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Author: Dolly Parton
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Author Dolly Parton
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Duration 5h 18m
A Recorded Books Audio Original production of songs and stories performed by Dolly herself, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics goes beyond the glitz, glamour, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop-culture icon. In this exclusive audio performance, the ten-time Grammy Award–winning artist weaves her words w...
View BookAuthor: Lenny Henry
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Author Lenny Henry
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Duration 7h 22m
In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry. In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the extraordinary story of his early years an...
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Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 1h 5m
An audio newsletter containing Listening Books news, audiobook reviews, a quiz and an interview with actor and audiobook narrator, Hugh Fraser. 02.15 - Listening Books Update 06.25 - Interview with Hugh Fraser 20.45 - Audiobook Reviews 39.35 - Book Quiz
View BookAuthor: Debbie Harry
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Author Debbie Harry
Narrator Clem Burke
Duration 8h 53m
Debbie Harry is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool. As the front-woman of Blondie, she and the band forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. With all the grit, grime, and glory recounted in intimate detail...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Ridgeley
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Author Andrew Ridgeley
Narrator Andrew Ridgeley
Duration 5h 59m
For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of Wham! and his life-long friendship with George Michael. It is 1975, Watford, and two teenagers, George and Andrew, meet for the first time. Bonding over their love for singing, song writing and pop music, together they set out to...
View BookAuthor: Howard Goodall
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Author Howard Goodall
Narrator Howard Goodall
Duration 12h 35m
In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation - harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting - strikes us with its original force. He focuses on...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Levitin
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Author Daniel Levitin
Narrator Daniel Levitin
Duration 11h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our spec...
View BookAuthor: Uwe Schutte
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Author Uwe Schutte
Narrator Sam Peter Jackson
Duration 6h 14m
Brought to you by Penguin. The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape 'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Dsseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, mo...
View BookAuthor: Min Kym
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Author Min Kym
Narrator Rebecca Yeo
Duration 8h 10m
Penguin presents the complete unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Gone by Min Kym, read by Rebecca Yeo. 'The hours fell away as I read this spellbinding tale of love, loss, and above all devotion to art. You probably don't know what it feels like to be a child prodigy or a world class violinist, but you will after reading this luminous me...
View BookAuthor: Johnny Marr
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Author Johnny Marr
Narrator Johnny Marr
Duration 9h 30m
Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish emigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would be a musician. Forming his first band at thirteen, Marr spent his teenage years on the council estates of Wythenshawe playing guitar, devouring pop culture and inventing his own musical style. It wasn't until the early eighties, when Marr tur...
View BookAuthor: Alice Oswald
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Author Alice Oswald
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 42m
BBC Radio 4's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary, by award-winning poet Alice Oswald. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 March 2011. Set to original music by Roger Goula, the subject of 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' is moonrise, which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half moon...
View BookQi: The General Sound of Ignorance
Author: John Mitchinson
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Author John Mitchinson
Narrator John Mitchinson
Duration 4h 22m
Listen and Learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form.
View BookAuthor: Phil Collins
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Author Phil Collins
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Duration 12h 20m
Phil Collins gained fame as both the drummer and lead singer for Genesis and continues to enjoy worldwide success today. He's one of only three recording artists who have sold over 100 million albums both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band - the other two being Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. Revered as a drummer, he'...
View BookAuthor: Mark Kermode
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Author Mark Kermode
Narrator Mark Kermode
Duration 7h 52m
To avoid fainting, keep repeating It's only a movie ...only a movie If you grew up believing that Planet of the Apes told you all you needed to know about politics, that Slade in Flame was a savage expos‚ of the pop world, and that The Exorcist revealed the meaning of life, then you probably spent far too many of your formative years at the c...
View BookEric Clapton: The Autobiography
Author: Eric Clapton
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Author Eric Clapton
Narrator Eric Clapton
Duration 5h 30m
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to every significant musical development of his era. Tracks such as 'Layla', 'Sunshine of Your Love', 'Wonderful Tonight' and 'Tears in Heaven' h...
View BookAuthor: Neil Macgregor
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Author Neil Macgregor
Narrator Neil Macgregor
Duration 4h 30m
From Neil MacGregor, the acclaimed creator of 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' and the Director of the British Museum, comes a unique, enthralling exploration of the age of William Shakespeare to accompany a new BBC Radio 4 series. Shakespeare lived through a pivotal period in human history. With the discovery of the New World, the horizons...
View BookShakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Germaine Greer
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Author Germaine Greer
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 4h 50m
In this audiobook Shakespeare is explored as a thinker, unravelling the methods he used to dramatise moral and intellectual issues in a way that made his audience dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life.
View BookAuthor: Blake Snyder
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Author Blake Snyder
Narrator George Newbern
Duration 5h 25m
Here's what started the phenomenon: the bestseller, for over fifteen years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, others include t...
View BookAuthor: John (ed.) Lahr
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Author John (ed.) Lahr
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created 'Oh Calcutta', was also an eccentric and connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. For over three decades he was at the centre of the theatre and film worlds and his diaries record a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.
View BookAuthor: Keith Richards
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Author Keith Richards
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Duration 23h
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world. Over four decades, he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Amy Lloyd
Duration 28m
We chat to the author of popular thriller novels One More Lie and The Innocent Wife.
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