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Love in a Time of Hate
- Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
- By: Florian Illies, Simon Pare - translator
- Narrated by: Jacqui Bardelang
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian café for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Verá's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin.
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Love in a Time of Hate
- Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
- Narrated by: Jacqui Bardelang
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2023
- Language: English
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
- Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Linda Colley
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Starting not with the United States but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia's Khayr-al-Din, a creator of the first modern Islamic constitution. Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations.
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
- Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-08-2021
- Language: English
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Russia: Myths and Realities
- The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
- By: Rodric Braithwaite
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago, it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality.
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Can't remember much about it now
- By Marita on 26-08-2023
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Russia: Myths and Realities
- The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2022
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Parson
- A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
- By: Adam Sisman
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain's most eccentric criminals. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind.
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The Professor and the Parson
- A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
- A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Our fears and compulsions often feel like part of our deepest selves—yet they're bound up in the currents of the world around us. This thrilling compendium of 99 phobias and manias, rare and familiar, delves into the obsessions that shape us all. Award-winning author Kate Summerscale takes us from the Middle Ages to the present day, using rich and riveting case studies to trace the links between the private and the public, the personal and the political.
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
- A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2022
- Language: English
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All in It Together
- England in the Early 21st Century
- By: Alwyn Turner
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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The headlines may be all COVID now; as a few short months ago, they were all Brexit, but breakdown of the UK's political sphere has been a long time coming and it is a symptom of a much deeper malaise. We seem to have lost our faith in all our social institutions, from parliament and the press to banking and religion. It is this wider disillusionment that All in It Together, a cultural, political and social history of Britain from 2000 to 2015, explains.
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All in It Together
- England in the Early 21st Century
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2021
- Language: English
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Immaculate Forms
- Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
- By: Helen King
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 10 hrs
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Immaculate Forms examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women's organs. It explores how the womb was seen as both the most miraculous organ in the body and as a sewer; uncovers breasts' legacies as maternal or sexual organs - or both; probes the mystery of the disappearing hymen, and asks, did the clitoris need to be discovered at all?
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Immaculate Forms
- Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 05-09-2024
- Language: English
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The Revelation of Ireland
- 1995-2020
- By: Diarmaid Ferriter
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 10 hrs
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Economic recovery, ever closer European involvement and Anglo-Irish highs were followed by Brexit lows and fresh talk of Irish unity. As the Republic enters its second century of independence, Diarmaid Ferriter tries to make historical sense of post-1990s Ireland - and what lies in the darkest corners of its archives.
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The Revelation of Ireland
- 1995-2020
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 05-09-2024
- Language: English
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The Invention of Good and Evil
- A World History of Morality
- By: Hanno Sauer
- Narrated by: Callum Coates
- Length: 10 hrs
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Using our past as a basis for a new understanding of our future, Hanno Sauer traces humanity's fundamental moral transformations from our earliest ancestors through to the present day, when it seems we have never disagreed more over what it means to be good. Our current political disagreements may feel like the end of the world, but where will the evolution of morality take us next?
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The Invention of Good and Evil
- A World History of Morality
- Narrated by: Callum Coates
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 12-09-2024
- Language: English
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