Readers Digest UK - December 2021

DECEMBER 2021 • 119 MEET ME IN ST LOUIS (1944) Pure Technicolor perfection starring the inimitable Judy Garland, Meet Me in St L ...

TELEVISION W e leave 2021 with TV mulling the idea of institutional change. Onscreen as off, it’s proving a haphazard process, i ...

MUSIC 121 Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach One of the festive season’s most established classics, Bach’s Oratorio was ...

BOOKS The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan Sphere, £14.99 W hatever else proves in short supply this Christmas, it won’t be th ...

The answer, naturally, is quite a lot— especially once a handsome Brazilian bloke shows up. Yet, while there’s never any huge do ...

E very December, Trafalgar Square is famously dominated by a Christmas tree donated by Norway in gratitude for Britain’s help du ...

The King and the Christmas Tree by A N Wilson is published by Manilla Press at £9.99 DECEMBER 2021 • 125 escape with the Germans ...

BOOKS ’’ as a defiance of common sense. The sensible thing, as he was told by the King of Sweden, was simply to give up. But the ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 127 Shizuko’s Daughter by Kyoko Mori As a mixed race child, I often found myself wanting to hide half of who I w ...

128 • DECEMBER 2021 better and better, as more companies are discovering new chemistry and processes to make them work more effi ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 129 of upwards of 230 miles without needing to recharge. This is a big deal, as it doesn’t just make electric ca ...

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Last Christmas you gave Mum a book to read This year give her one to write Her very own private autobiography. LifeBook is the w ...

DECEMBER 2021 • 133 FUN AND GAMES Wo r d Powe r IT PAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BY GEORGE MURRAY The goose chase for the perfect gift, ...

VOCABULARY RATINGS 7–10: fair 11–12: good 13–15: excellent WORD POWER Answers 134 • DECEMBER 2021 compunction—[B] guilt. Feelin ...

ph ot o: © ge tt y^ i ma ge s By Beth Shillibeer DECEMBER 2021 • 135 TRIVIA bia. Colom4. atisse. Henri M3. VID-19. Get vaccinate ...

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CROSSWISE Te s t y o u r general knowledge. Answers on p142                      ...