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Há 6 dias · "Decca" Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy--one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters--she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the ...
Há 2 dias · This week is a writer and a member of a celebrated family, Miss Jessica Mitford. - Cap yourself to loneliness, Miss Mitford. You're on this island. You don't know how long for. I think I'd rather hate it actually, unless I had a few records. You have eight. Does music play a big part in your life? I'm afraid not really. I only like pop music.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Another narration for you guys to listen and enjoy listening to!Feel free to let me know if you want more videos like this any time soon!
11 de mai. de 2024 · The reason the British aristocracy is so rich in family feuds is because they are, in many ways, one very large family. If you take only those six Mitford sisters as a starting point, for example ...
Há 1 dia · Great Lives. Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol. It has been presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris. A distinguished guest is asked to nominate the person they feel is truly deserving of the title "Great Life".
24 de abr. de 2024 · Much like Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death (published six years earlier), the book peeled back the curtain on an utterly failing system of terminal care.
14 de mai. de 2024 · Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death (1963). Stephen Prothero, Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America (2002). Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2004). Gary Laderman, Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America (2005).
