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To Fight Alongside Friends
- The First World War Diaries of Charlie May
- By: not specified, Gerry Harrison - editor, David Crane - introduction
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story25
The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary...
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Tragic, moving
- By Hayley Kemp on 25-01-15
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To Fight Alongside Friends
- The First World War Diaries of Charlie May
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership
- By: Jon Knokey
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance84
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Story84
President Theodore Roosevelt forever transformed America, ushering the country into the arena of world supremacy. His brand of leadership was entirely American: confident, compassionate, energetic, diverse, visionary. But Roosevelt was not a born leader; his ascent to the apex of power was not a foregone conclusion.
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Engaging listen and insightful account of Roosevelt's road to leadership
- By Anonymous on 29-09-17
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of American Leadership
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-10-15
- Language: English
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Jaguar Boys
- True Tales from Operators of the Big Cat in Peace and War
- By: Ian Hall
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance40
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Story40
Originally intended as a trainer, the Anglo-French Sepecat jet, equipped with the very latest in weapon-aiming and navigational equipment, eventually became the backbone of the RAF's tactical strike-attack and recce forces for a decade from the mid-1970s. In these minutes, the Jaguar Boys - pilots, engineer, and ground crew - tell of the aircraft's drawbacks and joys, their sadness at losses, and their pleasure at its development into a readily deployable and outstandingly capable fighter-bomber for the post-Cold War era.
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Absolutely Brilliant
- By Anonymous on 07-01-25
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Jaguar Boys
- True Tales from Operators of the Big Cat in Peace and War
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-06-16
- Language: English
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance91
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Story90
Brought to you by Penguin. The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far...
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Reader should have been coached on pronunciation.
- By andrew james lilley on 05-11-19
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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William Wilberforce
- Life of the Great Anti-Slave-Trade Campaigner
- By: William Hague
- Narrated by: Steve Hodson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance145
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Story146
Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the Commons Debates of some the finest orators in Parliament, having become one of the most respected speakers of those times.
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Fantastic
- By VeniVediVocali on 24-11-12
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William Wilberforce
- Life of the Great Anti-Slave-Trade Campaigner
- Narrated by: Steve Hodson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-10-09
- Language: English
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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- By: Colonel Archibald Gracie
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance21
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Story22
It was one of the most traumatic events in maritime history, and Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours.
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A collection of survivor's experiences
- By BlueButter on 08-01-26
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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-12-06
- Language: English
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova
- A BBC Radio 4 reading
- By: Ian Kelly
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall49
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Performance46
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Story46
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age. In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends and his lovers (male and female) in order to bring fresh...
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Entertaining, short biography of a flat character
- By EGM on 23-03-17
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova
- A BBC Radio 4 reading
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 21-05-15
- Language: English
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Sex, Spies and Scandal
- The John Vassall Affair
- By: Alex Grant
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Sex, Spies and Scandal is the story of John Vassall, a civil servant who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1962. Having been photographed in compromising positions while working at the British embassy in Moscow in 1954, Vassall was blackmailed into handing over secrets from the British Admiralty to his Soviet handlers, both in Moscow and in London, for more than seven years.
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Sex, Spies and Scandal
- The John Vassall Affair
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Dirty Linen
- The Troubles in My Home Place
- By: Martin Doyle
- Narrated by: Eugene O'Hare
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance30
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Story30
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the Linen Triangle–heartland of the North's defining industry–and the Murder Triangle–the Badlands roamed by the Glenanne gang of security forces colluding with loyalist paramilarites. He lifts the veil of silence drawn over the horrors of the past, recording in heartrending detail the terrible toll the conflict took–more than 20 violent deaths in a few square miles–and the long tail of trauma it has left behind.
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Powerful & Moving
- By Pat Lynch on 31-01-24
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Dirty Linen
- The Troubles in My Home Place
- Narrated by: Eugene O'Hare
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-11-23
- Language: English
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Young Stalin
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall170
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Performance133
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Story134
Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...
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Why the abridgement?
- By Mister Peridot on 11-08-16
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Young Stalin
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-05-07
- Language: English
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Lovers in Auschwitz
- A True Story
- By: Keren Blankfeld
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
Zippi Spitzer and David Wisnia were captivated by each other from the moment they first exchanged glances across the work floor. It was the beginning of a love story that could have happened anywhere. Except for one difference: this romance was unfolding in history's most notorious death camp, between two young prisoners whose budding intimacy risked dooming them if they were caught. Incredibly, David and Zippi survived for years beneath the ash-choked skies of Auschwitz.
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The underlying grief.
- By Anonymous on 13-11-25
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Lovers in Auschwitz
- A True Story
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-01-24
- Language: English
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- By: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance49
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Story48
Cleopatra’s palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ.
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Excellent for studying Cleo
- By Souzan on 10-04-13
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-08-11
- Language: English
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- From the familiar and much-loved face on our television screens since the 1990s
- By: Martin Clunes
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance58
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Story58
Brought to you by Penguin. Guide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what would happen to her much loved guide and companion when she retired, Martin Clunes picked up the phone. He’d always been a soft touch when it came to animals...
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Outstanding
- By wendy clarkson on 20-01-25
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Meetings With Remarkable Animals
- From the familiar and much-loved face on our television screens since the 1990s
- Narrated by: Martin Clunes
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood
- By: Olga Henderson
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
February 2022 marked 80 years since the Fall of Singapore and Olga is now ready to tell the story of her years as a child prisoner of war. It's a story of great fear and deprivation; of a childhood utterly lost to conflict. It's also a story of class prejudice and unkindness that didn't end when Olga was freed from the camp and returned to England as a refugee.
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The feelings experienced as took me back to when I was a child in changi village in last 50’s
- By dawne on 09-09-25
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun
- Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 21-02-24
- Language: English
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The Duchess Countess
- By: Catherine Ostler
- Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance27
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Story28
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A VOGUE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A rollicking read... [Ostler] tells Elizabeth's story with admirable style and gusto' Sunday Times 'Terrifically entertaining: if you liked Bridgerton, you’ll love this. . . and her...
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interesting history - awful narration
- By Liz on 13-09-21
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The Duchess Countess
- Narrated by: Catherine Ostler
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918
- By: Christina Croft
- Narrated by: Fleur Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story42
On 6 July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was "a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park". Her apathy was understandable - this was her 14th grandchild, and, though she had given birth to nine children, she had never been fond of babies, viewing them as "frog-like and rather disgusting...particularly when undressed".
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A whole lot of Princesses
- By Franklymydarling on 26-04-17
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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918
- Narrated by: Fleur Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-04-17
- 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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The Demon of Unrest
- Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times). On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln...
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Fantastically written and wonderfully read.
- By Anonymous on 09-10-24
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The Demon of Unrest
- Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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The Women of Rothschild
- The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
- By: Natalie Livingstone
- Narrated by: Francesca Waters
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance87
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Story85
The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologised. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown. Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the 19th century to the early years of the 21st.
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Low-achieving women hyped up due to their wealth
- By ATG on 18-10-23
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The Women of Rothschild
- The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
- Narrated by: Francesca Waters
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 18-11-21
- Language: English
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Waco
- A Survivor's Story
- By: David Thibodeau, Leon Whiteson, Aviva Layton
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance44
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Story44
The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau. Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian...
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A difficult & potentially divisive read.
- By Braid7 on 02-03-18
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Waco
- A Survivor's Story
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 02-01-18
- Language: English
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