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Author: Martin O'Neill
Author Martin O'Neill
Narrator Martin O'Neill
Duration 7h 11m
In a career spanning five decades, Martin O'Neill has seen it all. In The Changing Game he provides his unique perspective on the events, managers and teams that define football. Bringing his sharp instincts and intellect to look at his own tenures as a manager for Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Celtic and the Republic of Ireland, as well as ma...
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Author: Joe Cole
Author Joe Cole
Narrator Jason Flemyng, Sam Wallace
Duration 11h 8m
One of the best players of his era, Joe Cole grew up playing football in North London's estates, and his ability, grit and hard work took him to the very top. But Joe was often mistrusted by managers and out of step with the style of English football in the 2000s. The game was suspicious of creative footballers it considered luxury players - the ki...
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Author: Peter Guralnick
Author Peter Guralnick
Narrator Kevin Stillwell
Duration 31h 7m
The next chapter in the definitive biography of Elvis picks up where Last Train to Memphis closed with Presley's military service in Germany 1958 and ends with his death in Memphis, 1977. Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that shone so brightly, homing in on his very close, and very complex relationship with his lifelong manager...
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Author: Robert Ross
Author Robert Ross
Narrator The Author, Eric Idle
Duration 14h 4m
Seriously Silly is an intimate portrait of Terry Jones - Python, actor, director, historian, reluctant national treasure and purveyor of sincere silliness - written by the man he chose to tell the story of his life. From his Welsh upbringing in Colwyn Bay, to meeting his lifelong friend Michael Palin at Oxford through revue sketches, anarchic child...
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Author: Jenny Evans
Author Jenny Evans
Narrator Jenny Evans
Duration 8h 16m
Cast in a cult film at the age of eighteen, Jenny Evans was on the cusp of something extraordinary; a route out of her hometown, a future of promise. But the new world she was exploring crumbled around her when she was assaulted at a party by a high-profile figure. Don't Let it Break You, Honey is a reckoning: a personal, fiercely compelling accoun...
View BookAuthor: John Whaite
Author John Whaite
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 12m
'I never thought I'd write a memoir. I never thought I'd do a lot of the things I have done in my thirty-four years, but life has a wonderful way of surprising us.' Well-known as the winner of the third series of The Great British Bake Off and runner up of Strictly Come Dancing with his same-sex dance partner Johannes Radebe, John Whaite's personal...
View BookAuthor: Kate Humble
Author Kate Humble
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 54m
Thinking on My Feet is an inspiring journal of walks divided into seasonal sections. Discover the joys and benefits of walking, encounters with the natural and urban world, with the familiar and strange, with animals, people and events. Kate charts her feelings and impressions throughout, capturing the perspectives that only a journey on foot allow...
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Author: Harry Hill
Author Harry Hill
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 37m
After a childhood spent making smoke bombs, killing wasps and carving soap in 70s Kent, Harry Hill then found himself in charge of hundreds of sick people as a junior doctor. Out of his depth and terrified, he chucked it all in to pursue his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. Battling his way through the 90s comedy circuit he quickly rose to be...
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Author: Paris Fury
Author Paris Fury
Narrator The Author, Reanne Farley
Duration 8h 34m
Paris Fury is Tyson's rock, the wife he thanks for all his success. Both from Traveller families, she married him at 19 and is hands-on mother to their seven children, as well as at his side through every fight. Always glamorous, strong, grounded, and her own woman. When Tyson's struggles with depression, OCD and alcohol have threatened to overwhel...
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Author: Linda Calvey
Author Linda Calvey
Narrator Linda Calvey
Duration 9h 27m
Widely known in the criminal underworld as the 'Black Widow', Linda Calvey spent the first half of her life running with the UK's top gangsters, robbing banks and rubbing shoulders with the Kray twins. That is, until, in 1990, her lover Robbie Cook was murdered at point-blank, and she found herself falsely convicted. Linda was sent away for decades...
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Author: Steven Bartlett
Author Steven Bartlett
Narrator Steven Bartlett
Duration 4h 33m
As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything I set out to, I learnt that I was wrong about alm...
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Author: Chris McCausland
Author Chris McCausland
Narrator Chris McCausland
Duration 10h 5m
Brought to you by Penguin.From a life in comedy to the Glitterball Trophy – Chris McCausland Tells All. The perfect feel-good gift for fans of comedy and Strictly alike.Already one of the country's best loved comedians, Chris McCausland's participation on Strictly was a phenomenon. But how did the boy from Liverpool end up winning the hearts...
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Author: Paloma Faith
Author Paloma Faith
Narrator Paloma Faith
Duration 6h 21m
Brought to you by Penguin.Can women have it all? What does it mean to be a woman and a mother inthe modern age?In this passionate, funny and fierce polemic, Paloma Faith delves deep into theissues that face women today, from puberty and sexual awakenings, to battlingthrough the expectations of patriarchy and the Supermum myth.Infused with Paloma's...
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Author: Sian Williams
Author Sian Williams
Narrator Sian Williams
Duration 11h 2m
A week after my 50th birthday, and just as our family was about to move home, something happened that changed the way I looked at life. I spoke to others about how they rebuilt their shattered worlds after very different personal traumas, emerging stronger than before. I hope our experiences, together with the latest science on resilience, will hel...
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Author: Kate Williams
Author Kate Williams
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 17h 50m
In Regina, acclaimed historian Kate Williams leads us deep into a world of queens, empresses, princesses, mistresses and courtiers, uncovering how their ambitions were shaped, celebrated and often thwarted, exposing a tangled web of women and power that spans thousands of years. Ranging from the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Mesopotamia to the...
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Author: Peter Guralnick
Author Peter Guralnick
Narrator Kevin Stillwell
Duration 22h 33m
Last Train to Memphis is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to create a superbly coherent and plausible narrativ...
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Author: Sara Cox
Author Sara Cox
Narrator Sara Cox
Duration 8h 41m
The youngest of five siblings, Sara grew up on her father's cattle farm surrounded by dogs, cows, horses, fields and lots of 'cack'. The lanky kid sister - half girl, half forehead - a nuisance to the older kids, the farm was her very own dangerous adventure playground, 'a Bolton version of Narnia'. Her writing conjures up a time of wagon rides and...
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Author: Jake Graf, Hannah Graf
Author Jake Graf, Hannah Graf
Narrator Sara Dunham
Duration 7h 54m
Becoming Us is the inspiring and at times heart-breaking memoir of Jake and Hannah Graf, the UK's most visible transgender couple and family. We follow their extraordinary paths towards the 'normality' they have always longed for, as they navigate the many challenges and pitfalls along the way. Amid soaring levels of hatred and transphobia in the U...
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Graeme Souness – Football: My Life, My Passion
Author: Graeme Souness
Author Graeme Souness
Narrator Angus King
Duration 6h 36m
Graeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. He has racked up getting on for fifty years in and around the world of professional football. The game has been his life, and his enduring passion. Souness has written a perceptive and opinionated autobiography...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Author Maya Angelou
Narrator Adjoa Andoh, Cecilia Noble, Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner
Duration 1h
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography, starring Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal and Pippa Bennett-Warner.Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother and uncle in the small Southern town of Stamps in Arkansas. Struggling with rejection, they endure the prej...
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Author: Piers Blofield
Author Piers Blofield
Narrator David Holt
Duration 10h 9m
In a brilliant feat of literary detective work Master of Lies tells the extraordinary untold story of Anthony Blunt's life as a spy. Based on extensive research into newly released files he is revealed as not simply "the fourth man", but the most dangerous spy of the twentieth century. During the war, as the fate of the world hung in the balance, B...
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