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An Interview With Angela Chadwick
Author: Listening Books
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Narrator Angela Chadwick
Duration 18m
We speak to debut author Angela Chadwick about her award-winning novel, XX.
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Narrator Simon Lelic
Duration 14m
We speak to the author of the popular thriller novels The House and The Liar's Room. Photo credit Justine Stoddart.
View BookAuthor: Gerard Hoffnung
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Author Gerard Hoffnung
Narrator Humphrey Lyttleton
Duration 2h
Gerard Hoffnung was an artist, musician, broadcaster, raconteur - and genius. A true Renaissance Man, the multi-faceted Hoffnung crammed a great deal into his tragically short span. Using much previously unreleased archive material, this audio biography, presented by Humphrey Lyttelton, looks at every aspect of his life and career. From his childho...
View BookAn Interview With Sue Moorcroft
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Narrator Sue Moorcroft
Duration 50m
We chat to the best-selling fiction author whose novels include Just for the Holidays and A Christmas Gift. Photo credit Charlotte Barnes.
View BookAuthor: Bruce Springsteen
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Author Bruce Springsteen
Narrator Bruce Springsteen
Duration 18h 23m
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a...
View BookAn Interview With T.p. Fielden
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Narrator T.P. Fielden
Duration 20m
Author T.P. Fielden discusses penning his popular crime series, the Miss Dimont Mysteries.
View BookAn Interview With Robyn Hollingworth
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Narrator Robyn Hollingworth
Duration 15m
Author Robyn Hollingworth speaks to us about her touching memoir, The Man He Used to Be.
View BookAuthor: Mark Forsyth
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Author Mark Forsyth
Narrator Simon Shepherd
Duration 6h 40m
This is a quirky, entertaining and thought-provoking tour of the unexpected connections between words, read by Simon Shepherd. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? 'The Etymologicon' springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool bl...
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Narrator Ruth Hogan
Duration 21m
We chat to Ruth Hogan, author of the brilliant novels Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel, The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes. Photo credit Ben Crocker.
View BookAuthor: Andy Martin
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Author Andy Martin
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 9h 34m
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS On September 1, 1994, Lee Child went out to buy the paper to start writing his first novel, in pencil. The result was Killing Floor, which introduced his hero Jack Reacher. Twenty years later, on September 1, 2014, he began writing Make Me, the twentieth novel in his number-one- bestselling Reacher series. Same day, same...
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Narrator Cass Green
Duration 15m
We chat to best-selling writer Cass Green, author of the hugely popular thrillers The Woman Next Door, No Good Deed and In a Cottage in a Wood.
View BookAuthor: John Hosken
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Author John Hosken
Narrator Noel Johnson
Duration 29m
An affectionate profile of Dick Barton - Special Agent, presented by John Hosken, including interviews with Noel Johnson, star of the Dick Barton radio series. Dick Barton is the radio character who refuses to lie down. Although it is over fifty years since the daily serial was dropped to make way for The Archers, fans still talk about their hero's...
View BookNoel Coward; An Audio Biography
Author: Sheridan Morley
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Author Sheridan Morley
Narrator Sheridan Morley
Duration 2h 33m
Playwright, actor, singer, songwriter, poet and scriptwriter, Sir No‰l Coward used his `talent to amuse' to spectacular effect for almost sixty years. Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten and Joyce Carey are just some of the voices heard paying tribute to the elegant star in this audio biography which is linked by the broadcaster and criti...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
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Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Sebastian Faulks
Duration 11h 17m
Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and celebrates the most famous and best-loved of these dazzling fictional creations and their wider impact on...
View BookThe Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
Author: Mark Kermode
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Author Mark Kermode
Narrator Mark Kermode
Duration 7h 57m
In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex, he takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with modern movies?' If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? H...
View BookAuthor: Peter Whitfield
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Author Peter Whitfield
Narrator Sebastian Comberti
Duration 5h 14m
What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities in eras utterly remote from our own? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age-religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece to the...
View BookAuthor: Rebecca (ed) Gray
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Author Rebecca (ed) Gray
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 10m
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Si...
View BookAuthor: Philip Mould
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Author Philip Mould
Narrator Philip Mould
Duration 13m
Art historian Philip Mould discusses the art chosen by Government ministers in this BBC Radio 4 broadcast from 26 January 2011. Becoming a Minister has many perks, but one they can see every day is the art hanging in their office, often borrowed from the Government Art Collection. Art historian Philip Mould speaks to new ministers about what they c...
View BookWriters In Britain: The Brontes
Author: David Orme
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Author David Orme
Narrator Krystyna Gajda
Duration 46m
This audiobook describes the background of an extraordinary family and puts their life and work in the context of the great social, political and economic changes that took place during their short lives. An excellent introduction to the Bronte family.
View BookRise Up: The #merky Story So Far
Author: Stormzy
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Author Stormzy
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 52m
In three years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spokesperson for a generation. Rise Up is the story of how he got there. It's a story about faith and the ideas worth fighting for. It's about knowing where you're from, and where you're going. It's about following your dreams without compromising who y...
View BookClassics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Mary Beard
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Author Mary Beard
Narrator Tim Bentink
Duration 3h 42m
This demystifying and enthusiastic Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture - from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.
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