In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live performance, which Beatrice repeated with a nightingale for the BBC every spring until 1942. These broadcasts transformed the public interest in nightingales – a species already in decline.
If Beatrice’s duets with the nightingales touched a chord with the world, her own life proved to...
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Maria Popova started Brain Pickings in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven friends and which she eventually brought online. The site was added to the Librar...
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 192 ● ISBN 9781805300199 ● Tamaño de archivo 5.9 MB ● Edad 22-99 años ● Editor Patricia Cleveland-Peck ● Editorial Canongate Books ● Ciudad Edinburgh ● País GB ● Publicado 2024 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 9154217 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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