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In recent years, there has been a lot in the news about the abuse suffered by children in the care of the church, particularly the Catholic Church. After years of such abuse, many parts of the church have since offered apologies and reparation. Something like this isn't necessarily the kind of thing you would expect to see as the basis for a novel, but that is the background against which Jonathan Gash's "BadGirl Magdalene" is set.
Magda Finnan is a child of The Magdalenes, an orphanage run by nuns. Having reached the age at which she can leave, she has a job as a domestic at the St Cosmo Old People's Home, also run by a group of nuns and a place of her own to live. Unfortunately, Magda is still haunted by dreams of an evening back at the Magdalenes, where her best friend Lucy was abused by a priest and ended the night by ending her ...
Advantages: Gripping Drama. Disadvantages: can be disturbing.
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A unique Great British drama series, set within a women?s prison in Lark Hall. The series portrays around the prisoners on G wing covering a vast amount of controversial yet disturbing issues, from drugs, abuse, rape, affairs, child abuse, corruption, injustice, brutality to suicide and murder. A dramatic yet powerful series following the everyday lives and traumas of the inmates, from their hidden depths to their custodial sentences. The show has endured 5 series so far, series 6 starts tonight, Wednesday 14 April 2004 on ITV1 at 9.00 pm.
BadGirls Facts:
The show won best- loved drama award during the 2002 TV awards.
Watched by an estimated 8 million viewers.
Broadcast on ITV since 1999.
Characters:
Yvonne Atkins (Linda Henry) - A powerful prisoner, wife of a famous ...
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The BadGirl, by Mario Vargas Llosa and translated by Edith Grossman, is a tale of apparently unrequited love that spans four decades and three continents. Ricardo is a Peruvian translator who spends most of the book living in Paris. As the years roll by, the girl he fell in love with at the age of thirteen flits in and out of his life. Ricardo spends his life devoted to 'Lily', and seems doomed to a lifetime of having his spirits crushed every time she vanishes to find another wealthy powerful man.
This bleak tale unfolds against the backdrop of Peruvian revolution, the Swinging Sixties, the emergence of AIDS and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Ricardo is our first person narrator, and he comments on all of these things and more.
Is the BadGirl Good?
Some critics have seized on the author's regard for Flaubert ...
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Product details
Title
Bad Girls
Performer
Donna Summer
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Disco
Release Date
02/1987
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1979
Label / Distributor
Casablanca / Universal Music
Engineer
Juergen Koppers
Producer
Giorgio Moroder; Pete Bellote
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
42282255723
Catalogue Number
8225572
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar); Al Perkins (pedal steel guitar); Gary Herbig (saxophone); Steve Madaio, Jerry Hey (trumpet); Slide Hyde (trombone); Jai Winding (piano); Harold Faltermeyer (keyboards, synthesizer, bass); Bob Gaudio (bass); Keith Forsey (drums, percussion). Recorded at Rusk Sound Studio, Los Angeles, California. Largely regarded as Donna Summer's rock & roll album, thanks to some hot guitars mixed in with the synthesizers, 1979's BAD GIRLS mostly sounds like an indication of the way mainstream pop music would sound in the 1980s. It's hard to imagine Michael Jackson's THRILLER, David Bowie's LET'S DANCE or Madonna's LIKE A VIRGIN without this punchy and enormously successful blend of dancefloor heat, rock & roll cool, and smart pop songwriting. Starting off with the killer one-two punch of "Hot Stuff" and the title track--possibly Summer's two best songs ever--the rest of the 70-minute-plus CD (originally a double album) features a handful of exceptional, dramatic ballads and some pure dance music in the mode of earlier hits like "I Feel Love." Though the songs are still lengthy, the arrangements are tighter and poppier than before. BAD GIRLS is a disco-rock classic.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone - 3 Stars - Good
Titles on disc 1
1.
Hot Stuff
2.
Bad Girls
3.
Love Will Always Find You
4.
Walk Away
5.
Dim All The Lights
6.
Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart
7.
One Night In A Lifetime
8.
Can't Get To Sleep At Night
9.
On My Honour
10.
There Will Always Be You
11.
All Through The Night
12.
My Baby Understands
13.
One Love
14.
Lucky
15.
Sunset People
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