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The Cooler King
- By: Patrick Bishop
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated. It is a saga full of high drama, climaxing in a break out via a tunnel dug in the latrines of the Oflag XXIB prison camp in Poland.
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Great Listen
- By Terri on 23-11-21
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The Cooler King
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 21-03-16
- Language: English
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Tuppence for Paper and String
- By: Brenda Ashford
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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It is 1945, and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends, happy that at long last the war is over, hope that they'll soon leave the days of rationing and worry behind. Before long Brenda's skills as a real life Mary Poppins are in demand again. Moving from house to house, Brenda never stays long, but just enough time to sprinkle a little magic. Word quickly spreads of this wonder nanny, who gets up to feed fretful babies in the middle of the night, who delivers quiet wisdom, and calmly restores order and happiness.
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Tuppence for Paper and String
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-08-13
- Language: English
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Ripper Hunter
- By: M. J. Trow
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloody murders that repelled - and fascinated - contemporaries and has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M. J. Trow’s compelling biography of this preeminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions.
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Enlightening.
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-23
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Ripper Hunter
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 13-06-13
- Language: English
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One Woman's War
- By: Eileen Younghusband
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidable enemy, but what about the women who also played their parts in fighting for freedom? Eileen Younghusband was just 18 when she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She quickly demonstrated her keen intellect and mathematical skills, playing a crucial role in Fighter Command's underground Filter Room.
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Such a great account and overview. Recommended.
- By Mr. Russell A. Smith on 17-11-19
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One Woman's War
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 01-11-15
- Language: English
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If The Cap Fits: My Rocky Road to Emmerdale
- By: Steve Halliwell
- Narrated by: Jim Barclay
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Steve Halliwell is best known as the loveable patriarch Zak Dingle in the hit TV show Emmerdale, a part he has played since 1994. He is now one of the UK's most recognisable and treasured soap stars. Yet before his success, Halliwell spent many years desperately seeking work and even spent time on the streets. This warts-and-all story of his rise to fame is an inspiration. It explores the wider class history that permeated the country in the '60s and '70s and still lingers today. Above all, it is an honest tale of rejection and redemption and will appeal to all who have the ambition to better themselves.
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The cap certainly fits
- By Hayley Graham on 30-08-18
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If The Cap Fits: My Rocky Road to Emmerdale
- Narrated by: Jim Barclay
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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A Likely Tale, Lad
- By: Mike Pannett
- Narrated by: Mike Pannett
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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For a young Mike Pannett, growing up in North Yorkshire in the late 1960s and early '70s was a dream come true. They really were the good old days. The summer holidays lasted forever and the sun always seemed to shine. Given a fishing rod, a bottle of pop and a jam sandwich, a lad could wander as far as his bike would take him, and the countryside was one big adventure playground. Like many a boy, however, Mike learns things the hard way.
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Dreadful narration!
- By hazel on 01-02-17
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A Likely Tale, Lad
- Narrated by: Mike Pannett
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-01-17
- Language: English
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Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue
- The Story of an Accidental Family
- By: Lynn Knight
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Lynn Knight tells the remarkable story of the three adoptions, spanning three generations, within her remarkable family: of her great-grandfather, a fairground boy, given away when his parents left for America in 1865; of her great-aunt, rescued from an industrial school in 1909; and of her mother, adopted as a baby in 1930, and brought to Chesterfield from London.
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Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue
- The Story of an Accidental Family
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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Bobby on the Beat
- The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
- By: Pamela Rhodes
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Back in 1950 Pamela Rhodes became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and even before they stepped out on the beat there were the prejudices of older male officers to overcome. Yet from the first Pam was thrust into the front line. From runaway bulls to investigating ladies of the night and cases of vice, her innocent eyes were quickly opened.
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loved it!
- By Caro Atkn on 28-07-23
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Bobby on the Beat
- The True Story of a 1950s Policewoman
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-01-14
- Language: English
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The Staircase Girls
- By: Catherine Seymour
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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For 16-year-old Joyce, the college building she was about to enter represented privilege, wealth, a life she'd never live. As a bedder, Joyce would be making the beds of the male students, sweeping floors, dusting desks. She never expected to also find herself mothering, chastising and sometimes even covering up for 'her boys'. The Staircase Girls takes us into the lives of Joyce and other bedders, like Nance, Maud, Rose and Audrey.
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The Staircase Girls
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-01-17
- Language: English
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Time to Heal
- Tales of a Country Doctor
- By: Michael Dixon
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Time to Heal tells the story of the colourful life of a country doctor towards the end of his career. In turn shocking, sad and funny, it describes a doctor who feels poorly served by the conventional medicine of his time and finds new ways to relieve the suffering of his patients. This tale has a twist. Twenty-first-century general practice and its patients have been betrayed by top-heavy regulation, performance management and a blame culture. Young doctors no longer want to enter general practice. The author explores why and how pandemics might provide the answers.
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Time to Heal
- Tales of a Country Doctor
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 01-08-21
- Language: English
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The Pearly Prince of St Pancras
- By: Alf Dole, Jeff Hudson
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Pearly Kings and Queens are one of the quintessential icons of “old London”, originally invented to parody wealthy West End society but also to raise money for charities. Born in 1930, Alf Dole lived his life in this tradition and was the grandson of the first Pearly King of St Pancras. Capturing the camaraderie of London's street markets in the middle of the 20th century and surviving the Second World War.
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Love this fabulous recalling of a life well lived
- By Deborah Harvey-Smith on 11-07-22
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The Pearly Prince of St Pancras
- Narrated by: Terry Wale
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-01-15
- Language: English
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Sister Kate
- Nursing Through the Troubles
- By: Kate O'Hanlon
- Narrated by: Annie Farr
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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“Running casualty is really very simple: you have to love everybody, you have to listen to everybody, and when in doubt, you do just what Sister O'Hanlon tells you.” (Mr. William Rutherford, A & E consultant.) Kate O'Hanlon spent 16 years as sister in charge of A & E at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, working through the worst days of the Troubles. Told with her trademark blend of warmth, compassion and humour, this is her fascinating and extraordinary story of nursing on the front line.
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Sister Kate
- Nursing Through the Troubles
- Narrated by: Annie Farr
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-02-15
- Language: English
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From Paella to Porridge
- A Farewell to Spain and a Scottish Adventure
- By: Peter Kerr
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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After three years of hard work, the Kerr family are selling their orange farm and saying goodbye to Mallorca. Their adventure comes to an end with a paella feast with friends, full of bonhomie yet tinged with sadness. But returning to Scotland proves to be just as big an adventure, with quite a cultural shock in store. Welcomed back by family, the Kerrs make plans to start a deer farm on a remote hillside – the beginning of a period of challenges and change, of buying and restoring houses in the lovely Scottish countryside.
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From Paella to Porridge
- A Farewell to Spain and a Scottish Adventure
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene
- Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian
- By: Helen Batten
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresario with her own opera company, she was a darling of London’s music halls and theatre land, later reinventing herself as a journalist and writer. From humble working-class beginnings, Emily's fiery ambition would see her counting the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Charles Dickens as friends and mingling with the Rothschilds, Oscar Wilde and aristocrats. She even alleged that she had a close encounter with Jack the Ripper.
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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene
- Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-12-21
- Language: English
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Don't Call Me Clyde!
- Jazz Journey of a Sixties Stomper
- By: Peter Kerr
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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The Clyde Valley Stompers became, in the 1950s, Scotland's first ever super group. In 1961, at just 20 years of age, Peter 'Pete' Kerr inherited leadership of the Clydes after they moved to London. The band stormed the charts the following year and were launched into the glitzy world of mainstream popular music. Then, to the dismay of the Stompers' legions of fans, the curtain came down. But this is more than just a chronicle of their rise and fall.
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Don't Call Me Clyde!
- Jazz Journey of a Sixties Stomper
- Narrated by: James Bryce
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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Stalin's Had It Now!
- By: James Stevenson
- Narrated by: James Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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'So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell, Stalin’s had it now!' were the withering words of the corporal as he eyed his young National Service recruits for the first time. This autobiographical account, written 60 years later, tells of 'the most exciting years' of James Stevenson’s life when, aged 18, he learnt to be a jet fighter pilot with the RAF in Canada. The book is based on carefully preserved letters James wrote home in the 1950s - but also includes some youthful exploits not suitable to reveal to his parents.
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Stalin's Had It Now!
- Narrated by: James Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-10-15
- Language: English
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You Never Know
- By: Claire Lorrimer
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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You Never Know is former WAAF officer and best-selling novelist Claire Lorrimer's autobiography, containing a graphic description of the six years she spent doing vitally secret work as a WAAF in the Fighter Command Filter Rooms in World War Two. It is the fascinating story of a life overflowing with adventure, humour, tragedy, love, joy and disasters. Claire paints vivid images of her childhood when her mother, the famous author Denise Robins, entertained pre- and post-war literati at her weekend country house parties.
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You Never Know
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-10-17
- Language: English
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Telling Tales
- By: Jane Yeadon
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland could be both rewarding and challenging. Now best-selling author Jane Yeadon recounts her childhood before her nursing adventures started, in her own unique and entertaining style. Telling Tales recounts how Jane learned about her place in the scheme of things - the hard way. Poignant and touching, this nostalgic account of life on the farm recalls a way of life which was so recent but now is all but forgotten.
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Telling Tales
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-11-16
- Language: English
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