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Author: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Jane Wymark
Duration 6h 51m
This is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghosts is a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Ma...
View BookAuthor: Lionel Blue
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Author Lionel Blue
Narrator Lionel Blue
Duration 13h 11m
Lionel Blue is a paradox: Britain's most famous Rabbi and a household name, his Jewish wit and quirky spirituality never fail to entertain. Yet he has lived a life on the fringes. A Rabbi who has remained true to his tradition, he has also found a home in Christianity. A man who has struggled with his homosexuality, he has learnt slowly and painful...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Saunders
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Author Jennifer Saunders
Narrator Jennifer Saunders
Duration 9h
Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, frie...
View BookArthur Smith's Balham Bash Series 1
Author: Arthur Smith
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Author Arthur Smith
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 50m
Arthur Smith invites an audience into his South London home for comedy, music and entertainment. There's jamming in the kitchen, chuckles in the front room and poetry on the landing. Pippa Evans is a regular contributor as singer-songwriter Loretta Maine, while special guests include Paul Sinha, Milton Jones, Glenn Tilbrook, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ste...
View BookThe Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo
Author: Amy Schumer
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Author Amy Schumer
Narrator Amy Schumer
Duration 8h 1m
In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good - and bad - sex, recounting the experiences that have shaped who she is today: from the riches to rags story of her childhood to her teenage quest for popularity (and boys) to becoming one of the most sought-after comedians on the planet...
View BookAuthor: Richard (ed.) Mangan
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Author Richard (ed.) Mangan
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Duration 3h 55m
John Gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life. Whether at home in London and later in Buckinghamshire, or acting abroad or on location, he delighted in sitting down each day and recounting what had been going on and what he felt about events around him. Not long before his death aged 96 in May 2000, he was still writing in increasin...
View BookAuthor: Will Gompertz
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Author Will Gompertz
Narrator Will Gompertz
Duration 3h 41m
The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz examines dozens of these unique objects, in a quest to 'use the Collection as a prism through which to better unders...
View BookAngela Carter's Love Affair With Radio
Author: Charlotte Crofts
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Author Charlotte Crofts
Narrator Charlotte Crofts
Duration 27m
Angela Carter's relationship with radio began with an accidental sound effect. She went on to write two docu-dramas, Come Unto These Yellow Sands (about the Victorian painter Richard Dadd) and A Self-Made Man (about Edwardian novelist Ronald Firbank) and re-worked two of her short stories into radio plays. Carter loved radio's technical possibiliti...
View BookTrevor's World of Sport, Series 1
Author: Andy Hamilton
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Author Andy Hamilton
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 46m
The first series of Andy Hamilton's BBC Radio 4 comedy about sports PR agent Trevor. Trevor and Sammy are the movers and shakers at TS Sports Stars agency. Friends for twenty years, and business partners for nine, they are chalk and cheese: Trevor is thoughtful, honest and sensitive while Sammy is a rapacious dealmaker with the morals of a hyena. I...
View BookAuthor: Dan Patterson
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Author Dan Patterson
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 57m
Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Lenny Henry, Griff Rhys Jones and Dawn French, and host Clive Anderson, star in the improvisation radio show that spawned the TV phenomenon. Based on comedy suggestions from the studio audience, this is ad-libbed comedy at its best. Regulars Stephen Fry and John Sessions are joined by Lenny Henry, Dawn French, Hugh Laurie,...
View BookDerek Nimmo Classics Episode 2
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Derek Nimmo
SeriesDerek Nimmo Classics, Book 2
Duration 30m
Derek Nimmo is one of Just a Minute's famous sparkling raconteurs, whose sharp wit and skill made him a pleasure and delight to listen to. This episode is one of four which showcases his highlights - the moments which reveal Derek Nimmo at the very top of his game. First broadcast 4 April 1989, it features Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Paul Merton and...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
Duration 2h 18m
Ten episodes from David Reynolds' award-winning radio series, which trace the history of the American Civil War. This narrative tells the story of the American Civil War through the voices of those who lived it. Written and presented by acclaimed historian David Reynolds, these extracts come from the series America: Empire of Liberty, which won the...
View BookThe Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
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Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Benjamin Zephaniah
Duration 10h 45m
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin's poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside poli...
View BookDerek Nimmo Classics Episode 1
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Derek Nimmo
SeriesDerek Nimmo Classics, Book 1
Duration 26m
Derek Nimmo is one of Just a Minute's famous sparkling raconteurs, whose sharp wit and skill made him a pleasure and delight to listen to. This episode is one of four which showcases his highlights - the moments which reveal Derek Nimmo at the very top of his game. First broadcast 18 April 1981, it features Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Peter Jones,...
View BookI've Never Seen Star Wars, Series 1
Author: Marcus Brigstocke
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Author Marcus Brigstocke
Narrator Marcus Brigstocke
Duration 2h 46m
I've Never Seen Star Wars is a Radio 4 entertainment series in which Marcus Brigstocke asks his guest of the week to embrace ordinary activities and experiences that they've perhaps always meant to try but haven't had the time, the courage or possibly the inclination. The challenges that the guests undertook in series one included drinking absinthe...
View BookAuthor: Gina Martin
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Author Gina Martin
Narrator Gina Martin
Duration 5h 17m
Without any legal or political experience, I changed the law and made upskirting illegal in 18 months. But this book is not about changing the law. It's not about me. This is yours. It's your handbook, your road map and your toolkit for pushing for change at absolutely any level. From using social media to gain support and to getting pro bono legal...
View BookI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
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Author Maya Angelou
Narrator Maya Angelou
Duration 10h 10m
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. Angelous says about her writing, 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's li...
View BookAuthor: Glenn Patterson
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Author Glenn Patterson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 43m
Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980s. A hunger strike was looming, street violence and tit for tat murders were an everyday occurrence, but in a small corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late 20th century. For 2...
View BookJohnners' It's Been A Lot of Fun
Author: Brian Johnston
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Author Brian Johnston
Narrator Brian Johnston
Duration 1h 15m
Brian Johnston covered cricket for BBC Radio and Television, at home and abroad, since 1946. After Eton, Oxford and The Guards he joined the BBC only by chance. In this reading from his book he covers his career and family life from the start.
View BookAt Home: A Short History of Private Life
Author: Bill Bryson
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Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 6h
What does history really consist of? Centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - sleeping, eating, having sex, endeavouring to get comfortable. And where did all these normal activities take place? At home. This was the thought that inspired Bill Bryson to start a journey around the rooms of his own house, an 1851 Norfolk rectory...
View BookAuthor: John Wilson
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Author John Wilson
Narrator The Author
Duration 27m
In Top of the Class, John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes them back to the places and people they left behind. This third series sees him accompanying novelist Andrea Levy as she goes back to her adult education writing class, and taking Michael Portillo back to his old grammar school to meet his former teacher.
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