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Just A Minute, Series 61: Episode 8
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Various
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 8
Duration 27m
The ever popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Last in series. With guests Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Miles Jupp, doing his second ever show.
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Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
SeriesI'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Book 8
Duration 2h 30m
Humphrey Littleton presides over panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Willie Rushton, Graeme Greene and Barry Cryer in this compilation of ad-libbing from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series. Includes the games 'Cheddar Gorge', 'Gargle Gargle' and 'Good News Bad News'.
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Author: Mcmanus Chris
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Author Mcmanus Chris
Narrator Chris Mcmanus
Duration 27m
Chris McManus uncovers the secrets of a collection of six thousand dusty old postcards which turned up in a forgotten cupboard in the Psychology Department of University College London. It started with two medium-sized cardboard boxes. When Richard Rawles of the Department of Psychology of University College London opened them, he found 6000 postca...
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Author: Hinch Mrs
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Author Hinch Mrs
Narrator Hinch Mrs
Duration 4h 32m
Brought to you by Penguin. All the best cleaning tips to shine your sink and soothe your soul. Discover how to transform your home. Cleaning doesn't have to be that job you dread. Not when Mrs Hinch is here to show you her sparkly ways! Mrs Hinch has taken the nation by storm with her infectiously addictive charm, clever cleaning hacks and her pass...
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Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Vaseem Khan
Duration 16m
Vaseem Khan is a crime writer, the first two books in his Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library. Photo ¸ Nirupama Khan.
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Just A Minute, Series 61: Episode 6
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 6
Duration 27m
The ever popular panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With guests Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton, Paul Merton and Tony Hawks. Panellists try to speak for a minute on a subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation. This week, subjects include 'Red Sky at Night' and 'The Meat Raffle'... except only one of the panellists seems to know what it...
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Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 43m
Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. Current Puns Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor The English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors: cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder and show...
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Author: Joe Moran
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Author Joe Moran
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 8h 13m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition if First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran, read by Roy McMillan. The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it...
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An Interview With Sarah Millican
Author: Listening Books, Sarah Millican
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Author Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 9m
Sarah Millican is a comedian and writer, we have her radio series Sarah Millican's Support Group available to borrow from our online library. Image © Matt Crockett.
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Just A Minute, Series 61: Episode 5
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 5
Duration 27m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, with panellists Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres and newcomer Miles Jupp. Recorded at the Lichfield Festival.
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Author: Terence Rattigan
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Author Terence Rattigan
Narrator Terrence Rattigan
Duration 1h 29m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the acclaimed playwright, whose centenary was celebrated in 2011, begins in 1969 with a radio appearance on Out This Week. It culminates with an interview for Kaleidoscope in 1977, recorded a few months before his death. Inbetween are several major radio features on Rattigan's life and work, in...
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Author: Giacomo Casanova
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Author Giacomo Casanova
Narrator Benedict Cumberbatch
Duration 5h
Born in 1725 to Italian and Spanish parents, Giacomo Casanova was a scholar and adventurer, not to mention a notorious seducer of women, who lived a long and exciting life. This first volume of his memoirs charts his childhood and life as a young man in Venice and Italy.
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Scott and Amundsen: Their Race To the South Pole
Author: Roland Huntford
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Author Roland Huntford
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 7h 30m
Scott and Amundsen is a controversial double biography of the first and second to reach the South pole. This audiobook has been described as the 'case against Scott' and it does not hold back on criticism of him. Plus it looks at evidence that Scott's failure was not just because of his personality but examines problems that existed out of his cont...
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An Interview With Robert Winston
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Robert Winston
Duration 10m
Robert Winston is a scientist, author and broadcaster. We have several of his science books for children available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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Author: Daniel Smith
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Author Daniel Smith
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
Duration 7h 15m
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety-America's most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like-it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one-but...
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Just A Minute, Series 61: Episode 4
Author: Ian Messiter
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Author Ian Messiter
Narrator Nicholas Parsons Et Al
SeriesJust a Minute Series 61, Book 4
Duration 27m
The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and first timer Russell Kane. Subjects include 'My Tartan Underwear' and 'Call Centres'. Recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Author: Bren Brown
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Author Bren Brown
Narrator Bren Brown
Duration 6h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Daring Greatly written and read by Bren‚ Brown. Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new...
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Author: Rio Bianca Del
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Author Rio Bianca Del
Narrator Bianca Del Rio
Duration 4h 46m
The cheeky, larger-than-life drag queen and outrageous comic - 'The Joan Rivers of the Drag World' (New York Times) - who isn't afraid to shock or offend, shares her trademark acerbic wit and sharp commentary in this uproarious collection of advice. When it comes to insult comics, Bianca Del Rio is in a class by herself. Fierce, funny, and fabulous...
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An Interview With Melvyn Bragg
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 12m
Melvyn Bragg is an author and broadcaster. We have a number of his radio documentaries, including the Routes of English series, available to borrow from our online library.
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Author: Caitlin Moran
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Author Caitlin Moran
Narrator Caitlin Moran
Duration 11h 36m
Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. MORANTHOLOGY is proof that Caitlin can actually be 'quite chatty' about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually the province of learned professors,...
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Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 9h 49m
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fr...
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