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Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
- By: Stephen Fry, John Woolf, Nick Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scratch the surface and you’ll find scandal, sadism, sex, madness, malice and murder. Presented by Stephen Fry, this series delves deep into a period of time we think we know, to discover an altogether darker reality. The stories we’re told offer a different perspective on an era which underwent massive social change. As education, trade, technology and culture blossomed, why was there an undercurrent of the ‘forbidden’ festering beneath Victorian society?
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Love this!
- By bridget Huolohan on 28-11-2018
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Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2018
- Language: English
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Mythos
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. You'll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia's revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis.
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Superb!
- By Anonymous User on 14-11-2017
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Mythos
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: The Mythos Volumes, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2017
- Language: English
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- By: Dan Carlin
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colourful ways, exploring a question that has hung over humanity like the sword of Damocles from the collapse of the Bronze Age to the nuclear era - that of human survival. Combining his trademark mix of storytelling, history and thought experiments, Carlin forces us to consider what sounds like fantasy: that we might suffer the same fate as all previous civilisations. Will our world ever become a ruin for future archaeologists to dig up and explore?
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Dan Carlin Conquers the audio book
- By Anonymous User on 04-11-2019
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The End Is Always Near
- Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
- Narrated by: Dan Carlin
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2019
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Great!
- By Michael Matusik on 13-09-2018
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2018
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry, and particle physics, and aims to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. In the company of some extraordinary scientists, Bill Bryson reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
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Not what I expected but brilliant!
- By Michael on 27-11-2015
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 26-12-2004
- Language: English
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James Cook
- The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
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The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation.
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Been done
- By Geoff Alford on 17-11-2019
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James Cook
- The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-10-2019
- Language: English
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 hrs
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heroes, written and read by Stephen Fry. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils or outwitted scheming vengeful gods quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his best-selling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales.
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amazing from start to end!
- By Anonymous User on 27-11-2018
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Heroes
- Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Series: The Mythos Volumes, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 01-11-2018
- Language: English
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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Needed better background.
- By Takudza on 15-11-2019
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2019
- Language: English
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Countdown to War
- By: David Elstein
- Narrated by: Hannah Gordon, Michael Jayston, Sam Dale
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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An audio dramatisation of July 1914 Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin. 'The story of the 37 days that led Europe to war after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914.'
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Countdown to War
- Narrated by: Hannah Gordon, Michael Jayston, Sam Dale
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2019
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
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A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand masterwork. Based on the testimony of some 200 survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own 11 years in labour camps and exile, it chronicles the story of those at the heart of the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin, and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair.
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Must listen!
- By Callum on 28-06-2019
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The Gulag Archipelago
- Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2019
- Language: English
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Cultural Amnesia
- Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Charlie Chaplin, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record - and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now.
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Clever Clive
- By Anonymous User on 21-05-2018
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Cultural Amnesia
- Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2008
- Language: English
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Days that Changed the World
- By: Carrie Gibson
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Ordinary people. Extraordinary stories. Listen to history's unsung heroes who changed the world, in this powerful documentary series. Get closer to events you may only have heard about from school books with these first person accounts of key moments in recent world history. In each episode we explore pertinent dates from 1936 to 2010 and find out what happened through the eyes of those who were there. Crossing the globe and drawing on events in London, Mexico City and Afghanistan to name but a few we hear stories including takes from an athlete, journalist, chess player and soldier.
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Days that Changed the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2018
- Language: English
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History Revealed (Series 1)
- By: History Revealed Staff
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of the world's most notable historians. Meet the unsung heroes of the past and hear their untold stories. Discover what really happened, despite what the history books tell us. While the show's experts rarely rewrite the pages of history, they often read between the lines. This is history revealed.
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History Revealed (Series 1)
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2018
- Language: English
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Countdown to Peace
- By: David Elstein
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding, John Shrapnel, Anton Lesser
- Length: 2 hrs
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An audio dramatisation in 6 episodes of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the LSE.
'How Germany, having seemingly come so close to victory in the Spring and Summer of 1918, was forced on to the defensive in September. By October, it had initiated negotiations for peace, signing an armistice on November 11th.'
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Countdown to Peace
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding, John Shrapnel, Anton Lesser
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 07-11-2019
- Language: English
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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- By Ross on 17-04-2018
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-01-2011
- Language: English
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The Art of War
- By: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
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And you thought he ran a solid bordello?
- By Anonymous User on 08-06-2017
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The Art of War
- Narrated by: Aidan Gillen
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2015
- Language: English
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The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- By: Peter Frankopan
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westward on its axis, it now turns to the east.... For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the West - in the New World of the Americas. Today it is the East that calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from Eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia, deep into China and India, is taking center stage.
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Misleading title, very Eurocentric history of M.E.
- By Tim on 11-09-2018
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The Silk Roads
- A New History of the World
- Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2015
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor
- By: Ben MacIntyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia.
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Exceptional
- By Ian on 17-10-2018
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The Spy and the Traitor
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2018
- Language: English
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- By: Christopher Ryan
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending - balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the "progress" defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease.
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Listen, for it might change you.
- By MrGherkin on 30-11-2019
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Civilized to Death
- The Price of Progress
- Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
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Fingerprints of the Gods is the revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of listeners throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. An intellectual detective story, this unique history audiobook directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.
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Phenomenal!
- By Thomas on 21-07-2016
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Fingerprints of the Gods
- The Quest Continues
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2016
- Language: English
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