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Without Prejudice
- A Memoir
- By: Tidjane Thiam
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In a career that has seen him face coup leaders in his native Ivory Coast and lead some of the most prestigious Western financial institutions, Tidjane Thiam has blazed a trail through African and European politics and business. After a childhood in tumultuous west and north Africa, Thiam broke...
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Excellent read.
- By Tinashe Mawoyo on 20-05-26
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Without Prejudice
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Vuelta Skelter
- Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
- By: Tim Moore
- Narrated by: Tim Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy-nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409-km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic.
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The Spain nobody talks about
- By Fay Rushby on 23-06-25
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Vuelta Skelter
- Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
- Narrated by: Tim Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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Dragged Up Proppa
- Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
- By: Pip Fallow
- Narrated by: Pip Fallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance21
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Read by the author, Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England. 'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' – Sebastian Payne, author of Broken Heartlands Pip Fallow...
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To a family friend
- By jeff on 09-12-23
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Dragged Up Proppa
- Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North
- Narrated by: Pip Fallow
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 23-03-23
- Language: English
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The Dreamer
- An Autobiography
- By: Cliff Richard
- Narrated by: Cliff Richard
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall218
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Performance199
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Story198
Achieving a hit in every decade since the 1950s, Cliff Richard stands alone in pop history. Coming of age in 1950s London, he began his music career at Soho's legendary 2i's Cafe, and now he's approaching his 80th birthday with record sales of over 250 million and counting. Cliff looks back on his humble upbringing and how he went on to fulfil his wildest dreams by becoming a pop star and even a film star. He talks about finding Christianity, reflects on the ups and downs of life in the public eye and reveals how the false allegations against him changed his life forever.
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Tennis, God and Rock n' Roll
- By papapownall on 30-10-20
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The Dreamer
- An Autobiography
- Narrated by: Cliff Richard
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance55
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In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
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A bit of common sense when choosing a narrator!
- By Anonymous on 25-06-20
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The Man in the Red Coat
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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Saxophone Colossus
- The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
- By: Aidan Levy
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 31 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called "the only jazz recluse" has gone largely untold—until now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist.
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Saxophone Colossus
- The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 31 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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Sad Little Men
- Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- By: Richard Beard
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance221
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Story219
In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for generations: a training for the challenges of Empire. He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was to not let that show. Being separated from the people who love you is traumatic. How did that feel at the time, and what sort of adult does it mould? This is a story about England, and a portrait of a type of boy, trained to lead, who becomes a certain type of man.
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Memories flood back.
- By Kindle Customer on 19-01-22
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Sad Little Men
- Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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Maya Angelou: The Autobiographies
- Six BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Indie Gjesdal, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance93
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The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are some of the best, most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography written. They run the gamut from life affirming to tragedy and back again with a tone that is a joyous, direct and searingly honest and are an extraordinary portrait of 20th century black America.
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Excellent BBC production
- By Mike C Davies on 27-01-20
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Maya Angelou: The Autobiographies
- Six BBC Radio 4 Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner, Indie Gjesdal, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
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That Peckham Boy
- Growing Up, Getting Out and Giving Back
- By: Kenny Imafidon
- Narrated by: Chuku Modu
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance87
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Two days after his eighteenth birthday, Kenny Imafidon was charged with the murder of a seventeen-year-old boy in south-east London. The middle child of a single mother with ambitions for her children, Kenny grew up near an estate in Peckham where deprivation and hopelessness were rife, and gang culture flourished in his community. Kenny faced a minimum of thirty years behind bars. A candid and unfiltered take on some of the most challenging topics that define our times, That Peckham Boy is a personal manifesto exploring what it means to be young, Black and poor in the city.
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Rollercoaster
- By Stockwell Mama 32 on 14-12-25
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That Peckham Boy
- Growing Up, Getting Out and Giving Back
- Narrated by: Chuku Modu
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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Harlem Godfather
- The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
- By: Karen E. Quinones, Mayme Hatcher Johnson
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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The first and only full biography on legendary Harlem gangster, Bumpy Johnson who was depicted in the movies Cotton Club, Hoodlum, and American Gangster.
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True Story
- By Peach Pitba on 06-02-24
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Harlem Godfather
- The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson
- Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 28-09-21
- Language: English
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Cack-Handed
- A Memoir
- By: Gina Yashere
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall682
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Performance624
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The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfil the...
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WORK OF BRILLIANCE!!
- By Daniella Blechner on 25-09-21
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Cack-Handed
- A Memoir
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Green Hills of Africa
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Josh Lucas
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance28
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The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of...
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Ambivalent feelings
- By SophieSz on 08-01-19
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Green Hills of Africa
- Narrated by: Josh Lucas
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-12-06
- Language: English
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- By: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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An interesting insight into the life of the author
- By K. English on 29-05-18
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-10-17
- Language: English
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Unfinished
- By: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- Narrated by: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall173
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Performance142
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Brought to you by Penguin. The thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognisable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was...
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Excellent rendition.
- By Naz on 12-04-21
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Unfinished
- Narrated by: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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Another Planet
- A Teenager in Suburbia
- By: Tracey Thorn
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance109
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Story109
In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn's teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her diaries were packed with entries about not buying things, not going to the disco, the school coach not arriving. Before she was a best-selling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, Meaningful Conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living.
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Up town magic !!!!!!
- By Polly on 28-06-26
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Another Planet
- A Teenager in Suburbia
- Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- By: Deneys Reitz
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Commando is more than a historical document. With prose that captures both the brutality and the beauty of war, Reitz weaves a narrative that resonates with authenticity, transcending time. As relevant today as when it was first penned, Commando has become a South African classic and stands as a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of adversity.
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A must read
- By OrientalPoppy on 02-05-26
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
- Narrated by: John Maytham
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 24-07-24
- Language: English
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance26
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The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride...
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That love, above all, rules everything.
- By claire sosnov on 28-06-25
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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Sista Sister
- By: Candice Brathwaite
- Narrated by: Candice Brathwaite
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance207
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I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a Black British mum, it was an important call-to-arms allowing mothers to take control and scrap the parenting rulebook to do it their own way. It was a Sunday Times top-five best seller. Sista Sister is a compilation of essays about all the things Candice wishes someone had talked to her about when she was a young Black girl growing up in London.
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Essential life lessons for a young black woman
- By little_misschatterbox on 13-07-21
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Sista Sister
- Narrated by: Candice Brathwaite
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
- By: Herbie Hancock, Lisa Dickey
- Narrated by: Herbie Hancock
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance98
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The warmly welcomed memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on an extraordinary life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator who has spent a lifetime...
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Fascinating!
- By Elliot Bell on 19-05-22
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Herbie Hancock: Possibilities
- Narrated by: Herbie Hancock
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 23-10-14
- Language: English
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A Croft in the Hills
- By: Katharine Stewart, Neil Gunn - foreword
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread, and surviving the worst that Scottish winters can throw at them. Their neighbors are few, but among them they find the generosity and community spirit that has survived in the Highlands for generations.
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AI generated voice
- By EeP on 23-07-25
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A Croft in the Hills
- Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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