This Sunday, the same PBS "Masterpiece" anthology series presents a new costume drama, "Wolf Hall," which in England was hailed as the best thing since - well, since "Downton Abbey." "Wolf Hall" is based on the historical novels by Hilary Mantel and is set in the reign of King Henry VIII. A few years ago, the British costume drama "Downton Abbey" surprised almost everyone with its instant popularity, including PBS, which imported the series for a delighted U.S. ![]() I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, in for Terry Gross. DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: This is FRESH AIR. ![]() ![]() Notes and Queries Oxford University Press Ģ96 NOTES AND QUERIES 2013 The Screwtape Letters is extant. Welch, who extended an invi- these three shared paragraphs are alike in every tation to Lewis on 7 February 1941 to do The handwritten preface The Problem of Pain (1940), had impressed the comprises five paragraphs, and shares with the Director of Religious Broadcasting at the published preface three of its four paragraphs BBC, Dr J. His first work of apologetics, first edition preface. tion book, Out of the Silent Planet (1938), had What is surprising about the handwritten pref- received some critical attention, but was far ace is that it is substantially different than the from a bestseller. ![]() His first science fic- who held the manuscripts for safekeeping. Lewis was a rela- dated 20 October 1941 to a correspondent tively obscure Oxford don. Wade Center at Wheaton College, IL, has LEWIS’ THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS acquired a typed MS of The Screwtape Letters, THOUGH he is now known universally as a with some revisions, along with a handwritten children’s author, literary critic, and Christian preface dated 5 July 1941 and a cover letter apologist, in early 1941 C. Lewis The Screwtape LettersĢ96 NOTES AND QUERIES 2013 The Screwtape Letters is extant. ![]() ![]() Lewis The Screwtape Letters The Unpublished Preface to C. ![]() ![]() ![]() He joins us from the studios of WBGO in Newark.ĭr. Graham Farmelo, the author of "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom." He's adjunct professor of physics at Northeastern University, senior research fellow at the Science Museum in London. My next guest has poured over the personal papers and archives of Paul Dirac and stitched them together into a great biography. The reason? Well, it probably has a lot to do with Dirac himself, by most accounts, a strange man. His work figuring out the mathematical equations that describe the universe is right up there with the work of Einstein in terms of its importance and elegance.Īsk someone on the street if they've ever heard of Paul Dirac, and the answer probably is, no. And at the time, he was the youngest person ever to receive that honor. At age 31 in 1933, Paul Dirac won the Nobel Prize. ![]() Up next, the strangest physicist you probably never heard of. ![]() ![]() For more details and to see the full list of discounted titles, click here.įistfight in Heavenis a collection of short stories that was poet, novelist and filmmaker Sherman Alexie’s first work to gain a national readership, and is arguably the second-most important book in the author’s bibliography behind the also-banned Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Simply enter a valid email address and a digital voucher will me emailed directly to you. Select e-book prices are available 60% off until September 30. Read Banned Books is a promotion from openroadmedia that brings censored literature directly to the hands of readers. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. ![]() ![]() You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was told, “That would be right,” it wasn’t a use of the conditional as I first understood it, but somehow a gentler way of telling me something was correct. ![]() ![]() I was thrilled to report in Barbados last month for all the expected reasons (weather, beaches, food) and a slightly less conventional one: This would be my first time reporting a story entirely in English in more than a decade.In the lead-up to the trip, as my anxiety grew over driving on the left side of the road and making sure I had all my interviews confirmed, I comforted myself with the notion that doing something in one’s native language inherently makes it easier.Of course, I was wrong.Between Britishisms and Bajanisms, I frequently found myself asking, “What?” There were interviews where I even considered inquiring if the person spoke some Spanish.But, like any language, it only took a strong dose of humility – and tuning my ear to what was initially a linguistic puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only a few people, who call themselves the Midnighters, know about this secret hour and are free to move around during it when the rest of the world is frozen. ![]() The Midnighters Trilogy takes place in Bixby, Oklahoma, a place where every evening at midnight the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. I already owned the Uglies Series but I needed a break from dystopia and the creepy premise of The Secret Hour caught my eye. So when I was in need of a new audiobook I decided it was the perfect time to test out his Midnighters Trilogy and experience his writing firsthand. Over the last year or two, Scott Westerfeld has been one of those authors I always intend to read and yet never managed to pick up. As I occasionally do on this blog I've decided to combine my reviews of these books into one post, sharing thoughts general enough that they will avoid spoilers for any of the novels. The Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld includes The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness, and Blue Noon. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s completely forbidden, but I can’t help falling for the sweet, complicated man. ![]() ![]() There were no friendships with other celebrities’ children.īut now, at twenty-five, I’m ready to start my life, working for my father’s production company in downtown Seattle–until Vaughn Barrymore walks through the door. And because of that, he sheltered my siblings and me from everything Hollywood entailed. A superstar actor and producer, my father knows the downside of living in the spotlight. My father, Luke Williams, is the celebrity of them all. I grew up in a family full of wealthy celebrities. Vaughn is everything I’m supposed to stay away from. The Secret is the first in the Single in Seattle series! From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a forbidden romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kathryn Littlewood's culinary caper blends rich emotional flavor with truly enchanting wit, yielding one heaping portion of hilarious family adventure. A few Love Muffins and Cookies of Truth couldn't cause too much trouble. So Rose and her siblings experiment with just a couple of recipes from the forbidden Cookery Booke. ![]() Soon boring, non-magical recipes feel like life before Aunt Lily-a lot less fun. "Aunt" Lily rides a motorcycle and also whips up exotic (but delicious) dishes for dinner. Rose and her siblings are supposed to keep the Cookery Booke locked away while their parents are out of town, but then a mysterious stranger shows up. It's the Bliss Cookery Booke-an ancient, leather-bound volume of enchanted recipes like Singing Gingersnaps. The perfect novel for young readers who love baking and magic! ![]() ![]() ![]() The title character is a sort of Scrooge McDuck-type of wealthy eccentric, traveling the world on quests to find the oldest, rarest and most valuable comic books. ![]() It’s a beautiful looking book, most of the well-designed pages are simply jam-packed with 20-panel grids and colored in different shades. The technique is not used as successfully here as it was in Ice Haven, yet if this doesn’t exactly feel like an extremely important work, that may be because it wasn’t supposed to be: The cover proclaims it “A Story From The Sketchbook of the Cartoonist ‘Seth’,” and in his foreword, said cartoonist Seth explains “it’s just a send up of comic book collectors.”Īnd while it lacks the power and depth of Clowes’ best work-and the acid zing of Clowes’ sense of humor-if Wimbledon Green is Seth’s idea of a dashed-off lark, it’s certainly not apparent from the quality of the art. Well?: Thank Daniel Clowes for coining a term we can use to discuss this work-like Clowes’ Ice Haven, Wimbledon Green is a “comic strip novel,” comprised of individual comic strips of varying length and style which each contain a small part of a an overall, novel-length story. Why Now?: With a title like that, what comic book enthusiast could pass it up once they were made aware of its existence? ![]() I honestly had no idea this book even existed until I saw it sitting on a cart at the library I work part-time at, waiting to be put back on the shelf. Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Book Collector in the World (Drawn and Quarterly), by Seth ![]() |