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Long Bomb
- How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco
- By: Brett Forrest
- Narrated by: Brett Forrest
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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There is no failure like televised failure. It is the most public failure. The most humbling failure. So it was odd when the two men who had assembled the biggest bomb in TV history began high-fiving on the sidelines of the XFL’s final game.
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Long Bomb
- How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco
- Narrated by: Brett Forrest
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2023
- Language: English
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Welcome to Pawnee
- Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
- By: Jim O'Heir
- Narrated by: Jim O'Heir, George Newbern, Eva Kaminsky, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Jim O’Heir, who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry) on Parks and Recreation and co-hosts the hit podcast Parks and Recollection, brings fans a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms, brimming with never-before-told stories featuring the cast and crew!...
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Welcome to Pawnee
- Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
- Narrated by: Jim O'Heir, George Newbern, Eva Kaminsky, Janina Edwards, Roger Wayne, Jim Meskimen, Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-11-2024
- Language: English
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Orson Welles
- The Road to Xanadu
- By: Simon Callow
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Abridged
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Insightful, incisive & enlightening, the first volume of Simon Callow's comprehensive biography of Orson Welles. Now in abridged audio, Callow's vastly entertaining chronicle of Welles's first 26 years seems even finer than it did in 1995. The author's ability to skewer his subject's evasions...
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Orson Welles
- The Road to Xanadu
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2017
- Language: English
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America
- When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
- By: Scott Eyman
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from the United States during the postwar Red Scare, and how it ruined his film career, from bestselling biographer Scott Eyman. Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman...
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A singular artist
- By Neil EJ on 16-12-2023
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America
- When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided
- Narrated by: Phil Thron
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Queer Art of Failure
- By: Jack Halberstam
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-03-2019
- Language: English
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Pre-Code Essentials
- Must-See Cinema from Hollywood's Untamed Era, 1930-1934
- By: Kim Luperi, Danny Reid
- Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era—a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before strict enforcement of a censorship code that ruled moviemaking for decades. With unparalleled...
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Engaging Bite-Sized Overviews
- By Anonymous on 01-11-2025
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Pre-Code Essentials
- Must-See Cinema from Hollywood's Untamed Era, 1930-1934
- Narrated by: Candace Fitzgerald
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-10-2025
- Language: English
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Best Pick
- A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards
- By: John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky
- Narrated by: John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Authors John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky provide a captivating decade-by-decade exploration of the Oscars. For each decade, they examine the making of classic films, trends and innovations in cinema, behind-the-scenes scandals at the awards ceremony and who won and why. Twenty films are reviewed in-depth, alongside 10 detailed 'making-of' accounts and capsule reviews of every single Best Picture winner in history. In addition, each Best Picture winner is carefully scrutinised to answer the ultimate question: 'did the Academy get it right?'
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Best Pick
- A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards
- Narrated by: John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2022
- Language: English
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Soupy Twists!
- The 100% Officially Authorized Story of the Sophisticated Silliness of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
- By: Jem Roberts
- Narrated by: Jem Roberts, Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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Official Audiobook version of the Fully Authorised Biography of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie written by acclaimed comedy biographer Jem Roberts (Clue, Blackadder, Douglas Adams) and narrated by the author... with a bit of help from his award-winning colleague Kris Dyer.
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Soupy Twists!
- The 100% Officially Authorized Story of the Sophisticated Silliness of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
- Narrated by: Jem Roberts, Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2025
- Language: English
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The Villain Edit
- A Memoir About Reality TV and Taking Control of the Narrative
- By: Alisha Aitken-Radburn
- Narrated by: Alisha Aitken-Radburn
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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When former government staffer Alisha Aitken-Radburn was given a 'villain edit' on her first season of The Bachelor, she wasn't entirely surprised – there are only a handful of character tropes producers can manipulate into storylines. But the backlash on social media was unexpectedly intense, and Alisha found her sense of identity completely rocked by a single comment: 'You are a bad person'. Determined to shake the 'villain' label, she returned to reality TV screens, and this time, she got a different edit.
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Alicia's voice kept me interested....🥰
- By Katrina Fuller-Green on 10-04-2024
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The Villain Edit
- A Memoir About Reality TV and Taking Control of the Narrative
- Narrated by: Alisha Aitken-Radburn
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2023
- Language: English
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Five Came Back
- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- By: Mark Harris
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Now a Netflix Original Series, featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Guillermo del Toro. Before the Second World War, the Hollywood box office was booming, but the business was accused of being too foreign, too Jewish, too 'un-American'. Then the war changed everything. With Pearl Harbor came the opportunity for Hollywood to prove its critics wrong. America's most legendary directors played a huge role in the war effort: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra....
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Five Came Back
- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-10-2017
- Language: English
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras
- A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
- By: Odie Henderson
- Narrated by: Odie Henderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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Written by film critic Odie Henderson, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). Blaxploitation was a major trend, but it was never simple. The films mixed self-empowerment with exploitation, base stereotypes with essential representation that spoke to the lives and fantasies of Black viewers. The time is right for a reappraisal, understanding these films in the context of the time, and exploring their lasting influence.
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Absolutely Magnificent
- By Robert Ramsay on 16-01-2026
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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras
- A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
- Narrated by: Odie Henderson
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2024
- Language: English
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Those Guys Have All the Fun
- Inside the World of ESPN
- By: Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Andrew Miller, Matt McCarthy, Joan Baker
- Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
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In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams. It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of...
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Those Guys Have All the Fun
- Inside the World of ESPN
- Narrated by: James Andrew Miller, Matt McCarthy, Joan Baker
- Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2011
- Language: English
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Anime Impact
- The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation
- By: Chris Stuckmann
- Narrated by: Jackson Heaton
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
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Japanese animation—or anime—holds a special place in the hearts of countless fans around the globe. Since the early days of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy to Makoto Shinkai’s astounding success with Your Name, anime has left an undeniable impact on our culture. Anime Impact explores the impression the medium has left on various fans with detailed discussions on television shows and movies from the 1960s all the way to the present.
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Anime Impact
- The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation
- Narrated by: Jackson Heaton
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2023
- Language: English
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Never Sleep Again
- The Elm Street Legacy
- By: Thommy Hutson
- Narrated by: Jonny Unitus
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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In 1984, a new vision of horror was unleashed upon terrified moviegoers—a razor-gloved bogeyman who slashed his way through the children of those who had murdered him years before. In doing so, this cinematic monster would not just invade the dreams of his victims but give those watching a brand-new nightmare to fear forever.
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Never Sleep Again
- The Elm Street Legacy
- Narrated by: Jonny Unitus
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-05-2025
- Language: English
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- By: Thea Glassman, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - introduction
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever. The modern television landscape...
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Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek
- How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2023
- Language: English
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Tom Cruise
- An Unauthorized Biography
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: John Hinch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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The eye-opening true story of Tom Cruise, from #1 New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton. Everyone knows Tom Cruise--or at least what he wants us to know. We know that he overcame a difficult childhood to star in astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the...
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Tom Cruise
- An Unauthorized Biography
- Narrated by: John Hinch
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2008
- Language: English
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The Top Gear Story
- By: Martin Roach
- Narrated by: Jerome Pride
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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This is the full story of the unstoppable rise of Clarkson, Hammond, May and The Stig – and how they have transformed an ordinary programme about cars into one of the most famous and best-loved TV programmes of the 21st century. Reaching a peak in the 1990s thanks to presenter Jeremy Clarkson, the original series then faced the axe in 2001 – but Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman successfully pitched a new format to BBC bosses and Top Gear returned to become the irreverent, funny and often controversial show we now know and love.
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The Top Gear Story
- Narrated by: Jerome Pride
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2012
- Language: English
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Disney High
- The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire
- By: Ashley Spencer
- Narrated by: Lalaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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From private feuds and on-set disasters to fanfare that swept the nation and the realities of child stardom, culture journalist Ashley Spencer offers the first unauthorized look at the heyday of TV’s House of Mouse, featuring hundreds of exclusive new interviews with former Disney executives, creatives, and talent to explore the highs, lows, and everything in between.
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Amazing Book!! Definitely worth it.
- By Shannon on 03-03-2026
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Disney High
- The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire
- Narrated by: Lalaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2024
- Language: English
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Monsters of the Week
- The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
- By: Zack Handlen, Todd VanDerWerff, Chris Carter - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits - and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's 25th anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and insightful reviews of every episode of the series, revised and updated from the authors' popular A.V. Club recaps, leave no mystery unsolved and no monster unexplained.
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Monsters of the Week
- The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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Cimino
- The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
- By: Charles Elton
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood's auteur era. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair.
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Cimino
- The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2022
- Language: English
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