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Sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office, where the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's life. David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan Partridge) stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox, who is a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health and safety. He's single, but why does he need to be married? He's married thousands of women. Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna, who has been parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and Malcolm) into the 21st century.

Maggie is a ginger-haired, 12-year-old orphan who has been passed from one foster family to the next all of her life. She never knows where she’ll end up, so she’s become suspicious and independent, scrappy and resourceful. As the story begins, Maggie is yet again placed into foster care - this time into a much more welcoming family.

What happens when you fall in love with the wrong person? The consequences threaten to be far-reaching and potentially deadly. Bone Deep is a contemporary novel of sibling rivalry, love, betrayal and murder. It is a dual narrative, told in alternative chapters by Mac, a woman bent on keeping the secrets of the past from her only son, and the enigmatic Lucie, whose own past is something of a closed book.

Renowned theater critic John Lahr created a bold reworking of Richard Condon’s political thriller, updating the action to the 1990s while retaining the core premise of a brainwashed war hero who’s programmed to become an assassin. Kelsey Grammer stars as Raymond Shaw in this co-production with Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre, starring the original cast.

After overhearing a plot to kill Mary Queen of Scots, Abby Gordon is sent from Paris to the Laird of Glenorchy’s home at Kilchurn Castle for safety. Disguised as a boy, she becomes a lute player among the household musicians where she encounters the laird’s hostage, the attractive Iain MacGregor, a pawn in the laird’s struggle for power in Scotland’s turbulent politics. But is Iain really a hostage to fortune or is he playing his own dangerous game?

Erica Hutchinson has enough on her plate and longs for a quiet life. As an overworked barista and single mother, it’s already a daily struggle to hide the fact she’s secretly a witch and werewolf. But, things are about to get a lot more complicated. After a run-in with a killer last year, Erica has caught the attention of the nastier elements of Glasgow’s occult underworld. She’s now on the radar of the city’s newest serial killer - a masked man invading women’s dreams and hanging them in their sleep.

She’d move mountains for a cure. But reentering the supernatural world to chase an antidote could get her killed. Scotland. Erica Hutchinson can barely juggle her life as it is. Orphaned at age eight and a struggling single mother by 18, the witch-werewolf barista has worked hard to forget her occult origins. But her buried past comes crashing back when her beloved child catches a deadly lupine virus. Willing to go down whatever road it takes, Erica returns to her former life to heal her daughter from a sickness with no survivors.

A curse haunts the MacFarlane clan: Any firstborn daughter of the laird must be given to Clan Grant in marriage, or she will die. Headstrong Sorcha MacFarlane flees the colonies to Scotland to meet the father she never knew existed. Tricked into a marriage she never wanted, she soon learns her new husband has some stringent rules she is expected to follow.

Logan is thrilled that he is now a big brother to baby Finley. When he visits his Mom and Finley at the hospital, he is so excited to learn that he is now ‘in charge’. Back at the family’s farm, set in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, Logan sets off to tell his pals (the farm animals) his wonderful news. However, Logan soon realizes that all is not clear, and life can be a bit of a mystery when it comes to being 'in charge.'

Join Logan for another exciting adventure on his family farm, in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. He is joined by his new friend, Samir, for an exciting day of discovery and adventure, exploring all the sights and sounds during his first time on a farm. With his best friend Flora, the family sheepdog, by his side....what could possibly go wrong? Listen to their fun adventure!

Join Logan as he is about to experience his first day at school. Share in his excitement (and a few nerves), as he looks forward to meeting his new teacher and having lots of fun and games with his fantastic new friends! He can’t wait to meet them all and discover what new adventures the day will hold for him.

Join Logan on his first adventure out on his family’s Scottish Farm. As his best friend Flora, the sheep dog, has gone missing, Logan searches around the Farm to ask the animals if they know where his friend might be. Their responses are not always what Logan expects. I wonder if you can guess what’s happened to her. But be prepared for a few surprises along the way.

Scotland, summer 1556. Desperation drives Abby Gordon to seek refuge with Iain MacGregor and ask his help, but will he give her something more for her heart, instead? After escaping the clutches of wily Laird Glenorchy, Abby Gordon arrives at the MacGregor stronghold to take part in a chain of events that brings Iain to the brink of banishment and disaster to the clan.

Captured and imprisoned by the Germans three months after landing in the second wave at Normandy during World War II, William (Bill) Bonsall later escaped to Poland and ultimately competed on the 1948 U.S. Men’s Gymnastics Olympic Team. Forty years later, he recorded his life experiences in a series of audio tapes that cover the decade between 1940 and 1950, a period he called “violent” because of the tumultuous upheavals of the times.