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Blood Brotherhoods
- The Rise of the Italian Mafias
- By: John Dickie
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The south of the country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra, from Naples and its hinterland and the 'ndrangheta, the mafia from the poor and isolated region of Calabria that has now risen to become the most powerful mob of all. Each of these brotherhoods has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity and corruption. Their early history is little known, indeed some of it has been entirely shrouded in myth and silence until now.
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Blood Brotherhoods
- The Rise of the Italian Mafias
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2020
- Language: English
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The Adventure Of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people...
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The Adventure Of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2007
- Language: English
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Looking to Sea
- What Coastal Art Tells Us About Modern Britain
- By: Lily Le Brun
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Looking to Sea is an alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, told through the prism of ten iconic artworks of the sea, one for each decade. 'We see nothing truly until we understand it.' John Constable An alternative history of Britain in the twentieth century, Looking to Sea is...
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Looking to Sea
- What Coastal Art Tells Us About Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War. The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups...
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2022
- Language: English
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Crash Bang Wallop
- The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
- By: Iain Martin
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were...
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Crash Bang Wallop
- The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-09-2016
- Language: English
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Now a major motion picture starring Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas. August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses, trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will share their story only collectively, as 'the 33'.
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2016
- Language: English
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- By: Ralf Webb
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025* 'Remarkable... entertaining... deft... moving... refreshing' Daily Telegraph 'A richly rewarding account of a resonant cultural moment' Guardian 'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body' Raymond Antrobus...
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Strange Relations
- Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America
- Narrated by: Ralf Webb
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2024
- Language: English
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Searching for Juliet
- The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine
- By: Sophie Duncan
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. She is an enduring romantic icon. And she is a captivating, brilliant, passionate teenage girl who is read and interpreted afresh by each new generation. Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind William Shakespeare's child bride to the boy actor who inspired her creation onstage. From enslaved people in the Caribbean to Italian fascists in Verona, and real-life lovers in Afghanistan. From the Victorian stage to 1960s cinema, Baz Luhrmann and beyond.
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Searching for Juliet
- The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Book of Science and Antiquities
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Paul Haley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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In a novel of breathtaking reach and inspired imagination, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark tells the stories of two men who have much in common. What separates them is 42,000 years. Shade lives with his second wife amid their clan on the shores of a bountiful lake. A peaceable...
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The Book of Science and Antiquities
- Narrated by: Paul Haley
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-02-2019
- Language: English
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Searching For Schindler
- The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark'
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life. For the owner, Leopold Pfefferberg, had a story he'd been trying to interest writers and Hollywood in for years. It was the story of Oskar Schindler. In SEARCHING FOR...
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Searching For Schindler
- The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark'
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 27-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Dickens Boy
- By: Thomas Keneally
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child to Australia. Like his brother Alfred before him, sixteen-year-old Edward is expected to learn to apply himself in what his father considers to be the new land of opportunity. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales, Edward...
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The Dickens Boy
- Narrated by: David Tredinnick
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2020
- Language: English
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- By: Sheela Banerjee
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- By: Bob Gilbert
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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In 1913 all the musk plants in the world stopped smelling. Unable to resist the lure of this mystery, Bob Gilbert turns detective, determined to find the truth in the tale. Mixing history, memoir, science and nature writing, The Missing Musk takes the listener on a journey of discovery, uncovering the truth behind six mysteries and myths from across the natural world.
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2023
- Language: English
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Deeds Not Words
- The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
- By: Helen Pankhurst
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way...
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Deeds Not Words
- The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2018
- Language: English
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- By: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society - between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress. Growing up on 'the last road in London' on an estate at the edge of the woods, John Grindrod had a childhood that mirrored these tensions. His family, too, seemed caught between two worlds: his wheelchair-bound mother and soft hearted father had moved from the inner city and had trouble adjusting.
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2017
- Language: English
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In Our Time
- The companion to the Radio 4 series
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, science and...
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In Our Time
- The companion to the Radio 4 series
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-12-2009
- Language: English
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- By: Bård Borch Michaelsen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act performed only by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud by only an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2019
- Language: English
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Wolf Moon
- A Woman's Journey into the Night
- By: Arifa Akbar
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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The night is a time of darkness and nightmares, fear and vulnerability, especially for women. And, yet, it is another world, full of beauty and possibility, too. After the sun goes down, insomnia and sleep paralysis do threaten. But some have always walked the nocturnal landscapes, with more or less confidence. Others have worked, night shifts and hidden night work: nurses, security guards, sex workers. And some have found solace in the darkness, from queer rave culture to religious pre-dawn traditions.
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Wolf Moon
- A Woman's Journey into the Night
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-07-2025
- Language: English
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