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Threads of Life
- A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
- By: Clare Hunter
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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From the political storytelling of the Bayeux tapestry's anonymous embroiderers and Mary, Queen of Scots' treasonous stitching, to the sewing of First World War soldiers suffering from PTSD and the banner makers at Greenham Common, Threads of Life stretches from medieval France to 1980s America, from a Second World War POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland. It is as much about identity, protest, memory and politics as craft and artistry.
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Fell well short of my expectations, disappointed
- By Anonymous User on 12-05-2023
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Threads of Life
- A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-02-2019
- Language: English
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Monsters
- What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
- By: Claire Dederer
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it? Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms.
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Fascinating book
- By Hannah G on 23-05-2023
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Monsters
- What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
- Narrated by: Claire Dederer
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2023
- Language: English
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- By: Clare Hunter
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom. In 16th-century Europe, women's voices were suppressed and silenced. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency.
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incredibly well researched.
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 05-03-2024
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2022
- Language: English
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Fire Weather
- A True Story from a Hotter World
- By: John Vaillant
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90,000 people from their homes in a single afternoon. Through the story of this apocalyptic conflagration, John Vaillant explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter, more flammable world.
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Incredible tale beautifully told
- By Andrew Craig on 06-12-2023
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Fire Weather
- A True Story from a Hotter World
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Lonely Century
- Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
- By: Noreena Hertz
- Narrated by: Noreena Hertz
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century. Carl, the Los Angeles media executive so lonely he pays to be cuddled. Eric, the Parisian baker finding community in the political far right. Peter, the London schoolboy distraught because no one 'likes' his Instagram posts. All around us, the fabric of community is unravelling and our personal relationships are under threat.
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Nice sentiments, not much substance
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-2021
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The Lonely Century
- Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
- Narrated by: Noreena Hertz
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2020
- Language: English
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
- Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
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As well as being a prize-winning, best-selling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy. She believes passionately that art and science are too often kept separate and that conversations across disciplines are vital to increasing our knowledge of the human mind and body, how they connect and how we think, feel and see.
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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
- Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2016
- Language: English
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Spooked
- The Secret Rise of Private Spies
- By: Barry Meier
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Private spies are influencing our elections, shaping the future of Hollywood, effecting government policies and the fortunes of companies. More deviously, they are also peering into our personal lives as never before, using off-the shelf technology to listen to our phone calls, monitor our emails and decide what we see on social media. Spooked takes us on a journey into a secret billion-dollar industry in which information is currency and loyalties are for sale.
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Spooked
- The Secret Rise of Private Spies
- Narrated by: Kerry Shale
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England—hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to safety—here the aspiring artist was, on a ship bound for the Isle of Man, suspected of being a Nazi spy. What had gone wrong?
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2022
- Language: English
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Stop Reading the News
- A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
- By: Rolf Dobelli, Caroline Waight
- Narrated by: Keith Wickham
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic form of information - news. He shows the damage it does to our concentration and well-being and how a misplaced sense of duty can misdirect our behaviour.
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Refreshing and enlightening
- By Anonymous User on 06-07-2020
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Stop Reading the News
- A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
- Narrated by: Keith Wickham
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2020
- Language: English
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others
- New Essays
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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Siri Hustvedt's relentlessly curious mind and expansive intellect are on full display in this stunning new collection of essays, whose subjects range from the nature of memory and time to what we inherit from our parents, the power of art during tragedy, misogyny, motherhood, neuroscience and the books we turn to during a pandemic.
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others
- New Essays
- Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-12-2021
- Language: English
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Aftershocks
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
- By: Nadia Owusu
- Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured.
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Aftershocks
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
- Narrated by: Nadia Owusu
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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The Number Bias
- How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix
- By: Sanne Blauw, Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. They tell us how we're doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an election and whether the economy is booming. But numbers aren't as objective as they may seem; behind every number is a story. Yet politicians, businesses and the media often forget this - or use it for their own gain. Sanne Blauw travels the world to unpick our relationship with numbers and demystify our misguided allegiance....
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The Number Bias
- How numbers dominate our world and why that's a problem we need to fix
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2020
- Language: English
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Self-Made
- Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
- By: Tara Isabella Burton
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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As traditional powers of pre-modernity - church and throne - waned, a new myth took their place: that of the 'self-made man', whose unique powers of personality - or canny self-presentation - give him not just the opportunity, but the obligation, to remake reality in the image of what he wants it to be. From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, the American prophets of capitalism to the aspirational übermensch of European fascism, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers.
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Self-Made
- Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2023
- Language: English
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Now a major motion picture starring Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas. August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses, trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will share their story only collectively, as 'the 33'.
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2016
- Language: English
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- By: Sheela Banerjee
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2023
- Language: English
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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- By: Ian Goldin
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report.
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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2021
- Language: English
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Deeds Not Words
- By: Helen Pankhurst
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.
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Deeds Not Words
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2018
- Language: English
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 10 hrs
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Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 13-06-2024
- Language: English
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- By: Ralf Webb
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 10 hrs
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In San Francisco, 1960, James Baldwin spoke to John Cheever about what he saw as a 'failure of the masculine sensibility'. Strange Relations examines how Baldwin came to this assessment and what may be amiss in our understanding of masculinity. Building on Walt Whitman's philosophy of the love between men, the book considers the work and lives of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, Cheever and Baldwin. All four writers wrestled in their art, as well as in their sexual and platonic relationships, with the expectations of masculinity, the pull of queer life and the tensions between the two.
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 25-07-2024
- Language: English
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