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Author: John Casson
Author John Casson
Narrator John Casson
Duration 13h
In 1909, actress Sybil Thorndike wed Welsh-born actor/director Lewis Casson. This is the story of their great theatre partnership as told by their son John.
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Author: Lawrence Durrell
Author Lawrence Durrell
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h
'Bitter Lemons' is Durrell's paen to the beauty and mystery of Cyprus, from the romance of the characters living in Bellapaix where Durrell bought a house, to the beauty of the mountain ranges and the excitement of the slow but gradual uprising of the Greek Cypriots who are determined to achieve 'Enosis' - union with Greece and freedom from British...
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Author: William Dalrymple
Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
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Author: Alan Moorehead
Author Alan Moorehead
Narrator Christopher Timothy
Duration 3h
Alan Moorehead, a widely respected reporter, earned his reputation as a war correspondent during the Second World War. 'No Room in the Ark' describes his journey from Johannesburg to Uganda, the Belgian Congo and Kenya. The main theme is the negative impact of civilisation on the wild animals of southern and eastern Africa.
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Travels With A Donkey In the Cervennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Denis Lawson
Duration 3h
On 23rd September 1878, Stevenson set out on an 11 day tour of the Cervennes with his recalcitrant donkey, Modestine, following completion of his writings in the French town of Monastier. His natural affinity for France, his appreciation of its landscape, and his enthusiasm for the French way of life as well as his account of the conflict between t...
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Full Circle: A Pacific Journey
Author: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 6h
In this account of Michael Palin's travel adventure for the BBC, he journeys for almost a year, covering 50,000 miles and all of the 18 countries that border the Pacific Ocean, encompassing a wide diversity of landscape, culture and people. The Pacific Rim is one of the world's most volatile areas, with economies that are expanding faster than anyw...
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Author: Christopher Lee
Series: This Sceptered Isle, Book 7
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 7
Duration 3h
The seventh part of the major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the period 1760 - 1792, a time of revolution.
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Author: Dava Sobel
Author Dava Sobel
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 6h
Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day - and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. As the scientific establishment throughout Europe struggled, from Gali...
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Author: Alec Guinness
Author Alec Guinness
Narrator John Casson
Duration 7h 30m
Having filled roles in films as varied as 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Star Wars', Guinness is one of the most distinguished and beloved movie actors of his generation. His charmingly sincere diary entries offer a glimpse of the private side of his often very public life. What makes Guinness a fine and versatile actor is precisely what also makes him...
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Author: Nick Hornby
Author Nick Hornby
Narrator Christoper Oxford
Duration 9h
Written from the perspective firstly of a fanatical youngster, then a disillusioned adolescent, and finally an adult 'who should know better', the author examines the absurdities and traumas of everyday life and football. Hornby combines humorous autobiographical anecdotes with a wider commentary on the state of the game.
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Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
Author: Joyce Grenfell
Author Joyce Grenfell
Narrator Joyce Grenfell
Duration 3h 15m
Actress, comedienne and raconteur Joyce Grenfell brings to life her experiences working in radio and in film, on the stage and war-time entertainment tours. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, aunt Nancy Astor and husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters in this reading.
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Author: Christopher Lee
Series: This Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Duration 3h
The tenth part of a major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the Victorian period.
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Author: Amanda Foreman
Author Amanda Foreman
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 20h
The story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century. Georgiana was, in turn, a compulsive gambler, astute political operator, drug addict, adulteress and darling of the common people. Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award.
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Author: John Keegan
Author John Keegan
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 16h
This audiobook looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the point of maximum danger. The author reassesses the three battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme and attempts to convey the reality of the battles as they were experienced by the participants.
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 9h
Hibbert charts the French Revolution from its beginnings as an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, through to the coup d'etat of 1795 that brought Napoleon to power.
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Author: Antony Beevor
Author Antony Beevor
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 14h
Stalingrad marked not only the psychological turning-point of the Second World War, but was the first major modern battle fought in a city, with thousands of helpless civilians caught up in its horrors. In the epic struggle between Stalin and Hitler for the eastern front, soldiers were driven beyond the limits of mental and physical endurance. This...
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Author: Francis Wheen
Author Francis Wheen
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 12h 30m
This audiobook presents Karl Marx as a man of both brilliance and frailty: as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator; as a gregarious and convivial host; as a devoted family man; and as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink and cigars.
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Author: Lorna Sage
Author Lorna Sage
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 10h
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Lorna Sage brings alive her experience of growing up in the 1940s and 50s. From her early childhood - dominated by her grandfather, a boozing, womanising vicar - to finding herself pregnant without even realising she has lost her virginity, this portrait of a young girl is unsurpassed.
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1901-1919
Author: Christopher Lee
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 15h 15m
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day - taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement.
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Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People & Places
Author: Mary Warnock
Author Mary Warnock
Narrator Mary Warnock
Duration 11h 9m
Mary Warnock entered the public eye when Margaret Thatcher made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this audiobook she reflects on the places and people who have influenced her including the Oxford school of philosophy in the 1950s and 60s.
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 1
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
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