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Elizabethans
- How Modern Britain Was Forged
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
The Sunday Times bestseller
THE STORY OF BRITAIN during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain’s Elizabethan Age by bestselling writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr
Britain changed fundamentally during the Queen’s long, distinguished reign. So who made modern Britain the country it is today? How do we sum up the kind of people we are? What did it mean to be the new Elizabethans?
In this wonderfully told history, spanning back to when Queen Elizabeth became queen in 1953, Andrew Marr traces the people who have made Britain the country it is today. From the activists to the artists, the sports heroes to the innovators, these people pushed us forward, changed the conversation, encouraged us to eat better, to sing, think and to protest. They got things done. How will our generation be remembered in a hundred years’ time? And when you look back at Britain’s toughest moments in the past seventy years, what do you learn about its people and its values?
In brilliantly entertaining style and with unexpected insights into some of our sung and unsung heroes, this is our story as Elizabethans – the story of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse country we live in today. In short, it is the history of modern Britain.
FEATURING: David Attenborough. Marcus Rashford. Jan Morris. Diana Dors. Bob Geldof. David Olusoga. Elizabeth David. Zaha Hadid. Frank Crichlow. Quentin Crisp. Dusty Springfield. Captain Tom – and many others
Critic reviews
‘Like The Crown in book form: a stream of intriguing stories producing a mosaic that the reader, with expert steers from Marr, can glue together’ Guardian
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- X
- 20-11-20
Bite sized history
A great listen, diverse & thoroughly informative although the narrator does seem to ‘drone on’ a bit a times
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- Joe
- 31-12-21
Very enjoyable and didn't mind the narrator!
Really interesting listen, lots of fascinating stories i didn't know about. Will read Jan Morris book.
I know what people mean about the narrator, not my favourite but I did get used to him and didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book.
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- Gordon Duff
- 26-07-22
A must read
This book is excellent, please give us volume two. The performance and stories were brilliant. Great value.
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- micmac
- 15-08-22
Typical Marr
Absolutely enthralling. Made more enjoyable by living through the entire history. Marr always makes history interesting
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- K. J. Bute
- 11-05-23
So much in one lifetime!
I really appreciated. Andrew Marr's review of the last 70 years of our Queen Elizabeth's reign. However the narrator was the worst for all the audible books I have ever listened to he just droned on and on with no enthusiasm inspiration inflection or apparent. enjoyment or belief in any of the people or happenings he covered. He ruined a. brilliant book.
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- sarahboz
- 23-10-20
Fascinating and lively study of modern Britain
I have enjoyed listening to this book immensely. A lively and fast moving tale of change and transformation, punctuated by fascinating examples, for example. The contrasting backgrounds and views of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn. Wonderful.
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- Guillermo
- 09-12-20
Pure wisdom
Every word this man says is a tonic of reason nd intelligence.
And it's read clearly and beautifully.
A must have!
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- Suzanne
- 31-05-22
An excellent read
Another excellent read from Andrew Marr, especially good to read at this time of the Platinum Jubilee.
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- Ann Fensterstock
- 12-08-21
Please! No more from this narrator!
An excellent book by an excellent writer. Ditto for Salman Rushdie’s ‘Languages of Truth’. But what possessed these two authors - or their publishers or Audible - to use this narrator. His bio is remarkable as a stage actor but his tuneless, staccato-clipped reading style makes otherwise straightforward sentence structures barely Intelligible. Gave up on the Audible of both books and reverted to my hard copies.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-10-20
Modern British history read by HAL 9000
I am sure this is as fascinating as all other Andrew Marr books. However, I couldn’t get beyond chapter one as the narrator is awful. His tone of voice, inflection, and rhythm are robotic. In fact he sounds exactly like HAL 9000 from 2001. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. “
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