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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' through the post-war desolation of 'The Waste Land' and the spiritual struggle of 'Ash-Wednesday', to the enduring charm of 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'.

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous people group killed her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had thrown the spears, demonstrating the power of Christ’s forgiveness.

Am 8. Januar 1956 wurden die von indianischen Speeren durchbohrten Leichen von fünf Männern am Ufer des Rio Curaray im Amazonastiefland von Ecuador gefunden. Unter ihnen der 29-jährige Pioniermissionar Jim Elliot. In diesem anhand von Originaldokumenten recherchierten Hörspiel wird sein beeindruckendes Leben mitreißend erzählt, dass sich durch seine Zielstrebigkeit, Zweifel, Niederlagen und zahlreiche Glaubenserfahrungen vom Lebensweg vieler Zeitgenossen deutlich abhob. Ein kompromissloses Leben für Gott, das zahlreiche Anstöße für das eigene Glaubensleben gibt.

When the digital and the dead intersect, Elliot finds himself caught in a cybernetic web of the past. Guided by ghosts with unfinished stories, a young genius battles to control the digital streams that anchor them to this world. Each line of code leads deeper into a labyrinth of deceit, ancient secrets, and spectral whispers. Born into an ancient and powerful family, Henry is committed by birth and blood to a role he refuses to accept.