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Author: Flood Charles Bracelen
Format: Online
Author Flood Charles Bracelen
Narrator Mel Foster
Duration 19h 56m
At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Cha...
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Author: Christopher Lee
Format: Online
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Format: Online
Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 14h 53m
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Now, in Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy and every discipline in between. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares tha...
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Author: Anne Frank
Format: Online
Author Anne Frank
Narrator Helena Bonham Carter
Duration 10h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, th...
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Author: Jeremy Paxman
Format: Online
Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 10h
We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War? The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the memorial poppies of remembrance day - all reinforce the idea that it was a pointless waste of life. So why did the British...
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Author: Will Gompertz
Format: Online
Author Will Gompertz
Narrator Will Gompertz
Duration 3h 41m
The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz examines dozens of these unique objects, in a quest to 'use the Collection as a prism through which to better unders...
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Author: Sonia Purnell
Format: Online
Author Sonia Purnell
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 13h 55m
The incredible true and untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo's most wanted Allied spy, by acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell. The remarkable double life of an American-turned-British spy, Virginia Hall, a 'bolshie' woman from Maryland who, determined to...
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Author: David Reynolds
Format: Online
Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
Duration 2h 18m
Ten episodes from David Reynolds' award-winning radio series, which trace the history of the American Civil War. This narrative tells the story of the American Civil War through the voices of those who lived it. Written and presented by acclaimed historian David Reynolds, these extracts come from the series America: Empire of Liberty, which won the...
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