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Henry VIII: King and Court
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall130
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Performance118
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This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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Historical research at its best
- By Anna Chemin on 31-10-2021
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2017
- Language: English
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- By: Susan Wise Bauer
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume - the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World - chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Impressively researched and brilliantly told, The History of the Renaissance World offers not just the names, dates, and facts but the memorable characters who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453 - years that marked a sea change in mankind's perception of the world.
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Terrible performance
- By Stephan Bollinger on 18-07-2019
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The History of the Renaissance World
- From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Series: The Story of the World
- Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2013
- Language: English
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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Story31
What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a visitor to late 16th-century England would ask.
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Loved the journey
- By Ellie on 02-10-2016
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Series: Time Traveler’s Guides
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2012
- Language: English
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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance24
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Story24
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King.
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Amazing narration
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-2023
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Thomas Cromwell
- A Life
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2018
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor
- A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
- By: Ruth Goodman
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Story34
The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times, what was life really like for a commoner? To answer this question, the renowned 'method historian' Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did. She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing on years of practical historical study to show how our ancestors coped with everyday life, from how they slept to how they courted.
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Great but see below.
- By Brian Flowers on 01-11-2025
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How to Be a Tudor
- A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2016
- Language: English
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Young and Damned and Fair
- The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
- By: Gareth Russell
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance32
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Story32
England, July 1540: it is one of the hottest summers on record, and the court of Henry VIII is embroiled once again in political scandal. Anne Cleves is out. Thomas Cromwell is to be executed and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly unpredictable monarch.
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Wonderful!
- By Liz on 10-11-2017
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Young and Damned and Fair
- The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2017
- Language: English
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
- By: Patrick Wyman
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance33
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Story33
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn. In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the...
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Informative and well narrated
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 12-08-2022
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The Verge
- Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
- Narrated by: Patrick Wyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2021
- Language: English
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Mary Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Mary Boleyn was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife. In this astonishing and riveting biography, Alison Weir’s extensive research gives a new and detailed portrayal, in which she recounts that, contrary to popular belief, Mary was entirely undeserving of her posthumous notoriety as a great whore.
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Mary Boleyn
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2011
- Language: English
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- By: Simon Jenkins
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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Story17
Europe is an astonishingly successful place. In this dazzling new history, best-selling author Simon Jenkins grippingly tells the story of its evolution from warring peoples to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Dark Ages, the Reformation and the French Revolution, to the Second World War and up to the present day. Jenkins takes in leaders from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc to Wellington and Angela Merkel as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso.
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Good short history of Europe
- By Vince in Perth on 01-08-2024
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A Short History of Europe
- From Pericles to Putin
- Narrated by: Simon Jenkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2018
- Language: English
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How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance
- By: William Landon, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Professor William Landon
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall24
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Performance19
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Story19
In How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance, you’ll study the remarkable trajectory of the Medici from the late 14th century to 1737, when the Medici dynasty ended. Across that span of time, you’ll witness the birth of the Italian Renaissance, and the rise of the Medici as an economic powerhouse under founder Giovanni de’ Medici. You’ll learn how the Medici came to dominate Florence and how they played diverse roles in politics, religion, and culture.
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Comprehensive and interesting
- By Mr PB on 03-11-2023
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How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Professor William Landon
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2021
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Story29
From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth, the Renaissance.
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Engaging narrator, excellent prose but slightly dodgy on historical fact.
- By Rachel on 12-06-2018
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A World Lit Only by Fire
- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-03-2007
- Language: English
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Mary Queen of Scots
- Film Tie-In
- By: John Guy
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived a life of incredible drama and turmoil: crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months old, and Queen of France at 16 years, she grew up in the crosshairs of Europe's political battles to become Queen Elizabeth's archrival.
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What a woman.
- By Anonymous on 31-03-2019
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Mary Queen of Scots
- Film Tie-In
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 17-01-2019
- Language: English
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- By: Roger Crowley
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance39
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Story39
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire.
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Great history generally not taught in Australian schools
- By Shannon on 21-07-2025
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Conquerors
- How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2015
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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Well told history
- By Anonymous on 17-09-2025
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Tudors
- The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
- By: G. J. Meyer
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance20
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynasty, comprising some of the most enigmatic figures ever to rule a country. “A thoroughly readable and often compelling narrative . . . Five centuries have not diminished the appetite for...
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Objective it is not
- By Kirsty on 31-05-2016
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The Tudors
- The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2010
- Language: English
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The Florentines
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mould largely began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in the province of Tuscany.
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Requiring Reading
- By Dan B. on 18-05-2025
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The Florentines
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2021
- Language: English
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
- The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination and by far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives. For the most part, she is considered in the context of her relationship with Tudor England's monarch. Dramatic though this story is, of even greater interest - and significance - is the relationship between Anne and her daughter, the future Elizabeth I, who was less than three years old when her mother was executed. Given that she could have held precious few memories of Anne, it is assumed that her mother exerted little influence over her. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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A worthy listen
- By Hayley on 24-07-2025
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
- The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2023
- Language: English
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Ripples Across Time
- After the Plague, Book 2
- By: Santiago Machain
- Narrated by: Santiago Machain
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Ripples Across Time explores the sweeping changes that shaped Europe from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modernity. Through a series of thematic chapters, the book examines the continent’s demographic shifts, the evolution of social structures, the rise of cities and the middle class, the impact of wars and religion, and the flourishing of art, science, and literature.
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Ripples Across Time
- After the Plague, Book 2
- Narrated by: Santiago Machain
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2025
- Language: English
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A World Unbroken
- After the Plague, Book 4
- By: Santiago Machain
- Narrated by: Santiago Machain
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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A World Unbroken explores an alternate history in which humanity never faced the devastation of plague. Through a series of deeply researched and humanized chapters, the book examines how uninterrupted population growth, stable communities, and the absence of mass mortality would have shaped every aspect of society, science, and culture.
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A World Unbroken
- After the Plague, Book 4
- Narrated by: Santiago Machain
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-12-2025
- Language: English
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Leonardo
- The Mind That Could Do Anything
- By: James Johnson
- Narrated by: J D Lake
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Leonardo takes you inside the brain of a man who painted the most famous face on Earth, sketched helicopters in the 1400s, dissected corpses to understand beauty, and wrote in mirrored code while inventing robots no one would build for centuries. He didn’t separate art and science. He didn’t follow disciplines. He followed truth. And he left behind a world forever warped by the intensity of his attention.
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