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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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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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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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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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An Interview With James Runcie
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator James Runcie
Duration 21m
James Runcie is a novelist, playwright, TV producer and documentary filmmaker. His Granchester series of books is available to borrow from our library on MP3 CD. Photo ¸ Charlotte Runcie.
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Woman's Hour: A Celebration of Mothers
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 13m
Interviews, discussions, readings and poems celebrating motherhood in all its diversity.This compilation of extracts from the much-loved BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work/life balance and how...
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An Interview With Christopher Paolini
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Narrator Christopher Paolini
Duration 29m
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle series, which is available is borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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Author: Hal Runkel
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Author Hal Runkel
Narrator Hal Runkel
Duration 4h 53m
You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It's about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids' behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our bigges...
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A Life on the Railway Book 1: Steam
Author: Productions Llp Pennine
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Author Productions Llp Pennine
Narrator Pete Waterman
SeriesA Life on the Railway, Book 1
Duration 2h 15m
Before cars and planes, railways and steam engines were the main form of transport. And in the early days the engine driver was the fastest man on earth, travelling at 60 mph (and much faster than a car). No wonder it was every schoolboy's dream to become the driver of a locomotive, even though it was dirty and dangerous work. Some boys went straig...
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Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
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An Interview With Ben Aaronovitch
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Narrator Ben Aaronovitch
Duration 18m
Ben Aaronovitch is the author of The Rivers of London series, the first four books are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
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Narrator Alan Durant
Duration 14m
Alan Durant is a children's author and poet. His Creepe Hall series and YA novel Publish or Die are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
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Routes of English: Series 1, Programme 6
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 6
Duration 27m
Conquest, trade and immigration have woven dozens of languages into English. Melvyn Bragg visits Liverpool, home of Scouse, an Irish-based variant of northern English made famous by the Beatles and countless comedians. By the mid-nineteenth century the port of Liverpool ranked second to London and became home to immigrants from all over the world w...
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Routes of English: Series 1, Programme 5
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 5
Duration 27m
The power of English-and the "English of Power", as the language extends its influence from Court to Edinburgh. Melvyn Bragg goes to Edinburgh and the house of John Knox, the great Scottish apostle of the Reformation, who preached in English. Latin was replaced by English as the language of the Church when Henry VIII broke with Rome. And the 1611 K...
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Author: Aziz Ansari
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Author Aziz Ansari
Narrator Aziz Ansari
Duration 6h 14m
People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a photo of a pizza on...
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Author: Tanya Burr
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Author Tanya Burr
Narrator Laura Riseborough
Duration 5h 19m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Love, Tanya, the debut book from Youtube Fashion & Beauty guru Tanya Burr, read by Laura Riseborough. Tanya Burr is the UK's leading young voice in beauty and fashion and one of the country's biggest Youtube stars. Whether it's creating the perfect smoky eye or dressing well fo...
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Me/chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness
Author: Of Excellence Centre
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Author Of Excellence Centre
Narrator Jane Branch
Duration 3h 46m
We live in a world of stressors and many people go into a state of burnout at some point. If the stress that the individual must deal with on a long-term basis outweighs their chance and ability to rest; ME or CFS may very well be the result. This course aims to help with the understanding of these conditions. The first and third modules focus on k...
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Author: Steven D. Levitt
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Author Steven D. Levitt
Narrator Stephen J. Dubner
Duration 6h 25m
Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, f...
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Author: Michael Lewis
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Author Michael Lewis
Narrator Michael Lewis
Duration 9h 18m
'We fed the monster until it blew up ...' While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this is the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and ge...
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