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The Practicing Stoic
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....
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you will need to read this book twice
- By Steven Frew on 22-09-2021
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The Practicing Stoic
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 25-12-2018
- Language: English
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The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....
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Not Quite White in the Head
- Personal Essays
- By: Melissa Lucashenko
- Narrated by: Melissa Lucashenko
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.
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Not Quite White in the Head
- Personal Essays
- Narrated by: Melissa Lucashenko
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-02-2026
- Language: English
- Melissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most admired and awarded novelists. She is renowned for writing about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead.
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall295
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Performance255
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous on 29-11-2018
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, Shari Sebbens, Tamala Shelton, Tony Briggs
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2018
- Language: English
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What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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Joyful
- By Linda D. on 16-09-2024
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Under the Duvet
- Narrated by: Marian Keyes
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2008
- Language: English
- Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....
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The Right Hand
- Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people
- By: Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
- Narrated by: Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...
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Not a pleasant listening experience
- By Ruth on 07-01-2026
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The Right Hand
- Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people
- Narrated by: Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2025
- Language: English
- We all know the names: Jacinda Ardern, Kamala Harris, Tony Blair, Justin Trudeau, John Howard, Sanna Marin, Nelson Mandela, and Julia Gillard. But what about the people standing just behind them? In The Right Hand, Missing Perspectives founder Phoebe Saintilan-Stocks sits down with the chiefs of...
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Love's Executioner
- By: Irvin D. Yalom
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance123
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The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Challenging Convention
- By Nicky Webber on 26-08-2017
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Love's Executioner
- Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2016
- Language: English
- The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....
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Making It up as I Go Along
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance97
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Story98
You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life....
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Loved it!
- By Amazon Customer on 08-03-2018
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Making It up as I Go Along
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2016
- Language: English
- You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life....
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- By: Bill Hayes
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance74
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Story73
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by....
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enjoyed every precious moment
- By Patrick on 11-03-2018
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Insomniac City
- New York, Oliver, and Me
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2017
- Language: English
- Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by....
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On Meditation
- By: Sri M
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quieten your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation. With his knowledge of all the various schools of...
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Great content but audio file badly needs editing!
- By Amazon Customer on 17-08-2020
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On Meditation
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2020
- Language: English
- In today's challenging and busy world, don't you wish you knew how to quieten your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation. With his knowledge of all the various schools of...
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The Upanishads
- By: Roshen Dalal
- Narrated by: Suchitra Gupta
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad...
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That epistemology may have it's origins in the Subcontinent
- By Anonymous on 06-12-2023
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The Upanishads
- Narrated by: Suchitra Gupta
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2019
- Language: English
- This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the 108 Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad...
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The Last Days of Socrates
- By: Plato, Christopher Rowe, Christopher Rowe - introduction, and others
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth. 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
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Emotional, engaging, and thought provoking.
- By Samuel Reid-Morrison on 12-05-2023
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The Last Days of Socrates
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth, Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2021
- Language: English
- Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Justin Avoth and Laurence Dobiesz. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Christopher Rowe read by Justin Avoth. 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
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On Lust and Longing
- By: Blanche d'Alpuget
- Narrated by: Blanche d'Alpuget
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. Here are the raw and timeless themes of the power and powerlessness inherent to lust, love, loss and death....
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On Lust and Longing
- Narrated by: Blanche d'Alpuget
- Series: Little Books on Big Ideas
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2019
- Language: English
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On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. Here are the raw and timeless themes of the power and powerlessness inherent to lust, love, loss and death....
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- By: Michele Filgate
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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“You will devour these beautifully written - and very important - tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times best-selling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from 15 brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects...
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- Narrated by: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, Janina Edwards, Emily Ellet, Cynthia Farrell, Soneela Nankani, David Sadzin
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
- “You will devour these beautifully written - and very important - tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times best-selling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from 15 brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects...
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Love this book
- By Daniel Schuller on 03-11-2022
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On the Genealogy of Morals
- A Polemic
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-06-2013
- Language: English
- In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- By: Kunal Nayyar
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2015
- Language: English
- In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...
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The Conspiracy against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- By: Thomas Ligotti
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...
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The Conspiracy against the Human Race
- A Contrivance of Horror
- Narrated by: Jon Padgett
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2024
- Language: English
- In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in...
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- By: Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance108
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Story107
This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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Loved the collection of Minimalist articles
- By Taikozfan on 24-03-2017
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Essential
- Essays by the Minimalists
- Narrated by: Justin Malik
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-10-2016
- Language: English
- This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com....
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical...
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Great novelists essays
- By Frank Love on 25-09-2022
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2020
- Language: English
- A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical...
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Someone Like Me
- An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers
- By: Clem Bastow - editor, Jo Case - editor
- Narrated by: Kira Fixx, Scott Turner Schofield, Vera Tan, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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While the ‘ nerdy white man’ stereotype of Autism dominates in media and popular culture, other Autistic people miss out on seeing themselves, their unique experiences, their hardships and their triumphs. In Someone Like Me, edited by Clem Bastow and Jo Case, twenty-five Autistic...
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This is an excellent book of stories!
- By Justin Boocock on 05-09-2025
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Someone Like Me
- An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers
- Narrated by: Kira Fixx, Scott Turner Schofield, Vera Tan, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Subhadra Newton, Elaine Wang, Sanya Simmons
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-03-2025
- Language: English
- While the ‘ nerdy white man’ stereotype of Autism dominates in media and popular culture, other Autistic people miss out on seeing themselves, their unique experiences, their hardships and their triumphs. In Someone Like Me, edited by Clem Bastow and Jo Case, twenty-five Autistic...
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 22-09-2017
- Language: English
- In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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