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The Siege
- The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Length: Not Yet Known
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On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history, in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff, while the SAS – hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy – laid plans for a daring rescue mission: Operation Nimrod.
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The Siege
- The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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Out
- By: Tim Shipman
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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How did Boris Johnson supersede Theresa May to become Britain's Prime Minister? How did he pursue his promise to Get Brexit Done amidst multiple Brexit secretaries, repeated coup attempts and reshuffles, and an extraordinarily terse relationship with Brussels? What really happened in Downing Street – from the political choices to the party place settings – as the pandemic took the world in its grip? Out follows from May's resignation through to the tussles over the final Brexit deal, the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and our shortest serving PM ever.
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Out
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Never Had It So Good
- A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
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In this strikingly impressive book, he combines academic verve and insight with colourful, dramatic writing to produce a classic, ground-breaking work that has changed forever how we think about the Sixties.
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Never Had It So Good
- A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- By: Dominic Sandbrook
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
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Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum.
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White Heat
- A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 20-06-24
- Language: English
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- By: Corinne Fowler
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There is a depth of feeling about rural places, the moors and lochs, valleys and mountains, cottages and country houses. Yet the British countryside, so integral to our national identity, is rarely seen as having anything to do with British colonialism. In Our Island Stories, Corinne Fowler brings rural life and colonial rule together with transformative results. Through ten country walks with varied companions, Fowler combines local and global history, connecting the Cotswolds to Calcutta, Dolgellau to Virginia, and Grasmere to Canton.
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Our Island Stories
- Country Walks Through Colonial Britain
- Narrated by: Corinne Fowler
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- By: Stephen Fisher
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
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Filling a massive gap in D-Day literature, marine historian Stephen Fisher provides fresh insight and unrivalled coverage of one of the least well know of the D-Day landings. Although they are well known, coverage of the action on Sword, Juno and Gold beaches is relatively sparse and overshadowed by the more famous American landing at Omaha. In fact, the capture of all the beaches were events in their own right, full of drama and incident, and in particular, Sword Beach turned out to be crucial in securing the Normandy Landings.
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Sword Beach
- The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- By: Torsten Bell
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Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country – a unique toxicity of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a hopeful case for reclaiming a different future: by building an investment nation of good work, resilient communities and secure homes, a society in which both burdens and prosperity are shared.
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Great Britain?
- How We Get Our Future Back
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Operation Biting
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful. In February 1942 RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly-identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. The brilliant scientist Dr RV Jones proposed an assault to capture key components. The nearest accessible enemy set stood upon a steep cliff at Bruneval in Normandy. Winston Churchill enthused, as did Lord Louis Mountbatten, chief of Combined Operations.
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Operation Biting
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Three Pounds in My Pocket
- A BBC History of South Asians in Post-War Britain
- By: Kavita Puri
- Narrated by: Kavita Puri
- Length: 6 hrs
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In the 1950s, tens of thousands of migrants travelled to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. Many of them arrived with only £3 in their pocket – the limit set by the Indian authorities. In these five series, award-winning journalist Kavita Puri – whose own father Ravi came with just a few pounds himself – tells their untold stories, and those of their descendants.
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Three Pounds in My Pocket
- A BBC History of South Asians in Post-War Britain
- Narrated by: Kavita Puri
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Made in Manchester
- A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
- By: Brian Groom
- Narrated by: David Judge
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Manchester was the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution. Visitors arrived from foreign lands, who saw in it a foretaste of the world’s future. But no one knew whether the upheaval would lead to prosperity or starvation. ‘From this filthy sewer pure gold flows,’ wrote French social commentator Alexis de Tocqueville. It was a hotbed of politics too. The Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is immortalised in British folklore. The city was a centre for radical movements such as Chartism, yet also spawned the employer-led Anti-Corn Law League, which made free trade Britain’s economic orthodoxy.
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Made in Manchester
- A People’s History of the City That Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: David Judge
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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The Searchers
- Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies
- By: Andy Beckett
- Narrated by: Alexi Armitage
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
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In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world, Westminster politics seemed stuck. It was time, he decided, for a different approach. Over the next half century, the radicalized Benn helped forge a new left in Britain. He was joined by four other politicians, who would become comrades, collaborators and rivals: Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn.
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The Searchers
- Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies
- Narrated by: Alexi Armitage
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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D-DAY: The Oral History
- The Turning Point of WWII By the People Who Were There
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.
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D-DAY: The Oral History
- The Turning Point of WWII By the People Who Were There
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
- The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
- The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- By: Alice Loxton
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
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In this unconventional and witty history, award-winning writer and broadcaster, Alice Loxton, delves into Britain’s past, exploring the country though eighteen notable figures at this formative age. From a young Empress Matilda, already changing the fate of nations, to Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed teenager who grew up in a Welsh mining town, each journey unpicks a different era of Britain. Irreverent and full of fascinating tidbits, Loxton shows how the way a society treats its young, reveals much about its values and foibles.
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Eighteen
- A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
- Narrated by: Alice Loxton
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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Kingmakers
- How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier
- By: Timothy Venning
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The strength of the Marcher lords would come to the fore at numerous times in the nation's history in the shape of notorious figures such as Simon de Montfort and Roger Mortimer. The civil war of King Stephen's reign, the baronial resistance to King John, the overthrow of Edward II and Richard II; all of these crises turned upon the involvement of the lords of the Marches. Timothy Venning explores their mentality and reveals the dramatic careers both of those who prospered from their loyalty to the king and those whose power was gained by treachery.
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Kingmakers
- How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-05-24
- Language: English
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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
- By: Terry Deary
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Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we? Well, as it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and almost none of the kings and queens of England were actually English. But then, as Horrible Histories author Terry Deary argues, nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make.
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A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
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One name links Betrand Russell and Axel Munthe, Augustus John and Henry Lamb, H.H. Asquith and Duncan Grant, Aldous Huxley and Lytton Strachey. To some she was a lover, to others a confidant and adviser. To many she was a mother substitute. But wherever the phrase ‘Bloomsbury group’ is spoken, Lady Ottoline Morrell’s name is not far behind.
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- 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: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- By: Caroline Elkins
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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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The Scandal of the Century
- By: Lisa Hilton
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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There are few labels not attached to Aphra Behn - playwright, poet, a spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals. And yet, for all her notoriety Aphra Behn is an enigma. Born in around 1640, her early life isn't well recorded and facts about her are continually disputed. Her birth name may have been Eaffrey Johnson and she could have been the daughter of a Canterbury barber, although neither fact is certain. And, just after the Restoration she probably briefly lived in the English colony of Surinam in South America, where she was perhaps embroiled in political espionage.
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The Scandal of the Century
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-05-24
- Language: English
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