The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 8
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 8
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political b...
View BookAuthor: Barry Took, Marty Feldman
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Author Barry Took, Marty Feldman
Narrator Kenneth Horne
SeriesRound the Horne, Book 5
Duration 2h 8m
Between 1965 and 1969 the successor to Beyond Our Ken ruled the airwaves. The show was scripted by Barry Took and Marty Feldman with music from the Fraser Hayes Four. Kenneth Horne was the golden-voiced straight man of the show, with the incredible comic talents of Kenneth Williams, Betty Marsden, Hugh Paddick and Bill Pertwee taking on the guise o...
View BookThe Nation's Favourite Children's Poems
Author: Poets Various
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Author Poets Various
Narrator Ronald Pickup Et Al
Duration 1h 40m
This edition from the best-selling poetry series brings together the most beloved poems for children, from "The Owl and the Pussycat" through "On the Ning Nang Nong" to "I Know Someone Who Can" to "Us Two". The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems will compel and amuse adults and children alike, with poems drawn from themes as diverse as animals, sc...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 3; the Complete Series
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 50m
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. The Trial of Qwerty - The "Qwerty" keyboard faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct the English language. But who was Mr. Qwerty? He Said, She Said - Do men and women really say what they mean? Also Stephen investigates sex, domin...
View BookPaul Temple and the Vandyke Affair
Author: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 4h 4m
In this adventure, Paul Temple is called in to investigate the disappearance of the Desmond baby, and the `Sitter-In' Miss Millicent. When they visit Mary Desmond she is, understandably, very upset - it's already been a week since her eighteenth-month-old daughter vanished. The only clue is a telephone message left in Miss Millicent's handwriting:...
View BookRosie Gilmour Book 4: Betrayed
Author: Anna Smith
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Author Anna Smith
Narrator Sarah Barron
SeriesRosie Gilmour, Book 4
Duration 9h 47m
Rosie Gilmour is chasing an explosive new story that will take her deep into Glasgow's sectarian underworld. But has she got in over her head? Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour is on the trail of missing barmaid Wendy Graham. Wendy's boyfriend is a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force - and before she vanished, she levelled a horrifying accusation again...
View BookAuthor: Lee Child
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Author Lee Child
Narrator Jeff Harding
Duration 1h 18m
In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world - arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Ston...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
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Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Elizabeth Day
Duration 9h 42m
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail, is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is an audiobook for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's an audiobook for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: fai...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 58m
When Stevie's social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn't sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie's behaviour so...
View BookAuthor: Tony Robbins
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Author Tony Robbins
Narrator Tony Robbins
Duration 7h 26m
After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom. No matter your salary, your stage of life, or when you starte...
View BookAuthor: James Bowen
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Author James Bowen
Narrator Kris Milnes
Duration 6h 5m
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly...
View BookOp-center Series Book 9: Mission of Honor
Author: Tom Clancy
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Author Tom Clancy
Narrator Michael Kramer
SeriesOp-Center, Book 9
Duration 12h 40m
In the latest riveting adventure in the bestselling Op-Center series, this crack team of operatives uses their defense, intelligence, and crisis management technology to bring down the opposition. When a job is too dirty or too dangerous, Op-Center is the only place the government can turn. Follow the circuitous path as the agents negotiate the mos...
View BookAuthor: Douglas Coupland
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Author Douglas Coupland
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 8h 20m
Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absol...
View BookAuthor: Beverley Naidoo
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Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Lola Ogunbadejo
Duration 6h 23m
This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to London, with their father promising to follow. Abandoned at Victoria Station by the woman paid to bring them t...
View BookDivergent Series Book 3: Allegiant
Author: Veronica Roth
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Author Veronica Roth
Narrator Emma Galvin
SeriesDivergent, Book 3
Duration 11h 47m
One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's No. 1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has ca...
View BookThe Penderwicks Book 4: The Penderwicks In Spring
Author: Jeanne Birdsall
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Author Jeanne Birdsall
Narrator Susan Denaker
SeriesThe Penderwicks, Book 4
Duration 9h 43m
Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and there are surprises in store for each member of the family. Some surprises are just wonderful, like neighbour Nick Geiger coming home from war. And some are ridiculous, like Batty's new dog-walking business. Batty is saving up her dog-walking money for an extra-special surprise for her family, wh...
View BookThe Great Depression and the Americas 1929-1939
Author: Nick Fellows
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Author Nick Fellows
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 10h 25m
An exciting series that covers selected topics from the Higher Level options in the IB History syllabus. This coursebook covers Higher Level option 3, Topic 7, The Great Depression and the Americas 1929-39. The text is divided into clear sections following the IB syllabus structure and content specifications. It offers a sound historical account al...
View BookAuthor: J. M Barrie
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Author J. M Barrie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A BBC Radio adaptation of J. M. Barrie's classic satire about the changing fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler. Liberal aristocrat Lord Loam favours a return to nature, with masters and servants living together as equals, but Crichton is the perfect butler and the perfect snob who adores the intricacies of the class system. He cannot help but...
View BookThe Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 7
Author: Nick Robinson
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Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 7
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today. This episode features Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, and how his notion of Englishness sha...
View BookFry's English Delight, Series 2; the Complete Series
Author: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 1h 51m
A second BBC Radio 4 series of Stephen Fry's witty and incisive programmes looking at the oddities of the English language. Includes four 30-minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. So Wrong It's Right - Stephen Fry examines how 'wrong' English can become right English, such as more people us...
View BookPaul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Author: Francis Durbridge
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Author Francis Durbridge
Narrator BBC Full-Cast
Duration 2h 41m
This is another six-part case for crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist Steve. First transmitted in 1965, it was the penultimate episode of the series, which on and off had spanned 30 years from 1938 to 1968.
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