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A Mind to Kill: Series 3 (DVD)
Philip Madoc, Ffion Wilkins, Sharon Morgan, Gillian Elisa, Ieuan Rhys, …
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All six episodes from the third season of the Welsh crime drama
series starring Philip Madoc as DCI Noel Bain, who relies more on
instinct than scientific evidence to track down criminals. Episodes
are: 'Shadow Falls', 'Box', 'The Inner Life of Strangers', 'Colour
Blind', 'Sound Bites', 'Engineer', 'Blood and Water' and 'The
Little House in the Forest'.
A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging,
following the scenic route along the England–Wales border:
Britain’s deepest faultline. There is a line on the map: to one
side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; the other England, crucible
of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a
line that has been dug, debated, defined and defended for twenty
centuries. The Land of Lost Content is a personal journey through
the places, amongst the people, and across the divides of the
border between England and Wales. Taking in some of our loveliest
landscapes, and our darkest secrets, this is a region of
immeasurable wonder and interest. It is there that the deepest
roots and thorniest paradoxes of Britishness lie. The border
between the countries, even as a concept, is ragged, jagged and
many-layered. Garlanded author Mike Parker has adored and explored
these places his entire life. Born in England but settled in Wales,
he finds himself typical of many in being pulled in both
directions. His journey is divided into three legs, corresponding
with the watersheds of the three great border rivers: the Dee in
the north, the Severn in the centre, the Wye in the south. Neither
quite England nor Wales, the furzy borderland he uncovers — the
March — is another country. A hefty schlep from everywhere, these
are A. E. Housman’s ‘blue remembered hills’ — his ‘land
of lost content’ — and ours too. Picking apart the many notions
and clichés of Englishness, Welshness and indeed Britishness, Mike
Parker plays with the very idea of borders, our fascination with
them, our need for them, and our response to their power. In his
hands, England–Wales border is revealed to be a border within us
all, and it is fraying, fast.
This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a
long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker
period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500
BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South
Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its
sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the
18th–16th centuries BC and a row of three Late Bronze Age
sunken-floored roundhouses constructed in the 10th century BC.
Beneath these roundhouses, four inhumation graves contained
skeletons, two of which were remains of composite collections of
body parts with evidence for post-mortem soft tissue preservation
prior to burial. They have proved to be the first evidence for
mummification in Bronze Age Britain. Cladh Hallan's remarkable
stratigraphic sequence, preserved in the machair sand of South
Uist, includes a unique 500-year sequence of roundhouse life in
Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain. One of the most important
results of the excavation has come from intensive environmental and
micro-debris sampling of house floors and outdoor areas to recover
patterns of discard and to interpret the spatial use of 15 domestic
interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. From
Cladh Hallan’s roundhouse floors we gain intimate insights into
how daily life was organized within the house - where people
cooked, ate, worked and slept. Such evidence rarely survives from
prehistoric houses in Britain or Europe, and the results make a
profound contribution to long-running debates about the sunwise
organisation of roundhouse activities. Activity at Cladh Hallan
ended with the construction and abandonment of two unusual
double-roundhouses in the Early Iron Age. One appears to have been
a smokery and steam room, and the other was used for metalworking.
A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging,
following the scenic route along the England–Wales border:
Britain’s deepest faultline. There is a line on the map: to one
side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; the other England, crucible
of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a
line that has been dug, debated, defined and defended for twenty
centuries. All the Wide Border is a personal journey through the
places, amongst the people, and across the divides of the border
between England and Wales. Taking in some of our loveliest
landscapes, and our darkest secrets, this is a region of
immeasurable wonder and interest. It is there that the deepest
roots and thorniest paradoxes of Britishness lie. The border
between the countries, even as a concept, is ragged, jagged and
many-layered. Garlanded author Mike Parker has adored and explored
these places his entire life. Born in England but settled in Wales,
he finds himself typical of many in being pulled in both
directions. His journey is divided into three legs, corresponding
with the watersheds of the three great border rivers: the Dee in
the north, the Severn in the centre, the Wye in the south. Neither
quite England nor Wales, the furzy borderland he uncovers — the
March — is another country. A hefty schlep from everywhere, these
are A. E. Housman’s ‘blue remembered hills’ — his ‘land
of lost content’ — and ours too. Picking apart the many notions
and clichés of Englishness, Welshness and indeed Britishness, Mike
Parker plays with the very idea of borders, our fascination with
them, our need for them, and our response to their power. In his
hands, England–Wales border is revealed to be a border within us
all, and it is fraying, fast.
'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said '
Mike Parker, presenter of Radio 4 s On the Map, celebrates the
richness of all things maps in this fantastic, critically-acclaimed
read.
Have you ever got through an entire day without referring to
some kind of navigational aide, be it checking the A-Z, touring the
globe on Google Earth, planning a walk or navigating a shopping
centre? Maps are everywhere and they are, according to self
proclaimed map-addict Mike Parker, the unsung heroes of life. Here
he sings their song, celebrating everything cartographic.
With a mix of wry observation and hard fact, the offbeat and the
completely pedantic, Parker wages a one-man war against the moronic
blandishments of the Sat Nav age. He combines cartographic history
and trivia with memoir and oblique observation to create a highly
readable expose of the world of maps. Only here can you find out
which area has officially been named by the OS as the most boring
square kilometre in the land and whether Milton Keynes was really
built to pagan alignment.
Confessing that his own impressive map collection was founded on
a virulent teenage shoplifting habit Parker ponders how a good
leftie can be so gung-ho about British cartographic imperialism and
establishes himself as defender and saviour of British cartography
in the internet age."
Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result
of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker
Pearson, and included not only Stonehenge itself but also the
nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This book is
about the people who built Stonehenge and its relationship to the
surrounding landscape. The book explores the theory that the people
of Durrington Walls built both Stonehenge and Durrington Walls, and
that the choice of stone for constructing Stonehenge has a
significance so far undiscovered, namely, that stone was used for
monuments to the dead. Through years of thorough and extensive work
at the site, Parker Pearson and his team unearthed evidence of the
Neolithic inhabitants and builders which connected the settlement
at Durrington Walls with the henge, and contextualised Stonehenge
within the larger site complex, linked by the River Avon, as well
as in terms of its relationship with the rest of the British Isles.
Parker Pearson's book changes the way that we think about
Stonehenge; correcting previously erroneous chronology and dating;
filling in gaps in our knowledge about its people and how they
lived; identifying a previously unknown type of Neolithic building;
discovering Bluestonehenge, a circle of 25 blue stones from western
Wales; and confirming what started as a hypothesis - that
Stonehenge was a place of the dead - through more than 64 cremation
burials unearthed there, which span the monument's use during the
third millennium BC. In lively and engaging prose, Parker Pearson
brings to life the imposing ancient monument that continues to hold
a fascination for everyone.
The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to
understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary
rituals we can learn not only about the attitudes of prehistoric
people to death and the afterlife, but also about their way of
life, their social organisation and their view of the world. This
ambitious new book reviews the latest research in this huge and
important field, and describes the sometimes controversial
interpretations that have led to rapid advances in our
understanding of life and death in the distant past. It provides a
unique overview and synthesis of one of the most revealing fields
of research into the past, It creates a context for several of
archaeology's most breath-taking discoveries, from Tutankhamen to
the Ice Man, and will find a keen market among archaeologists,
historians and others who have a professional interest in, or
general curiosity about, death and burial.
Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very
full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and
passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land
ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our
cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly
finds himself at a crossroads. Provocative, funny and personal,
this book celebrates Britain's unique and extraordinary network of
footpaths. It examines their chequered and surprisingly turbulent
history, from the Enclosures Acts of the eighteenth century to the
1932 Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in Derbyshire; and from the
hard-won post-war establishment of great National Trails like the
Pennine Way to the dramatic latter-day battles by the likes of
Nicholas van Hoogstraten and Madonna to keep ramblers off their
land. The story ranges far and wide, to all corners of the country
and beyond, and is filled with the many characters that Mike
engages with along the way - the poets and artists, farmers and
ramblers, landowners and Rights of Way officers and campaigners,
historians, archivists and anyone else who crosses his path (or
even tries to block it).
A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the
redemptive power of nature.
In 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the
civil partnership of their friends Reg and George, the first in the
small Welsh town of Machynlleth. Years later, when Reg and George died
within a few weeks of each other, Mike and Peredur discovered that they
had been left their home: a whitewashed ‘house from the children’s
stories’, buried deep within the hills.
On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch, ‘the Red Hill’, and its
inhabitants, but also the story of a remarkable rural community and a
legacy that extends far beyond bricks and mortar. It is a story that
celebrates the turn of the year’s wheel, of ever-changing landscapes,
and of the family found in the unlikeliest of places.
Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric
ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years
have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who
flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation about
Stonehenge s celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even
aliens and druids. One would think that the numerous research
expeditions at Stonehenge had left no stone unturned. Yet, before
the Stonehenge Riverside Project a hugely ambitious, seven-year dig
by today s top archaeologists all previous digs combined had only
investigated a fraction of the monument, and many records from
those earlier expeditions are either inaccurate or
incomplete.Stonehenge A New Understanding rewrites the story. From
2003 to 2009, author Mike Parker Pearson led the Stonehenge
Riverside Project, the most comprehensive excavation ever conducted
around Stonehenge. The project unearthed a wealth of fresh evidence
that had gone untouched since prehistory. Parker Pearson uses that
evidence to present a paradigm-shifting theory of the true
significance that Stonehenge held for its builders and mines his
field notes to give you a you-are-there view of the dirt, drama,
and thrilling discoveries of this history-changing archaeological
dig."
Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse
settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer
Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its
unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of
occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings,
provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead
during two centuries of near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000
-1200. Although the excavation at Cille Pheadair was a rescue
project undertaken before the site was destroyed by coastal
erosion, it provided an opportunity to address important research
questions about the domestic use of space, agricultural economy,
and relationships with the wider world beyond the Outer Hebrides.
Careful and ground-breaking analysis of preserved house floors
provided profound insights into the changing use of space within a
Norse longhouse and its surrounding outbuildings. The rich
assemblage of pottery, ironwork, gold and silver reveals that the
inhabitants of Cille Pheadair had long-distance connections across
the Viking world. A battery of scientific studies, including faunal
and floral analyses, isotopic and lipid residue analyses, and soil
chemistry, have revealed much about the social and economic
dimensions of life on a Norse farm. Detailed survey and excavation
in South Uist, reveals a remarkable picture of Norse-period
settlement across this island which was part of the insular Viking
world between Ireland and Norway, becoming part of the Kingdom of
Man and later the Kingdom of the Isles. Cille Pheadair's status as
an ordinary, if wealthy, farmstead can be contrasted with the much
larger and longer-lived high-status settlement at Bornais to the
north. The two sites together provide a fascinating insight into
similarities and differences within the settlement hierarchy of the
time that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of
the Viking world.
When The Adventures of Tom Sawyer first appeared in 1876 it was a
dismal failure, selling fewer than 24,000 copies during its first
year on the market. It wasn't until Mark Twain published his
masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that Tom Sawyer
truly gained an audience, perhaps due to the rapscallion's brief
appearance in that novel.
Tom Sawyer, perhaps even more than Peter Pan, is the icon for
eternal boyhood. Whether playing hooky from school, exploring the
depths of a cavern, romancing a fair maiden, hunting for buried
treasure or even attending his own funeral, Tom is an endearing
composite of brash American confidence, unbridled enthusiasm and
fresh-faced naivety, and he is certainly one of Mark Twain's most
memorable characters.
Although Twain gained his initial reputation as a newspaper
reporter, his was a storyteller at heart, winning fans with his
sparkling wit and keen observations of human nature in such popular
tales as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" and "A
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court." It is fitting that
Twain himself should be a primary character in bringing Tom's story
to life on the stage in playwright, Mike Parker's, delightful
adaptation, Mark Twain Presents The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Tyrfingr. Its appearing portends the end of the world...or the
beginning of a new age. Some believe it to be a grimoire, a book of
ancient evil with the power to divide the truth from lies, light
from darkness, bone from marrow, the soul from the spirit. Some say
it even has the power to raise the dead back to life. Others claim
it to be the marvelous Sword of Light - the sword that could only
be drawn from its resting place on the Corner Stone beneath the
Dome of the Rock by the hand of the true king, who will himself
return from the dead to deliver mankind at its darkest hour. One
thing is sure - whoever holds Tyrfingr rules the world. Two men
long for its power. Only one can pull it from the Stone.
Signed or indie; beginner or seasoned pro; whether you are an
artist, author, actor, promoter, or even a church hosting an event
- you have something, or someone, that needs to be promoted.
That someone might even by you
Whether your platform is national or local, chances are the
lion's share of the promotional activity will be on your shoulders.
In today's ultra-competitive marketplace, Christian creatives must
be heavily involved in in promoting themselves and their works.
You CAN build your business and develop your career...without
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