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Author: Gyles Brandreth
Format: Online
Author Gyles Brandreth
Narrator The Author
Duration 17h 50m
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than 40 years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irasc...
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Author: Melanie Chisholm
Format: Online
Author Melanie Chisholm
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 37m
I never told my story before because I wasn't ready. Now, finally, I am. Twenty-five years ago, The Spice Girls, a girlband that began after answering an advert in the paper, released our first single. 'Wannabe' became a hit and from that moment, my life changed for ever. I was suddenly part of one of the biggest music groups in history, releasing...
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Author: Alex South
Format: Online
Author Alex South
Narrator Sofia Zervudachi
Duration 12h 18m
A powerful and affecting look at life in prison Behind These Doors is a provocative, insightful and illuminating interrogation of what it is to live and to work in the UK's most infamous prisons. The individuals Alex introduces us to are, for the most part, living on the margins of society and the impact of the cycles of violence that so often acco...
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Author: Ione Gamble
Format: Online
Author Ione Gamble
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 55m
Wellness is oppressive, self love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fault. Ione Gamble never imagined that entering adulthood would mean being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Watching identity politics become social media fodder from the confines of her sickbed Ione began to pick apart our obsession with self-c...
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Author: Katy Wix
Format: Online
Author Katy Wix
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 55m
From award-winning comedian and writer Katy Wix comes Delicacy - a different kind of memoir from an astonishing new voice. Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative and profound, underpinned with moments of startling humour that shatter the darkness - all beginning with a single memory. A memory of...
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Author: Lou Sanders
Format: Online
Author Lou Sanders
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 38m
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...Hello!It's Lou here...I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this book. This won't be for everyone but I hope it helps the people it does connect with. We all have stories and I think its useful to share them, I think i...
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Author: Boy George
Format: Online
Author Boy George
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 41m
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me, Boy George's Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades' of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity... This is George...
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Author: John Hull
Format: Online
Author John Hull
Narrator Nicholas Guy Smith
Duration 8h 7m
"It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift." Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his w...
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Author: Helen Skelton
Format: Online
Author Helen Skelton
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 2m
Helen Skelton is no stranger to doing hard things, from kayaking the entire length of the Amazon to competing in a boxing match for Sports Relief. Her ability to dig deep and find the inner strength and to carry on no matter the challenge - physical, mental, or emotional - is nothing short of remarkable. Helen grew up on a farm in Cumbria and credi...
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Author: Jennifer Worth
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 15m
When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to...
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Author: Jennifer Worth
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 11h 5m
In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
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Author: Jennifer Worth
Format: Online
Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 47m
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and...
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An Interview With Radhika Sanghani
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Radhika Sanghani
Duration 37m
An interview with writer and journalist Radhika Sanghani, author of novels including Thirty Things I Love About Myself and I Wish We Weren't Related.
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An Interview With Paul Pilkington
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Paul Pilkington
Duration 37m
An interview with crime writer Paul Pilkington, author of the Emma Holden series.
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Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator John Marrs
Duration 31m
An interview with thriller writer John Marrs, author of novels including The One and The Passengers.
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An Interview With Jacquie Bloese
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jacquie Bloese
Duration 37m
An interview with author of the novel The French House, Jacquie Bloese.
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An Interview With Sarah Bax Horton
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Sarah Bax Horton
Duration 24m
An interview with Sarah Bax Horton, author of the book One-Armed Jack, which takes a fresh look at the infamous Jack the Ripper case.
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By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
Format: Online
Author Scott Mitchell
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 53m
In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years—Dame Barbara Windsor—was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, sh...
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Author: Lesley-Anne Jones
Format: Online
Author Lesley-Anne Jones
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 25m
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band...
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Author: Keith Brymer Jones
Format: Online
Author Keith Brymer Jones
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 43m
Keith Brymer Jones is the star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down, famous for his emotional responses to the heartfelt and personal pieces made by contestants on the show. He is also the ultimate professional craftsman who's done the hard yards to get where he is today, working his way up from being a skivvy in an indus...
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Author: Abi Morgan
Format: Online
Author Abi Morgan
Narrator Fiona Button
Duration 7h 45m
An ordinary day. The end of ordinary life. One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list—drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for 20 years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the s...
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