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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 1
Duration 42h 46m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
View BookAuthor: Phil Collins
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Author Phil Collins
Narrator Phil Collins
Duration 12h 20m
Phil Collins gained fame as both the drummer and lead singer for Genesis and continues to enjoy worldwide success today. He's one of only three recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band - the other two being Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. Revered as a drummer, he'...
View BookAuthor: E.W. Swanton
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Author E.W. Swanton
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 9m
The Last Over really was the last Memoir from a fine sporting journalist mainly for the London Daily Telegraph and also a former BBC broadcaster. He made this recording at the age of 91 and sadly died soon after. An authoritative account largely of cricket from a man whose knowledge of the game was second to none! E.W. 'Jim' Swanton was cricket cor...
View BookAuthor: Susan Calman
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Author Susan Calman
Narrator Susan Calman
Duration 6h 3m
Susan Calman is a well known comedian and writer who has appeared on countless radio and television programmes from The News Quiz and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 to hosting the quiz show, The Boss and now STRICTLY COME DANCING 2017 on BBC 1. Her solo stand up show, Susan Calman is Convicted, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and dealt with subjects lik...
View BookAuthor: Coleen Nolan
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Author Coleen Nolan
Narrator Coleen Nolan
Duration 6h 50m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of No Regrets, Coleen Nolan's gripping new memoir about love and heartbreak. As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters and is used to newspapers and magazine...
View BookAuthor: Madhur Jaffrey
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Author Madhur Jaffrey
Narrator Madhur Jaffrey
Duration 3h
Madhur is an accomplished food writer and this biography is an account of her childhood in India. Growing up in an age and society that has now disappeared, it is made all the more evocative by Madhur's passion for food. This audiobook also touches on the history and religion of the time and continent.
View BookAuthor: Sara Pascoe
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Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator Sara Pascoe
Duration 9h 22m
Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she...
View BookAuthor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h 40m
Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consu...
View BookAuthor: Mick Flynn
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Author Mick Flynn
Narrator Richard Mitchley
Duration 6h 20m
Summer 2006, Afghanistan: an apparently deserted village, and a rapidly ticking clock. The relentless Taliban ambush which followed saw several British soldiers dead, two armoured vehicles destroyed - and Corporal of Horse Michael Flynn awarded an MC to go alongside his Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. Mick Flynn has never backed away from a challenge....
View BookAuthor: Sarah Goodall
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Author Sarah Goodall
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 10h 10m
Sarah Goodall spent 12 years working for Prince Charles as a Lady Clerk from 1988 to 2000 - the period during which his marriage to the Princess of Wales broke down amid a frenzy of media attention. Her experiences of life behind the scenes of the royal establishment have inspired this hilarious story of a naive and rather accident-prone young woma...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 11h 33m
a) A fatuous, wasted, degenerate and wholly useless existence captured in delicate, lyrical and exquisitely realised prose. b) Lightly amusing anecdotes and tender reminiscences of the great men and women encountered during a rich, varied and rewarding lifetime, fondly remembered in the tranquil evening of a career of public service. c) The autobio...
View BookAuthor: Hesketh Pearson
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Author Hesketh Pearson
Narrator Simon Russell Beale
Duration 3h 35m
The tragic story of Oscar Wilde, an accomplished author, poet and playwright who was to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society. The accompanying music is by Widor, Curzon, Dvorak, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Chabrier.
View BookA Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
Author: Laura Thompson
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Author Laura Thompson
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 15h 50m
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning. The case, solved in the eyes of the...
View BookAuthor: Steve Wozniak
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Author Steve Wozniak
Narrator Patrick Lawlor
Duration 9h 13m
The mastermind behind Apple sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time. Before cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. They had cryptic switches, punch cards and pages of encoded output. But in 1975, a young...
View BookAuthor: Bill Cotton Jr
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Author Bill Cotton Jr
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Duration 11h
This is the story of the legendary band leader, Billy Cotton and his namesake son, Bill Cotton Jnr who became Managing Director of BBC Television. Bill Cotton not only looks back on the BBC's golden years, but also on his relationship with his father.
View BookThe Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Author: Perry Keenlyside
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Author Perry Keenlyside
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 40m
The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, illustrated with examples of his music. This biography tells of Mozart's childhood travelling the courts of Europe, and of how, after a brief period of fame in Vienna, his fortunes declined until his early death and his last resting place in a pauper's grave. This title features over 70 excerpts from Mozart's o...
View BookAuthor: David Cay Johnston
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Author David Cay Johnston
Narrator Joe Barrett
Duration 5h 47m
The culmination of nearly thirty years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to power and prominence.Covering the long arc of Trump's career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, New York, would become an...
View BookAuthor: T E Lawrence
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Author T E Lawrence
Narrator Jim Norton
Duration 3h 50m
Not only an epic military history, novelist E.M Forster described T.E. Lawrence's chronicle of his role in leading the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War as 'an unexampled fabric of portraits, descriptions, philosophies, emotions, adventures, dreams'.
View BookAuthor: Fred Perry
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Author Fred Perry
Narrator Fred Perry
Duration 39m
Fred Perry conquered the tennis world and remains the last Englishman to win Wimbledon. Yet despite achieving fame and fortune, his life began in humble surroundings on the banks of the River Goyt in Stockport.
View BookMad, Bad and Dangerous To Know
Author: Ranulph Fiennes
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Author Ranulph Fiennes
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 12h 40m
Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced...
View BookAuthor: Tim Peake
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Author Tim Peake
Narrator Robin Ince
Duration 7h 14m
What happens when you sneeze in space? Was it fun to do a space walk? How squashed were you in the capsule on the way back? What were your feelings as you looked down on Earth for the first time? Were you ever scared? Where to next-the Moon, Mars, or beyond? Based on his historic mission to the International Space Station, Ask an Astronaut is Tim P...
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