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Diaries 2001-2007: More Time For Politics
Author: Tony Benn
Format: MP3 CD
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 4h 30m
When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and politica...
View BookAuthor: Karen Blixen
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Author Karen Blixen
Narrator Julie Christie
Duration 11h 54m
'Out of Africa' is a celebration of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya, and the story of her struggles and triumphs in managing a coffee plantation there. Her friendship with the people of the area, her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals and deep love for Africa is portrayed with warmth and clarity in this classic autobiography.
View BookAuthor: Floella Benjamin
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Author Floella Benjamin
Narrator Brigitte Bennett
Duration 1h 40m
When Floella Benjamin first came to England from Trinidad in the early sixties, she hadn't seen her parents for fifteen months. At first, her joy at being reunited with her mother overcomes the shock at her new surroundings in cold, noisy London but when she starts school she is upset by the taunting and rejection she faces. Determined to survive,...
View BookAuthor: Judi Dench
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Author Judi Dench
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Duration 6h
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the 'York Mystery Plays', it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, it was her performance in her twenties as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's memorable Old Vic production that turned her into a star. In the theatre since she has played eve...
View BookAuthor: Alec Guinness
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Author Alec Guinness
Narrator John Casson
Duration 7h 30m
Having filled roles in films as varied as 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Star Wars', Guinness is one of the most distinguished and beloved movie actors of his generation. His charmingly sincere diary entries offer a glimpse of the private side of his often very public life. What makes Guinness a fine and versatile actor is precisely what also makes him...
View BookFirst Man In: Leading From the Front
Author: Ant Middleton
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Author Ant Middleton
Narrator Ant Middleton
Duration 7h
Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure. After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) snipe...
View BookAuthor: Dawn French
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Author Dawn French
Narrator Liza Tarbuck
Duration 6h 30m
Dawn French invites us into her most personal relationships with, among others, her mum and dad, her husband, her daughter and her friend, Jennifer. Dawn reveals the people, experiences and obsessions that have influenced her and that helped shape her comedy creations - including dogs, grandmas, teenage angst, school, stealing and David Cassidy. Sh...
View BookAuthor: Henry Marsh
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Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Jim Barclay
Duration 9h 45m
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially life-saving operation when it all goes wrong? In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Judith Boyd
Duration 28h 9m
Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates...
View BookJames Herriot's Favourite Dog Stories
Author: James Herriot
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Author James Herriot
Narrator Bill Baynes
Duration 4h
The stories of ten dogs, from border collies and sheepdogs to the exploits of the Pekinese Tricki Woo, one of the unforgettable canine stars of Herriot's Yorkshire-set memoirs of life as a country vet.
View BookAuthor: Keith Richards
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Author Keith Richards
Narrator Various
Duration 23h
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world. Over four decades, he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the...
View BookAuthor: Francis Wheen
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Author Francis Wheen
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 12h 30m
This audiobook presents Karl Marx as a man of both brilliance and frailty: as a poverty-stricken Prussian emigre who became a middle-class English gentleman; as an angry agitator; as a gregarious and convivial host; as a devoted family man; and as a deeply earnest philosopher who loved drink and cigars.
View BookAuthor: Henry Blofeld
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Author Henry Blofeld
Narrator Henry Blofeld
Duration 7h 16m
For over half a century, Henry Blofeld has conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the game of cricket as a much loved broadcaster and journalist. His characteristically patrician tones, overlaid with those of the bon viveur, have delighted listeners to the BBC's Test Match Special where the personality of the broadcaster comes second only to a deep...
View BookSurprisingly Down To Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
Author: Brian Limond
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Author Brian Limond
Narrator Brian Limond
Duration 8h 7m
Hello! I'm Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy's Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don't worry if you don't. They asked me to write a book about mental health, because I sometimes talk about my mental health in tweets and interviews, like suicidal thoughts and anxiety, and what I've done to try to deal with it. I said to them...
View BookAuthor: Emma Smith
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Author Emma Smith
Narrator June Barrie
Duration 12h 46m
'The Great Western Beach' is Emma Smith's memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating holiday-makers - relishing every glorious, salty detail. But above all this i...
View BookAlan Bennett At the BBC: Highlights of His BBC Career
Author: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 35m
A unique anthology of Alan Bennett's radio and television work featuring extracts from his diaries and readings, tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook plus commentary and specially recorded links by Bennett himself.
View BookAuthor: Joel Ben Izzy
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Author Joel Ben Izzy
Narrator The Author
Duration 0m
At last a great American Hanukkah story! This very funny, very touching novel of growing up Jewish has the makings of a holiday classic. One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask? Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah, 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, "The Land of Shriveled Dreams"). That's no...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 12h 33m
Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents' generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Then reaching her teens, Pam realised how few oppor...
View BookAuthor: Redmond O'Hanlon
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Author Redmond O'Hanlon
Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon
Duration 4h
Captain Jason Schofield possesses the kind of reckless abandon only a 2 million pound overdraft can inspire in a right minded, thirty-year-old fisherman. Taking his trawler out in the worst weather at the very worst time of year, he is joined by a brave and indomitable crew, and by 'one mad and seasick writer'. This is Redmond O'Hanlon's very funny...
View BookAuthor: Henry Marsh
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Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Henry Marsh
Duration 7h 47m
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him. Moving between encounters with patients in his Lond...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 54m
Maeve's Binchy's much-loved Irish Times writings spanned five decades. She was an accidental journalist whose work first appeared after her father sent in colourful accounts he had received from her travels. From the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. This timele...
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