AuthorPeter Ackroyd
NarratorSimon Callow
Duration3h
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Sociology
Key StageKS4
PublisherRandom House
VersionUnabridged
This social history audiobook vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.
The Beginning: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Anthony Richardson
Duration 4h 30m
There was once a world of blazing heat and falling meteorites, of enormous rodents and gigantic scorpions, where eventually, out of the violence and the chaos, the first humans emerged. That world is brought to life again in this audiobook. Dare you voyage back through the mists of time to the beginning?
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator William Hope
Duration 5h 45m
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. He wrote for and edited a number of literary magazines, and was influential among critics and writers of the American south. His versatile...
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 10h 7m
Poet, forger and genius Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged only eighteen. His death was thought to be suicide: but what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scope become obsessed with decoding the clues found in an eighteenth-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions. CONTAINS ADULT...
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Escape From Earth: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Paul Medlicott
Duration 3h 24m
Only 60 years after first taking to the skies, humankind's endless curiosity sent our species blazing into space. But how? Why? What have we found? Where will we explore next? The answers aren't just 'out there' - they're also in here. Prepare for blast-off, you are about to escape from Earth.
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Citizen Guides: What Happens At the Stock Exchange
Author: Soraya Moeng
Author Soraya Moeng
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
What is the London Stock Exchange? Why do companies float on it? The decisions taken at the London Stock Exchange can have an important effect on you, but do you know what actually happens there? A Franklin Watts title.
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Author: Frantz Fanon
Author Frantz Fanon
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 7h 38m
Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors,...
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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 11h 10m
London in the 18th century is a city as squalid and superstitious as it is elegant and enlightened, where a brilliant architect is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and fifty years later in the sprawling metropolis of London the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective Hawksmoor investigates a series of murders that have...
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Citizen Guides: What Happens In A Law Court
Author: Dan Lambeth
Author Dan Lambeth
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 41m
Why do we have law courts? What do barristers do? How are judges appointed? What happens in a court of law can have an important effect on you, but do you know how courts actually work, and why? A Franklin Watts title.
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Author: Adrian Cooper
Author Adrian Cooper
Narrator Hannah Mercer
Duration 1h 43m
Fair trade is an issue that touches every one us, even if we are not aware of it. This audiobook will help you to understand trade, why it is sometimes unfair and what can be done about it. Find out all about the globalisation of trade, see how the purchase of everyday items affects people all over the world, and discover how fair trade can allev...
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Shakespeare the Biography: Volume 1
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
Shakespeare was born in Stratford on 23rd April 1564 and died in the same English country town on the same date in 1616. This audiobook is the first in a series of four and explores the birth and youth of Shakespeare, his family fortunes and misfortunes and his emergence onto the London theatre scene.
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