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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 38m
Another hilarious selection of mirth-filled minutes from BBC Radio 4's popular long-running panel game. These four shows were recorded in Bath, Edinburgh, Brighton and, from Sheffield, Derek Nimmo's last appearance on Just A Minute. Just a minute began on BBC Radio 4 in 1967 and has become a classic panel game which is still popular on Radio 4 toda...
View BookAuthor: William Dalrymple
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Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
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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,...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 6
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 3, Book 6
Duration 27m
The final programme in the series considers the future of English dialects. In the last programme in the series Melvyn looks at Standard English. He is joined by Lynda Mugglestone, Fellow of English Language at Pembroke College, Oxford and John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London. Together they attempt to answer some of the qu...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2008
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Four of the most sparkling editions from recent series of the ever-popular Radio 4 comedy panel game, chaired by Nicholas Parsons with regular players Paul Merton and Clement Freud joined by a host of guest players. Among the subjects hilariously tackled are: The Scottish Play, The A to Z, An Infinite Number of Monkeys, Leonardo da Vinci, The Famou...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
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Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 5m
In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. Its name was HMS Erebus. Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stal...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 5
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 3, Book 5
Duration 27m
Here, Melvyn visits Oswestry. Just five miles from the Welsh border, this is a frontier town whose name means "boundary". It's where Offa's Dyke and countless crumbling castles bear witness to centuries of shifting political allegiances. Language too, has been a battleground. Welsh and English have waxed and waned, woven and unravelled. Visit the t...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2009
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
Four specially selected episodes of Radio 4's much-loved panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Among the subjects hilariously tackled are tomboys, my secret vice, charisma, hot air, Speakers' Corner, cat lovers, agony aunts and bugs. First broadcast in 1968, Just a Minute is one of the longest-running radio comedy shows. A national institution, i...
View BookJust A Minute: The Best of 2005
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 52m
The Best of Just a Minute is a yearly event which brings together the greatest shows of the year. Just a Minute was devised by the late Ian Messiter, who came up with the idea on the top of a number 13 bus, where he suddenly remembered the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation being meted out by one of his school...
View BookMark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better Series 2
Author: Mark Watson
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Author Mark Watson
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 47m
Continuing to make the world a better place, this is the second series for Mark to free you from sin. Mark Watson is not only a fantastic stand-up comedian, but he may also be the best chance we have to overcome sin. He's got a plan to teach us everything we need to know about the Six Deadly Sins (he knows it's usually seven, but he's doing Greed a...
View BookAuthor: Suetonius
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Author Suetonius
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 7h 13m
Suetonius wrote his 'Lives of the Twelve Caesars' in the reign of Vespasian around 70AD. He chronicled the extraordinary careers of Julius, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasian and Domitian and the rest in technicolour terms. They presented some high and low times at the heart of the Roman Empire. The accounts provide us with ins...
View BookAuthor: Chris Gayle
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Author Chris Gayle
Narrator Leroy Osei-Bonsu
Duration 8h 41m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Six Machine by Chris Gayle, read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu. 'If the ball's there, hit it. Don't worry about what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six' Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. But then producing the impossible is...
View BookJust A Classic Minute Volume 6
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 13m
Nicholas Parsons and Paul Merton introduce Ian Messiter's four classic archive episodes of the ever-popular comedy panel game. Just as uproariously funny and terrifically popular today as when it first began on BBC Radio 4 in 1967, Just a Minute challenges contestants to speak for one minute on a given subject without repetition, hesitation or devi...
View BookMark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better Series 1
Author: Mark Watson
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Author Mark Watson
Narrator The Authors
Duration 2h 48m
As a starting point in making the world a better place, Mark will free you from sin. It's a big task, but he thinks it's going to go really well. Mark Watson is not only a fantastic stand-up comedian, but he may also be the best chance we have to overcome sin. He's got a plan to teach us everything we need to know about the Six Deadly Sins (he know...
View BookAuthor: Ron Stallworth
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Author Ron Stallworth
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 50m
What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a P.O. box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist br...
View BookAuthor: Raynor Winn
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Author Raynor Winn
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 11h 1m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, read by Anne Reid. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South Wes...
View BookJust A Classic Minute Volume 5
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
Nicholas Parsons and Paul Merton introduce four classic archive episodes of the ever-popular Radio 4 comedy panel game.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 36m
John Inverdale presents another hilarious selection of resounding clangers from the very sporting BBC Sports Department. Here are the gremlins, giggles, goofs and gaffes that can turn an innocent sports report into a commentator's nightmare - and a listener's dream. So 'corpse' with the Test Match Special team, relish 'own goal' innuendoes with gui...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 4
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 3, Book 4
Duration 27m
Melvyn visits Brixton to discover the most imitated, influential form of spoken English today. It's a dialect determined not by geography or profession, but by age, fashion and aspiration. Pulsing through music culture, spread by television and radio, it can be found throughout the UK. Sometimes subversive, often secretive, it is arguably the most...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 3, Programme 3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 3, Book 3
Duration 27m
Melvyn travels west in search of the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect. Cornwall is an evocative place. A Celtic land with a rich mythology, a land of caves and coves, of cream teas and country lanes. At least that's the image that has long attracted travellers and settlers. Yet it's also a land that has, over the last century, faced dramatic so...
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