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An Interview With Robyn Hollingworth
Author: Listening Books
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Narrator Robyn Hollingworth
Duration 15m
Author Robyn Hollingworth speaks to us about her touching memoir, The Man He Used to Be.
View BookLittle Ways To Keep Calm and Carry On
Author: Mark A. Reinecke
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Author Mark A. Reinecke
Narrator Stephen R. Thorne
Duration 2h 22m
First featured on a British poster produced during World War II, "Keep calm and carry on" has become the mantra of millions-but exactly how to keep calm remains a difficult question for most of us. The next time you are stressed by pressures at work, overwhelmed by life's challenges, or panicked by problems that seem unsolvable, reach for this book...
View BookTouchline Tales, Series 1, A Thunder of Hooves
Author: Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
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Author Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
The second episode of the BBC Radio 4 series, 'Touchline Tales', in which old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Originally broadcast 9 July 2010. In 'A Thunder of Hooves, A Babble of Bookies', they lay some bet...
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Narrator Ruth Hogan
Duration 21m
We chat to Ruth Hogan, author of the brilliant novels Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes. Photo credit Ben Crocker.
View BookAuthor: Jung Chang
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Author Jung Chang
Narrator Rowena Cooper
Duration 21h 45m
This is the story of three generations of women in a Chinese family and mirrors the tumultuous history of twentieth-century China. Jung Chang's grandmother was born into the feudal China of 1909. Her feet were bound and at the age of 15 she was given to a warlord general as a concubine. Her daughter grew up in occupied Manchuria and became active i...
View BookTouchline Tales, Series 1, New Balls Please
Author: Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
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Author Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
The third and final episode of the BBC Radio 4 series, 'Touchline Tales', in which old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Originally broadcast 16 July 2010. In 'New Balls Please' they drop in at the opening week...
View BookAn Interview With Laura Carlin
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Narrator Laura Carlin
Duration 20m
Author Laura Carlin spoke to us about her brilliant debut, The Wicked Cometh.
View BookAuthor: Andy Martin
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Author Andy Martin
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 9h 34m
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS On September 1, 1994, Lee Child went out to buy the paper to start writing his first novel, in pencil. The result was Killing Floor, which introduced his hero Jack Reacher. Twenty years later, on September 1, 2014, he began writing Make Me, the twentieth novel in his number-one- bestselling Reacher series. Same day, same...
View BookNineteenth-century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie
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Author Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie
Narrator Ian Collington
Duration 4h 37m
Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
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Author Christopher Matthew, Des Lynam
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
The first episode of the BBC Radio 4 series, 'Touchline Tales', in which old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew visit some famous sporting venues to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Originally broadcast 2 July 2010. In the opening programme of the series, 'An Uproar of Butterflies...
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Narrator Cass Green
Duration 15m
We chat to best-selling writer Cass Green, author of the hugely popular thrillers The Woman Next Door, No Good Deed and In a Cottage in a Wood.
View BookAuthor: Derren Brown
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Author Derren Brown
Narrator Derren Brown
Duration 14h 40m
Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and hard about happiness. They have defined it in many different ways and come up with myriad strategies for living the good life. Drawi...
View BookAuthor: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
Duration 1h 51m
The BBC's Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers. This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time. William Pitt the Younger, who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in t...
View BookAuthor: Philip Serrell
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Author Philip Serrell
Narrator Philip Serrell
Duration 2h
From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In this audiobook he brings to life a world in which the most valuable antiques frequently turn up in the most unlikely places - and accompanied by the...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 8
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 8
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political b...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Di Langford
Duration 2h 50m
On the 10th May 2002, author Nina Bawden and her husband, Austen Kark, boarded the 12.45 train from King's Cross en route to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. A few minutes later the train derailed. Nina was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly, along with seven others. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Nina use...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 3; the Complete Series
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 50m
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. The Trial of Qwerty - The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty? He Said, She Said - Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domin...
View BookAuthor: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 1h 18m
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Ston...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
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Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Elizabeth Day
Duration 9h 42m
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail, is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is an audiobook for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's an audiobook for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: fai...
View BookAuthor: Tony Robbins
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Author Tony Robbins
Narrator Tony Robbins
Duration 7h 26m
After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom. No matter your salary, your stage of life, or when you starte...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 7
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 7
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, and how his notion of Englishness sha...
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