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East West Street
- Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
- By: Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall663
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Performance596
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WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision' - John le Carré 'A triumph of astonishing research ... No novel could possibly match such an important work of truth' - Antony Beevor 'Magnificent ... I...
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I never write reviews....
- By mrchrisc on 20-07-17
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East West Street
- Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Philippe Sands
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: English
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No Such Thing as Society
- A History of Britain in the 1980s
- By: Andy McSmith
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall447
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Performance330
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Story326
The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the 20th century. From the Falklands war and the miners' strike to Bobby Sands and the Guildford Four, from Diana and the New Romantics to Live Aid and the 'big bang', from the Rubik's cube to the ZX Spectrum, McSmith's brilliant narrative account uncovers the truth behind the decade that changed Britain forever - politically, economically and culturally.
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So close and yet so far
- By E. Bailey on 08-09-11
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No Such Thing as Society
- A History of Britain in the 1980s
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-03-11
- Language: English
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World War Two
- A Graphic Account of the Greatest and Most Terrible Event in Human History (All You Need to Know)
- By: Sir Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Jon Connell
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of courage and nobility, while others plumbed depths of evil, in a fashion that compels the awe of posterity.
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Brilliant
- By Deus Vult on 28-02-23
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World War Two
- A Graphic Account of the Greatest and Most Terrible Event in Human History (All You Need to Know)
- Narrated by: Jon Connell
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-06-20
- Language: English
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- By: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall206
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Performance191
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Story191
From the host of The Rest is Classified podcast, this is the secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day. 'The history of MI6 in the words of real spies' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The best post-1949 account of British intelligence I have read' SPECTATOR 'As gripping as any novel'...
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A brilliant history.
- By mcfontaine on 30-03-21
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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Maoism
- A Global History
- By: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance47
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Story46
For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
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Pure propoganda
- By Jay Blake on 12-12-19
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Fire and Movement
- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
- By: Peter Hart
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance54
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Story54
A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the campaign contains moments of sheer horror and nerve-shattering excitement; pathos and comic relief; occasional cowardice and much selfless courage - all culminating in the climax of the First Battle of Ypres. And yet, as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year, for too long the British part in the 1914 campaigns has been veiled in layers of self-congratulatory myth.
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Excellent account, poor delivery
- By Mr on 14-05-15
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Fire and Movement
- The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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Indignity
- A Life Reimagined
- By: Lea Ypi
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Lea Ypi
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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Story25
Brought to you by Penguin. An imaginative investigation into historical injustice, dignity and truth, told through the story of a family from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the dawn of Communism in the Balkans ‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all...
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Truthfulness, impartiality, empathy
- By Majlinda Mortimer on 29-01-26
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Indignity
- A Life Reimagined
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Lea Ypi
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
- 'Miraculous' Philippe Sands
- By: Primo Levi, Stuart Woolf - translator
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall427
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Performance375
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Story373
"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...
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Levi's humanity shines.
- By Liz... Bristol on 12-10-15
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
- 'Miraculous' Philippe Sands
- Narrated by: Henry Goodman
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-12-14
- Language: English
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- By: Jamie Mackay
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Story21
Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths and Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Germans, and the Spanish and the French for thousands of years, Sicily became a unique melting pot where diverse traditions merged, producing a unique heritage and singular culture. In this fascinating account of the island from the earliest times to the present day, author and journalist Jamie Mackay leads us through this most elusive of places.
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Excellent summary of Sicily
- By Miriam Williams on 13-03-23
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The Invention of Sicily
- A Mediterranean History
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Israel
- A History
- By: Anita Shapira, Anthony Berris - translator
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume provides a breathtaking history of Israel from the origins of the Zionist movement in the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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This Bool Concludes Ben Shapiro by Anita Shapira
- By Kindle Customer on 29-08-25
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Israel
- A History
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
- The Untold Story
- By: Patricia Posner
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall200
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Performance178
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Story177
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little-known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania, who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesius's reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, and how a handful of courageous survivors and a single brave prosecutor finally brought him to trial for murder 20 years after the end of the war.
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Shocking
- By m on 09-05-18
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz
- The Untold Story
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- By: Quinn Slobodian
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance44
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Story43
In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, author Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.
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Gets there in the end
- By Frank Amin on 29-07-22
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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NATO
- From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
- By: Sten Rynning
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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For seven decades, NATO's stated aim has been the achievement of world peace—but playing great power politics always involves conflict. Russia's war on Ukraine and on Europe's security order puts the alliance under threat, but also demonstrates why transatlantic cooperation is so necessary. But how did NATO get to where it is today, and what does its future hold?
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NATO
- From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World's Most Powerful Alliance
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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A Northern Wind
- Britain 1962-65
- By: David Kynaston
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 27 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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How much can change in less than two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a prime minister utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors. A Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston’s acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965.
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Swinging sixties
- By D. Parr on 25-10-23
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A Northern Wind
- Britain 1962-65
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem
- Length: 27 hrs
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- By: David Kynaston
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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The real '60s began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always empathetic, On the Cusp evokes a world of seaside holidays, of church fetes, of Steptoe and Son - a world still of seemingly settled social and economic certainties, but in fact on the edge of fundamental change.
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Disappointing
- By Routini on 14-08-22
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On the Cusp
- Days of '62
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Series: Tales of a New Jerusalem
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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The Choice
- A True Story of Survival, Resilience, and the Power of Hope
- By: Edith Eger
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,419
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Performance1,279
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author. 'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leaves you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace...
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Nothing short of extraordinary-10stars...100stars!
- By Kathy on 27-09-17
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The Choice
- A True Story of Survival, Resilience, and the Power of Hope
- Narrated by: Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe
- Case Closed
- By: Jay Margolis, Richard Buskin
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance30
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In The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed, renowned MM expert Jay Margolis and New York Times best-selling author Richard Buskin finally lay to rest more than 50 years of wild speculation and misguided assertions by actually naming the screen goddess's killer. At the same time, they use the testimony of eyewitnesses to describe exactly what took place inside her house on Fifth Helena Drive in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood.
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Interesting and sadly unsurprising!
- By Lincolnshire Amazonian on 13-10-15
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe
- Case Closed
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-06-14
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age
- An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert...
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The Nuclear Age
- An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-10-25
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- By: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance45
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Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe were philosophy students at Oxford during the Second World War when most male undergraduates (and many tutors) were conscripted. Taught by refugee scholars, women and conscientious objectors, the four friends developed a philosophy that could respond to the war's darkest revelations.
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Women struggling to be acknowledged
- By Ruth Ivey on 27-03-22
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Error of Judgement
- The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
- By: Chris Mullin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men - Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan - were arrested and charged. All were found guilty. Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, then investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case.
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Chris Mullins brilliant
- By Michelle on 14-10-25
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Error of Judgement
- The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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