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John Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes and Slips!
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator John Arlott
Duration 1h 9m
John Arlott was BBC's Voice of Cricket for more than 30 summers and reported on all the key cricket matches from the 40's to his final commentary in 1980 at Lords. The imagery and wit of an uncomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic moments. From the 40's we hear about Bradman's last test, from the 50's Compton's h...
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Routes of English, Series 1, Programme3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 3
Duration 27m
Where better than Hastings to look at the impact of the French on the English language? Melvyn Bragg goes to Hastings, where in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold and invaded England. The actual fighting took place in the nearby village of Battle. It was to be the starting point of a long and intense relationship between England a...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 6
Duration 28m
"How to meet the Challenge of the 21st Century" Note: This is part six of a series of six parts.
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Routes of English, Series, Programme 1
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 27m
Melvyn Bragg goes back to his home town of Wigton in Cumbria to see how English is developing-and how dialects are still spoken. He meets townspeople from all generations and walks of life, from octogenarian horse-dealer Tommy Miller to local poet Mary Haslam, and finds that the old ways of speaking are being lost.
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Author: Marie Laskas Jeanne
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Author Marie Laskas Jeanne
Narrator Hillary Huber
Duration 9h 55m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas, read by Hillary Huber. This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 5
Duration 29m
"How to be a father - part two" Note: This is part five of a series of six parts.
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Author: Virginia Ironside
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Author Virginia Ironside
Narrator Maureen Beck
Duration 10h 15m
Virginia Ironside, a journalist and writer on personal and family relationships, examines bereavement. The death of her own father and her researches since highlight that many people find grief a chaotic and violent process. This audiobook looks at the feelings of shock, anger, guilt, powerlessness and fear which surround the informal rituals of de...
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Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Author: Kory Stamper
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Author Kory Stamper
Narrator Kory Stamper
Duration 9h 48m
HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO DEFINE the word "is"? Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Brimming with intelligence and personality, this vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made is a must-read for word mavens. Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, i...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 4
Duration 28m
"How to be a father - part one" Note: This is part four of a series of six parts.
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Author: Chris Froome
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Author Chris Froome
Narrator Patrick Doherty
Duration 14h 33m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the revealing, inspirational memoir from the British winner of the Tour de France. The Climb tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to his...
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Author: Michael Goldfarb
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Author Michael Goldfarb
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
Michael Goldfarb looks back to the Europe of the 1930s and asks how artists, writers and film-makers responded to the poverty, mass unemployment and poltical instability of the Great Depression. Through the work of Bertolt Brecht, George Orwell, Jean Renoir and others, Michael charts the devastating impact of the slump as economic crisis impoverish...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 3
Duration 29m
"How to be a leader of men" Note: This is part three of a series of six parts.
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Author: Overseas Inc Penton
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Author Overseas Inc Penton
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 5m
Learn with rhythm; learn with tunes, Italian, English words you'll use! This bilingual vocabulary builder for Italian or English coveres 500 words and expressions, plus conversation set to an original music score that energizes the listener, engaging both left and right brain for optimal learning.
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Author: Tan France
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Author Tan France
Narrator Tan France
Duration 7h 3m
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's Emmy award-winning Queer Eye, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of colour in South Yorkshire. He illuminate...
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Author: Steven Gerrard
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Author Steven Gerrard
Narrator Michael Ryan
Duration 13h 28m
Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final. His entire career, since 1998, has been spent at Anfield with Liverpool. In this book he charts his full playing...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 2
Duration 29m
"How to have a Baby" Note: This is part two of a series of six parts.
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Author: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 10
Duration 3h
The tenth part of a major Radio 4 series that tells the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Queen Victoria. This audiobook focuses on the Victorian period.
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This Is Cancer: Everything You Need To Know, From the Waiting Room To the Bedroom
Author: Laura Holmes Haddad
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Author Laura Holmes Haddad
Narrator Rachel Fulginiti
Duration 7h 10m
Cancer is indiscriminate. It cares little for class, creed, or color. Its victims and their caregivers are everywhere. When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer at age thirty-seven, she discovered shelf upon shelf of overly earnest, somber, gray survival books instead of the straight talk she needed. She knew there had to b...
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The Misadventures of An Awkward Black Girl
Author: Issa Rae
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Author Issa Rae
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 49m
In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool. My name is "J" and I'm awkward-and black. Someone once told me those...
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Jeremy Hardy Speaks To the Nation
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Jeremy Hardy
SeriesJeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation Series 2, Book 1
Duration 29m
"How to be a popular figure around town" Note: This is part one of a series of six parts.
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Author: Michelle Obama
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Author Michelle Obama
Narrator Michelle Obama
Duration 19h 3m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 'A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard 'A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times 'A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall Obama's a fun...
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