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Adam 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...
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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...
View BookAuthor: Mark Tully
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Author Mark Tully
Narrator Mark Tully
Duration 2h 33m
A compilation of Mark Tully's acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations. Sir Mark Tully was the BBC's Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to 1994. He has become familiar to listeners around the world for his incisive and thought-provoking reports. On this special recording, he looks back at his career that coinc...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 42m
The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years.
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennett Untold Stories, Book 2
Duration 2h 32m
This is Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling 'Writing Home'. It is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. At times heartrending, and at others extremely funny, 'Untold Stories' is a matchless and unforgettab...
View BookAuthor: Productions Whistledown
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Author Productions Whistledown
Narrator Jonathan Agnew
Duration 1h 42m
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew introduces a new collection of anecdotes and reflections from some of the best-loved characters of Ashes cricket, including Merv Hughes, Derek Randall, Ian Botham, Gladstone Small, Darren Gough and many more. Some of the greatest players from both England and Australia remember the classic encounters from ov...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerican Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 46m
This is the first of three audio volumes taken from the 90-part Radio 4 series. It tells the story of America through the voices of those who were there, from presidents to slaves. It celebrates the American achievement and evokes the sound and colour of daily life; it also explores the paradoxes of American history.
View BookAuthor: Winston S. Churchill
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Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Winston S. Churchill
SeriesWinston Churchill's Greatest Speeches, Book 1
Duration 2h 35m
Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War Two. He was one of the twentieth century's greatest orators, and the speeches that he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation. Churchill's output was prolific - his complete speeches alone contain over 5 million words. On this s...
View BookAuthor: Simon Schama
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Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesThe History of Britain, Book 3
Duration 10h 55m
Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity. A informative and entertaining mixture of anecdote and analysis, Schama's work offers a real insight into what it is to be British...
View BookAuthor: Philip Norman
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Author Philip Norman
Narrator Russell Boulter
SeriesJohn Lennon, Book 1
Duration 18h 30m
For more than a quarter of a century, Philip Norman's internationally best-selling 'Shout!' has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unpre...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 12h 30m
Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This memoir promises to be courageously frank, honest and poignant. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you a...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptred Isle: Empire, Book 2
Duration 7h 21m
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, th...
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptred Isle: Empire, Book 1
Duration 7h 13m
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, th...
View BookAuthor: Hugh Cunningham
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Author Hugh Cunningham
Narrator Michael Morpurgo
Duration 6h 48m
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful range of primary sources, how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down the centuries and why the role of children in society continues to...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Vickery
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Author Amanda Vickery
Narrator Amanda Vickery
Duration 6h 41m
An engrossing BBC Radio 4 series spanning the history of the home and domestic relationships over the past 500 years, presented by Amanda Vickery. Professor Amanda Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the modern...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerican Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 54m
Volume Two of David Reynold's major BBC Radio 4 series traces America's story from the Civil War to World War Two. This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through the voices of those who lived it - presidents and farmers, mothers and children, settlers and soldiers, immigrants and Native Americans. This is also the story of how ordi...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 3h 5m
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, This Sceptred Isle, provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. This Sceptred Isle, The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful count...
View BookAuthor: Benedict Flynn
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Author Benedict Flynn
Narrator John Shrapnel
Duration 1h 19m
This audiobook sets the known facts of Dante's life against the turmoil of the times, and puts the very personal nature of his poetry into perspective. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.
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