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12 Books That Changed the World
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
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Duration 2h
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughtout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, but between the pages of a book. Here Melvyn Bragg explores a wide and controversial selection of...
View BookRough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves & the American Revolution
Author: Simon Schama
Format: MP3 CD
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Joseph Paterson
Duration 16h 13m
This audiobook is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova...
View BookIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of An Empire
Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Author Alex Von Tunzelmann
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 14h 38m
At midnight on 15 August 1947, India left the British Empire. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the new nation of Pakistan, Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation, and Louis and Edwina Mountbatt...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Smith
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Author Andrew Smith
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 15h 38m
The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys and all were indelibly marked by it. In this audiobook, Andrew Smith sets out to find and interview the remaining moonwalkers in order to l...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Bailey
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Author Catherine Bailey
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
Duration 15h 14m
Wentworth House in Yorkshire is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats. This audiobook tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. But coal,...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Paine
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Author Thomas Paine
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 4h 37m
One of the great classics on democracy, this audiobook was first published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditio...
View BookJane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford
Author: Julia Fox
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Author Julia Fox
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 13h 24m
Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and Lady of the Bedchamber to Catherine Howard, whom she followed to the scoffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to and participant in the greatest events in Henry VIII's reign. Her supposed part in both Anne Boleyn's and Catherine Howard's downfall has led her to being rev...
View BookAuthor: Dr. Jonathan Bardon
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Author Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Narrator Dr. Jonathan Bardon
Duration 22h 49m
In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station's most ambitious project to date, the recounting of the history of Ireland! For easy digestion, and across the course of a year, the story of the island is told in a series of 240 short documentaries - s...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerican Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 46m
This is the first of three audio volumes taken from the 90-part Radio 4 series. It tells the story of America through the voices of those who were there, from presidents to slaves. It celebrates the American achievement and evokes the sound and colour of daily life; it also explores the paradoxes of American history.
View BookAuthor: Simon Schama
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Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesThe History of Britain, Book 3
Duration 10h 55m
Simon Schama's sweeping history of Britain breathes life into our past centuries, vividly depicting exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity. A informative and entertaining mixture of anecdote and analysis, Schama's work offers a real insight into what it is to be British...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptred Isle: Empire, Book 2
Duration 7h 21m
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, th...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptred Isle: Empire, Book 1
Duration 7h 13m
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, th...
View BookAuthor: Hugh Cunningham
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Author Hugh Cunningham
Narrator Michael Morpurgo
Duration 6h 48m
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful range of primary sources, how the idea of childhood has been constantly reinvented down the centuries and why the role of children in society continues to...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Vickery
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Author Amanda Vickery
Narrator Amanda Vickery
Duration 6h 41m
An engrossing BBC Radio 4 series spanning the history of the home and domestic relationships over the past 500 years, presented by Amanda Vickery. Professor Amanda Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the modern...
View BookAuthor: Jane Robinson
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Author Jane Robinson
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 6h 57m
Robinson presents the inspiring story of the first young women who overcame all the odds to get their education and attend university. Using the words of the women themselves, this book charts the fight for and expansion of higher education for women.
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerican Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 54m
Volume Two of David Reynold's major BBC Radio 4 series traces America's story from the Civil War to World War Two. This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through the voices of those who lived it - presidents and farmers, mothers and children, settlers and soldiers, immigrants and Native Americans. This is also the story of how ordi...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 3h 5m
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: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
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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: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator
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 BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 14m
First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - Winston Churchill The "Few" were the nearly 3,000 RAF pilots who fought against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, which rag...
View BookAuthor: Henry James
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Author Henry James
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 1h 35m
A BBC Radio 4 "Book at Bedtime" recording of Samuel West reading from the novella The Aspern Papers by Henry James, set against the decaying grandeur of Venice. Originally broadcast 26 April - 4 May 2010. Henry James took as inspiration for his tale The Aspern Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the poet into lonely old age. H...
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