Episodes

  • Keep Smashing It: Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Confident!: The debut children's book by Jodie Ounsley, also known as being Fury from Gladiators! - Jodie Ounsley

    Keep Smashing It: Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Confident!: The debut children's book by Jodie Ounsley, also known as being Fury from Gladiators! - Jodie Ounsley
    Mar 13 2025
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    Title: Keep Smashing It: Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Confident!: The debut children's book by Jodie Ounsley, also known as being Fury from Gladiators!
    Author: Jodie Ounsley
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 3:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-13-2025
    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

    Summary:
    Be strong, be brave, be confident and keep smashing it with the nation's favourite Gladiator – Fury! You might know me as Fury from the TV show Gladiators. Or you might like rugby and maybe you know me from when I played for England. Or you might have seen some of the work I do telling people what it’s like to live as a profoundly deaf person. You might not know me at all – and if that’s the case, it’s great to meet you. In her debut book, Gladiator, rugby star and champion of the deaf community Jodie Ounsley wants to show YOU that you can do anything you put your mind to – you just have to believe you can. Written with journalist Becky Grey, Keep Smashing It is full of stories from Jodie's life, advice and top tips that will inspire you to back yourself and believe in yourself, and smash the barriers that are in your way. It will show you how to: - Discover your dream - Be comfortable living outside of the box - Learn that our differences are our superpowers - Smash the barriers that the world has put up - Speak up for what you believe in - Pick yourself up and try again Are you ready?
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    3 hrs
  • Sleeping Children - Anthony Passeron

    Sleeping Children - Anthony Passeron
    Mar 6 2025
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    Title: Sleeping Children
    Author: Anthony Passeron
    Narrator: TBD
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 8:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 03-06-2025
    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

    Summary:
    ‘Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving, that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent!’ Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Each member of the family always responded in the same way whenever Désiré’s name came up. Father and Grandfather would say nothing at all. Mother would say a few words and then falter, ‘It's all very sad.’ So, each in their own way, no one seemed to have anything much to say. The truth was that in 1983 my uncle Désiré ran away from our village, in the South of France. And when he returned home from Amsterdam, he was addicted to heroin. And then he died. That was the truth, but not the whole truth . . . Anthony Passeron’s powerful and moving first novel Sleeping Children tells of the arrival of addiction and AIDS in a small village in the South of France forty years ago, of the spread of heroin use among young people (referred to as enfants endormis – ‘sleeping children’ – when lying passed out on the streets) and how the narrator’s uncle contracted HIV from sharing needles. It is a novel of class and aspiration, of pride and denial, secrets and lies, of the grief and shame of a family that had been among the most respected in their village. Woven through the family history is the story of the scientific efforts to understand the terrifying and terrible new disease, to locate and identify the virus that caused it, and to begin the search for treatment and cure. At a time when both sufferers and their families experienced isolation, denial was overwhelming and to be associated with the disease was to be treated as a pariah. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne
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    8 hrs