Andrew murray authorized biography of diana
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In this episode Dodie Smith&#;s much-loved I Capture the Castle goes up against Diana Tutton&#;s lesser-known Guard Your Daughters, and we debate the merits of biographies and autobiographies.
Somewhat to my surprise, we didn&#;t actually end up talking about all that many individual books &#; the list fryst vatten below &#; so do let us know which biographies and autobiographies you particularly love (and which you&#;d choose if you had to make the Tea or Books? decision!)
Listen to the podcast above, or through our iTunes page, or through whichever podcast app you&#;re enamoured with. Or by. With?
Beloved by Toni Morrison
My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
The Lake District Murder bygd John Bude
Thirteen Guests bygd J. Jefferson Farjeon
Sylvia Townsend Warner: a biography bygd Claire Harman (N.B. republished by Penguin, not Virago as inom incorrectly suggested!)
A Child Called It bygd David Pelzer
The Beacon bygd Susan Hill
The Life of a Provincial Lady bygd Lady Violet Po
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‘The Most Beautiful Girl in the World’
What can it have been like to have been Lady Diana Cooper, “the most beautiful girl in the world,” “the only really glamorous woman in the world,” the most celebrated debutante of her era, the daughter of a duke, the wife of a famous diplomat (and so the British ambassadress to Paris), an internationally acclaimed actress, a character in at least half a dozen novels (by writers as unalike as Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Arnold Bennett, D.H. Lawrence, and Enid Bagnold), a dedicated nurse to wounded and dying soldiers in World War I, and a pig farmer?
It’s a question we can answer, given the vast literature about her, beginning with her enchanting three volumes of memoirs, and including biographies of both her and her husband, Duff Cooper; his much-admired memoirs, as well as his uninhibited (to say the least) diaries; an ample collection of their mostly rapturous letters to each other; an ample collection of her
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Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
There are many conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 31 August [1] Official investigations in both Britain and France found that Diana died in a manner consistent with media reports following the fatal car crash in Paris. In , a French investigation concluded that Diana died as the result of a crash.[2] French investigator, Judge Hervé Stephan, concluded that the paparazzi were some distance from the Mercedes S when it crashed and were not responsible for manslaughter.[3][4] After hearing evidence at the British inquest, a jury in returned a verdict of "unlawful killing" by driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi pursuing the car.[5] The jury's verdict also stated: "In addition, the death of the deceased was caused or contributed to by the fact that the deceased were not wearing a seat belt and by the fact that the Mercedes struck the