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Author: Emma Smith
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Author Emma Smith
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 12h 46m
'The Great Western Beach' is Emma Smith's memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating holiday-makers - relishing every glorious, salty detail. But above all this i...
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 56m
The Now Show is a topical comedy show recorded in front of a live audience and scripted up to the last minute. It stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis in a collection of sketches and routines based around recent news items and issues. Comedians Marcus Brigstock and Midge Benn provide additional support.
View BookAuthor: Barry Johnston
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Author Barry Johnston
Narrator Brian Johnston
SeriesDown Your Way, Book 1
Duration 1h 12m
Down Your Way was a BBC radio series from 1946 to 1992, on the Home Service and then on BBC Radio Four. It visited towns around the United Kingdom and spoke to residents . Sometimes being described as having portrayed an increasingly outmoded and rose-tinted view of Britain concentrating on market towns with pre-industrial roots and ignoring indust...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 1, Programme 4
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 4
Duration 27m
The language of sex and death, as Chaucer and others capture English speech of the time. Melvyn Bragg travels to the great mediaeval cathedral of Canterbury, with its shrine to the martyr, St. Thomas … Becket. It inspired the pilgrims described by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1395 in The Canterbury Tales, as they set out from the Tabard Inn in Southw...
View BookAlan Bennett At the BBC: Highlights of His BBC Career
Author: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 35m
A unique anthology of Alan Bennett's radio and television work featuring extracts from his diaries and readings, tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook plus commentary and specially recorded links by Bennett himself.
View BookAuthor: Joel Ben Izzy
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Author Joel Ben Izzy
Narrator The Author
Duration 0m
At last a great American Hanukkah story! This very funny, very touching novel of growing up Jewish has the makings of a holiday classic. One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask? Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah, 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, "The Land of Shriveled Dreams"). That's no...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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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...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Hoggart Simon
Duration 2h 4m
A fourth volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart. Since 1977, BBC Radio 4's funniest and quirkiest game show has been answering questions and offering wit and wisdom on global happenings, national news and quite frankly pathetic parochial events
View BookAuthor: Margot Lee Shetterly
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Author Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrator Robin Miles
Duration 10h 48m
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equa...
View BookAuthor: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Author Redmond O'Hanlon
Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon
Duration 4h
Captain Jason Schofield possesses the kind of reckless abandon only a 2 million pound overdraft can inspire in a right minded, thirty-year-old fisherman. Taking his trawler out in the worst weather at the very worst time of year, he is joined by a brave and indomitable crew, and by 'one mad and seasick writer'. This is Redmond O'Hanlon's very funny...
View BookAuthor: Henry Marsh
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Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Henry Marsh
Duration 7h 47m
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him. Moving between encounters with patients in his Lond...
View BookChain Reaction Complete Series 9
Author: BBC Radio 4
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Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 47m
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this ninth series, guests (and hosts) include Robert Llewellyn, Dave Gorman, Frank S...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Uviebinene
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Author Elizabeth Uviebinene
Narrator Nneka Okoye
Duration 12h 30m
This book includes extracts from dozens of interviews with some of the most successful black women in Britain. Where possible within this audiobook, we have used the original recordings of those interviews, which took place in a variety of locations; so, whilst the nature of the recordings vary, the insights and advice remain constantly inspiring....
View BookChain Reaction Complete Series 8
Author: BBC Radio 4
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Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Chain Reaction' is the entertaining BBC Radio 4 tag talk show where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. Famous names from the world of showbusiness choose who they would like to chat to, and must submit to being questioned in their turn the week after. In this eighth series, guests (and hosts) include Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Richar...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 54m
Maeve's Binchy's much-loved Irish Times writings spanned five decades. She was an accidental journalist whose work first appeared after her father sent in colourful accounts he had received from her travels. From the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. This timele...
View BookAuthor: Angela Saini
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Author Angela Saini
Narrator Angela Saini
Duration 11h 28m
In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present. At its heart, race is the belief that we are born different, in character and intellectually as well as in appearance. It's the notion that as groups of people we have certain innate qualities that are not only visible but which may also have...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 5h 5m
In this follow up to 'Call the Midwife', Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House-she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
View BookAuthor: Andrew Taylor
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Author Andrew Taylor
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 7h 39m
By putting our differences and snobberies under a microscope, this audiobook explains many facts about us as a nation, exploring the development of language and our behaviour. Did you know that the court of Richard II spoke in broad Yorkshire? Why don't we speak like we did 40 years ago? Why is one perceived to be richer, taller - and more attracti...
View BookAuthor: Angela Saini
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Author Angela Saini
Narrator Tania Rodrigues
Duration 9h 6m
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes listeners on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are...
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 2h
Tony Benn brings his unmistakable presence to the stage. His only props: a flask of tea, some rubbed tobacco and his trademark pipe. This audiobook is a mix of politics, opinion and debate as he explores the issues of today spiced with memories of the past.
View BookAuthor: Walter Dean Myers
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Author Walter Dean Myers
Narrator J.D. Jackson
Duration 4h 20m
As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At nineteen, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At twenty, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little starte...
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