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.
What's Your View? the Impact of Big Business
Author: Melanie Jarman
Author Melanie Jarman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 22m
Topics in this audiobook include: are oil companies too powerful? do supermarkets offer choice and value? does the arms trade have benefits for anyone? and should big businesses be allowed into schools?
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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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Author: Emma Haughton
Author Emma Haughton
Narrator Emma Haughton
Duration 1h
Unnecessary prescription or useful medicine? Creating dependency or solving a problem? Dangerous risk or harmelss fun? Find out all you need to know about drugs and what we really mean by the term drug abuse.
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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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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: Peter Ackroyd
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 51m
Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is tieing canvas sacking to her legs so that she can kneel on the hard ground in the trench, removing the earth methodically, identifying salient points, lifting out amphorae and br...
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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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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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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: Paul Wignall
Author Paul Wignall
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 40m
This audiobook provides information on complex issues that teenagers face. The text examines prejudices and includes case studies, facts, figures and points of view.
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