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Author: Patrick Alley
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Author Patrick Alley
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 14h 24m
Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside t...
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Author: Lemn Sissay
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Author Lemn Sissay
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 5h 20m
At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay reco...
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Author: Philip Sington
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Author Philip Sington
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 15h 5m
Two months before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. The only clue to her identity is a handbill advertising a lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows this will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, he finds profess...
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Author: Jonathan Buckley
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Author Jonathan Buckley
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 33m
On a beach in southern England a dog returns to its owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to Henry, the homeless eccentric who has been wandering south west England for the last 30 years. A local policeman and his colleague, in piecing together his movements prior to his death, uncover an extraordinary life. But as their investigat...
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Author: Dan Vyleta
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Author Dan Vyleta
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 5m
Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, 'Pavel and I' mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two characters: Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pa...
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Author: Louise Doughty
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Author Louise Doughty
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 12h 49m
Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up the mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him and that his life may now be in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic past, and begins a passionate affair. Their exile makes Harper realis...
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Author: Malcolm Bradbury
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Author Malcolm Bradbury
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 10h 30m
Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university. Timid Vice-Chancellors pale before his threats of disruption and reactionary colleagues are crushed beneath his merciless Marxist logic. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of the Estate of Malcolm Bradbury. Copyright Malcolm Bradbury 1975...
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