AuthorNina Bawden
NarratorDi Langford
Duration2h 50m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
On the 10th May 2002, author Nina Bawden and her husband, Austen Kark, boarded the 12.45 train from King's Cross en route to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. A few minutes later the train derailed. Nina was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly, along with seven others. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Nina uses her considerable writing skills to try and make sense of it all, and explains how she found herself becoming a spokesperson for the survivors of the crash.
Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 3h 47m
There's something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks lonely. And are the shuttered windows to keep burglars out, or to keep other people in - like a prison? To the three children, staying with grandparents they...
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Author: Debbie Harry
Author Debbie Harry
Narrator Clem Burke
Duration 8h 53m
Debbie Harry is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool. As the front-woman of Blondie, she and the band forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. With all the grit, grime, and glory recounted in intimate detail...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Richard Owens
Duration 7h 23m
This story is narrated by a painter, who specialises as a copyist. All around him, the women with whom he is in love leave signs which alter emotional details: Clio, his child-bride, is destructive in her pliancy; his first wife, Helen, betrays him; and Maisie, his forthright East End mother has her own secrets. And the two central figures - the pa...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 7h 15m
The last thing Tom Jones had expected was to run into Portia on holiday. His wife Amy knows he had an affair some four years ago, but she had never met 'the other woman'. What a curious twist of fate that she is on the same flight as them - and staying at the same hotel. Philip Mann, also staying at the Hotel Parthenon, is in Greece to make sense o...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Bernard Cribbins
Duration 4h 16m
12 June 2040. Gandy, Tom's Grandfather, is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 where he will be 'looked after' forever. When he slips through a door leading beyond the Wall, Tom cannot resist following him to the barbaric Outside.
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Eve Karpf
Duration 3h 20m
Cora was supposed to live with her grandparents while her mother and father were away. But Grandma had an accident, and Cora was sent next door to stay with 'Aunt Sunday' and her daughter Angelica. Angelica acts sweet and kind in public but when the two girls are alone she is vicious and spiteful. First she teases Cora, then she threatens her, and...
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Author: Andrew Ridgeley
Author Andrew Ridgeley
Narrator Andrew Ridgeley
Duration 5h 59m
For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of Wham! and his life-long friendship with George Michael. It is 1975, Watford, and two teenagers, George and Andrew, meet for the first time. Bonding over their love for singing, song writing and pop music, together they set out to...
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Author: Noel Fitzpatrick
Author Noel Fitzpatrick
Narrator Noel Fitzpatrick
Duration 12h 59m
In this inspiring, uplifting and heartwarming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick explores his journey to becoming The Supervet. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle and sheep, the hay and silage, the tractors and land, his beloved sheepdog, Pirate, pro...
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Author: Simon Reeve
Author Simon Reeve
Narrator Simon Reeve
Duration 10h 29m
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. After a decade spent making more than 80 program...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 4h 22m
Johnnie was the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.
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