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Cleopatra's Daughter
- Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen
- By: Jane Draycott
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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In 1895, archaeologists excavating a villa outside Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman silverware. Among the treasures was a bowl featuring a female figure with thick, curly hair, deep-set eyes, a slightly hooked nose and a strong jaw, and sporting an elephant scalp headdress. Modern scholars believe this woman to be a depiction of Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the infamous Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Using this discovery as her starting point, Jane Draycott recreates the life and times of a remarkable woman.
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Cleopatra's Daughter
- Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2022
- Language: English
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The Handshake: A Gripping History
- By: Ella Al-Shamahi
- Narrated by: Ella Al-Shamahi
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.
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The Handshake: A Gripping History
- Narrated by: Ella Al-Shamahi
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2022
- Language: English
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Who Owns the Moon?
- In Defense of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
- By: A.C. Grayling
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Race begins, A.C. Grayling asks: who, if anyone, owns the moon? Or Mars? Or other bodies in near space? And what do those superpowers and corporations owe to Planet Earth and its inhabitants as a whole?
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Who Owns the Moon?
- In Defense of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2024
- Language: English
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- By: Matthew Engel
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
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She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed utterly—except the Queen herself, ageing far more gracefully than the fractious nation over which she so lightly presides. How did we get from there to here in a single reign? To cancel culture, anti-vaxxers and Twitter feeds? Matthew Engel tells the story—starting with the years from Churchill to Thatcher—with his own light touch and a wealth of fascinating, forgotten, often funny detail.
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Fantastic
- By S.Attenborough on 16-11-2023
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The Reign: Life in Elizabeth's Britain, Part I
- The Way It Was, 1952-79
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2022
- Language: English
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Perilous Question
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Perilous Question features an eventful, violent often overlooked period of British history. On 7th June 1832, William IV reluctantly assented to pass the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and of revolution throughout the country. This led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings dramatically to life.
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Perilous Question
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2013
- Language: English
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Life Unseen
- A Story of Blindness
- By: Selina Mills
- Narrated by: Selina Mills
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating historical adventure, broadcaster and author Selina Mills takes us on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all. Inspired by her own experience of losing her sight as she forged a successful journalistic career, Life Unseen takes us through a personal and unsentimental historical quest through the lives, stories and achievements of blind people—as well as those sighted people who sought to patronize, demonize and fix them.
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Surprisingly Enjoyable
- By Erudition on 18-09-2023
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Life Unseen
- A Story of Blindness
- Narrated by: Selina Mills
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2023
- Language: English
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On This Day in Politics
- Britain's Political History in 365 Days
- By: Iain Dale
- Narrated by: Iain Dale
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Writing as an observer of political history, but also as someone with an opinion, acclaimed political broadcaster Iain Dale charts the main events of the last few hundred years, with one event per day.
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On This Day in Politics
- Britain's Political History in 365 Days
- Narrated by: Iain Dale
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2022
- Language: English
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Neverland
- The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
- By: Vanessa Kisuule
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kisuule
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively book she explores the fall-out from that fandom and how, or if, we can hold people to account whilst loving them at the same time. Why do famous musicians mean so much to us? How does the pop culture machine both mirror and magnify the worst aspects of human nature? Why is it so hard to accept that the people we love, famous or not, are capable of doing terrible things?
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Neverland
- The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
- Narrated by: Vanessa Kisuule
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-05-2025
- Language: English
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This is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations
- By: Cass R. Sunstein
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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This sharp and engaging collection of essays by leading governmental scholar Cass R. Sunstein examines shifting understandings of what's normal and how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the rise of gun rights, the response to COVID-19, and changing understandings of liberty. Prevailing norms include the principle of equal dignity, the idea of not treating the press as an enemy of the people, and the social unacceptability of open expressions of racial discrimination.
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This is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2021
- 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
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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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Talking to Terrorists
- By: Jonathan Powell
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Across the world governments proclaim they will never "negotiate with evil". And yet they always have done and always will. Why then do we ignore the lessons of this history of clandestine communication, often with devastating consequences? Jonathan Powell has spent nearly two decades mediating between governments and terrorist organisations. Here he argues that with attention to the lessons of the past, patience, and above all political leadership, these conflicts can be solved.
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Talking to Terrorists
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2015
- 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
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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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Uncrowned
- Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne
- By: Ashley Mantle
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwined with that of the nation. They would be raised with the expectation that they would eventually take their place on the throne and rule the land. But not all those expected to wear the crown completed this journey. Ashley Mantle explores the lives of several heirs apparent, from the Norman Conquest to the present day, who were destined to assume the throne of England but, for one reason or another, did not.
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Uncrowned
- Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2024
- Language: English
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Inside Qatar
- Hidden Stories from the World’s Richest Nation
- By: John McManus
- Narrated by: Frazer Blaxland
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity.
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Inside Qatar
- Hidden Stories from the World’s Richest Nation
- Narrated by: Frazer Blaxland
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-07-2022
- Language: English
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Lawless
- By: Kimberley Motley
- Narrated by: Kimberley Motley
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a Criminal Defence Attorney in Milwaukee to join a program to help train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was 32 years old at the time, a former Mrs Wisconsin (she'd entered the contest on a dare) and a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United States.
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Lawless
- Narrated by: Kimberley Motley
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2020
- Language: English
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Running the Risk
- By: David Reid
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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From the historical roots of the concept of risk to the latest digital anxieties, each chapter unfolds a captivating narrative, weaving together major historical incidents and topical news events. Explore the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and witness the transformative power of risk perception. Travel to Fukushima and learn how a nuclear disaster shapes our approach to designing critical infrastructure. Dive into the digital realm with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, revealing a new era of digital risk and anxiety.
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Running the Risk
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2025
- Language: English
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Dirty Cop
- By: uncredited
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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During the 1990s, the UK police preferred to be accused of racism rather than corruption. Stop and searches for no reason other than the colour of someone's skin had managed to turn many law-abiding citizens into cop haters. But all I ever wanted was to be a good police officer. I thought I could be the smartest, the toughest, the bravest - but also, the fairest - cop in the neighbourhood. I ended up in an elite, compact, anti-narcotics unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on the area's drugs underworld, focusing on criminals in and around a vast housing estate.
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Dirty Cop
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 31-10-2024
- Language: English
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Breaking the Silence
- By: Joanne Milne
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Jo Milne was profoundly deaf from birth, when she also began to lose her sight. Just before turning thirty, Jo was diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a rare genetic and progressive condition that will one day rob her of her sight altogether.
In 2014 she made a life-changing decision to undergo major surgery. She had cochlear implants fitted, allowing her to hear for the first time. Every moment of Jo's days since the operation has become a journey of discovery.
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Breaking the Silence
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2015
- Language: English
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit
- What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis
- By: Assaad Razzouk
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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In this provocative manifesto, Assaad Razzouk shows that for too long our ideas about what's best for the environment have been unfocused and distracted, trying to go in too many directions and concentrating on individual behavior. While some of these things can be useful, they are dwarfed by one big thing that simply has to happen very soon if we're to avoid major environmental breakdown: curtailing the activities of the fossil fuel industry.
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Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit
- What They Don’t Tell You About the Climate Crisis
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-12-2023
- Language: English
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Footmarks
- A Journey into Our Restless Past
- By: Jim Leary
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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All too often we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time', and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary's expert eye we explore the tangible remains, from fossilized footprint tracks to prehistoric wooden trackways, ridgeways, holloways, droveways, green ways, corpse roads, and Roman roads. Isotope studies and archaeogenetics now allow us see the arduous journeys that people made across continents and oceans, proving that migration has been continuous throughout our past, an endless ebb and flow of populations.
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