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The Early Middle Ages
- By: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Philip Daileader
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall340
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Performance293
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The Early Middle Ages-the years from A.D. 650 to 1000-were crucial to Europe's future social and political development. These 24 lectures trace a journey from Scandinavia across northern and central Europe to the farthest reaches of the Byzantine and Islamic empires, providing an exciting new look an era often simply called the "Dark Ages."
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Excellent insight into a little understood period
- By David on 27-12-14
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The Early Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Philip Daileader
- Series: The Great Courses: Medieval History
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Stone Lands
- A Telegraph and Waterstones Best Book of 2025
- By: Fiona Robertson
- Narrated by: Mary Woodvine
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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One of the Telegraph's 'Greatest Books of 2025' 'Superb' Telegraph 'There's a real sense of peace and magic in this beautiful book' Daisy Buchanan 'Utterly endearing' Dr James Canton 'A fantastic book for weird walkers and megalith-obsessives alike' Weird Walk 'I was alternately gripped and...
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A reminder that life is beautiful … but short
- By therealksp on 01-09-25
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Stone Lands
- A Telegraph and Waterstones Best Book of 2025
- Narrated by: Mary Woodvine
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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Homer and His Iliad
- By: Robin Lane Fox
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. Unlike other books on the Iliad, this one combines the detailed expertise of a historian with the sensitivity of a teacher of it as poetry. Lane Fox goes on to consider hallmarks of the poem, its values, implicit and explicit, its characters, its women, its gods and even its horses. He argues repeatedly for its beautiful observation and addresses its parallel use of what is, to us, the natural world.
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A must-listen for anyone who loves the classics
- By Alex on 23-07-23
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Homer and His Iliad
- Narrated by: Steve John Shepherd
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- By: Silvana Condemi, François Savatier
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Paleoanthropologist Silvana Condemi and science journalist François Savatier tell the Denisovans’ story in The Secret World of Denisovans. Leading us through the excavation of Denisova cave, the sequencing of the Denisovan genome, and recent research on Denisovan fossils, Condemi and Savatier uncover how the Denisovans migrated to Asia, who they interacted with along the way, and why traces of Denisovan DNA can be found in modern-day humans.
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The Secret World of Denisovans
- The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- By: Emma Southon
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall169
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Performance155
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Story155
In ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside ancient Rome’s darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life and death and what it means to be human.
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A really engaging premise undone by poor execution and sketchy delivery
- By Eamon Honan on 28-01-23
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Murder in Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Sophie Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-03-21
- Language: English
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The Far Edges of the Known World
- A New History of the Ancient Past
- By: Dr Owen Rees
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian’s Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
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Interesting but unfocused
- By Greg N. on 02-09-25
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The Far Edges of the Known World
- A New History of the Ancient Past
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Italy
- By: Ross King
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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Discover the prodigious global influence of il bel paese in this star-studded retelling of Italy's past-from a foremost author of historic Italy. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced book.
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Great march through Italy's history
- By LAS on 22-08-25
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The Shortest History of Italy
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 26-04-24
- Language: English
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Phoebe
- A Story
- By: Paula Gooder
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Paula Gooder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance26
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Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in writing to the church that almost surely...
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A great scholar, but a poor narrator
- By hbutler on 13-05-20
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Phoebe
- A Story
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Paula Gooder
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
- By: Robert Garland, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance62
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Story61
These 24 dramatic lectures examine key events from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to medieval Europe and Asia. Spanning thousands of years and three continents, this course illuminates fascinating historical dramas on the individual scale.
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Great story telling!
- By Mr A E Turpin on 25-11-16
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Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
- Narrated by: Robert Garland
- Series: The Great Courses: Ancient History
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-05-15
- Language: English
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Diogenes
- The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
- By: Inger N.I. Kuin
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism—“a rich, engaging portrait of intellectual fearlessness” (Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cleopatra) In...
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Diogenes
- The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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Ghost on the Throne
- The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
- By: James S. Romm
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance58
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When Alexander the Great died at the age of 32, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In an unusual compromise, his two heirs - a mentally damaged half brother, Philip III, and an infant son, Alexander IV, born after his death - were jointly granted the kingship. But six of Alexander's Macedonian generals, spurred by their own thirst for power and the legend that Alexander bequeathed his rule "to the strongest," fought to gain supremacy.
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Better than Game of Thrones.
- By Tim H. on 18-09-21
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Ghost on the Throne
- The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-01-20
- Language: English
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Agrippina
- Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
- By: Emma Southon
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall266
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Performance244
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This book follows Agrippina as a daughter born to the expected heir to Augustus’ throne and who was then orphaned; as a sister to Caligula, who raped his sisters and showered them with honours until they attempted rebellion against him and were exiled; as a seductive niece and then wife to Claudius, who gave her access to near unlimited power; and then as a mother to Nero, who adored her until he killed her. She was 44 when she died.
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History - Facebook style
- By Carol Haynes on 29-06-21
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Agrippina
- Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Music
- A Subversive History
- By: Ted Gioia
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance39
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"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate...
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informative
- By Ruta Kasinskaite on 16-04-20
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Music
- A Subversive History
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 17 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Love, War, and Diplomacy
- The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
- By: Eric H. Cline
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.
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Love, War, and Diplomacy
- The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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The Queer Thing About Sin
- Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
- By: Harry Tanner
- Narrated by: Harry Tanner
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was celebrated. The most famous warrior in antiquity loved another man, the poet whose lyrics were memorised by philosophers and kings sang of her desire for women. Men could swear oaths of undying love and live out the rest of their lives together in peace. What fragments survive of this ancient world all tell us one thing: it was not a sin to be queer.
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The Queer Thing About Sin
- Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love
- Narrated by: Harry Tanner
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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Psyche and Eros
- By: Luna McNamara
- Narrated by: Joshua Riley, Rachel Petladwala
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Born into an era of heroes, a prophecy claims that Psyche - Princess of Mycenae - will defeat a monster feared even by the gods themselves. Rebelling against society's traditions, she spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to fulfil her destiny. But she is soon caught up in powers beyond her control, when the jealous Aphrodite sends the God of Desire, Eros, to deliver a fatal love-curse.
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Quite romantic take on myths
- By Maria Ranga on 22-08-24
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Psyche and Eros
- Narrated by: Joshua Riley, Rachel Petladwala
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Love Thy Stranger
- How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West
- By: Bart D. Ehrman, Bart D. Ehrman - introduction
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus comes a surprising history of Jesus’ most radical commandment—a new kind of altruism—tracing how the extraordinary duty to love even those who are strangers to us has shaped our world and our lives. When we donate money to...
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Love Thy Stranger
- How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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When Christians Were Jews
- The First Generation
- By: Paula Fredriksen
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers the question of how Jewish missionaries ended up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life.
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The awful and formulaic tone of the narrator- horrendous!
- By Sambini on 09-08-24
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When Christians Were Jews
- The First Generation
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks
- By: Terry Deary, Martin Brown
- Narrated by: Terry Deary
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall134
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Performance108
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Listeners can discover all the foul facts about the Groovy Greeks, including why girls ran about naked pretending to be bears, who had the world's first flushing toilet and why dedicated doctors tasted their patients' ear wax!
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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!👍😁🙎♂️
- By S. Bowers on 11-04-20
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Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks
- Narrated by: Terry Deary
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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Early Human History
- From Hunter-Gatherers to the First Societies
- By: History Brought Alive
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human history, life offered no safety net. Environments shifted, resources vanished, and stability was always temporary. People lived on the move—carrying knowledge, forming bonds, and adapting to constant change. This audiobook examines how human life took shape long before familiar societies appeared. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and evolutionary science, it explores how early humans lived, moved, cooperated, and adapted over deep time.
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Another banger book
- By Anonymous on 01-04-26
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Early Human History
- From Hunter-Gatherers to the First Societies
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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