This is a radio programme suitable for those studying/working in the health sector. A valuable source of medical English and authentic listening material.
Check Up is phone-in programme where listeners have the chance to talk to doctors about the health issues that most concern them. Each week Barbara Myers is joined by a medical expert to take their calls and emails on a particular topic and give them the most up to date advice. No appointment necessary.
Barbara Sheen is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Barbara Sheen include Derek Jeter (People in the News), Pope Benedict XVI (People in the News), Allergies (Diseases and Disorders), and Tony Hawk (People in the News).
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nag Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of 42 key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 14 August 2011
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Jane and Prudence
Over the years, as Barbara Pym replaced Nancy Mitford, Georgette Heyer, even Jane Austen, as my most loved author, I devoured all her books, but JANE AND PRUDENCE remains my favourite. Even an umpteenth reading this weekend was punctuated by gasps of joy, laughter and wonder that this lovely book should remain so fresh, funny and true to life' Jilly Cooper 'The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar, and where Prudence will pay Jane a visit and find herself courted by a fatuous young widower.
Veteran campaigner Dr Barbara Rafferty's obsessive crusade to save the albatross on the Pacific atoll of Saint-Esprit suddenly gains international support when millions of TV viewers witness the shooting of her young acolyte Neil Dempsey on a foolhardy rescue mission. Soon Dr Barbara turns the deserted island into a sanctuary - a remote paradise home for Neil, an odd team of eco-enthusiasts and idealists and a growing collection of the world's endangered species. In time they will discover that some species are in more danger than others.
