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Author: Philip Norman
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Author Philip Norman
Narrator Russell Boulter
SeriesJohn Lennon, Book 2
Duration 14h 10m
This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon's folklore: his upbringi...
View BookAuthor: Joan Rice
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Author Joan Rice
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 6h 24m
Written with flair and exuberance, Joan Rice's diary is a compelling and personal account of life and love in the Second World War. Including additional material from her husband's own diary, 'Sand in my Shoes' is a record of one woman's coming-of-age.
View BookAuthor: Gerald Durrell
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Author Gerald Durrell
Narrator Hugh Bonneville
Duration 4h 20m
Durrell's autobiographical account of his childhood, concentrating on his time spent in Corfu 1935-39, is rich with both humour and naturalist observations on the ecosystems and nature of the island. A heartfelt and warming account of island life that impacted significantly on tourism in Corfu, this memoir is one for listeners all ages and inclinat...
View BookAuthor: T E Lawrence
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Author T E Lawrence
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 7h 52m
Lawrence of Arabia's seminal work charts his time in the British Military Intelligence in the Levantine territories, during the wars with the Turks. The manuscript is candid and action-packed, and was entirely re-written after Lawrence lost the original manuscript whilst changing trains.
View BookAuthor: BBC Archive Voices
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Author BBC Archive Voices
Narrator Glenda Jackson
Duration 2h 4m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the renowned actress and MP begins with a radio interview in 1970 and runs through to a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs in 1997. Along the way Glenda Jackson appears on numerous programmes including Parkinson, In The Psychiatrist's Chair and Start the Week, during the course of which sh...
View BookCatherine the Great: Portrait of A Woman
Author: Robert Massie
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Author Robert Massie
Narrator Mark Deakins
Duration 23h 52m
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She...
View BookAuthor: Peter Keating
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Author Peter Keating
Narrator Robert Pennant Jones
Duration 10h
This audiobook examines all the phases of Kipling's poetic career, from his charming poetry for children to his political satire, and argues for him to be acknowledged as one of the most important English poets of the 20th century.
View BookAuthor: James Herriot
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Author James Herriot
Narrator Christopher Timothy
SeriesThe Vet Book, Book 1
Duration 6h 57m
The first book in James Herriot's autobiographical series which formed the basis of the well-loved BBC Television's 'All Creatures Great and Small'. When newly qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss Siegfried?
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Dan Stevens
Duration 4h 37m
Going Solo tells of how, when he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa and a series of daring and dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, read all about Roald Dahl's life before becoming the world's number-one storyteller. This book is full of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightenin...
View BookAuthor: Ronald Blythe
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Author Ronald Blythe
Narrator Various
Duration 12h
A portrait of a Suffolk village and its inhabitants during the 1950s, which includes reminiscences from survivors of the Great War to the concerns of a younger generation of farm workers and the personal recollections of the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate.
View BookAuthor: Andrew Morton
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Author Andrew Morton
Narrator George Asprey
Duration 10h
From her fairy-tale wedding and the births of her sons to the collapse of her marriage, Diana's troubled life transfixed millions. Despite enduring heartbreak, illness and depression, she never wavered in her commitment to the less fortunate, or in her determination to make a better life for herself and her sons. This revealing book is perhaps the...
View BookAuthor: Carole Mackie
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Author Carole Mackie
Narrator Alison Pettitt
Duration 9h
Ex-air stewardess Carole Mackie relates the circumstances surrounding her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, the positive outlook that helped her cope with her illness, and her work to raise money for MS research.
View BookJoyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
Author: Joyce Grenfell
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Author Joyce Grenfell
Narrator Joyce Grenfell
Duration 3h 15m
Actress, comedienne and raconteur Joyce Grenfell brings to life her experiences working in radio and in film, on the stage and war-time entertainment tours. Her glamorous and madcap American mother, aunt Nancy Astor and husband Reggie are just some of the larger-than-life characters in this reading.
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
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Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 5h 3m
This audiobook examines the life and music of one of the key figures in Romantic music, pianist-composer Frederic Chopin, and includes many examples of his work. Regarded as one of the most mesmerising performers of his day, Chopin created waltzes, mazurkas, etudes, preludes, nocturnes, three piano sonatas, two piano concertos and much more. Here i...
View BookMary Warnock: A Memoir - People & Places
Author: Mary Warnock
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Author Mary Warnock
Narrator Mary Warnock
Duration 11h 9m
Mary Warnock entered the public eye when Margaret Thatcher made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this audiobook she reflects on the places and people who have influenced her including the Oxford school of philosophy in the 1950s and 60s.
View BookAuthor: Graham Mccann
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Author Graham Mccann
Narrator Ian Burford
Duration 12h
Not only the biography of Britain's best-loved comedy double-act but also of one of British television's best-loved shows. Morecambe and Wise worked together for more than 40 years, honing skills drawn from the music-hall, radio, films and television and combining them to produce an award-winning show that climaxed with the 1977 TV Christmas specia...
View BookAuthor: Antonia Fraser
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Author Antonia Fraser
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 20h 12m
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life story continues to arouse mixed emotions. Was she a misused heroine? Or would there have been no French Revolution without her? In this comprehensive biography, Antonia Fraser charts the journey made by this ill-fated Queen.
View BookAuthor: Hesketh Pearson
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Author Hesketh Pearson
Narrator Tim Pigott-Smith
Duration 2h 39m
Arthur Conan Doyle will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes, but he was also a prolific writer of short stories, science fiction and historical fiction. Here, Pearson considers how Doyle's life is reflected in his books.
View BookFreud: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Anthony Storr
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Author Anthony Storr
Narrator Jason Neville
Duration 3h 55m
Sigmund Freud revolutionised the way in which we think about ourselves. He developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and relationships. This audiobook investigates Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
View BookAuthor: Christy Brown
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Author Christy Brown
Narrator Conor Mullen
Duration 4h 56m
Christy Brown was born with Cerebral Palsy. This is the remarkable story of his childhood struggle to learn how to read, write, paint, and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. In this manner he wrote the bestselling novel 'Down all the Days'.
View BookAuthor: Stella Tillyard
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Author Stella Tillyard
Narrator Lindsay Duncan
Duration 15h 42m
The story of the four Lennox sisters - Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah - and their turbulent lives, which spanned the Georgian period of history. Great-granddaughters of Charles II, they were connected by birth and marriage to the rich and powerful of their time. Caroline eloped with a politician; Emily had nineteen children; Louisa married the r...
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