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  Radio 1: The Inside Scene -...

  Johnny Beerling

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  Delve into the past with Johnny Beerling as he shares stories of awe and wonder from his time with Britain’s favourite radio station. Learn how he gained musical identity, staged the first ever British Rock & Pop Awards, and toured the country with the Radio 1 Roadshow, the biggest daily audience show that the BBC ever initiated. You’ll quickly deplore the fact that things just ain’t how they used to be.Johnny Beerling is one of radio’s most prominent individuals; he produced Radio 1’s first ever program in ’67, and quickly became a world class radio producer and station controller. He was controller of Radio 1 from 1985-93, and to no one's surprise he won the Ferguson Award in ’92 for his Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio, and was elected President of the Television and Radio Industry Club of Great Britain in ’93; he was even presented with a Sony Award for Outstanding Services to the Radio Industry that same year. And this is his story, written and read by the legend himself.

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  In This Economy?

  Gary Gulman

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  In this stand-up special, money is a wellspring for the comedy of funnyman Gary Gulman, who aims darts at the überwealthy — including Donald Trump.

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  Words of Hope and Comfort

  Dallas Holm

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  Dallas Holm has had a significant influence in Christian music for over four decades. Songs like Rise Again, I Saw the Lord and Here We Are, as well as his thirty-eight recordings, have chronicled the life and ministry of this singer songwriter. 
  Now in the book Words of Hope and Comfort, he offers the stories behind the songs. Here as both songwriter and storyteller he shares the joys and the sorrows, the victories and struggles common to us all throughout life's journey. 
  You'll find yourself laughing and you'll find yourself crying as you read. Most importantly, you'll receive Words of Hope and Comfort.

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  The Heart - Frida Kahlo in Paris

  Marc Petitjean

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  This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in New York, Frida Kahlo was devastated to learn from her husband, Diego Rivera, that he intended to divorce her. This latest blow followed a long series of betrayals, most painful of all his affair with her beloved younger sister, Cristina, in 1934. In early 1939, anxious and adrift, Kahlo traveled from the United States to France—her only trip to Europe, and the beginning of a unique period of her life when she was enjoying success on her own.Now, for the first time, this previously overlooked part of her story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris, where Kahlo spends her days alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo’s whirlwind romance with the author’s father, Michel Petitjean, as a jumping-off point, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris provides a striking portrait of the artist and an inside look at the history of one of her most powerful, enigmatic paintings.

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  Bright Star

  Original Radio Broadcast

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  “Starring Irene Dunne as Susan...and Fred MacMurray as George...together in a gay new exciting comedy adventure...Bright Star!”Bright Star chronicles the happenings at the offices of The Hillsdale Morning Star, a small town newspaper owned and edited by Susan Armstrong. Played by Irene Dunne as a no-nonsense professional, Susan nevertheless has a sweet spot for her star reporter. George Harvey, played by Fred MacMurray as an energetic and competitive journalist, challenges, bothers, and bewilders his boss at every turn.Personal chemistry charges the plotlines, with MacMurray and Dunne bouncing off each other like a role-reversed Tracy and Hepburn. Susan’s sardonic housekeeper, played by veteran character comedienne Elvia Allman, adds further snap to the proceedings. And, together, these charming characters make headlines!Episodes Include: "The Haunted House" (02-26-53); "Rodeo Star" (03-05-53); "Scientific Living" (03-12-53); "New Homemaker Page Editor" (03-19-53); "Hotel Room Shortage" (03-26-53); "Aunt Sophia Plays Matchmaker" (04-02-53); "The Talking Parrot" (04-09-53); "Patience’s Ad" (04-16-53).

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  Hollywood's War with Poland...

  M.B.B. Biskupski

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  “This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study” reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood’s portrayal of Poles (Choice).   During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. Often the characterizations were as black and white as the movies themselves: Americans and their allies were heroes, while everyone else was a villain.   The peoples of Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England were all good because they had been invaded or victimized by Nazi Germany. Yet Poland—the first country to be invaded by the Third Reich—was repeatedly represented in a negative light. In this prize-winning study, Polish historian M. B. B. Biskupski explores why.   Biskupski presents a close critical study of prewar and wartime films such as To Be or Not to Be, In Our Time, and None Shall Escape. Through memoirs, letters, diaries, and memoranda written by screenwriters, directors, studio heads, and actors, Biskupski examines how the political climate, and especially pro-Soviet sentiment, influenced Hollywood films of the time.  Winner of the Oscar Halecki PrizeA Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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