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Author: Polly Evans
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Author Polly Evans
Narrator Lucy Scott
Duration 8h 33m
A comic account of the author's solo cycling trip across Spain. After working for four years at a leading London book publisher, Polly Evans moved to Hong Kong where she spent many happy hours as a senior editor on the city's biggest entertainment weekly. But fighting deadlines from a twizzly office chair and free use of the coffee machine seemed j...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Bailey
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Author Catherine Bailey
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
Duration 15h 14m
Wentworth House in Yorkshire is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats. This audiobook tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. But coal,...
View BookI Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis
Author: Frank Wynne
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Author Frank Wynne
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 8h 6m
In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: 'I am a forge...
View BookAuthor: Mary Turner Thomson
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Author Mary Turner Thomson
Narrator Carolyn Bonnyman
Duration 6h 47m
In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married for fourteen years and had five children together. This is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated...
View BookAuthor: Peter Whitfield
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Author Peter Whitfield
Narrator Peter Whitfield
Duration 1h 13m
Charles Darwin, father of evolution, was one of the greatest pioneers in science. Here, Peter Whitfield explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance to publish his findings.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Paine
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Author Thomas Paine
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 4h 37m
One of the great classics on democracy, this audiobook was first published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditio...
View BookThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Author: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 7h 29m
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweate...
View BookAuthor: Tim Cahill
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Author Tim Cahill
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 12h
Tim Cahill takes us to sites as far-flung as Saharan salt mines, the Congolese jungle, and Hanford, Washington, home of the largest toxic waste dump in the western hemisphere. He describes stalking the legendary Caspian tiger in the mountains bordering Iraq, slogging through a pitch-black Australian Eucalyptus forest to find the nocturnal platypus,...
View BookAuthor: Leslie Phillips
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Author Leslie Phillips
Narrator
Duration 15h 56m
Leslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made all the worse by his father's death when Leslie was just ten years old. Soon after, he began his acting career, and since then he has worked with Steven Spielberg, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, among many others. Best known for his comic r...
View BookProvided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough
Author: Duncan Hamilton
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Author Duncan Hamilton
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 7h 48m
'Look Duncan, you're a journalist. One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.' Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian C...
View BookAuthor: Nuala Gardner
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Author Nuala Gardner
Narrator Kara Wilson
Duration 10h 29m
This is the inspiring account of a family's struggle to break into their son's autistic world - and how a beautiful retriever dog made the real difference. Dale was still a baby when his parents realised that something wasn't right. Worried, his mother Nuala took him to see several doctors, before finally hearing the word 'autism' for the first tim...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Sanderson
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Author Catherine Sanderson
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 2m
Catherine Sanderson has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does she feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmed by the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end administrativ...
View BookTime To Say Hello: The Autobiography
Author: Katherine Jenkins
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Author Katherine Jenkins
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 6h 41m
Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young and old with her incredible voice, her glamorous looks and, above all, her love for music, her country and her fans.
View BookAuthor: Clarissa Dickson Wright
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Author Clarissa Dickson Wright
Narrator Clarissa Dickson Wright
Duration 10h 11m
One of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon. But he was also a tyrannical drunk. Clarissa was determined and clever, though, and her ambition led her, at the age of 21, to be the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar. Disaster struck w...
View BookRichmal Crompton: The Woman Behind 'just William'
Author: Mary Cadogan
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Author Mary Cadogan
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 6h 33m
Richmal Crompton's William is known even to those who have never read the books featuring his anarchic exploits. For many, William, Ginger, Douglas and Henry - not forgetting the awful Violet Elizabeth - remain an ever-remembered part of our childhood. But what do we know of his publicity-shy creator? In this biography we see the portrait of a witt...
View BookJane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford
Author: Julia Fox
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Author Julia Fox
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 13h 24m
Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine Howard, whom she followed to the scoffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to and participant in the greatest events in Henry VIII's reign. Her supposed part in both Anne Boleyn's and Catherine Howard's downfall has led her to being rev...
View BookAdam Hart-davis Presents the Eureka Years
Author: Adam Hart-Davis
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Author Adam Hart-Davis
Narrator Adam Hart-Davis
Duration 1h 47m
Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the long history of science.
View BookRugby Union: Wit, Wisdom & Mud
Author: Cliff Morgan
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Author Cliff Morgan
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 8m
No game generates more passion, or stirs the emotions, like Rugby Union. No game enjoys itself more when the final whistle blows. And none has produced quite such a line of good talkers, on or off the subject. Here, from the BBC's unique Sound Archives, are memories of great teams, matches and tries, the wit and wisdom of some of the legendary char...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Tom Robinson
Duration 52m
In a commemorative programme to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, Tom Robinson visits `Peel Acres' to meet John's wife Sheila and their four children.
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 11m
Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years - from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University. It was an ordinary childhood - growing up in Leeds taught Alan early on that `life is generally something that happens elsewhere'. Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mothe...
View BookAuthor: Dr. Jonathan Bardon
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Author Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Narrator Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Duration 22h 49m
In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station's most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland! For easy digestion, and across the course of a year, the story of the island is told in a series of 240 short documentaries - s...
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