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How to Teach Classics to Your Dog
Author: Philip Womack
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Author Philip Womack
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 14m
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans l...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 17h 43m
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe – these determined women often broke through medieval cons...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
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Author Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
Narrator Sally Oliver
Duration 6h 14m
This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down. Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and th...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Marr
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Author Andrew Marr
Narrator Raj Ghatak
Duration 16h 34m
In a brilliantly entertaining, living history of the modern United Kingdom, Andrew Marr traces how radically we have transformed through the course of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. When the Queen stepped into her crown in 1953 at the age of twenty-five, a British expedition was summiting Mount Everest for the first time. Ian Fleming was publishing th...
View BookAuthor: Winston Groom
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Author Winston Groom
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 17h 23m
Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of W...
View BookAuthor: Jacky Hyams
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Author Jacky Hyams
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 5h 4m
Spitfire Stories, published in association with Imperial War Museums, is a fascinating anthology of first-hand stories from Spitfire heroes and heroines of the Second World War.The Spitfire is the world's most iconic aeroplane. Coming into its own during the Battle of Britain, it became famous during the Second World War as the only plane that coul...
View BookAuthor: David Mccullough
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Author David Mccullough
Narrator Nelson Runger
Duration 19h 24m
This National Book Award winner by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough shows how sickly "Teedie" becomes the robust, energetic Teddy Roosevelt. Born in 1858, Teddy finds his priviledged Manhattan family isn't immune to pain and sorrow. Potts disease disables his older sister, and epilepsy haunts his brother. Crippled by deadly asthma, Teddy soon...
View BookAuthor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Author Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Duration 18h 4m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Leadership written and read by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with additional narration from Beau Bridges, David Morse, Jay O. Sanders and Richard Thomas. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make t...
View BookAuthor: Edward Rutherfurd
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Author Edward Rutherfurd
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 49h 23m
A wonderful, epic story that tells the history of the greatest city in the world, from Roman times to the present day. From the author of Paris, Sarum and New York. London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel, Edward Rutherfurd takes the listener on a magnificent jour...
View BookThe First Line of Defence: The Kent Castles
Author: Stephanie Forward
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Author Stephanie Forward
Narrator Elizabeth Ryder
Duration 52m
Down through the centuries, the castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer have been of prime strategic importance to England, protecting the south-east tip of the country from invasion. This is an account of their national importance and includes fascinating stories of historical characters associated with them, from Henry VIII through to the late Queen El...
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...
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