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Author: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Sebastian Faulks
Duration 11h 17m
Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and celebrates the most famous and best-loved of these dazzling fictional creations and their wider impact on...
View BookAuthor: Sue Perkins
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Author Sue Perkins
Narrator The Authors
Duration 1h 50m
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins offer you more than your fair share of laughs, songs and silliness in their imaginatively titled BBC Radio 4 series.
View BookThe Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
Author: Mark Kermode
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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...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 3
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 Sir Robert Peel, who put national interest before party.
View BookThe Trial & the Death of Socrates
Author: Plato
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Author Plato
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Duration 4h 39m
'The Trial' and 'The Death of Socrates' remain powerful documents not least because they give a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. In 'Apology' Socrates defends himself before the Athenian court against charges of corrupting youth, and 'Phaedo' is a young man's account of the actual last moments and words of So...
View BookAuthor: Richard Van Emden
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Author Richard Van Emden
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 7h 56m
Harry Patch, 108 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second World War and fame in later life as a veteran, this is...
View BookAuthor: Timothy Ferriss
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Author Timothy Ferriss
Narrator Ray Porter
Duration 13h 5m
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less,...
View BookAuthor: Peter Whitfield
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Author Peter Whitfield
Narrator Sebastian Comberti
Duration 5h 14m
What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities in eras utterly remote from our own? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age-religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece to the...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Sweet
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Author Matthew Sweet
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 13h 2m
It's the Second World War and the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's teem with those determined not to allow Hitler to impact on their way of life. Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas. Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Clarid...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 1
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 Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister.
View BookManchester's Finest: How the Munich Air Disaster Broke the Heart of A Great City
Author: David Hall
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Author David Hall
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 10h 51m
On 6 February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runaway in Munich. On board were the Manchester United football team as well as a number of journalists and other passengers. News of the disaster sent shockwaves around the world. For people who lived in Manchester at the time...
View BookAuthor: Roman Halter
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Author Roman Halter
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 9h 58m
This is a story of impossible misfortune and improbable good luck - the compelling and uplifting account of the boy who made it outof the ghetto, survived Auschwitz and Stutthof and endured the Dresden bombing, before escaping to England. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Rebecca (ed) Gray
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Author Rebecca (ed) Gray
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 10m
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Si...
View BookAuthor: David George Haskell
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Author David George Haskell
Narrator The Author, Cassandra Campbell
Duration 10h 26m
David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fun...
View BookAuthor: John Preston
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Author John Preston
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 10h 14m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of A Very English Scandal by John Preston, read by Daniel Weyman. The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the la...
View BookAuthor: Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Author Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrator The Author
Duration 16h 44m
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldes...
View BookAuthor: Leanda Le Lisle
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Author Leanda Le Lisle
Narrator Sandra Duncan
Duration 16h 11m
The Tudors are a national obsession; they are our most notorious family in history. But, as Leanda de Lisle shows in this gripping new history, beyond the well-worn headlines is a family still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII an...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 55m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience comedy show featuring comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. This first episode features live music from Scouting for Girls, including their hit She's So Lovely, and the guest comedian...
View BookAuthor: Julian Curry
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Author Julian Curry
Narrator Julian Curry
Duration 5h 14m
A unique audiobook guide which takes the listener to the heart of wine making and wine drinking in a clear light-hearted manner. Includes advice on cellaring, buying, serving, food-matching and tasting and information on grape varieties, wine regions and styles of wine.
View BookAuthor: David Adam
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Author David Adam
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 9h 15m
Award-winning science writer David Adam reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intelligence.What if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice but to simply swallow a pill? In The Genius Within, best-selling author David Adam explores the groundbreaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement. Shari...
View BookAuthor: Michael Griesbach
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Author Michael Griesbach
Narrator Johnny Heller
Duration 8h 16m
The story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit and now the subject of the hit series Making a Murderer. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven...
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