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Author: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
View BookAuthor: Robert Plomin
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Author Robert Plomin
Narrator Robert Plomin
Duration 8h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality...
View BookHomo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
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Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
View BookAlways Managing: My Autobiography
Author: Harry Redknapp
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Author Harry Redknapp
Narrator David John
Duration 13h 36m
Harry is the manager who has seen it all - from a dismal 70s Portakabin at Oxford City and training pitches with trees in the middle to the unbeatable highs of the Premiership, lifting the FA Cup and taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League. With his much loved, no-nonsense delivery, Harry brings us a story filled with passion and humour that...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 3m
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your nat...
View BookAuthor: Robert Preston
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Author Robert Preston
Narrator The Author
Duration 57m
It's a world in which teamwork and goals are more than just motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way since men in sheepskin coats bestrode the land. The BBC's business editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on this multimillion pound industry and, with managers like Harry R...
View BookAuthor: Fred Sirieix
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Author Fred Sirieix
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 41m
'There's someone out there for all of us...' First Dates, Channel 4's runaway hit TV show, has captured the hearts of the nation. Each week millions of us cosy up on our sofas to watch nervous singletons arrive in the restaurant in the hope of finding love. Now Fred Sirieix, the insatiably charming Maitre'd of the First Dates restaurant, is here to...
View BookChocolate Wars: From Cadbury To Kraft: 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Author: Deborah Cadbury
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Author Deborah Cadbury
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 10h 51m
Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early 19th century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son, John, to London to study a new and exotic commodity: cocoa. Within a generation, John's sons had created a chocolate company to rival the great E...
View BookAuthor: Harriet Gilbert
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Author Harriet Gilbert
Narrator Harriet Gilbert
Duration 27m
To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond Chandler classic thrillers aired in February 2011, Harriett Gilbert presents a reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper Norwood who invented the PI as we know him. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had...
View BookCaesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
Author: Sam Kean
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Author Sam Kean
Narrator Sam Kean
Duration 10h 36m
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth an...
View BookAuthor: Anonymous
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Author Anonymous
Narrator Diana Bishop
Duration 9h 40m
From April 20th, 1945, the day when Berlin first saw the face of war, until June 22nd, when it was sacked by the Russian Army, the anonymous author of 'A Woman in Berlin' captured the stark reality of life within the falling city. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author recorded her experiences, observations and meditations in...
View BookDown and Out In Paris and London
Author: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 6h 54m
Orwell was arguably one of the first 'gonzo' journalists. In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out', which involves hunger, filth, derision and often prejudice and violence. Alcohol i...
View BookAuthor: Liz Welch
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Author Liz Welch
Narrator Emily Bauer
Duration 8h 46m
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe w...
View BookAuthor: Simon Amstell
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Author Simon Amstell
Narrator Simon Amstell
Duration 3h 12m
Random House Audiobooks presents the audiobook of HELP. Read by Simon Amstell and packed full of live recordings taken from his stand up tours. COMEDY, TRAGEDY, THERAPY. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. Read by Simon Amstel...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Paxman
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Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Jeremy Paxman
Duration 11h 56m
Jeremy Paxman is Britain's bravest, most incisive political interviewer. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Paxman is a supreme inquisitor, a master at skewering mammoth egos with his relentless grilling. Few figures in public life have escaped. From John Major to Theresa May, from Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, Paxman had them quaking in their boo...
View BookAuthor: Anne Frank
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Author Anne Frank
Narrator Helena Bonham Carter
Duration 10h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, th...
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 2
Duration 1h 54m
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the second volume of behind-the-scenes revelations from Labour MP Tony Benn's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. The Observer called it `Irresistible fly-on-the-wall history as it actually happens.' Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat...
View BookAuthor: Grayson Perry
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Author Grayson Perry
Narrator Jonny Phillips
Duration 3h 56m
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone? What would happen if we r...
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Simon Russell Beale
Duration 4h 54m
Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet's imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him towards a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with bea...
View BookAuthor: Nick Newman, Christopher Douglas
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Author Nick Newman, Christopher Douglas
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 24m
Dawn French takes a humorous look into the art of sulkiness in this complete BBC Radio 4 series. Professor Joy Klamp (Dawn French) welcomes you to the joy of sulks as she guides us on a humorous journey into the heart of sulkiness. Along with her Sourpussy Posse - Christopher Douglas, Sally Grace, Lucy Montgomery and Dan Tetsell - Joy will show you...
View BookAuthor: Garrick Hagan, Peter Whitfield
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Author Garrick Hagan, Peter Whitfield
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Duration 3h 55m
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was one of the most influential presidents of the USA, uniting the country and abolishing slavery after a terrible civil war. The story of his remarkable rise from a poor farming background to triumph, in one of the most challenging presidencies in US history, and sudden tragic death, is told in this audiobook. It also i...
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