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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- By: Ian Goldin
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report.
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Rescue
- From Global Crisis to a Better World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-05-2021
- Language: English
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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Now a major motion picture starring Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas. August 2010: the San Jose mine in Chile collapses, trapping 33 men half a mile underground for 69 days. Faced with the possibility of starvation and even death, the miners make a pact: if they survive, they will share their story only collectively, as 'the 33'.
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The 33
- Now a major motion picture - previously titled Deep Down Dark
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-01-2016
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern.
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2019
- Language: English
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Casanova
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of 38, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to despair and to attempt to reinvent himself in the roles of labourer, writer and country squire.
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Casanova
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2019
- Language: English
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Searching for Juliet
- The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine
- By: Sophie Duncan
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. She is an enduring romantic icon. And she is a captivating, brilliant, passionate teenage girl who is read and interpreted afresh by each new generation. Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind William Shakespeare's child bride to the boy actor who inspired her creation onstage. From enslaved people in the Caribbean to Italian fascists in Verona, and real-life lovers in Afghanistan. From the Victorian stage to 1960s cinema, Baz Luhrmann and beyond.
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Searching for Juliet
- The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine
- Narrated by: Nicky Diss
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2023
- Language: English
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Remember, Mr Sharma
- By: A. P. Firdaus
- Narrated by: Zoha Rahman
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic bombs. But twelve-year-old Adi has a bigger problem: his Ma has gone missing - again. Left with an ailing grandmother, a raging father and no answers, he finds an unlikely ally: a talking vulture who reveals itself to be a bureaucrat from the 'Department of Historical Adjustment'.
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Remember, Mr Sharma
- Narrated by: Zoha Rahman
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- Language: English
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Varina
- By: Charles Frazier
- Narrated by: Molly Parker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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A stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played a part at the heart of it. With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner.
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Varina
- Narrated by: Molly Parker
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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Deeds Not Words
- By: Helen Pankhurst
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.
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Deeds Not Words
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2018
- Language: English
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Winter in Tabriz
- By: Sheila Llewellyn
- Narrated by: Callum Hughes, Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Gripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months immediately prior to the revolution and the choices they have to make as a result of the ensuing upheaval. The lives of Damian and Anna, both from Oxford University, become enmeshed with two Iranians - Arash, a poet, and his older brother, Reza, a student sympathetic to the problems of the dissident writers in Iran and a would-be photojournalist, interested in capturing the rebellion on the streets.
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Winter in Tabriz
- Narrated by: Callum Hughes, Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2021
- Language: English
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive '70s. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York and London, Douglas, like all the Tallentires, must come to terms with private uncertainty and pain.
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2015
- Language: English
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One Morning Like a Bird
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Kenichiro Thomson
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Tokyo, 1940. While Japan's war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon's, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon's daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty - and his heart - lies.
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One Morning Like a Bird
- Narrated by: Kenichiro Thomson
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Crossing
- By: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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On the surface Maud and Tim seem ill matched. Maud is a scientist, an only child from a modest background; Tim is a musician from a large, rich family. She is emotionally cool, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Yet they make a home together, have a child and restore an old yacht. One day they will sail it, all three. Then a dreadful tragedy occurs. The strange thing is, Maud appears unscathed by it. Tim's family are horrified - what is wrong with her?
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The Crossing
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-08-2015
- Language: English
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The Sleep Watcher
- By: Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems; her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her run-down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their deteriorating relationship in a painful new way. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single word soon changes everything.
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The Sleep Watcher
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- By: Jill Dawson
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.
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Excellent Avian Mystery
- By Shalleycat on 14-08-2020
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2019
- Language: English
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 10 hrs
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Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 13-06-2024
- Language: English
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The Consolations of Physics
- Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
- By: Tim Radford
- Narrated by: Tim Radford
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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The Consolations of Physics is an eloquent manifesto for physics. In an age where uncertainty and division is rife, Tim Radford, science editor of the Guardian for 25 years, turns to the wonders of the universe for consolation. From the launch of the Voyager spacecraft and how it furthered our understanding of planets, stars and galaxies to the planet composed entirely of diamond and graphite and the sound of a blacksmith's anvil, The Consolations of Physics will guide you from a tiny particle to the marvels of outer space.
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The Consolations of Physics
- Why the Wonders of the Universe Can Make You Happy
- Narrated by: Tim Radford
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2018
- Language: English
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Claudia
- By: Anthony Trevelyan
- Narrated by: Charlotte Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them.... When Claudia Talwar is called to meet a mysterious visitor in the reception of her Manchester office block, she can't believe her eyes. It's Samson Glaze, former hippy turned internationally famous entrepreneur, and the 15-years-absent father figure of her youth. It doesn't take much for Samson to convince her to help find his son, Reggie Glaze, who's got into a bit of trouble....
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Claudia
- Narrated by: Charlotte Page
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2018
- Language: English
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- By: Bård Borch Michaelsen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act performed only by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud by only an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2019
- Language: English
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The Last of the Greenwoods
- By: Clare Morrall
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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In a field outside Bromsgrove, two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages. No one visits, and they never speak to each other. Until the day Zohra Dasgupta, a young postwoman, delivers an extraordinary letter - from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered 50 years earlier.
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The Last of the Greenwoods
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 08-02-2018
- Language: English
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- By: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society - between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress. Growing up on 'the last road in London' on an estate at the edge of the woods, John Grindrod had a childhood that mirrored these tensions. His family, too, seemed caught between two worlds: his wheelchair-bound mother and soft hearted father had moved from the inner city and had trouble adjusting.
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2017
- Language: English
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