The lecture is in the form of†the shrink-wrap versio? of a novel titled Latham Rises, told in the first person by a crank named Wrinkles who lives on an island in the middle of a creek. He...

Conceived on May Morning, Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot, one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer, spell-weaver and midwife…and, some say, a...

Artemis' mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years...

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished. Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and...

BBC radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....

C.J. Adams, who'd been teased about her seeming lack of interest in men, one day impulsively embraced a handsome stranger, pretending they were secret lovers. Then the man seized the moment to...

There is a need for accessible short biographies of key people for younger listeners. Following the success of Famous Paople I, Nicolas Soames presents another varied group of men and women who...