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The Spark
- 11 Ideas to Change the World
- By: Helen Lewis
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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From politics to economics, from tech to the study of how we live, things are changing fast. Old certainties are crumbling, and we need new solutions to shake up the status quo and shape the future. In The Spark, Helen Lewis meets 11 radical thinkers who are bidding to change our world, and puts their ideas under the spotlight to find out what they have to offer compared to the failures of the past.
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The Spark
- 11 Ideas to Change the World
- Narrated by: Helen Lewis
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Reith Lectures
- 10 of the best
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer. Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to...
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The Reith Lectures
- 10 of the best
- Narrated by: Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Atul Gawande, Margaret Macmillan, Michael J. Sandel, Tom Kirkwood, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Daniel Barenboim, Eliza Manningham-Buller
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2022
- Language: English
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Such Sweet Possession: The Life and Loves of “Gentleman Jack”
- Anne Lister: A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
- By: Mary Cooper
- Narrated by: Deborah McAndrew, Helen Schlesinger, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Anne Lister, the 18th-century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story.... Anne was different from society’s expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was interested only in women and had ‘marriage’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton and later Ann Walker. She spent a great deal of time studying, managed her own estates, sought business opportunities, travelled widely and climbed mountains.
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Such Sweet Possession: The Life and Loves of “Gentleman Jack”
- Anne Lister: A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Deborah McAndrew, Helen Schlesinger, full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2019
- Language: English
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- By: Miles Jupp
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In these 10 entertaining documentaries, he explores why some books, games and binge-watched box sets are, as they say, 'literally unputdownable'; peers into Plotto, an ingenious manual of story devices, to discover whether it really can make writing easy; takes a sideways look at some familiar characters from literature, including James Bond, Dracula, Fu Manchu and Carruthers; delves into the intricacies of the locked-room murder; and revisits his old prep school to find out whether a book of stirring 19th-century verse can work its magic on today’s young people.
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
- Ten Lively Literary Investigations
- Narrated by: Miles Jupp
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2020
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Douglas Adams was a passionate technology enthusiast. His best-selling The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is full of futuristic tech, and in 1990 he predicted something very like the World Wide Web in the BBC2 film Hyperland. So in 1999, he was the natural choice to present Radio 4’s The Internet: The Last 20th Century Battleground. In it, he looked at the explosion in online communication, the evolution of cyberspace, and the risks and opportunities of the new virtual world.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2020
- Language: English
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Bridget Christie: A BBC Radio 4 Stand-Up Comedy Collection
- Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, Utopia & Mortal
- By: Bridget Christie
- Narrated by: Bridget Christie
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The collected radio shows of award-winning stand-up comedian Bridget Christie 'The current queen of crusading UK comedy' - Guardian Writer, actress and stand-up star Bridget Christie has won numerous awards, performed 12 hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows and written the critically-acclaimed...
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Bridget Christie: A BBC Radio 4 Stand-Up Comedy Collection
- Bridget Christie Minds the Gap, Utopia & Mortal
- Narrated by: Bridget Christie
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2021
- Language: English
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2024
- Language: English
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction 'exit pursued by a bear'. One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, it is often considered a 'problem play' as it starts with a tragedy and ends in a romance.
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, Karl Johnson, Paul Copley, Shaun Dooley, Susan Jameson
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2021
- Language: English
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David Hare: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 8 Full-Cast Productions Including Plenty, Skylight, Amy’s View & Others
- By: David Hare
- Narrated by: full cast, Anthony Hopkins, Bill Nighy, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
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Writer and director David Hare is one of England's leading political dramatists, celebrated for his many award-winning plays analysing the morality of contemporary Britain. This collection comprises some of his most acclaimed pieces, as well as a fascinating radio interview with Hare himself.
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David Hare: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- 8 Full-Cast Productions Including Plenty, Skylight, Amy’s View & Others
- Narrated by: full cast, Anthony Hopkins, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Zoë Wanamaker, Samantha Bond, Stephen Tompkinson, Ronald Pickup, Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2021
- Language: English
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Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction and Sexuality
- By: Mae Martin
- Narrated by: Mae Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Mae Martin is an award-winning Canadian comedian, writer and presenter of podcast GrownUp Land. In these two collected BBC Radio 4 series, she explores her generation's views on addiction and sexuality. Mae Martin’s Guide to 21st Century Addiction Mae draws connections between her obsessive...
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Mae Martin's Guide to 21st Century Addiction and Sexuality
- Narrated by: Mae Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2019
- Language: English
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How to Be a Woman
- A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
- By: Caitlin Moran
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Adapted and narrated by Caitlin Moran, this brand-new radio adaptation intersperses dramatised scenes from Moran's life (from her teenage years in a crowded council house in Wolverhampton, to setting out as a music journalist, to getting married and having children) with her thoughts on subjects that range from the necessity of big knickers to the experience of giving birth and having an abortion.
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How to Be a Woman
- A BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Caitlin Moran, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2019
- Language: English
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The Write Stuff
- 40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness
- By: James Walton
- Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.
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The Write Stuff
- 40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness
- Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Simon Brett, Natalie Haynes, Sue Limb, Lynne Truss, John O’Farrell, Mark Billingham, Nigel Williams
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-05-2024
- Language: English
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The Invention Of Childhood
- By: Hugh Cunningham
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Written by Hugh Cunningham and presented by award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood teaches us about the key elements that have shaped children's lives. The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity...
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The Invention Of Childhood
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-11-2006
- Language: English
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Extinct! (Complete Series)
- By: Adam Rutherford
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Why did almost all life go extinct 250 million years ago? Why on five other occasions in the geological history has the living world experienced sudden episodes of global mega-death with the majority of species being annihilated? And are humans causing the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth's history? These are among the questions Adam Rutherford explores in this three-part series on extinction. Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker.
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Extinct! (Complete Series)
- Narrated by: Adam Rutherford
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2013
- Language: English
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Why Are We So Angry?
- And What Is It Doing to the World?
- By: Oliver Burkeman
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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Why is everyone so angry nowadays, and what is it doing to the world? In the developed world we live in a blessed epoch, a time and a place where life has never been better. Infant mortality has been all but abolished, we have greater personal choice than ever before, we have access to technology that would have been seen as the stuff of science fiction little more than a decade ago. We are safer and wealthier than at any time in human history. So why are we so damn angry about everything?
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Why Are We So Angry?
- And What Is It Doing to the World?
- Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2018
- Language: English
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Say the Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney, Sandi Toksvig, Pam Ayres, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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Frank Delaney's language based panel quiz game series revolves around the English language. This upbeat, fun word battle sees a host of well-known contributors battling to say the word first. The series is filmed in front of a live audience at a wide range of literary festivals in the UK and live in the BBC Studios.
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Say the Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney, Sandi Toksvig, Pam Ayres, Andrew Sachs, full cast, Sue Limb, Roger McGough
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2021
- Language: English
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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In this collection, Melvyn Bragg surveys how English has evolved over 1,000 years. He starts by looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how English has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin and Old French to dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries. He also examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks and, lastly, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2022
- Language: English
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David Baddiel Tries to Understand: Series 1-4
- By: David Baddiel
- Narrated by: David Baddiel, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
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David Baddiel attempts to unravel an array of life's conundrums, as suggested by the public on Twitter. In each episode he speaks to experts and the general public to make sense of common, yet little understood, subjects and impart his new-found knowledge on each topic in under 15 minutes. From the global economy to electricity, much loved comedian David Baddiel gets to the heart of issues that dominate random shower musings and dinner party debates. He attempts to understand areas including fracking, rugby, hacking, The Constitution, fashion and even the Kardashians.
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David Baddiel Tries to Understand: Series 1-4
- Narrated by: David Baddiel, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2021
- Language: English
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Woke: The Journey of a Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Series
- By: Matthew Syed
- Narrated by: Matthew Syed
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Once a watchword for African Americans in the early 1900s, 'woke' is now used as an insult across the political spectrum, and it has become synonymous with our era of angry debate. As the word has spread, what people mean by it has become less clear than ever. Award-winning journalist and author Matthew Syed is on a mission to uncover the roots of this social phenomenon and, in this series, he follows the evolution of 'woke' through five key stories.
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Woke: The Journey of a Word
- A BBC Radio 4 Series
- Narrated by: Matthew Syed
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2024
- Language: English
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An Informal History of the Male Nude (Complete)
- By: Sarah Kent, Edith Hall, Partha Mitter, and others
- Narrated by: Sarah Kent, Edith Hall, Partha Mitter, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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The BBC Radio 3 series exploring the meaning of the male nude in the visual arts. When we think of the nude we usually think of the female nude, and in Western art in particular, we're often contemplating an image where the artist is primarily concerned with sensuality and desire. If we spare a thought for the male nude at all, he tends to appear as a figure symbolising courage and endurance. Both perspectives are, of course, a simplification or distortion.
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An Informal History of the Male Nude (Complete)
- Narrated by: Sarah Kent, Edith Hall, Partha Mitter, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Matthew Sweet
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2012
- Language: English
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