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Author: Taraji P Henson
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Author Taraji P Henson
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 27m
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth. With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet...
View BookAuthor: Brian Johnston
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Author Brian Johnston
Narrator Brian Johnston
Duration 2h 52m
Barry Johnston presents a retrospective of his father's career as a much-loved BBC broadcaster. Jovial Johnners was the doyen of cricket commentators, as well as a consumer of chocolate cake, a reporter, presenter, quizmaster and much-loved voice at State occasions. For nearly 50 years the ever-affable, always enthusiastic Brian Johnston brought wa...
View BookAlways Managing: My Autobiography
Author: Harry Redknapp
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Author Harry Redknapp
Narrator David John
Duration 13h 36m
Harry is the manager who has seen it all - from a dismal 70s Portakabin at Oxford City and training pitches with trees in the middle to the unbeatable highs of the Premiership, lifting the FA Cup and taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League. With his much loved, no-nonsense delivery, Harry brings us a story filled with passion and humour that...
View BookAuthor: Harriet Gilbert
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Author Harriet Gilbert
Narrator Harriet Gilbert
Duration 27m
To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond Chandler classic thrillers aired in February 2011, Harriett Gilbert presents a reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper Norwood who invented the PI as we know him. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had...
View BookAuthor: Anonymous
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Author Anonymous
Narrator Diana Bishop
Duration 9h 40m
From April 20th, 1945, the day when Berlin first saw the face of war, until June 22nd, when it was sacked by the Russian Army, the anonymous author of 'A Woman in Berlin' captured the stark reality of life within the falling city. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author recorded her experiences, observations and meditations in...
View BookDown and Out In Paris and London
Author: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 6h 54m
Orwell was arguably one of the first 'gonzo' journalists. In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out', which involves hunger, filth, derision and often prejudice and violence. Alcohol i...
View BookAuthor: Liz Welch
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Author Liz Welch
Narrator Emily Bauer
Duration 8h 46m
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe w...
View BookAuthor: Simon Amstell
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Author Simon Amstell
Narrator Simon Amstell
Duration 3h 12m
Random House Audiobooks presents the audiobook of HELP. Read by Simon Amstell and packed full of live recordings taken from his stand up tours. COMEDY, TRAGEDY, THERAPY. Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. Read by Simon Amstel...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Paxman
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Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Jeremy Paxman
Duration 11h 56m
Jeremy Paxman is Britain's bravest, most incisive political interviewer. The no-nonsense star of BBC Newsnight, Paxman is a supreme inquisitor, a master at skewering mammoth egos with his relentless grilling. Few figures in public life have escaped. From John Major to Theresa May, from Tony Blair to Ed Miliband, Paxman had them quaking in their boo...
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 2
Duration 1h 54m
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the second volume of behind-the-scenes revelations from Labour MP Tony Benn's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. The Observer called it `Irresistible fly-on-the-wall history as it actually happens.' Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat...
View BookAuthor: Garrick Hagan, Peter Whitfield
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Author Garrick Hagan, Peter Whitfield
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Duration 3h 55m
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was one of the most influential presidents of the USA, uniting the country and abolishing slavery after a terrible civil war. The story of his remarkable rise from a poor farming background to triumph, in one of the most challenging presidencies in US history, and sudden tragic death, is told in this audiobook. It also i...
View BookAuthor: 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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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