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Australia's Aviation Heroes
- True stories from our airmen at war
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of bestselling Sisters in Captivity, seven remarkable stories of men who served from WWI to Korea – their wartime exploits and achievements through aviation. Based on personal interviews conducted by the author over many years, Australia’s Aviation Heroes celebrates the...
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Excellent Read
- By Samuel Peacocke on 10-11-2025
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Australia's Aviation Heroes
- True stories from our airmen at war
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2025
- Language: English
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Where It All Went Wrong
- The case against John Howard
- By: Amy Remeikis
- Narrated by: Amy Remeikis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. John Howard is often revered as one of the great Australian prime ministers (1996–2007): economically prudent, politically...
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The narrator said it all truth telling
- By Anonymous on 24-02-2026
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Where It All Went Wrong
- The case against John Howard
- Narrated by: Amy Remeikis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2026
- Language: English
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Carnage
- A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders
- By: Mark Dapin
- Narrated by: Henry Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making. Whether you know it as the...
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Some Real Scum
- By Anonymous on 05-03-2026
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Carnage
- A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders
- Narrated by: Henry Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 02-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Men Who Killed the News
- The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
- By: Eric Beecher
- Narrated by: Eric Beecher
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber Prize Never before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and direct US government policy. But as Crikey owner and ex-News Corp executive Eric Beecher shows...
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Honest Insight into the Murdoch empire
- By douglas mcclurg on 09-10-2024
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The Men Who Killed the News
- The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
- Narrated by: Eric Beecher
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Golden Gang
- Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history
- By: Ian W. Shaw
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance26
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The first comprehensive biography of the godfather of Australian bushranging – Frank Gardiner – leader of the Lachlan gang and mastermind of the largest gold heist in Australian history. Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly – the ultimate outlaw – and just below...
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Great story
- By tlcdc on 04-12-2025
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The Golden Gang
- Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2024
- Language: English
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The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- By: Gideon Haigh
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance39
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Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review. In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy...
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Simply Brilliant
- By Mick on 05-08-2021
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The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2021
- Language: English
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Australia's Dambusters
- Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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A truly comprehensive account of 617 Squadron, RAF, who carried out one of the most dangerous and audacious aerial bombing raids of World War II. It was the evening of 16 May 1943. Nineteen modified Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron RAF, under the command of youthful Wing Commander Guy...
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Australia's Dambusters by Colin Burgess .
- By LORETTA on 11-07-2022
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Australia's Dambusters
- Flying into Hell with 617 Squadron
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2021
- Language: English
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Australia's Greatest Escapes
- Gripping tales of wartime bravery
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance34
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Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars Australia’s Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience – escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men...
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Inspirational
- By Anonymous on 15-11-2022
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Australia's Greatest Escapes
- Gripping tales of wartime bravery
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2020
- Language: English
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Sisters in Captivity
- Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions...
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A story of courage, triumph, resilience, strength and compassion.
- By Anonymous on 09-08-2025
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Sisters in Captivity
- Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the courageous story of Australian Army nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2023
- Language: English
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The Miracle Typist
- The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- By: Leon Silver
- Narrated by: Robbie McGregor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance89
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In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz...
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Truthful Tale brilliantly told
- By John Iwankiw on 24-06-2021
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The Miracle Typist
- The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- Narrated by: Robbie McGregor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Diggers of Colditz
- The classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable
- By: Jack Champ, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance41
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Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to...
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An amazing book !
- By Joel on 08-10-2019
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The Diggers of Colditz
- The classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2019
- Language: English
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Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit
- By: Mikey Robins
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance28
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A fascinating, funny and downright bizarre survey of culinary oddities by one of Australia’s most beloved comedians. In this irreverent romp through the history of food via the Seven Deadly Sins, Mikey Robins uncovers the most bizarre food-related stories of all time. From the Ancient...
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Both informative and funny
- By Anonymous on 23-12-2020
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Seven Deadly Sins and One Very Naughty Fruit
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2019
- Language: English
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Reprehensible
- Polite Histories of Bad Behaviour
- By: Mikey Robins
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance30
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Rollicking and informative, Reprehensible: Polite Histories of Bad Behaviour is your guide through some of the most shameful behaviour indulged in by humanity’s most celebrated figures, as told by Mikey Robins, one of Australia’s most loved comedians. It is often said that we live in an era...
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Vintage Robins on vintage skullduggery
- By Anonymous on 01-07-2021
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Reprehensible
- Polite Histories of Bad Behaviour
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-08-2020
- Language: English
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Destination Buchenwald
- The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer of 1944 as liberating Allied forces surged towards Paris following the D-Day landings. For a large group of downed airmen being held in that city’s infamous Fresnes Prison, they...
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Shocking
- By Anonymous on 21-08-2022
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Destination Buchenwald
- The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2022
- Language: English
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Lest
- Australian War Myths
- By: Mark Dapin
- Narrated by: Henry Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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From Simpson’s donkey and the Emu War to Vietnam and Ben Roberts-Smith, Australian military history is full of events that didn’t happen the way most people think they did. In his inimitable style, award-winning author Mark Dapin sets the record straight. Australia has many stories and...
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Truth matters
- By Bob on 27-01-2026
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Lest
- Australian War Myths
- Narrated by: Henry Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2024
- Language: English
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Truth Is Trouble
- The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated
- By: Malcolm Knox
- Narrated by: Laurence Brewer
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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From the marriage equality debate to the COVID-19 lockdown, ‘free speech’ has become the new battleground in Australian society. What does the furore over one footballer’s social media postings reveal about how it got that way? For a period in 2019, a tweet from rugby player Israel Folau...
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- By Anonymous on 02-11-2020
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Truth Is Trouble
- The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated
- Narrated by: Laurence Brewer
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2020
- Language: English
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Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
- By: Mikey Robins
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The history books are full of heroes and villains … but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a time. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe...
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Lighter side of history
- By Anonymous on 25-01-2024
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Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
- Narrated by: Mikey Robins
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-07-2023
- Language: English
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The Last Outlaws
- The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia
- By: Katherine Biber
- Narrated by: Leroy Parsons
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Brilliantly reconstructed from contemporary narratives, The Last Outlaws is both a gripping work of historical true crime and a richly revealing examination of our nation at its birth. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith meets Killing for Country. In the winter of 1900, Wiradjuri man Jimmy Governor...
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The Last Outlaws
- The crimes of Jimmy & Joe Governor and the birth of modern Australia
- Narrated by: Leroy Parsons
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 27-04-2026
- Language: English
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Sisters Under Fire
- The extraordinary courage of two Australian nurses at war
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The heroic accounts of Australian Army Nursing Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Torney who survived the perilous evacuation of Singapore in 1942. The nursing profession is one historically filled with everyday heroes whose work often makes the difference between life and death. Yet Nursing...
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Sisters Under Fire
- The extraordinary courage of two Australian nurses at war
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2026
- Language: English
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