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Author: Professor Richard Lindley
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Author Professor Richard Lindley
Narrator Belinda Liversedge
Duration 2h 55m
In the United Kingdom, over 110,000 people have a stroke for the first time each year. This audiobook, published in association with the British Medical Association, is a clear and accessible way to understand strokes. Part of the Family Doctor series.
View BookAuthor: Nigel Havers
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Author Nigel Havers
Narrator Nigel Havers
Duration 2h 30m
Urbane, brilliant, brave, funny, famous, handsome - Nigel Havers is the real-life charmer you might expect. In a career that has taken him from a schoolboy production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to the red carpet on Oscar Night with 'Chariots of Fire', via starring roles in the West End stage, classic television series like 'Don't Wait Up' and a...
View BookAn Evening With Alan Titchmarsh
Author: Alan Titchmarsh
Format: MP3 CD
Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator Alan Titchmarsh
Duration 1h 52m
Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through the popular BBC TV programmes 'Ground Force' and 'Gardener's World' and now you can enjoy an evening with the Gardening Broadcaster of the Year. Alan talks about his life and career, tells hilarious behind-the-scenes anecdotes, reads some of his favourite stories and poems - and, of course, gives useful...
View BookAuthor: Geoff Hurst
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Author Geoff Hurst
Narrator Geoff Hurst
Duration 2h
Catapulted to fame in only his eighth international, Geoff Hurst scored a hat trick against West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. His final goal, 'They think it's all over...It is now', has been played so many times that it has dominated his life ever since. This revealing and thoughtful autobiography shows that there is far more to the man tha...
View BookAn Evening With Ranulph Fiennes
Author: Ranulph Fiennes
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Author Ranulph Fiennes
Narrator Ranulph Fiennes
Duration 3h
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been described by 'The Guinness Book of Records' as 'the world's greatest living explorer'. He has led over 30 expeditions including the first polar circumnavigation of the Earth and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent. He discovered the legendary Lost City of Ubar and has also completed seven marathons...
View BookAuthor: Thora Hird
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Author Thora Hird
Narrator Thora Hird
Duration 2h 45m
This thoughtful memoir, read by Dame Thora herself, is a fitting tribute to her later years and witness to two of her greatest talents: the ability to tell a story and her determination to stay on top of life even when in severe pain. The audiobook reveals Thora Hird's reflections and her behind-the-scenes stories, from glamorous engagements to dom...
View BookAuthor: Kevin Lewis
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Author Kevin Lewis
Narrator Kevin Lewis
Duration 2h 45m
Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, his life was never his own. Even after he was put into care, he found himself out on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'. Yet Kevin su...
View BookPlainer Still: A New Personal Anthology
Author: Catherine Cookson
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Author Catherine Cookson
Narrator Patricia Gallimore
Duration 8h
Catherine Cookson has compiled a selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with another collection of the poems she prefers to describe as 'prose on short lines'.
View BookUnderstanding Your Eyes: Cataracts, Glaucoma & Macular Degeneration
Author: Robert Walters
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Author Robert Walters
Narrator David Craik
Duration 2h 17m
Part of the Family Doctor series. This audiobook will help you to understand the causes, symptoms and treatments of these common eye conditions.
View BookShakespeare the Biography: Volume 1
Author: Peter Ackroyd
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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.
View BookAround the World In Eighty Days
Author: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 7h 37m
In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the ste...
View BookThe Private World of Georgette Heyer
Author: Jane Aiken Hodge
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Author Jane Aiken Hodge
Narrator Nash Phyllida
Duration 7h 5m
As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of fiction - yet her private life was practically inaccessible to any but her closest friends and relati...
View BookIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of An Empire
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Author Alex Von Tunzelmann
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 38m
At midnight on 15 August 1947, India left the British Empire. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the new nation of Pakistan, Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation, and Louis and Edwina Mountbatt...
View BookAuthor: Laurie Lee
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Author Laurie Lee
Narrator Wehltman Brian
Duration 4h 5m
At the age of 19 Laurie Lee had left home, walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain. Here he describes a return journey to Spain in which he crossed the Pyrenees during the time of the Spanish Civil War. This audiobook is on the Edexcel reading list for GCSE.
View BookThe Gospel According To Chris Moyles
Author: Chris Moyles
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Author Chris Moyles
Narrator Chris Moyles
Duration 2h 30m
Motor Mouth, Loud Mouth, Tubby DJ, and Overpaid Ego. What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio 1'? In this audiobook, Chris dissects the world around him and tackles all sorts of subjects; from interviewing the world's most famous cele...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 32m
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history and exquisite sights, and talking to its diverse peoples, Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. This au...
View BookAuthor: Desmond Tutu
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Author Desmond Tutu
Narrator Desmond Tutu
Duration 4h 30m
Nobel Laureate Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he presented while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times.
View BookAuthor: A. N. Wilson
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Author A. N. Wilson
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 10h 31m
John Betjamin was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. He led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his 50 year marriage he had a relationship with another woman, Elizabeth Cavendish, who was the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire...
View BookAuthor: Kate Williams
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Author Kate Williams
Narrator Sophie Ward
Duration 16h 35m
A dramatic tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, this audiobook traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way of her dreams - except her self-destructive desires....
View BookAuthor: Harry Berstein
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Author Harry Berstein
Narrator Sam Kelly
Duration 8h 57m
Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship and hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink, while his devoted mother survives on her dreams: that new shoes might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might...
View BookAuthor: Fay Weldon
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Author Fay Weldon
Narrator
Duration 6h 1m
A delicious treat of wisdom for better self-awareness and satisfaction. Tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, while giving in to sex, food, friends, family, shopping - and chocolate. What makes women happy? Nothing for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying. In this audiobook, Fay Weldon offers wisdom gleaned from a remarkable life, a brilliantly...
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