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Who played the best pranks on his fellow team-mates? Which member of the TMS team terrorised his teachers in the annual staff-pupil game? And the truth behind 'the greatest sporting commentary of all time' • Between them, Jonathan Agnew and Phil Tufnell have probably watched more cricket than anyone alive, and they have many stories to tell, both as players and as commentators for Test Match Special. From their days as schoolboy cricketers, learning the ropes, to the shenanigans of the county circuit, and now their careers as commentators, they have seen it all • Joined by colleagues from TMS such as Isa Guha, Ebony Rainford Brent, Alison Mitchell, Carlos Brathwaite and Aatif Nawaz, Aggers and Tuffers share the highlights, mishaps and moments of brilliance and emotion that they have witnessed and experienced on pitches around the world

Fill your year with flavour • The official The Kitchen Cabinet compendium is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life of our kitchens to aid you in yours • Open up to find food tips and tricks, stories, recipes, anecdotes and seasonal fun, all held together with our trademark titbits of history, science and often rather lively debate. Join us as we travel across the country, ready to respond to all your culinary conundrums - as well as sharing lots of things you never even thought to ask

Embark on a strange and enchanting adventure with old foes and monsters in this glorious crossover of Doctor Who and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • When a sudden tornado engulfs the TARDIS, the Thirteenth Doctor and her fam find themselves transported to the magical land of Oz. With a damaged TARDIS and an unexpected stowaway from the 1930s, their only hope of getting home is to follow the yellow brick road • But when an army of scarecrows ambushes them, they quickly realise that everything is not as it should be, and they're thrown into a fight for survival against a mysterious enemy. As each of her companions becomes a shadow of their former selves, only the Doctor is left standing • Desperate to save her friends, she must embark on a perilous journey to seek help from the mysterious Wizard of Oz - and stop whatever forces are at work before she and her friends are trapped in the fictional world forever

Луна завораживала человечество с самого начала истории. Но Луна - это далеко не просто большой камень в космосе, она обладает феноменальной властью над землей, благодаря своей способности создавать огромные волны, определять продолжительность дня и вызывать смену времен года. Это ключевой игрок в истории нашей планеты • В этом уникальном фильме, посвященном Луне, эксперт по Луне и космонавтике доктор Мэгги Адерин Покок отправляет читателей в путешествие по прошлому, настоящему и будущему Луны. Она рассказывает о том, как Луна захватила наше воображение, размышляет о том, как она образовалась, и раскрывает, почему нам нужна Луна, чтобы защитить нашу хрупкую землю. Опираясь на последние научные исследования, она затем с нетерпением ожидает того, что может произойти – вернемся ли мы на Луну или она станет стартовой площадкой для полета в великое неизвестное? • Книга на английском языке

Повелители времени - чрезвычайно цивилизованная и чрезвычайно могущественная раса. Тем не менее, мы знаем о них очень мало, за исключением того, что они могут жить вечно (если не считать несчастных случаев) и владеют секретами путешествий в пространстве и во времени. Их история была окутана мифами и тайнами. До сих пор • Краткая история Повелителей времени раскрывает секреты этой древней, легендарной инопланетной расы - цивилизации, которая напустила на Вселенную самых отъявленных ренегатов и преступников, но также была доброжелательной силой, избавившей космос от его самых страшных врагов. Взятая из древних записей Галлифрея и передаваемая из поколения в поколение, эта замечательная книга раскрывает Повелителей времени во всех их обличьях: первопроходцев и помешанных на власти заговорщиков, путешественников во времени и тиранов, созидателей и разрушителей

An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds • British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain and Ireland – Stonehenge, Seahenge, Avebury and the Bend of the Boyne – as well as the discarded artefacts of day-to-day life, to create an astonishing portrait of our ancestors • This major re-revaluation of pre-Roman Britain, made possible in part by aerial photography and coastal erosion, reveals a much more sophisticated life in Ancient Britain and Ireland than has previously been supposed

On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks • The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment was on the rise, and yet, underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir • From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today

Do you know where you came from? • Who Do You Think You Are? has been a BBC hit since its first series in 2004, which ignited an extraordinary boom in researching family history in the UK. Since then, the world of genealogy has transformed and while our sources of information remain the same, our ways of accessing them have multiplied and changed beyond recognition. In this practical, easy-to-use handbook, the WDYTYA? team share their experience and expertise, essential for anyone who would like to discover their family’s history • Drawing on celebrity stories to illustrate and inspire, and providing hints, tips and practical step-by-steps this pocket handbook will bring family history to life for fans of the show, and for any amateur sleuths starting out on their own journey of discovery

Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science • First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature • In this new paperback edition, The Ascent of Man inspires, influences and informs as profoundly as ever

Attention all Shipping Forecast fans. Set sail on a voyage unlike any other • Each day, millions tune in to hear the Shipping Forecast's unique cadence and poetry, words thatturn our island landscape into something strangeand magical. It's almost like a puzzle to be solved • The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book tests your general knowledge and lateral thinking through a series of fiendish puzzles, in which all the answers can be found on a map as place names on the coasts or in the seas. For example • · An eagle's under this • · What a Komodo Dragon really is • · Near where someone was horribly cruel to 343 felines • And because your voyages trace the shapes of letters of the alphabet, that's just the beginning • With a foreword by Zeb Soanes, the voice of the Shipping Forecast, and fully illustrated with specially commissioned maps, The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book will help make you a Master of the quizzing world

Eight tracks. Endless stories • Allow yourself to be cast away in eight glorious decades of the most iconic show on radio. To mark this momentous occasion, The Definitive Desert Island Discs focuses on 80 of the most powerful and unforgettable interviews, revisiting every era of Desert Island Disc's storied history • Reflecting on how times have changed, the book will feature brand new material as castaways are interviewed about their experiences - did the conversation go how they expected? Would Sir Patrick Stewart still take his beloved billiards table (and a shed to keep it in, of course)? And does Hilary Devey stick by her endless supply of Cointreau? • Get lost in lists of the weirdest and most wonderful luxury items, most popular tracks and books throughout the years, and more