Martin Sixsmith
Birth date: September 24, 1954
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I picked this book up at the library mainly because I'd seen snippets of the movie and was curious. I don't think the movie is anything like the book, though - the latter is mainly a reconstruction of Philomena's son's life, after he was adopted, with very little of Philomena in it save for the fir...
bookshelves: film-only, winter-20132014, published-2009, biography, nonfiction, true-grime Read from February 18 to 23, 2014 When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a 'fallen woman' and at the...
A huge tome covering 1000 years of Russian history, and the book of the Radio 4 series.The first 180 odd pages cover the first 900 years up to the revolution, and then the remainder is from the 1917 revolution. It is a comprehensive history and written in a eminently readable way.Well worth a read f...
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Epic! R4. Historically, the changes made mean that Russia constantly stays the same. (Quote from The Thunderer - 'Sixsmith was the BBC's correspondent in Moscow, knows many of the Russians...His forensic manner is like a Panorama programme.')blurbs - Russia in its earliest history was a disorderly g...
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