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Finis Britanniae
- A Military History of Late Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest
- By: Murray Dahm
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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The end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the invading Saxons forms part of the most disruptive period in Britain's history. Centuries of relative stability as a Roman province gave way to an age of conquest and destruction. It is a period which is difficult to comprehend, coming at the end of the Roman era and in the pre-dawn of the Medieval. It is a Dark Age, both in terms of our apparent lack of source material and in our understanding of events.
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Finis Britanniae
- A Military History of Late Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- Language: English
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The Wood That Built London
- A Human History of the Great North Wood
- By: C.J. Schüler
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that, scattered through the suburbs, from Dulwich to Norwood, a number of oak woodlands have survived since before the Norman Conquest. These woods were intensively managed for a thousand years, providing timber for construction, furniture and shipbuilding, and charcoal for London's blacksmiths, kilns and bakeries. Now they afford important green space, a vital habitat for small mammals, birds and insects.
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The Wood That Built London
- A Human History of the Great North Wood
- Narrated by: Nick Biadon
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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Footnotes
- A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
- By: Peter Fiennes
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Every journey has its stories. Beginning with Enid Blyton and childhood in the Isle of Purbeck, Peter Fiennes embarks on a unique exploration of Britain. He follows in the footsteps of some our greatest writers, tracing the paths recorded in their books, journals and diaries, and looks for the country they knew. How much has time changed us? And has it been for better, or worse? Are we trapped in the past?
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Footnotes
- A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers
- Narrated by: Peter Fiennes
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Children of Athena
- Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400
- By: Charles Freeman
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians.
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The Children of Athena
- Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2023
- Language: English
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The Ring and the Crown
- By: Sarah Gristwood, Tracy Borman, Alison Weir, and others
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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An informative and entertaining look at royal weddings through English history. The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings.
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The Ring and the Crown
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2012
- Language: English
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A 1940s Childhood
- From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour
- By: James Marsh
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of challenges for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life.
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A 1940s Childhood
- From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2022
- Language: English
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Conclave 1559
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Tasked with choosing a pontiff to replace a previous incumbent (Paul IV) whose reign was marked by repression and brutality, and faced with the growing challenge of the Protestant Reformation, the conclave faced a critically important decision for the future of the Roman Catholic Church and was faction-ridden even by the standards of such polarised gatherings. France and Spain, both looking to extend their power in Italy and beyond, had very different ideas of who the new pope should be, as did the Italian cardinals.
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Conclave 1559
- Narrated by: Julie Maisey
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: English
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Illiberal Europe
- Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine
- By: Leon Marc
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989—but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.
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Illiberal Europe
- Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2023
- Language: English
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British Traitors
- Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century
- By: Gordon Kerr
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Capital punishment was abolished for murder in Great Britain in 1969, but remained as the punishment for high treason until as recently as 1998, demonstrating how seriously we take the crime of betraying your country. But even with the threat of the noose hanging over them, many still chose the path of treachery during the cataclysmic events of last century. British Traitors examines the lives and motivations of a number of the perpetrators of this most heinous of crimes.
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Fascinating stories and an awesome narrator
- By T. S. Cole on 27-12-2024
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British Traitors
- Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-07-2022
- Language: English
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Morgan's Men
- By: Nick Hoult, Steve James
- Narrated by: Andy Cresswell
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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From English cricket's embarrassing failure at the 2015 World Cup to their heart-stopping victory four years later, Nick Hoult and Steve James vividly describe the team's dramatic journey from abject disappointment to finally lifting the trophy. Morgan's Men reveals how the team became the most aggressive limited-overs side in the world, led by their inspirational captain, Eoin Morgan, whose vision and determination to succeed captured the imagination of the nation.
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Great story
- By Vik on 21-10-2020
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Morgan's Men
- Narrated by: Andy Cresswell
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-09-2020
- Language: English
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Under Another Sky
- Journeys in Roman Britain
- By: Charlotte Higgins
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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What has 'Roman Britain' meant to the British people since the Romans left? And what does Roman Britain mean to us now? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Charlotte Higgins leads us through the history, and by using some of Britain's most intriguing ancient monuments, Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and history, in an entirely fresh way.
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Buy the book instead
- By Martin on 27-02-2018
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Under Another Sky
- Journeys in Roman Britain
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2014
- Language: English
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God's Own Gentlewoman
- The Life of Margaret Paston
- By: Diane Watt
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman.
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Such a Disappointment
- By S.Attenborough on 10-10-2024
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God's Own Gentlewoman
- The Life of Margaret Paston
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-09-2024
- Language: English
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This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
- By: William Davies
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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What just happened, and how did we get into this mess? Since 2016, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making. This is not the fault of Brexit but of a larger problem of our politics. The status of political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and officials have all been disrupted. Along the way, there have been shocking and exhilarating events: the unforeseen 2017 election result, the horrific details of Grenfell Tower and the Windrush scandal, the sudden rise and fall of the Brexit Party.
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This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2020
- Language: English
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A Man Most Driven
- By: Peter Firstbrook
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery and then murdered his master to escape. He was captured by pirates--twice--and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved seconds before the noose dropped over his head. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith's life.
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A Man Most Driven
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 29-01-2015
- Language: English
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Codebreaking Sisters
- Our Secret War
- By: Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
- Narrated by: Sally Oliver
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German—which will go on to shape their roles forever.
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Codebreaking Sisters
- Our Secret War
- Narrated by: Sally Oliver
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2025
- Language: English
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Bread & War
- A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope
- By: Felicity Spector
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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From the military kitchens which cook for soldiers and volunteers, to the chefs who shifted from fine dining to turning out hot meals and loaves of bread for families in need—food has become a central part of Ukraine's war effort. Food is a weapon, a lifeline, a means of survival. It's also a powerful symbol of national identity and memory for the millions of people who've been forced from their homes.
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Bread & War
- A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope
- Narrated by: Anna Cordell
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-05-2025
- Language: English
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A Very British Cult
- Rogue Priests and the Abode of Love
- By: Stuart Flinders
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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This is the almost-forgotten story of Victorian Britain's strangest religious sect and its wealthy, mostly female, followers who believed they could ascend directly to heaven. Henry James Prince was a rogue Anglican Priest with a flare for the dramatic, and the founder of the Agapemone, or 'Abode of Love'. He also claimed to be the immortal conduit of The Holy Spirit and purportedly engaged in free love and ceremonial sex with his mostly female followers. But Prince's eventual death didn't mark the end of this strange set... he was promptly replaced by another.
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A Very British Cult
- Rogue Priests and the Abode of Love
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2024
- Language: English
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How to Fix Northern Ireland
- By: Malachi O'Doherty
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Malachi O'Doherty argues that division in Northern Ireland is fundamentally not about whether the country should be governed as part of Ireland or as part of Britain—as presumed by the Good Friday Agreement—but rather is entirely sectarian, an inter-ethnic stress comparable to racism. Part memoir, part history and part polemic, How to Fix Northern Ireland shows how the split between Catholics and Protestants infests everyday life and asks what can be done to solve a centuries-old social rift and heal the relationship at the heart of the problem.
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How to Fix Northern Ireland
- Narrated by: Alan Turkington
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: English
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Never Better
- My Life in Our Times
- By: Tommie Gorman
- Narrated by: Tommie Gorman
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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'Money is handy for doing messages' was a phrase the young Tommie Gorman heard from his father, growing up in Sligo in the 1960s. Struggle was never far away but their household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter at the Western Journal, where his deadlines were dependent on the bus schedule, Tommie landed at RTÉ, taking up the post of North-West correspondent in 1980. Over the next four decades he became a familiar presence in Irish homes, known for his coverage of Europe and Northern Ireland.
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Never Better
- My Life in Our Times
- Narrated by: Tommie Gorman
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-02-2024
- Language: English
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Mr Horniman's Walrus
- Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
- By: Clare Paterson
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Mr Horniman's Walrus tells the story of the rise and fall of three generations of a remarkable and dysfunctional Victorian family—the Hornimans—exploring the lives and loves behind their extraordinary and varied legacies. Drawing on her years of research and unfettered access to the family archive, Clare Paterson has written a riveting tale of trade, collecting, the stage, sex and politics in Victorian Britain.
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Mr Horniman's Walrus
- Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2022
- Language: English
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