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An Interview With Margaret Atwood
Author: Listening Books
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
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An Interview With Sally Gardner
Author: Listening Books, Sally Gardner
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.
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An Interview With Pippa Goodhart
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Pippa Goodhart
Duration 9m
Pippa has written numerous books for children and also writes under the name Laura Owen.
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Author: Listening Books
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.
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An Interview With Simon Callow
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 8m
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
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The Road To Little Dribbling: More Notes From A Small Island
Author: Bill Bryson
Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Nathan Osgood
Duration 13h 30m
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now...
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An Interview With Caroline Lawrence
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Caroline Lawrence
Duration 19m
Caroline Lawrence is famed for her historical children's series The Roman Mysteries. The first title in the series, The Thieves of Ostia is available on MP3 CD, number 09843CD.
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An Interview With Eleanor Updale
Author: Listening Books, Eleanor Updale
Author Listening Books, Eleanor Updale
Narrator Eleanor Updale
Duration 8m
Eleanor Updale is the author of the Montmorency series among other children's titles. The series can be found in the library, read by our Patron, Stephen Fry.
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An Interview With Jacqueline Wilson
Author: Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
Author Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Jacqueline Wilson
Duration 22m
Jacqueline Wilson's novels often deal with many challenging themes and remain some of the most popular titles chosen in our library. The Story of Tracy Beaker is available to stream from our website. Image c Jacqueline Wilson
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An Interview With Sarah Waters
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Sarah Waters
Duration 16m
Sarah Waters is the bestselling and award winning author of titles such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
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Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography
Author: Tom Jones
Author Tom Jones
Narrator Jonathan Pryce
Duration 8h
Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having rec...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator David Cochran Heath
Duration 72h 3m
The King James Version has continued to this day to be one of the most beloved and widely sought after translations of the bible into the English language. Now over 400 years old, the King James Version has been shaping Christians for centuries with it\u2019s majesty and solemnity.Narrator David Cochran Heath brings his voice of clarity and warmth,...
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Author: Jeffrey Archer
Author Jeffrey Archer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 7h 26m
On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best-selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. He becomes Prisoner FF8282 and spends the first twenty-two days of his sentence in a high-security prison that house some of Britain's most violent criminals. During those twenty-two days, Archer contemplates suicide; he is allow...
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Author: Andrew Boroweic
Author Andrew Boroweic
Narrator Tim Bruce
Duration 13h 17m
Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers below - he felt he had come of age. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment. Wounded the day a...
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The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
Author: Mark Kermode
Author Mark Kermode
Narrator Mark Kermode
Duration 7h 57m
In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with modern movies?' If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? H...
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Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond
Author: Andrew Lycett
Author Andrew Lycett
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 21h 47m
Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world traveler, and spy, the creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complex and interesting than his iconic fictional character, Agent 007. Fleming's wide ranging and exciting life inevitably provided the plausible backdrop for his Bond novels. Highly regarded in British naval in...
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Author: Tony Benn
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 4h 22m
As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Certainly at my a...
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Author: Lynda Bellingham
Author Lynda Bellingham
Narrator Lynda Bellingham
Duration 5h 12m
Lynda Bellingham is much-loved as the warm, open and quick-witted panellist on Loose Women as well as for her appearances in Strictly Come Dancing and Calendar Girls. Her rich acting career spans 40 years, with highlights including her roles as Helen Herriot in All Things Great and Small and Faith Grayshott in Second Thoughts and Faith in the Futur...
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Author: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 12h 33m
Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents' generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Then reaching her teens, Pam realised how few oppor...
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Author: Richard Branson
Author Richard Branson
Narrator Adrian Mulraney
Duration 6h 34m
Richard Branson is an iconic businessman. In Screw It, Let's Do It, he shares the secrets of his success and the invaluable lessons he has learned over the course of his remarkable career. As the world struggles with the twin problems of global recession and climate change, Richard explains why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the way...
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Author: Solomon Northup
Author Solomon Northup
Narrator Louis Gosset Jr.
Duration 7h 47m
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshe...
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