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Court Number One
- The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain
- By: Thomas Grant
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
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The principal criminal court of England, historically reserved for the more serious and high-profile trials, Court Number One opened its doors in 1907 after the building of the 'new' Old Bailey. In the decades that followed it witnessed the trials of the most famous and infamous defendants of the twentieth century. It was here that the likes of Madame Fahmy, Lord Haw Haw, John Christie, Ruth Ellis, George Blake (and his unlikely jailbreakers, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle), Jeremy Thorpe and Ian Huntley were defined in history....
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British Justice - a closer look
- By Robyn on 13-06-2022
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Court Number One
- The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Great Successor
- The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
- By: Anna Fifield
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly - he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way - to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command.
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Good listen
- By Davide on 19-03-2020
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The Great Successor
- The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
- Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2019
- Language: English
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Einstein in Time and Space
- A Life in 99 Particles
- By: Samuel Graydon
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really? The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for element 99, Albert Einstein was also a high school dropout with an FBI file 1,400 pages long. In this audiobook, Samuel Graydon's writing brings history's most famous scientist back to life.
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Einstein in Time and Space
- A Life in 99 Particles
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 28-09-2023
- Language: English
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How Tyrants Fall
- And How Nations Survive
- By: Marcel Dirsus
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 10 hrs
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Meeting with a revolutionary (codename 'Satan') who risked Stasi capture to undermine an oppressive regime, an American-Gambian activist who plotted to liberate his homeland on breaks during his construction job and the unapologetic former leader of a Burundian rebel group which carried out a massacre, internationally renowned security expert and political scientist Dr Marcel Dirsus draws on extensive field research and personal interviews with coup leaders, rebels and soldiers to examine the workings and malfunctions of tyrants.
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How Tyrants Fall
- And How Nations Survive
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 18-07-2024
- Language: English
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Mama's Boy
- The Art of Building Bridges
- By: Dustin Lance Black
- Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, but he grew up in a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Anne, was raised in rural Louisiana and contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal surgeries as well as braces and crutches for life and was told that she would never have children or a family.
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Stunning
- By JTino on 19-07-2022
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Mama's Boy
- The Art of Building Bridges
- Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2019
- Language: English
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Lou Reed
- A Life
- By: Anthony DeCurtis
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
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The essential biography of the Velvet Underground singer and New York legend. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once the height of sanctity and perversity, transcended a genre, speaking to millions of listeners, inspiring a new generation of musicians and forever changing the way we think of that iconic era of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
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71 years of brilliance beautifully condensed.
- By keith walsh on 24-02-2019
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Lou Reed
- A Life
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2017
- Language: English
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Nick Drake
- The Life
- By: Richard Morton Jack, Gabrielle Drake - foreword
- Narrated by: Richard Morton Jack, Gabrielle Drake
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
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In 1968 Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made three well-reviewed but low-selling albums - Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire in 1971, and died in obscurity in 1974, aged just 26.
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Worth every cent, and then some.
- By Paul on 26-03-2024
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Nick Drake
- The Life
- Narrated by: Richard Morton Jack, Gabrielle Drake
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2023
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- By: Artemis Cooper
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress, but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write 14 more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicle.
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An Enlightening of Innocence
- By Anna Spencer on 02-01-2017
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Elizabeth Jane Howard
- A Dangerous Innocence
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-09-2016
- Language: English
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs....' So begins the first letter that nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald Dahl would continue to write weekly letters to his mother, chronicling his adventures, frustrations and opinions, from the delights of childhood to the excitements of flying as a World War II fighter pilot....
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2016
- Language: English
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Four Princes
- By: John Julius Norwich
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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'Never before had the world seen four such giants coexisting. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.' The colourful story of the four very different men who created our modern world: Henry VIII, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent: popular history at its best from John Julius Norwich.
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wonderful!
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 21-04-2018
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Four Princes
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2018
- Language: English
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Ocean
- How to Save Earth's Last Wilderness
- By: Sir David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
- Length: 10 hrs
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From the icy oceans of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of our last great, critical wilderness, and the one which shapes the land we live on, regulates our climate and creates the air we breathe. Through one hundred years, eight unique ocean habitats, countless intriguing species - and through personal stories, history and cutting-edge science - Ocean uncovers the mystery, the wonder and the frailty of the most unexplored habitat on our planet.
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Ocean
- How to Save Earth's Last Wilderness
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 08-05-2025
- Language: English
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Rag and Bone
- A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
- By: Lisa Woollett
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and through it, our history of consumption.
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Wonderful and engaging
- By Anonymous User on 25-07-2021
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Rag and Bone
- A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 11-06-2020
- Language: English
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Dancing with Dementia
- My Story of Living Positively with Dementia
- By: Christine Bryden
- Narrated by: Catherine O'Brian
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia. This is a vivid account of the author's experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks. She describes how, with the support of her husband, Paul, she continues to lead an active life and explains how professionals and carers can help.
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Beautifully written
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-2023
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Dancing with Dementia
- My Story of Living Positively with Dementia
- Narrated by: Catherine O'Brian
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2019
- Language: English
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Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories
- By: Thomas Grant
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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A compelling portrait of the time when freedom of speech and the need to throw off censorship came to the fore, told through its great trials, from Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks. Born in 1915 into the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, Jeremy Hutchinson went on to become the greatest criminal barrister of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The cases of that period changed society forever, and Hutchinson's role in them was second to none.
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Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2015
- Language: English
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Dangerous Minds
- A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence
- By: Dr Taj Nathan
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Taking us from secure hospital wards to high-security prisons to courtrooms, Dangerous Minds offers compelling and deeply compassionate accounts of 10 people whose lives have been shaped by violence. From the impact of traumatic events in childhood to the evolutionary and cultural influences on the emergence of the social mind, this book is an insider's account of the origins of violence that asks its readers to re-evaluate all that they think they know about the people society deems most dangerous.
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Dangerous Minds
- A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2021
- Language: English
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Homing
- On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return
- By: Jon Day
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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A feral history of home, and our relationship with that most unloved bird. As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in moving house, he began to lose a sense of what it means to feel at home.
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Refreshing!
- By Anonymous User on 03-02-2020
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Homing
- On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2019
- Language: English
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Charles Darwin
- Victorian Mythmaker
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
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Darwin was described by his friend and champion, Thomas Huxley, as a 'symbol'. But what did he symbolize? In Wilson's portrait, both sympathetic and critical, Darwin was two men. On the one hand, he was a naturalist of genius, a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibilities of taxonomy and geology. On the other hand, Darwin, a seemingly diffident man who appeared gentle and even lazy, hid a burning ambition to be a universal genius. He longed to have a theory which explained everything.
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Snide, dismissive and anti science
- By KSB on 19-09-2021
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Charles Darwin
- Victorian Mythmaker
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2017
- Language: English
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The Fall of the House of Byron
- By: Emily Brand
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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At the beginning of the 18th century, Newstead Abbey was one of the most prosperous and fashionable aristocratic homes in England. It was the abode of William the 4th Baron Byron - a popular and successful composer and artist - and his teenage wife, Frances. But only a few decades later, at the end of the century, the building had become a crumbling and ill-cared-for ruin.
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The Fall of the House of Byron
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Judas
- How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind
- By: Astrid Holleeder
- Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Willem Holleeder is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. Best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of Alfred Heineken, CEO and Chairman of Heineken, and his infamous 2006 trial in which he was convicted of extortion, money laundering and membership in a criminal organization, Willem Holleeder captured the attention of the world.
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Judas
- How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal Mastermind
- Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-08-2018
- Language: English
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New Yorkers
- A City and Its People in Our Time
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Karen Chilton, Catherine Ho, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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In the first 20 years of the 21st century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time - and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.
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New Yorkers
- A City and Its People in Our Time
- Narrated by: Ron Butler, Karen Chilton, Catherine Ho, Michael Braun, Andrea Gallo, Maria Liatis, Nick Mills, Luis Moreno, Samara Naeymi, Richard Poe
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2021
- Language: English
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