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Author: Christopher Lee
Series: This Sceptered Isle, Book 10
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.
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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Author: Amanda Foreman
Author Amanda Foreman
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 20h
The story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century. Georgiana was, in turn, a compulsive gambler, astute political operator, drug addict, adulteress and darling of the common people. Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award.
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Author: John Keegan
Author John Keegan
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 16h
This audiobook looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the point of maximum danger. The author reassesses the three battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme and attempts to convey the reality of the battles as they were experienced by the participants.
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 9h
Hibbert charts the French Revolution from its beginnings as an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, through to the coup d'etat of 1795 that brought Napoleon to power.
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Author: Antony Beevor
Author Antony Beevor
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 14h
Stalingrad marked not only the psychological turning-point of the Second World War, but was the first major modern battle fought in a city, with thousands of helpless civilians caught up in its horrors. In the epic struggle between Stalin and Hitler for the eastern front, soldiers were driven beyond the limits of mental and physical endurance. This...
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1901-1919
Author: Christopher Lee
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 15h 15m
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day - taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement.
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 1
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.
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A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 - 1776
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 2
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.
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Author: Christopher Lee
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 5m
This volume of Christopher Lee's history of Britan looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the Royal Wedding.
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Author: David Reynolds
Series: America Empire of Liberty, Book 1
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...
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A Brief History of Mathematics
Author: Sautoy Marcus Du
Author Sautoy Marcus Du
Narrator Marcus Du Sautoy
Duration 2h 13m
This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. He explores...
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Author: Martin Sixsmith
Series: Russia, Book 1
Author Martin Sixsmith
Narrator Martin Sixsmith
SeriesRussia, Book 1
Duration 5h 37m
The first 25 episodes from the landmark BBC Radio series. Martin Sixsmith brings his firsthand experience of reporting from Russia to this fascinating narrative, witnessing the critical moment when the Soviet Union finally lost its grip on power. Power struggles have a constant presence in his story, from the Mongol hordes that invaded in the 13th...
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Coal and Dole: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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...
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The Crofters' Farewell: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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...
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A Close Shot With A Charge of Sixpence
Author: Sir Samuel Baker
Author Sir Samuel Baker
Narrator Dinsdale Landen
Duration 17m
Sir Samuel White Baker, (b. 8 June 1821 - d. 30 December 1893) was a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. This account of a big game encounter is a thrilling testimony that relays the sights, smells and especially sounds of a nineteenth-century hunting experience.
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Plantation and the Seeds of Discord
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
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...
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The Rise and Fall of the Soviets
Author: Martin Sixsmith
Series: Russia Series, Book 2
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...
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Routes of English,series 2, Programme 1
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Series: Routes to English Series 2, Book 1
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 1
Duration 27m
When a new concept or product comes along, how does it get its name? Making up new words for new things or ideas isn't new. New words-linguists call them "coinages"-are as old as the English language itself. Melvyn Bragg explores the history of linguistic innovation from the Middle Ages, through the inventiveness of the Industrial Revolution, to th...
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Routes of English, Series 2,programme 2
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Series: Routes to English Series 2, Book 2
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 2
Duration 27m
Melvyn has fun and games with puns, wordplay and tongue twisters. Twisting, manipulation and stretching of the English language is an integral part of everyday communication. This language play exists in many forms, as puns, double entendres, word games and verse exercises, and we have been playing with English for centuries.
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Routes of English,series 2, Programme 3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Series: Routes to English Series 2, Book 3
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes to English Series 2, Book 3
Duration 27m
"By your vowels, your station shall be known." How accents and social class are entwined. For at least 400 years, the way we speak has been one of the fundamental measures by which we've judged our fellow men on the scale of social acceptability. To so many, "talking proper" matters, and "rough talk is not quality talk." But such attitudes are begi...
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