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Author: Clarissa Dickson Wright
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Author Clarissa Dickson Wright
Narrator Clarissa Dickson Wright
Duration 10h 11m
One of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon. But he was also a tyrannical drunk. Clarissa was determined and clever, though, and her ambition led her, at the age of 21, to be the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar. Disaster struck w...
View BookRichmal Crompton: The Woman Behind 'just William'
Author: Mary Cadogan
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Author Mary Cadogan
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 6h 33m
Richmal Crompton's William is known even to those who have never read the books featuring his anarchic exploits. For many, William, Ginger, Douglas and Henry - not forgetting the awful Violet Elizabeth - remain an ever-remembered part of our childhood. But what do we know of his publicity-shy creator? In this biography we see the portrait of a witt...
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Tom Robinson
Duration 52m
In a commemorative programme to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, Tom Robinson visits `Peel Acres' to meet John's wife Sheila and their four children.
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 11m
Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years - from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University. It was an ordinary childhood - growing up in Leeds taught Alan early on that `life is generally something that happens elsewhere'. Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mothe...
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 42m
The humorous and moving tale of Miss Shepherd, an eccentric old lady who, by a bizarre series of twists and turns, lived in the author's garden for many years.
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennett Untold Stories, Book 2
Duration 2h 32m
This is Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling 'Writing Home'. It is a poignant family memoir recalling the marriage of Alan's parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. At times heartrending, and at others extremely funny, 'Untold Stories' is a matchless and unforgettab...
View BookAuthor: Winston S. Churchill
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Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Winston S. Churchill
SeriesWinston Churchill's Greatest Speeches, Book 1
Duration 2h 35m
Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War Two. He was one of the twentieth century's greatest orators, and the speeches that he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation. Churchill's output was prolific - his complete speeches alone contain over 5 million words. On this s...
View BookAuthor: Philip Norman
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Author Philip Norman
Narrator Russell Boulter
SeriesJohn Lennon, Book 1
Duration 18h 30m
For more than a quarter of a century, Philip Norman's internationally best-selling 'Shout!' has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unpre...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 12h 30m
Much loved by the public and his peers, Stephen Fry is one of the most influential cultural forces in the country. This memoir promises to be courageously frank, honest and poignant. It will detail some of the most turbulent and least well known years of his life with writing that will excite you, make you laugh uproariously, move you, inform you a...
View BookAuthor: Benedict Flynn
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Author Benedict Flynn
Narrator John Shrapnel
Duration 1h 19m
This audiobook sets the known facts of Dante's life against the turmoil of the times, and puts the very personal nature of his poetry into perspective. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.
View BookJohn Peel Remembered: Margrave of the Marshes
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 1m
John Peel Remembered includes the Radio 4 Book of the Week serialisation of Margrave of the Marshes, Peel's part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft.
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 2h 32m
'We Churchills die at forty,' said Winston in 1908, 'and I want to put something more on the slate before then.' By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full. From his earliest days Churchill was an ambitious character, eager for action.He achieved fame and popularity through his dispatches from the Boer War, and in 1900 was elected MP for Oldha...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennet's Untold Stories, Book 2
Duration 2h 34m
Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years. Part 2: The Diaries Alan Bennett's diaries from 1997-2004 are an erudite collection of witty yet poignant recollections told in his own unique voice. Whether appreciating...
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennet's Untold Stories, Book 4
Duration 2h 24m
lan Bennett reads three further chapters from Untold Stories, his major collection of new writings. Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years. After Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories, Part 2: The Diaries and Part 3:...
View BookAlan Bennett: Diaries 1980-1990
Author: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 1h 59m
Alan Bennett's gentle, wry observations of life have made him one of the country's best-loved and most famous authors. He reads extracts from his bestselling diaries which offer a fascinating insight into his life - the work on location, life in Camden and fond, poignant memories of his childhood and home life.
View BookScott and Amundsen: Their Race To the South Pole
Author: Roland Huntford
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Author Roland Huntford
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 7h 30m
Scott and Amundsen is a controversial double biography of the first and second to reach the South pole. This audiobook has been described as the 'case against Scott' and it does not hold back on criticism of him. Plus it looks at evidence that Scott's failure was not just because of his personality but examines problems that existed out of his cont...
View BookDouglas Adams At the BBC: A Celbration of the Author's Life and Work
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Simon Jones
Duration 3h 47m
Simon Jones, who played Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, presents a look back at the life and work of a writer who has captivated the imagination of millions. When Douglas Adams created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4, it was the genesis of a science fiction comedy legend. In this programme, Simon Jones t...
View BookAuthor: 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.
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