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Author: Pete Paphides
Author Pete Paphides
Narrator The Author
Duration 18h 48m
When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a little bit of English. They opened a fish-and-chip shop in Acocks Green. The Great Western Fish Bar is where Pete learned about coin-operated machines, male banter and Britishness. Shy and introverted, Pete stopped speaking fr...
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Author: Jude Rogers
Author Jude Rogers
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 40m
The Sound of Being Human explores, in detail, why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is Jude's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five; concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent; sky-rocket her relationships, both rea...
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Author: Mary McCormack, Melissa Fitzgerald
Author Mary McCormack, Melissa Fitzgerald
Narrator Alison Janney, The Authors
Duration 16h 12m
A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment to service has made the series and relationships behind it endure. Includes an exclusive forewor...
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Author: Russell Watson
Author Russell Watson
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h
Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much-loved classical singer. He had gone from humble beginnings, working in a factory making nuts and bolts in Salford to singing in working men's clubs to performing to stadiums filled with thousands of fans. But then tragedy struck. In 2006 and 2007 he was diagnosed with two brain tumours. In the...
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Author: Dave Davies
Author Dave Davies
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 16m
The all new memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies. Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with 50 million record sales to their name. In his autobiography, Davies revisits the glory days of the band that spawned so much extraordinary music, and which had such a profound influence on band...
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Author: Bernie Taupin
Author Bernie Taupin
Narrator The Author, John Lee
Duration 15h 36m
Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of t...
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Author: Patti Smith
Author Patti Smith
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 49m
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, i paper, Metro and Harper's Bazaar 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE 'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasin...
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Author: Dylan Jones
Author Dylan Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 55m
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). Faster than a Cannonball is a cul...
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Author: Melanie Chisholm
Author Melanie Chisholm
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 37m
I never told my story before because I wasn't ready. Now, finally, I am. Twenty-five years ago, The Spice Girls, a girlband that began after answering an advert in the paper, released our first single. 'Wannabe' became a hit and from that moment, my life changed for ever. I was suddenly part of one of the biggest music groups in history, releasing...
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Author: Boy George
Author Boy George
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 41m
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me, Boy George's Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades' of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity... This is George...
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Author: Joel Morris
Author Joel Morris
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 2m
Comedy can soothe our pain, vent our anger, make us feel less alone, and provide the answer to life's most difficult questions, such as What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?* It's a social glue, but it can also be divisive, and the joke is on us if we don't understand how it works. So what are the rules? How does comedy do its magic, a...
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Author: Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Author Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 42m
Leigh-Anne Pinnock's life changed overnight when she became part of the first ever girl band to win the X-Factor. The multi-platinum selling supergroup Little Mix, went on to become one of the biggest girl bands of all time. Launched into chart-topping global fame, Leigh-Anne was living her childhood dream of becoming a popstar. But behind the scen...
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Author: Audrey Golden
Author Audrey Golden
Narrator Jessica Joslin, Ebony Jonelle
Duration 16h 53m
Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. The untold history of Factory Records is one of women...
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The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection
Author: Noel Coward
Author Noel Coward
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 11h 55m
Seven BBC radio full-cast productions of Noël Coward's classic plays – plus bonus material including a profile of Coward and extracts from his diariesRenowned for his wit, style and sophistication, Noël Coward was one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century. His plays, set in the glittering world of high society in whic...
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown
Author Craig Brown
Narrator Mark McGann, Kate Robbins
Duration 20h 20m
SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Telegraph Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret com...
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Author: Dave Grohl
Author Dave Grohl
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 35m
Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never-before-heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook. So, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to...
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Author: Questlove , Ben Greenman
Author Questlove , Ben Greenman
Narrator Questlove
Duration 11h
In MUSIC IS HISTORY bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. MUSIC IS HISTORY focuses on the years 1971 to the present, not only the country's most complex and rewarding half-century when i...
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Author: Listening Books, Tim Weaver
Author Listening Books, Tim Weaver
Narrator Tim Weaver
Duration 23m
An interview with Tim Weaver, author of the David Raker series, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
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An Interview with Rachel Marks
Author: Listening Books, Rachel Marks
Author Listening Books, Rachel Marks
Narrator Rachel Marks
Duration 26m
We chat with Rachel Marks, author of the novel Until Next Weekend, available to borrow from the Listening Books online library.
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Author: Listening Books, Cari Thomas
Author Listening Books, Cari Thomas
Narrator Cari Thomas
Duration 35m
We chat with Cari Thomas, author of the fantasy novel Threadneedle, which is available to borrow from our online and CD libraries.
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Author: Listening Books, Eimear Ryan
Author Listening Books, Eimear Ryan
Narrator Eimear Ryan
Duration 20m
An interview with Eimear Ryan, author of the novel Holding Her Breath, available to borrow from our online catalogue.
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