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The Shining
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Roger Luckhurst
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror films in cinema history. Exerting an enormous influence on popular culture, The Shining has spawned a vast array of interpretations and conspiracy theories. Roger Luckhurst's illuminating study explores the film's themes, tropes and resonances through a detailed analysis of sequences and performances.
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The Shining
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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Primetime Propaganda
- The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
- By: Ben Shapiro
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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“Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again.” — Mark Levin Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, “One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture...
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Primetime Propaganda
- The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2023
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love
- The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
- By: Scott Meslow
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the...
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From Hollywood with Love
- The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2022
- 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
- Unabridged
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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 Matrix
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Joshua Clover
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In this compelling study, Joshua Clover undertakes the task of decoding the film. Examining The Matrix's digital effects and how they were achieved, he shows how the film represents a melding of cinema and video games (the greatest commercial threat to have faced Hollywood since the advent of television) and achieves a hybrid kind of immersive entertainment. He also unpacks the movie's references to philosophy, showing how The Matrix ultimately expresses the crisis American culture faced at the end of the 1990s.
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The Matrix
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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The Girl
- Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist
- By: Michelle Morgan
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely...
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The Girl
- Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch, and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2018
- Language: English
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Pan's Labyrinth
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Mar Diestro-Dópido
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth (2006), won a total of 76 awards and is one of the most commercially successful Spanish-language films ever made. Blending the world of monstrous fairytales with the actual horrors of post-Civil War Spain, the film's commingling of real and fantasy worlds speaks profoundly to our times. This study of Guillermo del Toro's cult masterpiece places 'Pan's Labyrinth' in its cultural and historical contexts, and provide an illuminating analysis of the film's techniques, themes and meanings.
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Pan's Labyrinth
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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The Birds
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Camille Paglia
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Drawing on Daphne du Maurier's short story and contemporary newspaper reports of bird attacks in California, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) featured Tippi Hedren in her first starring role. Camille Paglia's compelling study considers the film's aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities, and analyses its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.
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The Birds
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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Daniel Day Lewis
- The Biography
- By: Laura Jackson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor regarded by many as the finest of his generation. His portrayal of cerebral-palsy sufferer Christy Brown in My Left Foot won him his first Oscar in 1990, and in 2008 another Oscar followed for his role in There Will Be Blood. His roles in The Age of Innocence, The Last of the Mohicans and In the Name of the Father further cemented his reputation as well as grossing millions at the box office, making Day-Lewis one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
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Daniel Day Lewis
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2015
- Language: English
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As If!
- The Oral History of Clueless, as Told by Amy Heckerling, the Cast, and the Crew
- By: Jen Chaney
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Will we ever get tired of watching Cher navigate Beverly Hills High School and discover true love in the movie Clueless? As if! Written by Amy Heckerling and starring Alicia Silverstone, Clueless is an enduring comedy classic that remains one of the most streamed movies on Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes even 20 years after its release. In the first book of its kind, Jen Chaney has compiled an oral history of the making of this iconic film using recollections and insights collected from key cast and crew members.
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As If!
- The Oral History of Clueless, as Told by Amy Heckerling, the Cast, and the Crew
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2015
- Language: English
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Alien
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Roger Luckhurst
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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A legendary fusion of science fiction and horror, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) is one of the most enduring films of modern cinema – its famously visceral scenes acting like a traumatic wound we seem compelled to revisit. Exploring the ways in which Alien compels us to think about otherness, Luckhurst demonstrates how and why this interstellar slasher movie, this old dark house in space, came to coil itself around our darkest imaginings about the fragility of humanity.
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Alien
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: David Blair
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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Lost in Translation
- BFI Film Classics
- By: Professor Suzanne Ferriss
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Both are distant — emotionally and spatially — from their spouses. They are lost until they develop an intimate connection. In the film’s poignant, famously ambiguous closing scene, they find each other, only to separate. In this close look at the multi-award-winning film, Suzanne Ferriss mirrors Lost in Translation’s structuring device of travel: her analysis takes the form of a trip, from planning to departure...
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Lost in Translation
- BFI Film Classics
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2025
- Language: English
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Giant Love
- Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
- By: Julie Gilbert
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel...
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Giant Love
- Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-12-2024
- Language: English
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Shoot Out
- Surviving Fame and (Mis)fortune in Hollywood
- By: Peter Guber, Peter Bart
- Narrated by: Peter Bart, Peter Guber
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Whether it is a director insisting on a final cut, a star demanding a bigger motor home, a producer holding the line on a budget, or a grip with a gripe, it seems that the world of moviemaking is nothing but Sturm und Drang. Shoot Out presents a raucous look at how movies get made and the players involved, from writers, producers, directors, and stars to agents and marketers. For film buffs, aspiring filmmakers, students, and anyone else intrigued by the inner workings of Hollywood, this is the quintessential take on the how, who, what, and why of the film business.
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Shoot Out
- Surviving Fame and (Mis)fortune in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Peter Bart, Peter Guber
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2022
- Language: English
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Audition
- A Memoir
- By: Barbara Walters
- Narrated by: Barbara Walters
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and...
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Very enlightening
- By Cea Palencia on 20-03-2019
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Audition
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Barbara Walters
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2008
- Language: English
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M*A*S*H
- TV Milestones
- By: David Scott Diffrient
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues. By the end of its run, M*A*S*H had been a mainstream hit for several seasons and won fourteen Emmys, leading it to be called, "the most popular pre-Seinfeld series in television history." In this comprehensive study of M*A*S*H, David Scott Diffrient analyzes the series' contextual issues such as its creation, reception, and circulation as well as textual issues like its formal innovations, narrative strategies, and themes.
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Good but one error
- By Seon Ferguson on 03-08-2024
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M*A*S*H
- TV Milestones
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 11-05-2013
- Language: English
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Sex and the City and Us
- How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love
- By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - introduction
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of Seinfeldia offers a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series, Sex and the City, in a “bubbly, yet fierce cultural dissection of the groundbreaking show” (Chicago Tribune). This is the story of how a columnist, two gay men, and a...
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Sex and the City and Us
- How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-06-2018
- 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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The Price of Valor
- The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
- By: David Smith
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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When he was 17 years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so that he could enlist in the army and help defeat the Nazis. When he was 19, he single-handedly turned back the German army at the Battle of Colmar Pocket by climbing on top of a tank with a machine gun, a moment immortalized in the classic film To Hell and Back, starring Audie himself.
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The Price of Valor
- The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 20-04-2015
- Language: English
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Hank and Jim
- The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- By: Scott Eyman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for 40 years. They became friends and then roommates as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they roomed together again. Between them they made such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window.
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Interesting read about two movie idols.
- By Cindy on 23-04-2024
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Hank and Jim
- The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-10-2017
- Language: English
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