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Author: Angus Deayton
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Author Angus Deayton
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
The complete first series of the panel show, hosted by Angus Deayton and devised by the panellists. 'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus D...
View BookAuthor: Rich Roll
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Author Rich Roll
Narrator Rich Roll
Duration 9h 47m
An incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever In October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he saw where his sedentary lifestyle was taking him...
View BookWe: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere
Author: Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
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Author Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadal
Narrator The Authors
Duration 9h 43m
WE is an inspiring, empowering and provocative manifesto for change. Change which we can all effect, one woman at a time. Change which provides a crucial and timely antidote to the 'have-it-all' Superwoman culture and instead focusses on what will make each and every one of us happier and more free. Change which provides an answer to the nagging se...
View BookAn Interview With Simon Callow
Author: Listening Books
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Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 0m
Simon is a hugely successful actor with one of the most recognisable voices in theatre and film. His narration work includes Thames Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd, available to stream, number 00386. Image c The Hanbury Agency Ltd
View BookSummary of Grant By Ron Chernow
Author: Abbey Beathan
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Author Abbey Beathan
Narrator Peter Prova
Duration 2h 55m
Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. The life and work of the magnificent general and President Ulysses Grant. Ulysses Grant must be one of the most misunderstood characters of United States' history. The majority of people have a polarized but incorrect impression of him as a loser and a bad businessman or as the triumphant but vicious gener...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 13h 37m
Simon Brett is most well known for his mystery crime novels featuring actor and amateur detective, Charles Paris. He has also been a radio producer for the BBC. A Reconstructed Corpse, read by the author himself, is available to download number 10556.
View BookFirst Man In: Leading From the Front
Author: Ant Middleton
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Author Ant Middleton
Narrator Ant Middleton
Duration 7h
Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure. After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) snipe...
View BookAuthor: David Graeber
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Author David Graeber
Narrator Christopher Ragland
Duration 12h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland. Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about...
View BookAn Interview With Pippa Goodhart
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Pippa Goodhart
Duration 0m
Pippa has written numerous books for children and also writes under the name Laura Owen. You can find Whizz-Bang Winnie and Other Stories, available to download in our library, number 02576.
View BookAuthor: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 13h
Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.
View BookAn Interview With Sally Gardner
Author: Listening Books, Sally Gardner
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Author Listening Books, Sally Gardner
Narrator Sally Gardner
Duration 14h 42m
Sally is a Nestle Prize winning children's author and illustrator and her books have been translated into 22 different languages. You can find The Boy Who Could Fly & The Invisible Boy in our library, number 00490CD.
View BookAuthor: Dawn French
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Author Dawn French
Narrator Liza Tarbuck
Duration 6h 30m
Dawn French invites us into her most personal relationships with, among others, her mum and dad, her husband, her daughter and her friend, Jennifer. Dawn reveals the people, experiences and obsessions that have influenced her and that helped shape her comedy creations - including dogs, grandmas, teenage angst, school, stealing and David Cassidy. Sh...
View BookAn Interview With Margaret Atwood
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Margaret Atwood
Duration 20h 4m
Margaret is a Canadian author of more than 40 volumes of poetry, children's literature and many popular novels. Titles in our library include The Edible Woman, available on MP3 CD number 00849CD and Cat's Eye, available to download number 11798. Image c George Whitside
View BookAuthor: David Hilliam
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Author David Hilliam
Narrator Eileen Mills
Duration 11h 55m
This audiobook tells the stories of the 38 royal coronations of the English monarchs, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. The early ceremonies of monarchs such as King Edgar and Edward the Confessor are brought to life, and anecdotes include Edward VII being advised by a fortune-teller of the most propitious date to be crowned; and of how h...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 37m
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. Written by Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley who won a BAFTA for writing Robbie The Reindeer for Aardman Animations the show is hosted by the glorious Sue Perkins (of Mel & Sue fame). The regulars...
View BookAuthor: Henry Marsh
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Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Jim Barclay
Duration 9h 45m
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Judith Boyd
Duration 28h 9m
Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates...
View BookAn Interview With Marcia Barritt
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Marcia Barritt
Duration 19h 23m
Marcia is a bilingual author and artist, specialising in the Jamaican Patwa language. You can find Roots Recollections: Caribbean Poems and Folk Songs available in our library on MP3 CD, number 0029CD.
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 39m
It's back! the Radio Four panel game that's not about sport, music, television, advertising, books, hats or gardening. Written by Kevin Cecil & Andy Riley who won a BAFTA for writing Robbie The Reindeer for Aardman Animations the show is hosted by the glorious Sue Perkins (of Mel & Sue fame). The regulars are Simon Pegg ( of Spaced and Big...
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Author Books Listening
Narrator M C Beaton
Duration 15h 10m
Marion Chesney has written over 100 historical romance novels but she is most well known as M C Beaton for her crime novels and her characters Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. If you are new to her novels, try Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, available to download, number 02386. Image c Constable and Robinson
View BookAuthor: George Drower
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Author George Drower
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 7h 45m
Intriguing stories of fifty inventions, innovations and discoveries that have transformed gardening techniques, from the ancient world waterscrew to the modern day gro-bag.
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