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Fry's English Delight: Word Games
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 49m
Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good for you? Do we divide into number and word players? And could Scrabble have been invented in any other language? In this special programme, Stephen examines many word games, and we'll hear some familiar voices playing unfamiliar games-Sheila Dillon from The Food Programme plays Font or Ch...
View BookAuthor: Josie Long
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Author Josie Long
Narrator Josie Long
Duration 14m
The second episode, The Enlightenment, of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, All of the Planet's Wonders, in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Originally broadcast 25 February 2009 and repeated on 29 December 2010. In the second episode,...
View BookAuthor: Meik Wiking
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Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 4h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Key to Happiness written and read by Meik Wiking. Meik Wiking understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute, he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people to discover the key components of happiness. In The...
View BookAuthor: Mark Henderson
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Author Mark Henderson
Narrator Tom Lawrence
Duration 10h 24m
The geeks are coming. And our world needs them. Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down...
View BookIt's Your Round, Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesIt's Your Round Series 1, Book 1
Duration 27m
'It's Your Round' is the comedy panel game where the format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the panellists has brought along their own round for the others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and unpredictable. Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations int...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 4
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 Mouth': Why is the human food processor and word processor in the same unit? Stephen Fry takes you inside 'this hole we call cake' - the most important part of speech. 'Brevity': A celebration of the miniature in English. Tim...
View BookAuthor: Josie Long
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Author Josie Long
Narrator Josie Long
Duration 14m
The first episode, Astronomy for Dummies, of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, All of the Planet's Wonders, in which award-winning comedian Josie Long attempts to better herself through learning from reference books, with help from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins. Originally broadcast 18 February 2009 and repeated on 28 December 2010. In this episode Jos...
View BookAuthor: Chris Addison
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Author Chris Addison
Narrator Chris Addison
Duration 1h 52m
Based on his Perrier-nominated Edinburgh hit show of 2004, Chris Addison's Civilization is a comedy lecture series for Radio 4. It neatly follows on from Chris's first Radio 4 series, The Ape That Got Lucky. Western Civilization, like many very old things, is pretty much on its last legs. And if Western Civilization as we know it is dying sooner ra...
View BookAuthor: Brene Brown
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Author Brene Brown
Narrator Brene Brown
Duration 8h 10m
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the rig...
View BookAuthor: David Fontana
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Author David Fontana
Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
Duration 3h 46m
As rates of depression and anxiety continue to rise in the modern world, one proposed remedy garnering growing attention is meditation, and mindfulness meditation in particular. This practical and accessible guide shows you how this practice can relieve stress and anxiety, encourage deep mental and physical relaxation, enhance creativity, and relea...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 4
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 46m
Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for the fourth series of the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 show in which they take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. Winner of a Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Best Speech Programme: 'A brilliant way of being both innovative...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 3
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 47m
Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for the third series of the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 show in which they take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. In the first episode, 'Apocalypse!', Brian and Robin are joined by comedian Andy Hamilton to discuss some of the...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Jacobs Hendel
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Author Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 8h 21m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of It's Not Always Depression by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, read by Cassandra Campbell. We were all taught that our thoughts affect our emotions, but in truth it is largely the other way around: we have to experience our emotions to truly understand our thoughts, and our full selves. This is why we should think not...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 2
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
The second series of the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 show in which physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. In the first episode, specially recorded as part of 2010's Cheltenham Science Festival, Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by...
View BookCrochet: A Beginners Guide To Crochet
Author: Nancy Ross
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Author Nancy Ross
Narrator Sangita Chauhan
Duration 55m
Discover the easy way to get started with crochet! Whether you are interested in learning the basics that you need for starting crochet, relieve stress, or for the sheer enjoyment of crocheting this book can help you. Here is a preview of what you'll learn... The Basics That You Need for Starting Crochet Learning Some of the Basic Stitches Decreasi...
View BookAn Interview With Sarah Waters
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Sarah Waters
Duration 16m
Sarah Waters is the bestselling and award winning author of titles such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.
View BookAuthor: Rhonda Byrne
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Author Rhonda Byrne
Narrator Rhonda Byrne
Duration 4h 26m
YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS A GREAT SECRET. It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Fragments of this Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. It has been understood by some of the most prominent p...
View BookAn Interview With Jacqueline Wilson
Author: Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Listening Books, Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Jacqueline Wilson
Duration 22m
Jacqueline Wilson's novels often deal with many challenging themes and remain some of the most popular titles chosen in our library. The Story of Tracy Beaker is available to download or on MP3 CD, number 08662CD. Image c Jacqueline Wilson
View BookAuthor: Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Author Robert T. Kiyosaki
Narrator Maksim Kiryaev
Duration 9h 43m
Anniversary edition of the financial bestseller of all time! Rich Dad, Poor Dad was published 20 years ago for the first time and at once achieved wide readership. By the anniversary of the financial bestseller, Robert Kiyosaki has prepared the new edition with updates for the present-day world and today's market conditions including nine additiona...
View BookEnglish: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather
Author: Ben Fogle
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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...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett
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Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
Duration 13h 2m
Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got the...
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