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Fry'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...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 2; the Complete Series
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 51m
A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language. Includes four 30-minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. So Wrong It's Right - Stephen Fry examines how 'wrong' English can become right English, such as more people us...
View BookAuthor: John Lewis-Stempel
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Author John Lewis-Stempel
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 1h 51m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Roy McMillan. 'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light. Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started calling, Hoo-hoo-hoo-h-o-o-o.' There is something about owls. They feature in every major culture from the...
View BookAuthor: John Hosken
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Author John Hosken
Narrator Noel Johnson
Duration 29m
An affectionate profile of Dick Barton - Special Agent, presented by John Hosken, including interviews with Noel Johnson, star of the Dick Barton radio series. Dick Barton is the radio character who refuses to lie down. Although it is over fifty years since the daily serial was dropped to make way for The Archers, fans still talk about their hero's...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 6
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 6
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 David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare state, became a presidential PM in the First W...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Cunningham
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Author Andrew Cunningham
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 47m
The Making of Modern Medicine covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. From classical beliefs about illness that would dominate medical thinking for centuries, through to the...
View BookAuthor: Mark J. Anderson
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Author Mark J. Anderson
Narrator Nick Dolle
Duration 29m
This introduction to massage therapy includes the history of massage, basics of anatomy, physiology and the basic structure and function of the human body. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... The Soothing Secrets of Massage Oil The Common Types of Massage Therapy Thai Massage Therapy at a Closer Look Shower Massage and its Power Massage...
View BookAuthor: Rhonda Byrne
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Author Rhonda Byrne
Narrator Rhonda Byrne
Duration 6h 4m
The groundbreaking feature length movie that revealed the great mystery of the universe, The Secret, is now an audiobook, and everything listeners have ever wanted - unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth - is now theirs for the taking. The Secret is an enigma that has existed throughout the history of mankind. It has been discove...
View BookAuthor: Richard Holloway
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Author Richard Holloway
Narrator Richard Holloway
Duration 5h 13m
Where do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in his ninth decade, former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying, guiding countless men and women towards peaceful deaths. In The Last Bus, he presents a positive, me...
View BookAuthor: Robert Scott
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Author Robert Scott
Narrator David Horovitch
Duration 7h 14m
Captain Robert Scott's final journey to the South Pole has been called one of history's greatest tales of adventure. And his journals are among the most dramatic and moving documents in the English language. Sensitively read by David Horovitch, this new audio adaptation starts in 1910 as Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, sets sail from New Zealand. The...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 5
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 5
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 Benjamin Disraeli, who turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain's first Jewish-born pri...
View BookNoel Coward; An Audio Biography
Author: Sheridan Morley
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Author Sheridan Morley
Narrator Sheridan Morley
Duration 2h 33m
Playwright, actor, singer, songwriter, poet and scriptwriter, Sir No‰l Coward used his `talent to amuse' to spectacular effect for almost sixty years. Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten and Joyce Carey are just some of the voices heard paying tribute to the elegant star in this audio biography which is linked by the broadcaster and criti...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Wood
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Author Victoria Wood
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 51m
Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure is fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She explores how Victoria felt abou...
View BookHow To Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
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Author Dale Carnegie
Narrator Andrew Macmillan
Duration 7h 18m
Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Win Friends and Influence People -- presented here in its entirety on 8 cassettes. For over 60 years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this audiobook has carried thousands of now-famous people up the ladder of succe...
View BookAuthor: Matt Haig
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Author Matt Haig
Narrator Matt Haig
Duration 5h 11m
Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How do we...
View BookThe Prime Minister's, Series 1: Episode 2
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 2
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 Lord North, who is remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 4
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 Lord Palmerston, who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
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