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Humanly Possible
- The great humanist experiment in living
- By: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Humanly Possible is a wide-ranging, personal, thought-provoking and entertaining journey through the battle of ideas over some 700 years of history—mostly, but not exclusively, in Europe. Through a mixture of biography and philosophy, Bakewell seeks to understand what humanism is, why it has continued to flourish despite opposition from fanatics, mystics, tyrants and cultural pessimists of all kinds, and exactly why we should value and defend it in the 21st century.
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Quite brilliant
- By Colin on 28-05-23
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Humanly Possible
- The great humanist experiment in living
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens
- A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France
- By: Shelley Puhak
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Brunhild was a Visigothic princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law, Fredegund, started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet - in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport - these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms for decades, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies, developed taxation policies, established infrastructure and negotiated with emperors and popes.
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Fascinating read
- By lenka vlckova on 21-11-22
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The Dark Queens
- A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Traces
- The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
- By: Patricia Wiltshire
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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In Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms. She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the wonders of the natural world.
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Interesting science overwhelmed by personal bias
- By Josie on 13-11-19
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Traces
- The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-07-19
- Language: English
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- By: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make philosophy out of this cocktail!'
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Existentialism and Phenomenology
- By Liz... Bristol on 01-01-17
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-06-16
- Language: English
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Property
- The Myth That Built The World
- By: Rowan Moore
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also a weapon, an agent of displacement and exploitation, the currency of kleptocrats and oligarchs. Property is a vivid, far-reaching analysis of our concept of property ownership, from 16th-century feudalism to the present day. Above all, Property asks how we have come to view our homes not as a natural human right, but as investments—and it offers hope for how things could be better, with reform that might enable the social wealth of property to be returned to society.
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Property
- The Myth That Built The World
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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A Life's Work
- By: Rachel Cusk
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.
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It is a scandal
- By Aquilina Christophorus on 20-03-22
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A Life's Work
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-05-20
- Language: English
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
- What War Does to Women
- By: Christina Lamb
- Narrated by: Christina Lamb - introduction, Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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In an audiobook that is as unflinching as it is passionate, Lamb tackles head on the growing number of stories of brutality against women from across the world, some of which have shocked her more profoundly than anything she has seen in her 30-year career as a war correspondent. Ethnic and sectarian groups across the world now use rape as a strategy – almost as a weapon of mass destruction – with women rounded up and incarcerated to produce offspring, a new generation of jihadis in a chilling real-life version of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Horror upon horror.
- By Hoops on 24-12-21
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefield
- What War Does to Women
- Narrated by: Christina Lamb - introduction, Antonia Beamish
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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The Feminism Book
- By: DK, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
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Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organisations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to feminism. Joining DK's best-selling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book, narrated by Antonia Beamish, is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, through the suffrage campaigns of the late 19th century, to recent developments such as the Everyday Sexism Project and the #MeToo movement.
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Excellent Reference Book
- By G. Read on 30-01-21
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The Feminism Book
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Length: 16 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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Queen High
- By: Jane Thynne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Every evening Rose Ransom looks in the mirror and marvels that she's even alive. A mere woman, her role in the Leader's death has been miraculously overlooked. She still works at the Culture Ministry, where her work now focuses on the outlawed subject of Poetry, a form of writing that transmits subversive meanings, emotions and signals that cannot be controlled. Therefore all Poetry is banned and Rose is appointed a Poet Hunter.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- By dwk on 14-02-23
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Queen High
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Series: Widowland, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Shaking a Leg
- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
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Listening to Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had - a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction and everything in between. Bursting with ideas, culturally astute and sparklingly witty, this comprehensive volume of Angela Carter's journalism is the most down-to-earth and entertaining companion to latter 20th-century thought you'll ever need.
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Chapter headings?!
- By Daniel Galsworthy on 29-10-21
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Shaking a Leg
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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People Like Us
- Margaret Thatcher and Me
- By: Caroline Slocock
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final 18 months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural ally, and yet she became fascinated by the woman behind the Iron Lady façade and by how she dealt with a world dominated by men. As events inexorably led to Margaret Thatcher's downfall, Slocock observed the vulnerabilities and contradictions of the woman considered by many to be the ultimate anti-feminist.
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So interesting
- By AG on 05-01-21
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People Like Us
- Margaret Thatcher and Me
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 28-08-18
- Language: English
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Pig/Pork
- Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
- By: Pía Spry-Marqués
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and gastronomy, providing a close and affectionate look at the myriad causes underlying this multimillennial bond. What is it that people in all four corners of the world find so fascinating about the pig? When did the human obsession with pigs begin, how did it develop through time and where is it heading? Why are pigs so special to some of us but not to others?
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Mostly boring, then disappointing.
- By Jack on 08-05-18
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Pig/Pork
- Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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Nothing Sacred
- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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'In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred', says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of 'abroad'. Please note that many of the essays in this collection also appear in Shaking a Leg.
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Are audiobooks proof 'listened'?
- By Caroline F Greatley on 03-06-21
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Nothing Sacred
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- By: Claire Wilcox
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she steps into the archive of memory, deftly stitching together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in spare, luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear.
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A gentle honest collection of acutely observed life moments and their intricate interweavings.
- By Howcroft on 16-12-23
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Patch Work
- A Life Amongst Clothes
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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- By: Angela Carter
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing; American writing....
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- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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