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Author: 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...
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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.
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 1h 51m
A third selection of verses, stories and sketches from the much-loved poet and comedian. Pam Ayres brings you four brand new shows made up of a delightful mix of poems, personal stories and sketches on subjects that have recently inspired her: 'In the Doghouse', 'Passion', 'On Yer Bike' and 'Shopping'.
View BookMa, He Sold Me For A Few Cigarettes
Author: Martha Long
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Author Martha Long
Narrator Brett O'Brien
Duration 15h 15m
Born to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, her mother meets Jackser. Despite...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 13h 9m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Underland by Robert Macfarlane. A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journ...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 4
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, Book 4
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, Marcus Brigstocke, Nick Frost and Armando Iannucci and was broadcast on 25th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 2h 48m
More anecdotes, poems and sketches from one of the nation's most popular poets. Just over thirty years ago, a little-known poet named Pam Ayres made her debuton the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks. Since then, she has taken the nationby storm, entertaining millions of people with her books, stage shows and radio and television appearances. Her f...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 3
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, 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 Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 18th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Sathnam Sanghera
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Author Sathnam Sanghera
Narrator Pal Aron
Duration 10h 50m
For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing chall...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Church
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Author Charlotte Church
Narrator Charlotte Church
Duration 3h 40m
Candid to the last, in her autobiography Charlotte reveals herself as never before. She talks of her life, career, family and loves and impending motherhood with surprising intimacy and, being true to her outspoken reputation, complete honesty. Keeping her feet firmly on the ground, Charlotte Church is a genuine superstar of our times. She combines...
View BookThe 99p Challenge, Series 4, Part 2
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesThe 99p Challenge Series 4, 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 Marcus Brigstocke, Armando Iannucci, Simon Pegg and Peter Serafinowicz and was broadcast on 11th February 2003.
View BookAuthor: Carol Donoughue
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Author Carol Donoughue
Narrator Jane Steel
Duration 1h 12m
Discover the amazing story of writing through the ages - from the invention of the earliest scripts to modern text messages and email.
View BookAuthor: Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Author Ronnie O'Sullivan
Narrator Ronnie O'Sullivan
Duration 2h 40m
Ronnie O'Sullivan's autobiography details more than the sporting triumphs of a man the BBC speculates 'could become the world's greatest ever'. It also tells of the infant who was introduced to legendary snooker clubs at an impossibly early age, of the boy who was taking on and defeating all comers at 12 and frightening off the bookies in the proce...
View BookAuthor: Dan Jones
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Author Dan Jones
Narrator Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Duration 5h 51m
Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their demands. Dan Jones' vivid account of the vicissitudes of feudal power politics and the workings of 13th century government is interwoven with an exploration of the lives of ordin...
View BookJust A Minute, Series 58, Episode 6
Author: Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
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Author Ian Messiter, Nicholas Parsons
Narrator Various
SeriesJust a Minute Series 58, Book 6
Duration 27m
Nicholas Parsons chairs the panel game that rewards those who can talk the hind leg off a donkey. The panellists on today's show are Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Gyles Brandreth and Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. The aim of the game is to speak on a given subject for sixty seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much harder than it...
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