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The Letters of Jane Austen
- Performed by Fiona Shaw in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of 42. It is to her elder sister Cassandra that most of her surviving letters are written, and through them, we discover the intimate world of the English gentry.
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- By Amazon Customer on 26-05-26
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- Performed by Fiona Shaw in a Dramatised Setting
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-06-22
- Language: English
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The Greyhound Diary
- By: Judy Montagu
- Narrated by: Anna Mathias
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Judy Montagu spent her late teenage years and early twenties directing anti-aircraft defenses during the Second World War as a Captain in Gunnery for the British Army. Demobilised in 1946, she set out in search of fun and freedom in America and found herself swept into a bright and glamorous social circle. She soon counted Joe Alsop and the Cushing Sisters among her new friends and even began to consider becoming a US citizen. In 1949, determined to understand America more deeply, Judy embarked on a three-month tour of the country by Greyhound bus.
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The Greyhound Diary
- Narrated by: Anna Mathias
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-05-26
- Language: English
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Letters from a Lost Generation
- First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends
- By: Mark Bostridge, Alan Bishop
- Narrated by: Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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"If war spares me," wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, "it will be my one aim to immortalise in a book the story of us four." Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed Testament of Youth. This series of letters was the inspiration behind Testament. Written between Vera; her brother; her fiancé, Roland Leighton; and their two best friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, they give a unique perspective on the most horrifying conflict the world has ever seen.
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A moving Tribute to the lost Generation
- By Ruth on 01-09-20
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Letters from a Lost Generation
- First World War letters of Vera Brittain and four friends
- Narrated by: Amanda Root, Jonathan Firth, Full Cast
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-07-14
- Language: English
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- By: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold". And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress....
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Fleming, the man, so likable and charming
- By SirChutney on 02-12-18
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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The Quality of Love
- Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- By: Ariane Bankes
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, Edmund Wilson and George Orwell.
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The Quality of Love
- Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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A Journey Through the Cycling Year
- By: The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.
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Great year in review
- By Steveo on 03-12-18
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A Journey Through the Cycling Year
- Narrated by: Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, Ciro Scognamiglio, Michelene Heine, Sebastien Piquet, Fracnois Thomazeau, Orla Chennaoui, Vidal Sancho, Alexander Capon
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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Love in the Blitz
- A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down
- By: Eileen Alexander
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford, Stephanie Racine, Oswyn Murray
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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‘Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced … Splendid’ William Boyd, Guardian...
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Voice of love
- By Sarah on 17-06-20
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Love in the Blitz
- A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down
- Narrated by: Sian Clifford, Stephanie Racine, Oswyn Murray
- Length: 21 hrs
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Life
- Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question
- By: James Bailey
- Narrated by: James Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to write to luminaries from all fields and ask one simple question: What is the meaning of life? Then he waited. Slowly but surely their responses arrived through his letterbox. From entrepreneurs and environmentalists, to artists, authors and adventurers, this book gathers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on what it means to be human. With over one hundred enlightening responses, it's more than just a collection of letters; it's a roadmap to finding your own path.
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The Meaning of Life
- Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question
- Narrated by: James Bailey
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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Our Hidden Lives
- The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain
- By: Simon Garfield
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perry, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages...
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Our Hidden Lives
- The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlton, Christopher Scott, Jeffrey Perry, Joan Walker, Moir Leslie, Simon Garfield
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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Memorie di un libraio
- By: George Orwell, Romano Montroni - preface
- Narrated by: Alberto Onofrietti
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Memorie di un libraio è un ironico, colto, originale viaggio nel mondo dei libri in compagnia di uno dei più grandi autori del Novecento. George Orwell descrive le lunghe giornate trascorse come commesso in una libreria dell’usato, tra volumi polverosi e clienti stravaganti; ci fa apprezzare...
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Memorie di un libraio
- Narrated by: Alberto Onofrietti
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 09-06-26
- Language: Italian
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Letters From Everest
- Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains
- By: George Mallory, Tom Newton Dunn - editor
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey, Seb Humphreys
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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‘An extraordinary treasure trove’ Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains. On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were seen through a...
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Letters From Everest
- Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains
- Narrated by: Catherine Bailey, Seb Humphreys
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-05-24
- Language: English
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter - Editor, Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela - Foreword
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
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Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, 44-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next 27 years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, a majority of which were previously unpublished, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom.
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The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Atandwa Kani
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
- By: Shirley Jackson, Bernice M. Murphy, Laurence Jackson Hyman - editor
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Gary Bennett, Linda Jones
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House i must stop writing letters and get to writing a novel. Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and...
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The Letters of Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Gary Bennett, Linda Jones
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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The Man Who Read Everything
- The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
- By: Harold Bloom, Heather Cass White
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...
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The Man Who Read Everything
- The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-05-26
- Language: English
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Scott of the Antarctic
- Performed by Edward Fox in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Edward Fox OBE, Gordon Fithen
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice. On finally reaching the pole, Scott and his comrades were devastated to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. With temperatures of minus 30, they began their slow journey back to their base.
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Scott's diaries vividly revisited.
- By tommy61 on 27-05-24
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Scott of the Antarctic
- Performed by Edward Fox in a Dramatised Setting
- Narrated by: Edward Fox OBE, Gordon Fithen
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-06-22
- Language: English
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Mary Churchill's War
- The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
- By: Emma Soames
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Emma Soames
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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In 1939, 17-year-old Mary found herself in an extraordinary position at an extraordinary time: it was the outbreak of the Second World War and her father, Winston Churchill, had been appointed first lord of the admiralty; within months he would be prime minister. The young Mary Churchill was uniquely placed to observe this remarkable historical moment and her diaries - most of which have never been published - provide a front-row view of the great events of war, as well as exchanges and intimate moments with her father.
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Delightful story
- By Mary Bockmaster on 08-12-25
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Mary Churchill's War
- The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Emma Soames
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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A Letter to My Father
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.
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shockingly bad
- By Sab J on 13-04-24
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A Letter to My Father
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-03-20
- Language: English
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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
- By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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As chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which philosophy is a practical form of self-improvement rather than a matter of argument or wordplay. Seneca's letters to a young friend advise action rather than reflection, addressing the issues that confront every generation: how to achieve a good life; how to avoid corruption and self-indulgence; and how to live without fear of death.
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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Ito
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-01-25
- Language: English
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A Mother's Story
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: D R Hill
- Length: 10 hrs
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I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control...
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Disappointing
- By Amazon Customer on 02-03-26
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A Mother's Story
- Narrated by: D R Hill
- Series: No Greater Love, Book 7
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 24-09-25
- Language: English
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Letter To My Younger Self
- The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives
- By: Jane Graham, The Big Issue
- Narrated by: Clare Kissane, Jo Dow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year All royalties from sales of this book go to The Big Issue If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best-known, most interesting and most successful figures in entertainment...
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Letter To My Younger Self
- The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives
- Narrated by: Clare Kissane, Jo Dow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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