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A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 - 1776
Author: Simon Schama
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Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 2
Duration 10h
The British Wars began in 1637, starting nearly 200 hundred years of battles waged within and outside our Isles. This audiobook vividly depicts exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity.
View BookA History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
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Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
View BookAuthor: Sian Rees
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Author Sian Rees
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 11h 40m
In July 1789, 237 female convicts left England for Botany Bay in Australia on board a ship called 'The Lady Julian', destined for the men already there. This is the story of the women and their voyage. Based on painstaking research into contemporary sources such as letters, trial records and the first-hand account of the voyage written by the ship'...
View BookAuthor: Malcolm Balen
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Author Malcolm Balen
Narrator Jonathan Cecil
Duration 9h 50m
The secret history of the 'South Sea Bubble' and the first great financial scandal. The 'South Sea Bubble' was a scandal of immense proportions - a collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution that ensnared the Crown, Parliament and Bank of England in a plot of sheer devilry.
View BookKrakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Author: Simon Winchester
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Author Simon Winchester
Narrator Simon Winchester
Duration 11h 37m
On 27 August 1883, a terrifying volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Krakatoa, five miles off the western tip of Java, Indonesia. The island was destroyed and almost 40,000 people were killed - ships sailing in the Red Sea were covered in ash; barometers went haywire in Washington and immense rafts of pumice floated to Africa. The recent com...
View BookAuthor: David Reynolds
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Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerica Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 55m
Volume Three of David Reynolds' award-winning BBC Radio 4 series runs from the origins of the Cold War to the inauguration of Barack Obama. This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through the voices of those who lived it, exploring three abiding national themes: empire, liberty and faith. Empire and Evil, the final series of thirt...
View BookThe Crofters' Farewell: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 31m
Visiting the Hebridean island of Mull today, it's not long before someone mentions the steep decline in population that the Scottish highlands and islands suffered 150 to 200 years ago. And it was a depopulation that the crofters were powerless to do anything about-in a phrase that sounds a knell almost as chilling as today's 'ethnic cleansing', th...
View BookCoal and Dole: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 33m
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg visits Merthyr Tydfil to look at the plight of the miners in the Depression. The industrial communities of South Wales, built first on iron smelting in the 18th century, and coal in the 19th, had known great prosperity. Merthyr Tydfil was once the largest town in Wales, and in 1914, 25...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 31m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The Peasants' Revolt began in the Essex village of Fobbing in May 1381. It started with t...
View BookPlantation and the Seeds of Discord
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 31m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. Ulster, one of the four ancient provinces of Ireland, remained largely independent of Eng...
View BookAuthor: Isabel Hilton
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Author Isabel Hilton
Narrator Isabel Hilton
Duration 43m
1911 saw the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of the last Emperor in China. 100 years on, Isabel Hilton describes how China coped with the collapse and looks for any lingering legacy in this BBC Radio 3 report originally broadcast as the 'Sunday Feature' on 23 January 2011. After living under the comparative stability of an Imperial sys...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 6h 20m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The Norman Conquest is his starting point, a time when William the Conqueror's 'harrying...
View BookThe Rise and Fall of the Soviets
Author: Martin Sixsmith
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Author Martin Sixsmith
Narrator Martin Sixsmith
SeriesRussia Series, Book 2
Duration 5h 40m
Martin Sixsmith continues his history of Russia, from the tumultuous events of 1917 to the country's re-emergence as one of the world's most powerful nations. After the whirlwind of the revolution, the Bolsheviks struggled to consolidate their victory. To rescue the economy and save the regime, Lenin made concessions to the people. But after his d...
View Book1980 Moscow Olympics: The Reunion
Author: Macgregor Sue
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Author Macgregor Sue
Narrator Various
Duration 44m
In 1979, the British team was in training for the following year's Olympics when Russia invaded Afghanistan. President Carter, backed by Margaret Thatcher, urged athletes to boycott the event, and the worlds of politics and sport seemed caught in a headlock. This fascinating programme sees Sue MacGregor reuniting members of the British Olympic team...
View BookAuthor: James Holland
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Author James Holland
Narrator James Holland
Duration 13h 5m
The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. From th...
View BookAuthor: Alex Haley
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Author Alex Haley
Narrator Avery Brooks
Duration 30h 6m
Tracing his ancestry through six generations-slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects-back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley'...
View BookAuthor: Mischa Glenny
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Author Mischa Glenny
Narrator Mischa Glenny
Duration 1h 22m
Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then? Well, there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, Pomerania, Westfalia, Schleswig Holstein - this list is extremely long. And defining where one bit ended and the next began - well, it was utterly bewildering.' Misha Glenny pre...
View BookAuthor: Mark Jones
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Author Mark Jones
Narrator Tim Piggot-Smith
Duration 2h 26m
The RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton en route for New York on her maiden voyage with 2228 passengers and crew on board. On the 14th April at twenty minutes before midnight, sailing at almost full speed, she struck an iceberg and sank in just two and a half hours. Over 1500 lives were lost. This is the story of a great tragedy described by the su...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 2h 19m
Broadcaster and arts presenter Melvyn Bragg fronts 'The Written World', a five-part BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history. In the first programme he looks at the technology of writing, and how making signs on clay, wood or parchm...
View BookAuthor: Roy Hattersley
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Author Roy Hattersley
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 21h 45m
William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, Lord General of the North, fought to save the crow...
View BookAuthor: Guy Walters
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Author Guy Walters
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 18h 21m
At the end of the Second World War, some of the highest ranking Nazis escaped from justice, Aided and abetted by the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines' and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. Vengeful Holocaust survivors and inept politicains attempted to bring them to justice and there were daring plots to kidnap or assass...
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