Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • Taken on Trust

  • By: Terry Waite
  • Narrated by: Terry Waite
  • Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (83 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Taken on Trust cover art

Taken on Trust

By: Terry Waite
Narrated by: Terry Waite
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Out of the Silence cover art
No Ordinary Day cover art
God Has a Dream cover art
Fahrenheit 451 cover art
First Man In cover art
Trauma and Recovery cover art
Corrie Ten Boom: The Watchmaker's Daughter cover art
Blown Away cover art
Isobel Kuhn: On the Roof of the World cover art
Wake Up cover art
God's Smuggler cover art
The Boy Who Made the World Disappear cover art
Twopence to Cross the Mersey cover art
The Other Side: A Psychic's Story cover art
The ISIS Hostage cover art
The Grace Outpouring cover art

Summary

Held captive from January 1987 to November 1991, for much of the time in solitary confinement, Terry Waite wrote his autobiography in his head. Here is his own heart-rending account of an existence robbed of companionship and of emotional, physical, and mental stimulation. He describes how his recollections of life from childhood onwards helped him endure a life of monotony and fear in captivity and reveals the inner strengths, which enabled him to survive his captors’ often savage treatment. He tells of his resolve never to have any regrets, any false sentimentality, and any self-pity.

Taken on Trust is a deeply moving self-portrait of the man behind the headlines. It has become one of the classic accounts of man’s survival at the limits of human endurance. Read by the author.

©1993 Terry Waite (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

More from the same

What listeners say about Taken on Trust

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    59
  • 4 Stars
    17
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    57
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    3
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    55
  • 4 Stars
    10
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

fabulous

A true hero and his positivity in adversity is a lesson to us all. A fabulous book beautifully narrated by Terry himself is a must read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Inspiring

Terry, thank you so much for this book.
I read it initially many years ago, but during 2020 with so many of us being constrained by this terrible virus, downloaded the audio version and have listened to you retelling your ordeal several times.

I have no formal religious views, but you have given me hope. Thank you.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great Listening, very inspiring

Great listen, how to find positives in the darkest of times. with modesty Terry provides example of this time after time.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars
  • DM
  • 04-04-21

Thoughtful

Great to hear this story read by the man who experienced it. V. Thought provoking.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic, honest and inspiring.

Terry wrote and reads this book with such honesty and brilliance. It is an incredibly inspiring book - couldn't put it down! Thankyou Terry for sharing your story. Your integrity, hope and honesty shines through.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

A captivating account

I adored hearing his account of the years a captive and it was truly gripping but the alternating chapters of reminiscing of his previous life for very tedious by the time he recounted every person he had met and worked with in Africa. It sprinted and crawled in direct measure of which part of his life he was describing
The hostage years were marvellously written and make the book worth the read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Incredible human spirit. very emotional

Tough to listen to at times but what shone through was Terry's incredible honesty, honour and spirit in the face of this ordeal.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

My lockdown listen

A great book about living through incredibly difficult circumstances and a help to be reminded that whatever the challenges of lockdown, there was an awful lot to be thankful for.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Heart strength

Excellent heart wrenching a fantastic read and thank you Mr Waite for your strength

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

simply brilliant

Superbly narrated by the author himself and interspersed with various tales from his life to break up the tales of years of solitary confinement, this was a truly engrossing listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!