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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 30m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. We are extremely lucky to have an exceptional eyewitness account of a plague outbreak in...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 32m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. In the decade following the conquest, the north of England was one of the main focuses of...
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Civil War: The Siege of Chester
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 29m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. At the beginning of his reign, King Charles I faced a perennial problem for English monar...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 32m
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg is in urban Lancashire to explore the warp and weft of the Industrial Revolution-how the upheavals of the new mechanisation affected workers who found their traditional trades, like hand-loom weaving, superseded and marginalised by the growth of industrialisation and mechanisation. He...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 30m
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The upheavals and turmoil of the sixteenth century transformed many aspects of religious...
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 32m
The story of British Tommies sent 'over the top' to fight the Germans in the trenches of the First World War is a vivid emblem of powerlessness in the face of military discipline-and social pressures-that required young men to join up and do their duty. As the voices of the powerless become truly audible with the dawn of the recording era, we trav...
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Author: George Orwell
Format: Online
Author George Orwell
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 8h 54m
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. Orwell's experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to g...
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Author: Christopher Lee
Format: Online
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
SeriesThis Sceptered Isle, Book 7
Duration 3h
The seventh part of the 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 period 1760 - 1792, a time of revolution.
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Author: Christopher Lee
Format: Online
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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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Author: Amanda Foreman
Format: Online
Author Amanda Foreman
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 20h
The story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century. Georgiana was, in turn, a compulsive gambler, astute political operator, drug addict, adulteress and darling of the common people. Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year Award.
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Author: John Keegan
Format: Online
Author John Keegan
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 16h
This audiobook looks at the military history of a battle scene by examining the experiences of individuals at the point of maximum danger. The author reassesses the three battles of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme and attempts to convey the reality of the battles as they were experienced by the participants.
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Author: Christopher Hibbert
Format: Online
Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 9h
Hibbert charts the French Revolution from its beginnings as an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, through to the coup d'etat of 1795 that brought Napoleon to power.
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Author: Antony Beevor
Format: Online
Author Antony Beevor
Narrator Peter Yapp
Duration 14h
Stalingrad marked not only the psychological turning-point of the Second World War, but was the first major modern battle fought in a city, with thousands of helpless civilians caught up in its horrors. In the epic struggle between Stalin and Hitler for the eastern front, soldiers were driven beyond the limits of mental and physical endurance. This...
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1901-1919
Author: Christopher Lee
Format: Online
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 15h 15m
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day - taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement.
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Format: Online
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
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A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 - 1776
Author: Simon Schama
Format: Online
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 2
Duration 10h
The British Wars began in 1637, starting nearly 200 hundred years of battles waged within and outside our Isles. This audiobook vividly depicts exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity.
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Author: Christopher Lee
Format: Online
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 5m
This volume of Christopher Lee's history of Britan looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the Royal Wedding.
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Author: David Reynolds
Format: Online
Author David Reynolds
Narrator David Reynolds
SeriesAmerica Empire of Liberty, Book 1
Duration 6h 55m
Volume Three of David Reynolds' award-winning BBC Radio 4 series runs from the origins of the Cold War to the inauguration of Barack Obama. This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through the voices of those who lived it, exploring three abiding national themes: empire, liberty and faith. Empire and Evil, the final series of thirt...
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A Brief History of Mathematics
Author: Sautoy Marcus Du
Format: Online
Author Sautoy Marcus Du
Narrator Marcus Du Sautoy
Duration 2h 13m
This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. He explores...
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Author: Martin Sixsmith
Format: Online
Author Martin Sixsmith
Narrator Martin Sixsmith
SeriesRussia, Book 1
Duration 5h 37m
The first 25 episodes from the landmark BBC Radio series. Martin Sixsmith brings his firsthand experience of reporting from Russia to this fascinating narrative, witnessing the critical moment when the Soviet Union finally lost its grip on power. Power struggles have a constant presence in his story, from the Mongol hordes that invaded in the 13th...
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Coal and Dole: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
Format: Online
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 33m
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg visits Merthyr Tydfil to look at the plight of the miners in the Depression. The industrial communities of South Wales, built first on iron smelting in the 18th century, and coal in the 19th, had known great prosperity. Merthyr Tydfil was once the largest town in Wales, and in 1914, 25...
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