Risultati letto da "Ben" in Tutte le categorie

Il banchiere francese Édouard Stern, il miliardario Michael Rockefeller, il proprietario del marchio Birra Coors, l'architetto che progettò il Madison Square Garden, il marchese Camillo Casati di Soncino, l'editrice multimilionaria Ida Wood, il pari d'Inghilterra Lord Lucan... persone influenti, privilegiate e ricchissime, sono state vittime o carnefici al centro di gravissimi fatti di cronaca che sconvolsero l'opinione pubblica. Protagonisti di misteri mai del tutto chiariti, raccontano la loro versione nella serie "Delitti di Lusso".

L'enigma Claus Von Bulow, uomo affascinante ed ambiguo accusato di aver ridotto a un vegetale sua moglie, gli inganni mortali di H.H. Holmes che nel suo hotel labirinto a Chicago uccise più di 27 persone, la follia del dottor Carl von Cosel che visse con il cadavere trafugato di una sua giovane paziente per otto anni, le oscure sorelle Wardlaw finite in cella per aver ridotto alla fame e e poi lasciato morire la loro figlia e nipote, sono alcune delle storie vere, avvenute tra la fine dell'Ottocento e il Novecento negli Stati Uniti.

I diavoli sono gli uomini dell'alta finanza che decidono i destini del pianeta, manipolano la realtà, condizionano le vite di milioni di esseri umani. Invisibili custodi della supremazia dell'Occidente, combattono una battaglia segreta per la difesa dell'ordine costituito, che giudicano il male minore davanti all'imprevedibile insorgere del caos. I diavoli è anche il bestseller che Guido Maria Brera ha dedicato all'universo delle grandi banche d'affari, trasposto nell'omonima fiction internazionale con Alessandro Borghi e Patrick Dempsey.

This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Andy Barratt of Daniel Defoe's less famous sequel to the classic adventure 'Robinson Crusoe'. After returning to England from his island home, Robinson Crusoe sets sail once more in search of adventure. Starring Tim McInnerny as Robinson Crusoe, with...

Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a formidable matriarch, Luca. Clare meets and quickly marries Martin, who falls just as much in love with her fun, sparky family. But Martin makes a mistake and sets in train a series of events which brings the family to its knees. Starring...

A three-part thriller by John Dryden. In Part 1, 'The Present', Dr Jan Roldano, microbiologist and WHO advisor on infectious diseases, arrives in Bangkok to give a keynote lecture at a medical conference. But when a virulent strain of bird flu emerges, he finds himself trapped in Thailand...

In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War. Charles' mind travels back twenty years to when...

Here are all six episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Ben Willbond and Justin Edwards about two incompetent science teachers who work at a college that specialises in drama, and whose world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new boss. Forresters Sixth Form College...

Pompous critics and culture journalists Martin Bain-Jones (Armstrong) and Craig Children (Miller), present a frightfully clever culture show, a wry look at the fringes of popular music. They’re hip, they’re happening – so they say – and in these four episodes they discuss Boy Bands...

Alice Law siempre ha tenido una única meta: convertirse en una de las mentes más brillantes en el campo de la magia. Lo ha sacrificado todo para tratar de conseguirlo: su orgullo, su salud, su vida amorosa y, por supuesto, su cordura. Todo para trabajar con el profesor Jacob Grimes en Cambridge, el mago más grande del mundo. Hasta que el profesor muere en un accidente mágico que podría haber sido culpa de Alice.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Founder of Keto Kamp and health expert reveals the main reason why 93 percent of Americans are metabolically unhealthy, and provides a 30-day reset to restore their metabolism for good. Metabolic Freedom is for those who are fed up with the failed diet dogma of fad...

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett...

Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published. Life is not safe for Alem. His father is Ethopian, his mother Eritrean. Their countries are at war, and Alem is welcome in neither place. So Alem is excited to spend a holiday in London with his father - until he wakes up to find him gone. What seems like a betrayal is in fact an act of love, but now Alem is alone in a strange country and he must forge his own path....

The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, living in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items. A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destroy Clod's world.

Era de suponer que las autoras June Hayward y Athena Liu iban a alcanzar juntas el estrellato: ambas se graduaron a la vez en Yale y publicaron su primer libro el mismo año. Pero, pasado el tiempo, Athena ha triunfado en varios géneros literarios y June no ha conocido aún las mieles del éxito. Así que cuando June es testigo de la muerte de Athena en un horrible accidente, actúa de forma impulsiva: roba la obra maestra que Athena acababa de terminar, una novela sobre las contribuciones de los trabajadores chinos tanto en Gran Bretaña como en Francia durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

A well-to-do professor working in Moscow strikes up an unlikely friendship with a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man into the dog. With a wild, but alarmingly human animal on the loose, the professor's previously respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond his imagination. A superb satirical novel, it is also a sharp and pointed criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolution.

Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty. Their governess must struggle alone to confront and exorcise the demons that she believes possess their souls....

Chloe Pirrie and Ben Batt star in this stunning dramatisation of Emily Brontë's classic, adapted by bestselling author Rachel Joyce When homeless orphan Heathcliff is brought to the isolated, storm-swept farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, he sparks very different emotions in the children of the...

Quando Iola Anne Poole, un'anziana signora dell'isola di Hatteras, muore nel letto della sua abitazione, Tandi Jo Reese viene incaricata di risistemare la casa della defunta che è anche proprietaria del cottage in cui lei abita. In fuga da un matrimonio oppressivo e da un passato tormentato che continua a perseguitare anche il suo presente, Tandi è scappata insieme ai suoi due bambini e ora vive di fronte alla splendida e sontuosa villa vittoriana della signora Poole. Anche se le due donne non si sono mai conosciute, è stata proprio Tandi a ritrovarla, ormai morta, nel suo letto.