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Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Author: Kory Stamper
Author Kory Stamper
Narrator Kory Stamper
Duration 9h 48m
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO DEFINE the word "is"? Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Brimming with intelligence and personality, this vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made is a must-read for word mavens. Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, i...
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The History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author: Geoff Bunn
Series: A History of the Brain, Book 3
Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator The Author, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
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English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
Author: Ben Fogle
Author Ben Fogle
Narrator Rupert Farley
Duration 9h 21m
What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defined? Beginning at the top of a muddy Gloucestershire slope at the Coopers Hill cheese-rolling contest and traversing a landscape of lawns and queues, coastlines and sporting arenas, Ben Fogle takes us...
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Air Force Blue: The Raf In World War Two - Spearhead of Victory
Author: Patrick Bishop
Author Patrick Bishop
Narrator Tim France
Duration 15h 1m
Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF's identity set it apart from the traditional services. It was innovative, flexible and comparatively meritocratic, advancing the quasi-revolutionary idea that competence was more important than background. Drawing from diaries, letter...
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: How To Build A Universe
Author: Robin Ince
Author Robin Ince
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 44m
From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels - a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British scienc...
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Ted Hughes: An Unauthorised Life
Author: Jonathan Bate
Author Jonathan Bate
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 25h 43m
A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and...
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Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Alan Durant
Duration 14m
Alan Durant is a children's author and poet. His Creepe Hall series and YA novel Publish or Die are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
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Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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An Interview With Christopher Paolini
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Christopher Paolini
Duration 29m
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle series, which is available is borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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An Interview With James Runcie
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator James Runcie
Duration 21m
James Runcie is a novelist, playwright, TV producer and documentary filmmaker. His Granchester series of books is available to borrow from our library on MP3 CD. Photo ¸ Charlotte Runcie.
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An Interview With Melvyn Bragg
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 12m
Melvyn Bragg is an author and broadcaster. We have a number of his radio documentaries, including the Routes of English series, available to borrow from our online library.
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An Interview With Robert Winston
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Robert Winston
Duration 10m
Robert Winston is a scientist, author and broadcaster. We have several of his science books for children available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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An Interview With Sarah Millican
Author: Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Author Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 9m
Sarah Millican is a comedian and writer, we have her radio series Sarah Millican's Support Group available to borrow from our online library. Image © Matt Crockett.
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Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Vaseem Khan
Duration 16m
Vaseem Khan is a crime writer, the first two books in his Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library. Photo ¸ Nirupama Khan.
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An Interview With Rachel Abbott
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator Rachel Abbott
Duration 16m
Rachel Abbott is an author of psychological crime thrillers. Two of her books, Only the Innocent and The Back Road are available to borrow from our library.
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The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire
Author: Phil Lester
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...
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Author: Victoria Derbyshire
Author Victoria Derbyshire
Narrator Victoria Derbyshire
Duration 7h 17m
Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she found herself at the heart of the news, with a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. With honesty and openness, she decided to live out her treatment and recovery in the spotlight in a series...
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Author: Sarah Millican
Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 7h 3m
Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Millican's debut book delves into her super normal life with daft stories, funny tales and proper advice on how to get past life's blips - like being good at school but not good at friends, the excite...
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Author: Fearne Cotton
Author Fearne Cotton
Narrator Fearne Cotton
Duration 5h 29m
In today's always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling 'noise'. It is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from work, family life or school and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of...
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Author: Lucy Worsley
Author Lucy Worsley
Narrator Ruth Redman
Duration 14h 17m
On the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the world in which our best-loved novelist lived. This new telling of the story of Jane's life shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean bot...
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Author: Rio Ferdinand
Author Rio Ferdinand
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 6h 20m
The courageous and moving story of former England and Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand's sudden and tragic loss of his wife Rebecca to cancer. Written to help others through their grief, he shares, openly and honestly, the hard journey he's on with his three young children and the support and advice that's getting them through. It was a p...
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