Meetings with remarkable animalsGuide dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He'd always been a soft touch when it came to animals. One more couldn't hurt. Adopting Laura opened his eyes to the extraordinary care provided by assistance dogs, but also piqued his curiosity. Throughout history, our meetings with remarkable animals

and rituals and activities for kindness

he didn't have the flair of a Pirès or an Henry

This collection of warming dishes from North America and the colder countries of Northern Europe includes tasty recipes from the snowiest climes

rocket projectiles and radar equipment with which to challenge the enemy

in the late 1950s onwards a young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world

and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone café

enlarging and deepening the conversation

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For every moment in your life there is a poem

Paradoxically

once sat down and worked out the rules of murder