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Author: George Johnson
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Author George Johnson
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 8h 24m
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science-writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is that a revolution is now under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is...
View BookAuthor: Tim Peake
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Author Tim Peake
Narrator Tim Peake
Duration 7h 14m
How does it feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? And where to next - the Moon, Mars or beyond? Ask an Astronaut is Tim's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return t...
View BookBrief Answers To the Big Questions
Author: Stephen Hawking
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Author Stephen Hawking
Narrator Ben Whishaw
Duration 4h 52m
The world-famous cosmologist leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multi...
View BookAuthor: Annaka Harris
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Author Annaka Harris
Narrator Annaka Harris
Duration 2h 22m
As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience. What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for...
View BookAuthor: Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Author Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrator Dennis Boutsikaris
Duration 19h 31m
*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016* The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, th...
View BookAuthor: Richard Shepherd
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Author Richard Shepherd
Narrator Richard Shepherd
Duration 11h 53m
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He's a detective in his own right. And he has one, ultimate and pressing question to answer: How did this person die? Unnatural Causes is an unputdownable record of an extraordinary life, a unique insight into a remarkable profession, and abo...
View BookAll the Way Home: Stories From An African Wildlife Sanctuary
Author: Bookey Peek
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Author Bookey Peek
Narrator Julie Maisey
Duration 10h 27m
Richard and Bookey Peek hadn't planned on adopting a warthog any more than one would plan a tidal wave or a tornado, but at Stone Hills natural disasters have a way of happening when you least expect them. Through Zimbabwe's darkest days, Stone Hills has become a world in itself. A place where you might share your shower with an owl. This audiobook...
View BookAuthor: David Wallace-Wells
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Author David Wallace-Wells
Narrator David Wallace-Wells
Duration 8h 33m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Uninhabitable Earth written and read by David Wallace-Wells. It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely...
View BookAuthor: Robert Macfarlane
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Author Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 13h 9m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Underland by Robert Macfarlane. A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journ...
View BookAuthor: Wolfgang Stoecker
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Author Wolfgang Stoecker
Narrator Wolfgang Stoecker
Duration 27m
Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural meanings of dust. Cologne-based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust from historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the help of scientists and an electron-microscope, he has analysed the dust and discovered it contains tiny fossils, particles from the Sahara, pollutants of v...
View BookA Guide To British Water Birds: Their Calls and Songs
Author: Moss Stephen
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Author Moss Stephen
Narrator Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss, Chris Watson
Duration 1h 4m
Join presenters Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the calls and songs of our most popular water birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In the third of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood is joined by birdwatcher Stephen Moss and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson in an accessible, informative and entertaining guide to s...
View BookAstrophysics For People In A Hurry
Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Author Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Narrator Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Duration 3h 41m
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mindexpanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth suc...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 10
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 10
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Episode 10, 'Einstein's Brain' focuses on how advances in neurology have influenced our understanding of human's as 'neurochemical selves'. Examining the recent trend to exp...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 9
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 9
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Episode 9, 'All Or Nothing', focuses on the invention of the electroencephalograph, which made our brain waves visible. Invented by Hans Berger, one of its main proponents w...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 8
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 8
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Episode 8, 'The Agony and the Ecstasy', focuses on the collaborative work between Otto Loewi in Austria and Henry Dale in England. They established that communication within...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 7
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 7
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Episode 7, 'Mind the Gap', focuses on how the microscope allowed neurologists to deatil the structure of brain cells. While Sigmund Freud, who started out as a neurologist,...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 6
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 6
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Episode 7, 'Mind the Gap', focuses on how the microscope allowed neurologists to deatil the structure of brain cells. While Sigmund Freud, who started out as a neurologist,...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 5
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Jonathan Forbes, Paul Bhattacharjee, Geoff Bunn
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 5
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 5, 'The Spark of Being', the focus is on electricity and communication, within the brain and between the brain and the rest of the body. When John Walsh showed, i...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 4
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 4
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 4, 'Spirits in the Material World', the focus is on Thomas Willis, the 17th century physician after whom the 'Circle of Willis' - the circuit of arteries supplyin...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 2
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Jonathan Forbes, Geoff Bunn, Paul Bhattacharjee
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 2
Duration 13m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 2, 'The Blood of The Gladiators', the focus is Ancient Greek scholarship, with Hippocrates' astonishingly prescient belief in the brain as the chief organ of cont...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 1
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
Narrator Paul Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Forbes, Geoff Bunn
SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 1
Duration 15m
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. In Episode 1, 'A Hole in the Head', the focus is on trepanation, the practice of drilling holes in the skull believing that such operations might correct physiological or sp...
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