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Author: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
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Duration 1h 55m
Writer, poet, entertainer and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been delighting the nation with her mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life for more than twenty years. This live recording of Pam's overwhelmingly popular stage show is the entertainer at her best. Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With...
View BookMark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better Series 2
Author: Mark Watson
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Author Mark Watson
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Duration 2h 47m
Continuing to make the world a better place, this is the second series for Mark to free you from sin. Mark Watson is not only a fantastic stand-up comedian, but he may also be the best chance we have to overcome sin. He's got a plan to teach us everything we need to know about the Six Deadly Sins (he knows it's usually seven, but he's doing Greed a...
View BookAuthor: Ron Stallworth
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Author Ron Stallworth
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Duration 5h 50m
What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a P.O. box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist br...
View BookAuthor: Simon Barnes
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Author Simon Barnes
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Duration 4h 47m
Simon Barnes is one of Britain's leading bird writers and humorists. His weekly column in 'The Times', his essays for the RSPB magazine and his two books on bad bird-watching have made him one of the characters of the bird world. Here he reads his own illuminating introductions to the fifty main birds of Britain, supported by the distinguishing bir...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
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SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 1, Book 1
Duration 28m
Armando Iannucci and his guests return with a heady mix of topical sketches, chat and lots of lies, in front of a live audience. Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad...
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Duration 45m
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. 'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
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Duration 2h 46m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
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Author Armando Iannucci
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SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 4, Book 5
Duration 27m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookThe Power of Positive Thinking
Author: Dr Norman Vincent Peale
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Author Dr Norman Vincent Peale
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Duration 3h 46m
Translated into fifteen languages with more than 7 million copies sold, The Power of Positive Thinking is unparalleled in its extraordinary capacity for restoring the faltering faith of millions. In this insightful program, Dr. Peale offers the essence of his profound method for mastering the problems of everyday living. You will learn: How to elim...
View BookAuthor: Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Author Carrie Hope Fletcher
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Duration 8h 6m
Evie Snow is eighty-two when she passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. But when Evie reaches her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open. Her soul is too heavy to pass through, so she must unburden herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down...
View BookAuthor: Dawna Walters
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Author Dawna Walters
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Duration 1h 9m
An inspirational guide to fighting clutter and sorting out your space, based on the bestselling BBC book and TV series. Clutter can be a huge problem for many of us. We yearn to live in a perfectly-ordered home, but more often than not we find ourselves drowning in a sea of `stuff.' Not only is it depressing to live in a mess, but accumulating too...
View BookAuthor: Terry Wogan
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Author Terry Wogan
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Duration 2h 55m
Terry Wogan is one of Britain's most popular and successful broadcasters. Witty, charming and relaxed, he has undoubtedly captured the nation's heart. Here, for the first time, he tells his story, from his beginnings in Limerick to incredible success as a national celebrity, in his own delightfully laconic fashion.
View BookAuthor: Heather Couper
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Author Heather Couper
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Duration 6h 46m
In this 30-part BBC Radio 4 series, astronomer Heather Couper charts the history of our understanding of the universe. Her journey begins at the beginning as people first gaze in wonder at the life-giving Sun, the wandering planets and the changing phases of the Moon. Along the way we meet the ancient astronomers, as well as many pioneering scienti...
View BookAuthor: Sumbul Ali Karamali
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Author Sumbul Ali Karamali
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Duration 5h 16m
Author Sumbul Ali-Karamali offers her personal account, discussing the many and varied questions she fielded from curious friends and schoolmates while growing up in Southern California--from diet, to dress, to prayer and holidays and everything in between. She also provides an academically reliable introduction to Islam, addressing its inception,...
View BookAuthor: Emily Arnold McCully
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Author Emily Arnold McCully
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Duration 3h
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer. Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raisi...
View BookArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
Author: Armando Iannucci
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Author Armando Iannucci
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SeriesArmando Iannucci's Charm Offensive Series 4, Book 6
Duration 27m
Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive is a topical, events-driven radio comedy hosted by comedy guru Iannucci, recorded in front of a live audience. With the sketchability of The Now Show, combined with the going-off-on-a-mad-streak of a maverick News Quiz round, Iannucci and his comedian guests pull apart the week's news, in an effortlessly original...
View BookAuthor: Tyler Knott Gregson
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Author Tyler Knott Gregson
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Duration 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Chasers Of The Light, written and read by Tyler Knott Gregson. I would love to say that you make me weak at the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely truthful, you make my body forget it has knees at all. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photogra...
View BookThe History of the Brain, Episode 3
Author: Geoff Bunn
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Author Geoff Bunn
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SeriesA History of the Brain, Book 3
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 3, 'The Origin of Common Sense', the focus is on Ancient Rome with Galen's 'animal spirits' gently inflating the ventricles and making thought possible, and on ho...
View BookWill Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac
Author: Will Smith
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Author Will Smith
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Duration 2h
Bergerac-obsessed Will Smith has one guiding force in his life - an audio book of John Nettles reading the ancient Chinese text of the Tao. He has always used this tape to illuminate problems in his life, to find a way through when the road seems blocked. Now Will brings the Tao of Bergerac to his audience, as each week he navigates the minefield o...
View BookAuthor: Taraji P Henson
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Duration 7h 27m
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth. With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet...
View BookAuthor: Robert Preston
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Author Robert Preston
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Duration 57m
It's a world in which teamwork and goals are more than just motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way since men in sheepskin coats bestrode the land. The BBC's business editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on this multimillion pound industry and, with managers like Harry R...
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