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The Global Village: Travel and Tourism
Author: Carol Inskipp
Format: MP3 CD
Author Carol Inskipp
Narrator Cecilia Thompson
Duration 1h 25m
Our world is getting smaller. Improvements in communications systems, transport and information highways mean that countries are connected to each other in an increasing number of ways - politically, economically, culturally and environmentally. This audiobook addresses questions like: does tourism increase knowledge and understanding of different...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Hitchens
Format: MP3 CD
Author Christopher Hitchens
Narrator Christopher Hitchens
Duration 8h 50m
This audiobook makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. With robust clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based o...
View BookThe Age of Revolution: A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Format: MP3 CD
Author Winston S. Churchill
Narrator Christian Rodska
Duration 12h 42m
During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789. Beneath these political upheavals other revolutions in science and manufacture were laying the foun...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
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Author Jeremy Siepmann
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Duration 4h 30m
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was a brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of sixteen. He was entirely consumed by his art and lived a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home to Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven) and died almost penniless at the age of thirty one. This audiobook explores the darker side to Schubert and is illust...
View BookThe Instruments of the Orchestra
Author: Jeremy Siepmann
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 8h 1m
This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts (orchestral, chamber, folk, solo, operatic, cinematic) and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Joining regular members are such exotic visitors as the eerie ondes martenot, the wind machine, banjos, bagpipes, coconuts, typewriters and migrating swans!
View BookAuthor: Tom Keneally
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Author Tom Keneally
Narrator Humphrey Bower
Duration 9h 5m
The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker Prize-winning novel, 'Schindler's Ark' and the subse...
View BookWould You Believe... Marzipan Contains Cyanide?! and Other Freaky Food Facts
Author: Richard Platt
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Jane Steel
Duration 1h 35m
Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind the food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Listeners will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the...
View BookThe Big Idea: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
Author: Paul Strathern
Format: MP3 CD
Author Paul Strathern
Narrator Fergus Mcclelland
Duration 1h 45m
A charismatic teacher who inspired a generation of physicists, Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of this brief biography, is remembered today as 'the father of the atom bomb'. It was his creation that brought a devastating end to World War II. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands, destroyed the lives of million...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Siepmann
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator Jeremy Siepmann
Duration 4h 40m
No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds. A classic rags-to-riches tale, it sees him move from humble beginnings through decades as a liveried servant to his emergence as the most popular and successful composer of his time. One of the healthiest and least neurotic artists in musi...
View BookAuthor: Susan Gates
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Author Susan Gates
Narrator Nigel Lambert
Duration 3h 45m
Smiler's grandad turns an old fort into a Laughter Club for children. He rents out part of the building to the mysterious Dr Maudlin. Smiler and Coriander, the only other member of the club, discover that the doctor is meddling with genetics in an attempt to eradicate head lice. She has a prisoner - a Neanderthal boy brought to the fort in a terrib...
View BookThe Big Idea: Bohr and Quantum Theory
Author: Paul Strathern
Format: MP3 CD
Author Paul Strathern
Narrator Fergus Mcclelland
Duration 1h 44m
At a moment of great discovery, one big idea can change the world... Niels Bohr's discoveries in quantum theory led to advances in physics and our understanding of atomic structure. His work won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 and his ideas continue to propel physics towards new discoveries. But what is quantum theory? Most of us do not understand even...
View BookLife and Works: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Jeremy Siepmann
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jeremy Siepmann
Narrator
Duration 5h
This audiobook examines the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi and includes many examples of his work. The author illustrates how Giuseppe's music developed throughout his life.
View BookWould You Believe... In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! and Other Academic Advantages
Author: Richard Platt
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h
Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...
View BookEscape From Earth: Voyages Through Time
Author: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Paul Medlicott
Duration 3h 24m
Only 60 years after first taking to the skies, humankind's endless curiosity sent our species blazing into space. But how? Why? What have we found? Where will we explore next? The answers aren't just 'out there' - they're also in here. Prepare for blast-off, you are about to escape from Earth.
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 6m
Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny...
View BookAuthor: Nicolas Soames
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Author Nicolas Soames
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Duration 2h 43m
More short biographies of people who have changed the world: This audio book focuses on Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and Mahatma Gandhi.
View BookAuthor: Nicolas Soames
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Author Nicolas Soames
Narrator
Duration 2h 31m
Short biographies of ten people whose energy, imagination and courage changed the world: Columbus, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Mozart, Nelson, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank.
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
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Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 5h 19m
A history of opera from its beginnings in the 16th century through to to present day, with examples from Monteverdi to Wagner.
View BookAuthor: David Timson
Format: MP3 CD
Author David Timson
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 5h 12m
The actor Derek Jacobi guides the listener through the story of the Theatre from Ancient Greece up to present day. This audiobook traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Moliere and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the 19th century and the main movements in the 20th century.
View BookAuthor: Richard Fawkes
Format: MP3 CD
Author Richard Fawkes
Narrator Kim Criswell
Duration 5h 17m
Featuring over 120 musical examples, this audiobook traces the musical from its origins in classical music, (Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera', Offenbach's operettas and Gilbert and Sullivan) through to its flowering in America with 'Showboat', 'Anything Goes', 'High Society', 'Guys and Dolls', 'Oklahoma', 'West Side Story', 'The Sound of Music', 'Oliver'...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Halliday
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Author Stephen Halliday
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 8h 55m
In the sweltering summer of 1858 the stink of sewage from the polluted Thames was so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. Sewage generated by a population of over two million Londoners was pouring into the river and was being carried to and fro by the tides. The Times called the crisis 'The Great S...
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