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The Art of Creative Thinking
- By: Rod Judkins
- Narrated by: Phil Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
The secrets of creative thinking by a lecturer at the world famous St. Martin's College of Art who has spent a lifetime researching innovative thinkers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Out of the box
- By Jane on 15-06-2016
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The Owl Field
- By: The Owl Field
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 3
Multi-award-winning production company, The Owl Field, produces 3D audio drama that places the listener at the centre of the story and surrounds them with a full cast, immersive sound effects and original music....
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The New Bards
- By: Doc Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Doc Brown hosts a showcase of the best in spoken word, rap and slam. With brand new live performances, plus gems from the archive....
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Creativity Inc.
- By: Ed Catmull
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 269
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: To make the world’s first computer-animated movie....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- By Bobby on 13-12-2015
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The Art of Creative Thinking
- By: Rod Judkins
- Narrated by: Phil Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 238
The secrets of creative thinking by a lecturer at the world famous St. Martin's College of Art who has spent a lifetime researching innovative thinkers....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Out of the box
- By Jane on 15-06-2016
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The Owl Field
- By: The Owl Field
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story2.5 out of 5 stars 3
Multi-award-winning production company, The Owl Field, produces 3D audio drama that places the listener at the centre of the story and surrounds them with a full cast, immersive sound effects and original music....
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The New Bards
- By: Doc Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
Doc Brown hosts a showcase of the best in spoken word, rap and slam. With brand new live performances, plus gems from the archive....
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Creativity Inc.
- By: Ed Catmull
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 269
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: To make the world’s first computer-animated movie....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- By Bobby on 13-12-2015
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The Music Lesson
- A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
- By: Victor L. Wooten
- Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind has thought that....
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is what the bible should be
- By Oliver on 30-11-2016
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The Road Beneath My Feet
- By: Frank Turner
- Narrated by: Frank Turner
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The Sunday Times best seller. Frank Turner narrates a searingly honest and brilliantly written account of his journey from pub circuit to Wembley Arena....
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The Da Vinci Code
- Facts and Fallacies at the 92nd Street Y
- By: Dan Burstein, Bart D. Ehrman, Linda Ruf
- Narrated by: Phyllis Tickle
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
The 92nd Street Y has gathered scholars and authorities to discuss the questions and issues raised....
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, music writer Ian Winwood will at last give the significant, substantive, and compelling story of '90s punk rock its due....
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When the Heart Breaks
- A Journey Through Requited and Unrequited Love
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
With a poet's insight into the landscape of the soul, David Whyte offers a deeply moving exploration of how we experience love and loss, and how with resilience and time we can rise again....
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America 51
- A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside "The Greatest Country in the World"
- By: Corey Taylor
- Narrated by: Corey Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor reflects on what it means to be an American in an increasingly unstable world. He examines the way America sees itself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another amazing book from Corey Taylor!
- By Aaron Elliott on 23-08-2017
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The Poetic Edda
- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
- By: Jackson Crawford
- Narrated by: Jackson Crawford
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!). These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent translation and narration
- By Naomi on 20-11-2018
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic
- A Behind the Scenes Documentary
- By: Pottermore Publishing, Mark Salisbury, Hana Walker-Brown
- Narrated by: Dan Fogler
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 15
Available only in audio, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic lifts the lid on the moviemaking secrets behind the latest installment in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the story just behind the scenes of movie
- By Anonymous User on 18-11-2018
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Beowulf
- A New Translation
- By: Seamus Heaney
- Narrated by: Seamus Heaney
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
One of the great classics of English literature, it tells the story of a hero who wins glory and learns wisdom and is then called upon to face a final test against the monstrous....
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The Poems of T. S. Eliot
- Read by Jeremy Irons
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons' perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity....
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5 out of 5 stars
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It was over all too quickly!
- By Pia Horan-Gross on 22-09-2018
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The Odyssey
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Ian McKellen
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A classic but trying
- By Ryan Morrow on 04-04-2018
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The Ode Less Travelled
- Unlocking the Poet Within
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English, you can write poetry....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous Book But Very Sophisticated Contents
- By jacqueline rozenfeld on 06-09-2017
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The Gruffalo
- By: Julia Donaldson
- Narrated by: Imelda Staunton
- Length: 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
Here's a rhyming story of a mouse and a monster....
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4 out of 5 stars
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great for kids
- By Anonymous User on 29-08-2018
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The Iliad
- By: Homer, Robert Fagles - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Maria Tucci
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
In this brilliant translation, Robert Fagles brings the vigor of contemporary language to Homer's 2,700-year-old tale....
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1 out of 5 stars
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many many pages missing in audiobook
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-2018
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Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Tales
- Eleventh Doctor Audio Originals
- By: Oli Smith
- Narrated by: Arthur Darvill, Matt Smith, Meera Syal
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill and Meera Syal are among the readers of this exclusive collection of original audio adventures....
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Art & Fear
- Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
- By: David Bayles, Ted Orland
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way....
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The Metamorphoses
- By: Ovid
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
An undeniable masterpiece of Western Civilization, The Metamorphoses is a continuous narrative that covers all the Olympian legends....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration of a large and complex work
- By Amazon Customer on 19-10-2016
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The Poets' Corner
- The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
- By: John Lithgow
- Narrated by: Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story5 out of 5 stars 13
John Lithgow has compiled an outstanding collection of memorable poems and has gathered his famous friends to read them....
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Classic Radio Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (Dramatised)
- By: Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Jeremy Clyde, Richard Pasco, Prunella Scales, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented an invalid friend called Bunbury in order to get out of tiresome family engagements....
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Speed the Plow
- By: David Mamet
- Narrated by: Adam Arkin, Jeff Goldblum, Dina Waters
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Jaded Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until the night he's forced to choose....
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A Fabulous Creation
- How the LP Saved Our Lives
- By: David Hepworth
- Narrated by: David Hepworth
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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The era of the LP began in 1967, with Sgt Pepper; The Beatles didn’t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made an Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make an Album ....
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Art Matters
- By: Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman. Art Matters will inspire its listeners to seize the day in the name of art....
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How to Make It in the New Music Business
- Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician
- By: Ari Herstand
- Narrated by: Ari Herstand, Derek Sivers
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4 out of 5 stars 11
In the last decade, no industry has been through as much upheaval and turmoil as the music industry. If you're looking for quick fame and instant success, you're in the wrong field....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Invaluable
- By Elizabeth on 25-05-2018
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Christopher Hitchens in Conversation with Salman Rushdie
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom....
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As Time Goes By
- By: Derek Taylor, Jon Savage - foreword
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Derek Taylor's memoir is an opportunity to be immersed in one of the most whirlwind music sensations in history: Beatlemania. As Time Goes By tells the story of Taylor's trajectory from humble provincial journalist to confidant right at the center of the Beatles' magic circle....
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Milk and Honey
- By: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
From Rupi Kaur, the top 10 Sunday Times best-selling author, comes the beautiful audio edition of milk and honey, her debut poetry collection....
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1 out of 5 stars
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I couldn't finish this book
- By ukjenp on 03-03-2019
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Have a Nice Day
- By: Billy Crystal, Quinton Peeples
- Narrated by: Justin Bartha, Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Billy Crystal leads an all-star cast including Oscar winner Kevin Kline (President David Murray) and four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (First Lady Katherine Murray) in a performance of this hilarious and poignant story about a man desperately scrambling to put his affairs in order....
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Cider with Rosie (Dramatised)
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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A new, and for the first time, full-cast dramatisation of Laurie Lee's lyrical autobiography....
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Poems of Rumi
- By: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Narrated by: Robert Bly, Coleman Barks
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Jalaluddin Rumi is unquestionably one of the greatest spiritual poets of the world....
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
- Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops, and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
- By: David McGowan
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place....
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Last Sext
- By: Melissa Broder
- Narrated by: Melissa Broder
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark....
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Beowulf
- By: C. W. Kennedy - translator
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Out of the mixture of Latin and Germanic paganism and the Christianity of the Early Middle Ages has sprung one of the world's supremely great pieces of literature....
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- By: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards - contributor, Helen Mirren - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 2
- By: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 1
- By: Ben Jonson, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 2
- By: Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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Girlhood
- By: Julia Copus
- Narrated by: Andrew Stevenson
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In her fourth collection, Julia Copus explores the shifting balance of power between dangerous and destructive forces and things on the verge of becoming. Her deft and seductive poems reanimate lost figures and places from private moments and recast them in the open arena of the spoken word. Listening to this collection, one has the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery.
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Johnny B. Bad
- Chuck Berry and the Making of Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll
- By: Stephanie Bennett, Keith Richards - contributor, Helen Mirren - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.
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The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 2
- By: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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The Poet Laureates - Volume 1
- By: Ben Jonson, John Skelton, Edmund Spenser
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The ancient Greeks had the first idea, and their heroes and poets wore wreaths of laurel in honour of the god Apollo. Many countries now have a laureate, as do many societies and organisations. But perhaps ranked first among them all is that of our own Poet Laureate. Unfortunately no single authentic definitive record exists of the office of Poet Laureate of England. In some form it can be traced back to 1189 and Richard Canonicus, who was employed by Richard I with the title 'versificator Regis'.
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Victorian Poetry - Volume 2
- By: Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Lear
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative genius. Within these volumes we can bring only a glimpse of the richness, beauty and words of the poets and their musings on this remarkable age. Many are world-renowned - Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Kipling, Austin, Hopkins, Hardy and Swinburne. Some are almost forgotten - Patmore, Newbolt, Synge. And some are barely noted - Lyall, Meynell and Merdeith. But together they encompass a great poetical age.
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Girlhood
- By: Julia Copus
- Narrated by: Andrew Stevenson
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In her fourth collection, Julia Copus explores the shifting balance of power between dangerous and destructive forces and things on the verge of becoming. Her deft and seductive poems reanimate lost figures and places from private moments and recast them in the open arena of the spoken word. Listening to this collection, one has the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery.
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The Poetry of Robert Browning
- By: Robert Browning
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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With classics such as ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ Robert Browning’s status as one of the great Victorian poets will always be secure in popular culture, while for the more literary he is considered a master of dramatic verse and dramatic monologues. It is interesting to note that his career bloomed late. Indeed, it was only after the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1861 and his return to England from their life in Italy that his work came into wider acceptance and critical acclaim.
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Westminster Memorials - Volume 2
- By: John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Herrick
- Narrated by: Jan Francis, Glyn Huston, Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history: the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime Ministers. However, it is also a church that remembers the men and women of the arts. Dedicated writers and poets who spoke so eloquently that the nation wished to remember them with plaques upon its walls so that all who travelled here could remember, too. Their works are worth remembering, and here, in these volumes, their wise words speak, too, and for us all. In volume 2 we collect together John Clare to DH Lawrence.
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Iowa
- Poetry
- By: Lucas Hunt
- Narrated by: Lucas Hunt
- Length: 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The first of five audiobooks in an autobiographical collection of cinematic poetry, Iowa commences the Homeric journey of poet Lucas Hunt from a childhood engulfed by the humidity and sun on a pig farm, to the society shores of Southampton, the jagged glass and steel canyons of New York City, and the sublimity of Rome and Paris.
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25 Notes for the Successful Musician
- The Ultimate Guide to Making It in the Music Industry
- By: Chad Jeffers
- Narrated by: Tim Wilgers
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a guide for the music business and solid musicianship in general. This is for the working musician who may play on the weekends for a hobby but aspires to do more.
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Tade Thompson
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Holly Newson
- Narrated by: Tade Thompson
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Joining us at Audible Studios is Tade Thompson, one of science fiction’s most exciting new voices, and author of Rosewater. Thompson is releasing The Wormwood trilogy which documents an alien biodome in Nigeria and the city built around it, desperate for the biodome’s rumored healing powers. Book one of the series, Rosewater, received multiple award nominations and book two, The Rosewater Insurrection has been much anticipated. Thompson writes alongside his work as a hospital psychiatrist.
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The Poetry of Hell
- By: William Blake, John Milton, Dante Alighieri
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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It is often said that two things are unavoidable: death and taxes. Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life, but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in life’s journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of heaven’s largesse, a reward for faith and the obligations of religion. Of course for those not so fortunate an altogether different experience was prepared for them: hell. Its nightmare visions are so terrifying, conjured up by Dante, Milton, Blake, Baudelaire and many others.
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To Banquet with the Ethiopians
- A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet
- By: Philip Brady
- Narrated by: Philip Brady, Elsa Brady, Julie Sidoni
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an audacious masterpiece of wit and erudition that blends Homer's discovery of the alphabet with a man's return from near-death and a boy's struggle to see the adult world through the prism of an ancient epic.
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Three Poems
- By: Hannah Sullivan
- Narrated by: Hannah Sullivan
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance. Though each poem stands apart, their inventive and looping encounters make for a compelling unity. 'You, Very Young in New York' captures a great American city in all its alluring detail. 'Repeat Until Time' begins with a move to California and unfolds into an essay on repetition and returning home, at once personal and philosophical. 'The Sandpit After Rain' explores the birth of a child and the loss of a father with exacting clarity.
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Kaleidoscope: Poetry
- By: Russ Towne
- Narrated by: William Wells
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspiring collection of the poetry of Russ Towne including an eclectic mix of heartwarming and humorous creations including reflections on beauty, love, nature, friendship, heartache, and relationships.
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The Author to Her Book: Women on Creativity
- By: Anne Bradstreet, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Phillis Wheatley
- Narrated by: Sheryl Mebane
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Enjoy these fun, inspiring, and touching poems by women authors writing about inspiration, their own works, and the art of others. This collection overlaps with my other mini collections that are ideal for black history and women’s history programs.
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Pablo Gargallo
- Studies in World Art, Book 129
- By: Edward Lucie-Smith
- Narrated by: Richard M. Pshock
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Pablo Gargallo is often described as "Cubist" sculptor, partly thanks to his signature technique of hollowing out or reversing volumes, and partly due to his links with Picasso, one of the two undoubted inventors of cubism. In the strict sense, the idea of cubist sculpture is an oxymoron. Despite its undoubted early links to the African tribal sculptures that partly inspired Picasso’s transition to a new and radical style, cubism was essentially an attempt to find a better and more complete way of representing forms on a flat surface.
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Casket: Pronounced as That's It
- By: Lou Kane
- Narrated by: Jeff Werden
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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It's that moment of knowing that the journey has ended, that familiar scent of the air, that second of awareness, that touch of happiness filling up the soul with laughter. It's that final breath waiting to be released. It's the emotions that life gives to the world closing its door, that's it!