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The 99p Challenge, Series 5, Part 3
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 5, Book 3
Duration 26m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Dan Antopolski, Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci and Simon Pegg and was broadcast on 8th September 2004.
View BookAuthor: Ross Noble
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Author Ross Noble
Narrator Ross Noble
Duration 1h 51m
Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble has received huge critical acclaim and become known as an exciting and original talent in the UK. Now he takes his show worldwide, to destinations as diverse as Shanghai, South Africa, Ireland and Singapore. In Shanghai he marvels at the wonders of a thousand pensioners exercising in a park, visits a Buddhist temple...
View BookAuthor: Cal Newport
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Author Cal Newport
Narrator Will Damron
Duration 7h
Learn how to combat screen addiction and get your technology use in check. The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction to tech leaves us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this timely book, professor Cal...
View BookTruths, Half Truths and Little White Lies
Author: Nick Frost
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Author Nick Frost
Narrator Nick Frost
Duration 8h 28m
Nick Frost burst onto our screens in a blaze of camo fatigues and weaponry in the hit cult comedy Spaced. Since then, fans around the world have watched him with a fervent devotion as he fought zombies, rescued aliens and salsa'd his way to box office smash after smash. It's quite a story. But it's not this story. This story isn't the romp from mov...
View BookAuthor: Johnny Marr
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Author Johnny Marr
Narrator Johnny Marr
Duration 9h 30m
Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish emigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would be a musician. Forming his first band at thirteen, Marr spent his teenage years on the council estates of Wythenshawe playing guitar, devouring pop culture and inventing his own musical style. It wasn't until the early eighties, when Marr tur...
View BookAuthor: Diana Athill
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Author Diana Athill
Narrator Claire Bloom
Duration 4h 30m
Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. Now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and fri...
View BookPropriety, Plants, Grandparents and Growing Your Own
Author: Josie Long
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Author Josie Long
Narrator Josie Long
Duration 13m
The fourth and final episode, Propriety, Plants, Grandparents, and Growing Your Own, of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, All of the Planets Wonders, in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Originally broadcast 11 March 2009 and repeated o...
View BookThe Trial of Qwerty: Fry's English Delight, Series 3
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 28m
The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty?
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 5, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 5, Book 2
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Miranda Hart, Armando Iannucci, Rob Rouse and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 1st September 2004.
View BookAuthor: Tina Moore
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Author Tina Moore
Narrator Tina Moore
Duration 7h 25m
This is a tribute to the late Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup winning side of 1966, one of the greatest footballers of his generation, and a man who personified Britain in the swinging sixties. This is his life story, as told by his wife Tina, including his battle against cancer: 'In those days cancer was something you just didn't menti...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 5, Part 1
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 5, Book 1
Duration 26m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Peter Baynham, Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci and Simon Pegg and was broadcast on 25th August 2004.
View BookAuthor: Tina Brown
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Author Tina Brown
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 20h 38m
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she 'the people's princess', who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler, England's glossiest gossip magazine, Vanity Fair,...
View BookHow To Write A Book This Weekend, Even If You Flunked English Like I Did
Author: Vic Johnson
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Author Vic Johnson
Narrator Wes Talbot
Duration 1h 35m
Who Else Wants To Write a Book This Weekend?"It's easier than you think! Best-selling author Vic Johnson actually wrote this book in a weekend to prove how easy it is. And he gives you step-by-step detail of everything he did, including the resources he uses to turn out content-rich books in no time at all. How To Write a Book This Weekend is a per...
View BookAuthor: Bernard Taylor
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Author Bernard Taylor
Narrator Gordon Griffiths
Duration 9h 23m
In 1887, Elizabeth Berry found notoriety throughout the nation after the death of her daughter, perceived by many to be the cruellest of murders. There were many who protested her innocence in the affair, but there were also suspicions surrounding another death related to the nurse; that of her mother. Suddenly Elizabeth Berry's dark story began ap...
View BookAuthor: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Simon Shepherd
Duration 15h 22m
The relationship between those who wield power and those whose job it is to tell us what they are doing has always been fraught with tension. Politicians now expect to be on camera and facing aggressive questions from the moment they open their front door to the moment they return home at night. Everything they say and do is instantly broadcast and...
View BookAuthor: BBC Archive Voices
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Author BBC Archive Voices
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 1h 15m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the much-loved comedy actor and diarist begins in 1961, with an appearance on the BBC TV Tonight programme, and culminates in 1987 when Kenneth Williams is a guest on Desert Island Discs. Along the way are several interviews on Parkinson, conversation from The John Dunn Show, and a number of ra...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 6
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 6
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Marcus Brigstocke, Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci and Simon Pegg and was broadcast on 11th March 2003.
View BookAuthor: Tony Jacklin
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Author Tony Jacklin
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 11h 16m
It is 37 years since the son of a Scunthorpe lorry driver beat the Americans on their home turf in the US Open - and still Tony Jacklin is the last Briton to lift that hallowed trophy. Coming on the back of his success in the British Open the previous year, 1969, Jacklin's triumph marked a seismic shift in the balance of golfing power, and the star...
View BookAuthor: David Wallace-Wells
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Author David Wallace-Wells
Narrator David Wallace-Wells
Duration 8h 33m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Uninhabitable Earth written and read by David Wallace-Wells. It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely...
View BookEverywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth
Author: Jess Phillips
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Author Jess Phillips
Narrator Jess Phillips
Duration 6h 45m
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Everywoman, written and read by Jess Phillips. If you're thinking, 'Jess, who?' then I'm glad that there was something about 'Everywoman' and 'truth' that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Be...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 5
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 5
Duration 27m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Just funny rounds with funny ideas. The line up for this show is Peter Baynham, Jack Docherty, Armando Iannucci and Sean Lock and was broadcast on 4th March 2003.
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