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Author: Michael Goldfarb
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Author Michael Goldfarb
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
Michael Goldfarb looks back to the Europe of the 1930s and asks how artists, writers and film-makers responded to the poverty, mass unemployment and poltical instability of the Great Depression. Through the work of Bertolt Brecht, George Orwell, Jean Renoir and others, Michael charts the devastating impact of the slump as economic crisis impoverish...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Duration 3h
The tenth part of a major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the Victorian period.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 4m
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. This Sceptred Isle, The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful count...
View BookAuthor: Flood Charles Bracelen
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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...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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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...
View BookHomo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
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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...
View BookChocolate Wars: From Cadbury To Kraft: 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Author: Deborah Cadbury
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Author Deborah Cadbury
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 10h 51m
Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early 19th century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son, John, to London to study a new and exotic commodity: cocoa. Within a generation, John's sons had created a chocolate company to rival the great E...
View BookAuthor: Anne Frank
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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...
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: Will Gompertz
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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...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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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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