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Thomas Becket
- Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall108
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Performance85
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Story85
From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. 'Lively, effortlessly readable, superb. A beautifully layered portrait of one...
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Illuminating and shocking
- By Kirstine on 03-04-14
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Thomas Becket
- Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 13 hrs
- Release date: 07-12-12
- Language: English
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Helen of Troy
- By: Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance37
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Story37
Helen of Troy is one of the most evocative names in ancient history. For nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that it can wield. Held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring the enmity between East...
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Excellent
- By TrevorB on 04-11-24
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Helen of Troy
- Narrated by: Bettany Hughes
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-12-22
- Language: English
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The Downing Street Years
- By: Margaret Thatcher
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall221
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Performance168
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Story168
This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister – the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election...
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Sympathy for the Devil?
- By Jeremy on 01-02-11
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The Downing Street Years
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 30-09-10
- Language: English
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
- Military Memoirs
- By: Benjamin Randell Harris
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ordered to Portugal, where he marched under the burning sun, weighed down by his kit and great-coat, plus all the tools and leather he had to carry as the battalion's cobbler—'the lapstone I took the liberty of flinging to the Devil'. Rifleman Harris was a natural storyteller with a remarkable tale to unfold, and his recollections have become one of the most popular military books of all time.
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Narrative ruined by insensitive editing
- By Michael H. on 17-01-24
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
- Military Memoirs
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-08-22
- Language: English
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Johnson’s Life of London
- The People Who Made the City That Made the World
- By: Boris Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance122
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Story122
London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and...
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Not read by Boris
- By Michael on 08-06-15
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Johnson’s Life of London
- The People Who Made the City That Made the World
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-12-11
- Language: English
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Zbig
- The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet
- By: Edward Luce
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political strategist who rose to prominence as an intellectual architect of US foreign policy during the Cold War. As National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and a trusted advisor to US presidents from John F. Kennedy onwards, Brzezinski’s expertise helped shape global strategy at critical moments—most significantly as a key figure in the downfall of the Soviet Union.
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Detailed, honest and respectful but not deferential
- By Felix Le Corre on 23-08-25
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Zbig
- The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 23 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
- Missouri Biography Series
- By: John E. Miller
- Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Going beyond previous studies, Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder focuses upon Wilder's years in Missouri from 1894 to 1957. Utilizing her unpublished autobiography, letters, newspaper stories, and other documentary evidence, John E. Miller fills the gaps in Wilder's autobiographical novels and describes her 63 years of living in Mansfield, Missouri.
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A little too much Rose
- By Mrs. T. C. Bramwell on 01-12-13
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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend
- Missouri Biography Series
- Narrated by: Paula Faye Leinweber
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 04-10-13
- Language: English
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A Brief History of British Kings and Queens
- Brief Histories
- By: Mike Ashley
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance154
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Story150
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light.This edition includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-
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Jam packed full.
- By Teresa Cooper on 12-05-15
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A Brief History of British Kings and Queens
- Brief Histories
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- A Countdown
- By: Claire Ridgway
- Narrated by: Claire Ridgway
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story20
During the spring of 1536 in Tudor England, events conspire to bring down Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England. The coup against the Queen results in the brutal executions of six innocent people - Anne Boleyn herself, her brother, and four courtiers - and the rise of a new Queen. Drawing on 16th-century letters, eye witness accounts, and chronicles, Claire Ridgway leads the listener through the sequence of chilling events one day at a time, telling the true story of Anne Boleyn's fall.
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Terrible sound quality
- By Catherine on 09-02-20
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The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- A Countdown
- Narrated by: Claire Ridgway
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-08-14
- Language: English
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Diana, William and Harry
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
Brought to you by Penguin. Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana's life as a mother and a global icon ______________________________ At the age of thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At...
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Diana, William and Harry
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-08-22
- Language: English
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A Life of Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Billy Hartman
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization. Johnson's complex humanity (his depression, fear of death, intellectual brilliance and rough humor) is set within a vivid picture of 18th century London peopled by personalities of the time.
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Boswell and Johnson incarnate!
- By Sophisticate on 14-08-10
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A Life of Johnson
- Narrated by: Billy Hartman
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-10-00
- Language: English
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The King's Speech
- By: Mark Logue, Peter Conradi
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall512
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Performance282
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Story285
Winner of the Best Picture Oscar 2011 Award. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’. Logue wasn’t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman – he was a commoner and an Australian to boot.
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I Loved It
- By Jamie on 01-03-11
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The King's Speech
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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Kolkhoze - Prix Médicis 2025
- By: Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrated by: Denis Podalydès
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
"Cette nuit-là, rassemblés tous les trois autour de notre mère, nous avons pour la dernière fois fait Kolkhoze ." " Kolkhoze " est le roman vrai d'une famille sur quatre générations, qui couvre plus d'un siècle d'histoire, russe et française, jusqu'à la guerre en Ukraine. Emmanuel Carrère s'en empare personnellement, avec un art consommé de la narration qui parvient à faire de leur histoire notre histoire. Denis Podalydès nous emporte avec un talent immense dans cette saisissante fresque familiale, où l'intime se mêle brillamment à l'universel. Couverture : collection privée Emmanuel Carrère
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très beau récit, magnifiquement lu !
- By Anonymous on 10-02-26
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Kolkhoze - Prix Médicis 2025
- Narrated by: Denis Podalydès
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-10-25
- Language: French
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Thomas More
- A Life and Death in Tudor England
- By: Joanne Paul
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance27
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Story27
Brought to you by Penguin. Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and...
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Brilliant and accessible
- By Mr on 09-06-25
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Thomas More
- A Life and Death in Tudor England
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall124
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Performance111
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Story111
The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Must read if you're interested in European history
- By Liam on 16-10-20
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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Kisses on a Postcard
- A Tale of Wartime Childhood
- By: Terence Frisby
- Narrated by: Terence Frisby
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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13 June, 1940. Carefully labelled, and each clutching little brown suitcases, Terry, aged seven, and his elder brother Jack, eleven, stand amid the throng of children which crowds the narrow platform at Welling station awaiting the steam engine which will pull them and their fellow evacuees across the country towards their unknown destination – and their new lives...
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Kisses on a Postcard
- A Tale of Wartime Childhood
- Narrated by: Terence Frisby
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance13
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Story14
Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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Best Book I ever read (listened)
- By Smith family on 18-07-11
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-12-06
- Language: English
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This Boy
- By: Alan Johnson
- Narrated by: Alan Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall436
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Performance392
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Story395
Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in the slums of post-war Britain, but in its transition from two-parent family to single...
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Nostalgia, not what it used to be...
- By Alan J Power on 14-04-14
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This Boy
- Narrated by: Alan Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Decision Points
- By: George Bush
- Narrated by: George Bush
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall188
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Performance137
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Story133
Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.
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Not such a jerk
- By Mrs. T. L. Brown on 31-05-13
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Decision Points
- Narrated by: George Bush
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-11-10
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance55
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Story53
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
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A bit of common sense when choosing a narrator!
- By Anonymous on 25-06-20
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The Man in the Red Coat
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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