AuthorTony Benn
NarratorTony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 1
Duration1h 54m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography, Politics
PublisherBBC
VersionUnabridged
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the first series of Labour MP Tony Benn's behind-the-scenes revelations from the highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat alone and dictated onto audio his account of the daily events at the heart of government. The immediacy, passion and mood is striking as he unburdens himself of the pressure and stress, trials and tribulations of government and opposition with accounts veering from anecdotal to almost confessional. Events recalled in the first of these unique and remarkable recordings include Harold Wilson's surprise resignation in 1976; the potentially catastrophic 1977 strike at Windscale; the year-long miners' strike in 1984 and the general election in 1992.
Author: Henry Marsh
Author Henry Marsh
Narrator Henry Marsh
Duration 7h 47m
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him. Moving between encounters with patients in his Lond...
View Book
Author: Min Kym
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 Book
Author: Uwe Schutte
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 Book
Author: Tony Benn
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 2
Duration 1h 54m
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the second volume of behind-the-scenes revelations from Labour MP Tony Benn's highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. The Observer called it `Irresistible fly-on-the-wall history as it actually happens.' Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat...
View Book
Author: Amanda Brown
Author Amanda Brown
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 6h 3m
Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country's most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wor...
View Book
Author: Simon Reeve
Author Simon Reeve
Narrator Simon Reeve
Duration 10h 29m
TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. After a decade spent making more than 80 program...
View Book
Author: Tony Benn
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 4h 22m
As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Certainly at my a...
View Book
Summary of Grant By Ron Chernow
Author: Abbey Beathan
Author Abbey Beathan
Narrator Peter Prova
Duration 2h 55m
Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. The life and work of the magnificent general and President Ulysses Grant. Ulysses Grant must be one of the most misunderstood characters of United States' history. The majority of people have a polarized but incorrect impression of him as a loser and a bad businessman or as the triumphant but vicious gener...
View Book
Free At Last: The Diaries 1991-2001
Author: Tony Benn
Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 5h 13m
Taken from the new book of the same name, these are Tony Benn's diaries from 1991 - 2001, read by Tony Benn. They encompass the Gulf War, the rise of New Labour, and the global consequences of the attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001. These political observations are entwined with a moving personal account of family life to produce a...
View Book
Author: David Cameron
Author David Cameron
Narrator David Cameron
Duration 30h
David Cameron was Conservative Party leader during the largest financial crash in living memory. The Arab Spring and the Eurozone crisis both started during his first year as prime minister. The backdrop to his time in office included the advent of ISIS, surging migration and a rapidly changing EU. He sets out how he helped turn around Britain's ec...
View Book
