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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story53
'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald...
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Dearest Mama
- By Rachel Redford on 20-06-16
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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When I Hit You
- By: Meena Kandasamy
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance57
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Story56
Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience, and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.
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Powerful, evocative and beautiful.
- By Mel on 15-05-20
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When I Hit You
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
- By: Lytton Strachey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends.
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narration marred by mispronunciations
- By Saba Risaluddin on 30-06-25
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Eminent Victorians
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-10-20
- Language: English
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The Last Cigarette
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3
- By: Simon Gray
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Story16
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of 20 and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother?
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Going with the flow
- By Tony Turner on 30-01-21
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The Last Cigarette
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Series: The Smoking Diaries, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 13-12-12
- Language: English
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The Grasmere Journals
- By: Dorothy Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance62
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Story60
This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three years. In it, she brought the Dove Cottage years to vivid and intimate life. She noted the walks and weather, the friends, country neighbours, and travellers on the roads. She set down accounts of the garden, of Wordsworth's marriage, their concern for Coleridge, and the composition of Wordsworth's poetry.
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So gentle
- By Karen Thomas on 22-06-18
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The Grasmere Journals
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-08-09
- Language: English
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.
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Fascinating history destroyed by narration
- By Cassandra on 03-06-22
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Story28
Brought to you by Penguin. A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to...
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The Amazing H G Wells
- By Ken P on 03-01-22
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance73
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Story73
From her childhood, where there was no blueprint for success, to building a career as a bestselling novelist against all odds, Amanda Prowse explores what it means to be a woman in a world where popularity, slimness, beauty and youth are currency—and how she overcame all of that to forge her own path to happiness.
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Relatable
- By Ms. SFC on 11-04-25
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Women Like Us
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- By: Charles Nicholl
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance20
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Story20
In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - providing us with the only surviving record of his spoken words. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but neglected episode in Shakespeare's life.
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Much more than Shakespeare's life.
- By Stephen on 24-12-09
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 15-10-08
- Language: English
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes that rendered him half-blind, he has been captivated by Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare and so much more
- By S C DYKES on 01-02-26
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance74
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Story74
Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War...
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A telling work of history
- By Banjoman on 07-09-21
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance20
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John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.
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An extraordinary life in letters
- By Crawford jamieson on 28-02-23
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance60
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Story60
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works...
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An Unforgetable Memoir
- By Mercadier on 24-12-12
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-07-09
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- By: Tom Phelan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance34
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Story33
“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through...
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Reminiscent of a bygone era
- By Claire on 14-02-21
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
- The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall421
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Performance392
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Story390
Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on...
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
- The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-09-22
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- By: Michael Wood
- Narrated by: Michael Wood
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China’s greatest poets. His career coincided with periods of famine, war and huge upheaval, yet his secular philosophical vision, combined with his empathy for the...
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Captivating
- By Emil Veselinov Milanov on 27-01-26
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In the Footsteps of Du Fu
- Narrated by: Michael Wood
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan
- By: Michael Livingston
- Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time. ‘Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal’ –...
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan
- Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, Michael Livingston, Rosamund Pike
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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Goethe
- His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Goethe was the inventor of the psychological novel, a pioneer scientist, great man of the theatre and a leading politician. As A. N. Wilson argues in this groundbreaking biography, it was his genius and insatiable curiosity that helped catapult the Western world into the modern era. A N. Wilson tackles the life of Goethe with characteristic wit and verve. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy to his later years as Germany’s most respected elder statesman, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his entire life writing – Faust.
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Absorbing and wide ranging account
- By eduardo on 01-10-24
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Goethe
- His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
- Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- By: Robert Peal
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary...
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Interesting but glib
- By Liz on 10-08-21
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Two Lives
- By: Vikram Seth
- Narrated by: Vikram Seth
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Overall44
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Performance30
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Two Lives tells the remarkable story of Vikram Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle, Shanti, left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother "not to take the blackie". But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power.
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Two Lives
- By MLB on 10-02-15
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Two Lives
- Narrated by: Vikram Seth
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-02-06
- Language: English
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