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Being Jazz: My Life As A (transgender) Teen
Author: Jazz Jennings
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Author Jazz Jennings
Narrator Jazz Jennings
Duration 4h
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was m...
View BookRoutes of English,series 2, Programme 4
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 4
Duration 27m
Bad language is not new. We've been swearing for centuries, and those in power have been trying to censor us for just as long. Nowadays, many people are quite relaxed about swearing and will be careful about the context-although we still try to avoid bad language in front of the children, or in polite society.
View BookThe Amazing Book Is Not On Fire
Author: Phil Lester
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Author Phil Lester
Narrator The Authors
Duration 4h 25m
If you found The Amazing Book is Not on Fire at least mildly interesting, or even if you didn't read it at all, then you will LOVE our audiobook! Not only do you get us sensually narrating the whole thing in your ears, but there are over three hours of exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary on the book, and irrelevant Dan and Phil banter straight f...
View BookRoutes of English,series 2, Programme 3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 3
Duration 27m
"By your vowels, your station shall be known." How accents and social class are entwined. For at least 400 years, the way we speak has been one of the fundamental measures by which we've judged our fellow men on the scale of social acceptability. To so many, "talking proper" matters, and "rough talk is not quality talk." But such attitudes are begi...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Nicholas Parsons
SeriesJust a Classic Minute, Book 1
Duration 1h 58m
Nicholas Parsons introduces four 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 1968, Just a Minute challenges contestants to speak for one minute on a given subject without repetition, hesitation or deviation. Its mix of irreverent fun a...
View BookGrumpy Old Men the Secret Diary
Author: Stuart Prebble
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Author Stuart Prebble
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
To everything there is a season. A time to be born, a time to die... and a time to get a few things off your chest. The sequel to Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook covers a year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we...
View BookA Monk's Guide To A Clean House and Mind
Author: Shoukei Matsumoto
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Author Shoukei Matsumoto
Narrator Adam Sims
Duration 2h 5m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto, read by Adam Sims. We remove dust to sweep away our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments. We live simply and take time to contemplate the self, mindfully living each moment. It's not just monks that need to live this w...
View BookAuthor: Anna Kendrick
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Author Anna Kendrick
Narrator Anna Kendrick
Duration 6h
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. "I'm excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my ineptitude, pettiness, and the frequency with which I embarras...
View BookRoutes of English, Series 2,programme 2
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 2
Duration 27m
Melvyn has fun and games with puns, wordplay and tongue twisters. Twisting, manipulation and stretching of the English language is an integral part of everyday communication. This language play exists in many forms, as puns, double entendres, word games and verse exercises, and we have been playing with English for centuries.
View BookRoutes of English,series 2, Programme 1
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 1
Duration 27m
When a new concept or product comes along, how does it get its name? Making up new words for new things or ideas isn't new. New words-linguists call them "coinages"-are as old as the English language itself. Melvyn Bragg explores the history of linguistic innovation from the Middle Ages, through the inventiveness of the Industrial Revolution, to th...
View BookA Close Shot With A Charge of Sixpence
Author: Sir Samuel Baker
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Author Sir Samuel Baker
Narrator Dinsdale Landen
Duration 17m
Sir Samuel White Baker, (b. 8 June 1821 - d. 30 December 1893) was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. This account of a big game encounter is a thrilling testimony that relays the sights, smells and especially sounds of a nineteenth-century hunting experience.
View BookJulie Andrews: An Intimate Biography
Author: Richard Stirling
Format: MP3 CD
Author Richard Stirling
Narrator Rowena Cooper
Duration 15h 4m
In 'My Fair Lady', Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title role in 'Mary Poppins', she won an Academy Award. And 'The Sound of Music' made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, 'Star!' almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell...
View BookAuthor: Richard Overy
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Author Richard Overy
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 4h 12m
The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end of the war the British had lost an extraordin...
View BookThe Seven Spiritual Laws For Parents
Author: Deepak Chopra
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Author Deepak Chopra
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 2h 31m
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success was a phenomenally successful book-more than 1,600,000 copies were sold-and as copies were passed between friends and loved ones, it touched millions more lives. Its author, Deepak Chopra, received thousands of letters from readers, many of whom expressed the desire to convey those same principles to their childr...
View BookReflections On the Artist's Way
Author: Julia Cameron
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Author Julia Cameron
Narrator Julia Cameron
Duration 2h 42m
Unblock your natural creativity with help from Reflections on the Artist's Way, Julia Cameron's groundbreaking audiotape on unleashing your inner artist. Her unique system helps instill the creativityhabit, while yielding powerful results. God's greatest gift to you, she teaches, is your creativity. It is a divine expression, which can be repaid on...
View BookAuthor: Square Dog Radio Mike Hally
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Author Square Dog Radio Mike Hally
Narrator Rory Cellan-Jones
Duration 34m
The patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The problems so serious that President Obama has got involved - and British companies are targeted if they do business in the US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the wor...
View BookAuthor: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 2h 45m
BILL BRYSON presents a fascinating exploration of THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. This highly entertaining BBC Radio 4 series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his bestselling book, Mother Tongue. In it he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-b...
View BookAuthor: Simon Barnes
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Author Simon Barnes
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 47m
Simon Barnes is one of Britain's leading bird writers and humorists. His weekly column in 'The Times', his essays for the RSPB magazine and his two books on bad bird-watching have made him one of the characters of the bird world. Here he reads his own illuminating introductions to the fifty main birds of Britain, supported by the distinguishing bir...
View BookAuthor: Li Cunxin
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Author Li Cunxin
Narrator Paul English
Duration 15h 30m
This is the true story of how one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond imagination. Li Cunxin was from a poor peasant village in revolutionary China. One day a delegation from Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy arrived at Li's commune school to find suitable children to...
View BookAuthor: Simon Jenkins
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Author Simon Jenkins
Narrator Simon Jenkins
Duration 11h 14m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Short History of Europe written and read by Simon Jenkins. Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece a...
View BookAuthor: Blake Bauer
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Author Blake Bauer
Narrator Blake Bauer
Duration 8h 54m
In this life-changing audiobook Blake D Bauer explains why depression, addiction, physical illness, unfulfilling work and relationship problems are caused by years of hiding your true emotions, denying your life purpose and living in fear. Having already helped thousands of people around the world find lasting solutions that conventional medicine,...
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