Author: Nadya Okamoto
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Author Nadya Okamoto
Narrator Nadya Okamoto
Duration 5h 26m
PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed-and how to engage in youth activism. Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed prog...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
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Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Lucinda Dryzek
Duration 12h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Father Unknown by Lesley Pearse, read by Lucinda Dryzek. Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence throw...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Kilgarriff
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Author Sarah Kilgarriff
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 2h 12m
A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides. By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back over the old Somme battlefields. But this last push failed and with the stalemate of trench wa...
View BookWhat Is Feminism? Why Do We Need It? and Other Big Questions
Author: Bea Appleby, Louise A Spilsbury
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Author Bea Appleby, Louise A Spilsbury
Narrator Flo Hatton
Duration 1h 9m
A brilliant introduction for children to the movement, looking at the history of feminism, what it is today and its enormous relevance to young people and a vital tool for children in the process of figuring out the world and how it works.
View BookThe Hardy Boys Series Book 6: The Shore Road Mystery
Author: Franklin W Dixon
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Author Franklin W Dixon
Narrator Bill Irwin
SeriesHardy Boys, Book 6
Duration 3h 32m
When the Hardy Boys eagerly agree to assist their friend Jack Dodd and his father in locating a family treasure, the two young detectives are unaware of the baffling complications that will arise.
View BookChief Inspector Banks Book 2: A Dedicated Man
Author: Peter Robinson
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Author Peter Robinson
Narrator James Langton
SeriesInspector Banks, Book 2
Duration 8h 2m
A well-liked, respected historian and archaeologist is bludgeoned to death and left half-buried in a field. Now it falls to Chief Inspector Banks to solve a seemingly motiveless murder-and stop a killer who's bound to kill again.
View BookAuthor: Shami Chakrabarti
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Author Shami Chakrabarti
Narrator Shami Chakrabarti
Duration 6h 9m
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti-who joined Liberty, the UK's leading civil rights organization, on 10 September 2001-explores why our fundamental rights an...
View BookAuthor: Hans Christian Andersen
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Author Hans Christian Andersen
Narrator Ulf Bjorkland
Duration 1h 4m
Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, the classic tale of friendship, love, and bravery has won the hearts of young readers for almost two centuries. Gerda, a young girl struggles to free her friend from an evil and icy foe. This book was an inspiration for "Frozen" and C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Listen to a new and magic...
View BookJeeves and Wooster: My Man Jeeves
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Simon Prebble
Duration 5h 5m
A humorist praised by humorists, P. G. Wodehouse here introduces two of his most beloved characters. My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship be...
View BookAuthor: Evelyn Waugh
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Author Evelyn Waugh
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 5h 16m
The inspiration for a major film releasing 2008 starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon. A study of faith and disillusionment in a glamorous upper-class world, Waugh's most famous novel is partly autobiographical and is a gripping multi-character-study of aristocratic life behind closed doors. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian, a member of the aristo...
View BookAuthor: Georges Simenon
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Author Georges Simenon
Narrator Maurice Denham
Duration 44m
A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon The world's best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about one of his most intriguing cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel....
View BookElephants To Catch Eels, Series 2, Episode 3
Author: Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
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Author Nev Fountain, Tom Jamieson
Narrator Sheridan Smith
SeriesElephants to Catch Eels Series 2, Book 3
Duration 28m
The BBC Radio comedy set in an 18th century Cornish village-written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain and produced by Jan Ravens. In France, can smuggler Tamsyn escape the clutches of French revolutionaries? Stars Sheridan Smith. From May 2004.
View BookJohn Arlott's Cricketing Wides, Byes and Slips!
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator John Arlott
Duration 1h 9m
John Arlott was BBC's Voice of Cricket for more than 30 summers and reported on all the key cricket matches from the 40's to his final commentary in 1980 at Lords. The imagery and wit of an uncomparable broadcaster is captured here in a unique collection of historic moments. From the 40's we hear about Bradman's last test, from the 50's Compton's h...
View BookAuthor: Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 8h 35m
After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day, she discovers the key to a secret garden and, as if by magic, her life begins to change.
View BookSomething Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered
Author: Lin (editor) Cook
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Author Lin (editor) Cook
Narrator Robert Pennant Jones
Duration 10h
Peter Cook's comic genius set the tone for the new British comedy of the sixties. His appearances on stage, television and film over three decades were legendary, as was his partnership with Dudley Moore. This audiobook offers a composite portrait, both of the public performer and the private man, written by many of the writers, performers and frie...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 52m
Watson gets the surprise of his life upon seeing a familiar face, coinciding with the seemingly motiveless murder of one Ronald Adair. What secrets does the empty house hold and who is the returning stranger who gives Watson such a shock? Expect exemplary detective work as always in this gripping story.
View BookRoutes of English, Series 1, Programme3
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English Series 1, Book 3
Duration 27m
Where better than Hastings to look at the impact of the French on the English language? Melvyn Bragg goes to Hastings, where in 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold and invaded England. The actual fighting took place in the nearby village of Battle. It was to be the starting point of a long and intense relationship between England a...
View BookAuthor: Brian Minchin
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Author Brian Minchin
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 2h 11m
Alien larvae in a baptismal font mark the beginnings of a terrifying adventure for the Torchwood team in this exclusive audio adventure, read by Gareth David-Lloyd. Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in bla...
View BookAuthor: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
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Author Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 1m
Episodes Included: A Winter's Tale, Oh, What A Beautiful Mourning, And So To Bed, Porn Yesterday. Four classic episodes with the world's most famous rag and bone men. Two junk men and a junk-cart, bonded by blood, yoked by emotional blackmail and tied by the reins of Hercules the horse. Albert - a conniving old father clinging to an awesome jumble...
View BookAuthor: Henning Mankell
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Author Henning Mankell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 12h 44m
When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to such a place. We see him in the early years, doing hours...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Polly Boyes
Duration 3h 17m
Horrible Christmas is filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wanted to know, but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales from the dark days when Puritans tried to abolish Christmas, to Christmas in the trenches when the British and Germans traded bullets for footb...
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