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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
- The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers
- By: Rob Wilkins
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall422
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Performance393
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Story391
Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.' At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on...
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Sad, dignified, and humorous
- By Lynne Nicholson on 03-10-22
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
- The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers
- Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 29-09-22
- Language: English
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Memoirs
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
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A good storyteller.
- By C E WATSON on 18-06-24
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Raising Demons
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Brought to you by Penguin. Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson...
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Raising Demons
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Series: Jacksons, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- By: Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance13
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Master Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini is best remembered for his magnificent autobiography. In this work, which was actually begun in 1558 but not published until 1730, Cellini beautifully chronicles his flamboyant times. He tells of his adventures in Italy and France, and his relations with popes, kings, and fellow artists.
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Best Book I ever read (listened)
- By Smith family on 18-07-11
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-12-06
- Language: English
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Overall97
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Performance64
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Story65
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt...
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Another 'Bill' Classic
- By Susan on 19-10-06
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-09-06
- Language: English
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- By: Amy Key
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself.
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Not for me
- By Hola chico on 04-09-24
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan
- By: Michael Livingston
- Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time. ‘Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal’ –...
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
- The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan
- Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer, Michael Livingston, Rosamund Pike
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- By: Lorna Tucker
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance34
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Story34
I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine... The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker 'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER 'Truly changes your perception of what the...
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Lorna’s honesty and courage
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-26
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BARE
- 'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER
- Narrated by: Lorna Tucker
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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The Plague and I
- Common Reader Editions
- By: Betty MacDonald
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
" The Plague and I" recounts MacDonald's experiences in a Seattle sanitarium, where the author spent almost a year (1938-39) battling tuberculosis. The White Plague was no laughing matter, but MacDonald nonetheless makes a sprightly tale of her brush with something deadly. "Anybody Can Do Anything" is a high-spirited, hilarious celebration of how "the warmth and loyalty and laughter of a big family" brightened their weathering of the Great Depression.
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the best
- By Sylvi on 01-03-25
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The Plague and I
- Common Reader Editions
- Narrated by: Heather Henderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Brazen
- My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie
- By: Julia Haart
- Narrated by: Julia Haart
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance217
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Story215
Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the orders of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At 19, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. For the next 24 years, he would rule her life. Eventually, when her youngest daughter, Miriam, started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run or ride a bike, Julia reached her breaking point.
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Interesting. A game of 2 halves
- By Jennifer on 30-03-23
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Brazen
- My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie
- Narrated by: Julia Haart
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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North Face of Soho
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall134
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Performance107
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Story110
Read by the author, Clive James. From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James. '[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday Times It is 1968. Newly married...
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Clive James on Top Form. What More Could We Ask?
- By Dinah on 25-10-14
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North Face of Soho
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-06-07
- Language: English
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That Dark Spring
- A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence
- By: Susannah Stapleton
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe, Susannah Stapleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance5
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'I couldn't stop reading it . . . a classic of true crime' - Lissa Evans, author of Small Bomb at Dimperley 'A fascinating true crime case study . . . deeply moving' The Times A gripping, explosive murder mystery by acclaimed true crime writer Susannah Stapleton. In April 1929, the body of...
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An incredible true story that is captivatingly narrated
- By jasmine on 05-07-25
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That Dark Spring
- A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence
- Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe, Susannah Stapleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Capote's Women
- The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance51
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A FASCINATING TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, INTRIGUE AND UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Readers LOVE Capote's Women: 'A genuinely fascinating account of a great writer and his muses.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved it! Fabulous book about a extremely complicated and complex character.'...
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Abfab
- By Anonymous on 24-04-23
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Capote's Women
- The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 16-02-23
- Language: English
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- By: Kathy O’Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never heard it before.
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An excellent novel !
- By Anonymous on 22-05-23
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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Libertarians on the Prairie
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
- By: Christine Woodside
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this best-selling series wandered far from the actual history of the Ingalls family and from what Laura herself understood to be central truths about pioneer life.
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Scholarly investigation for Laura Ingalls Wilder fan girls
- By Soo on 24-11-25
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Libertarians on the Prairie
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-09-16
- Language: English
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- By: Rick Emerson
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.
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Interesting story
- By Masonia on 14-06-23
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Unmask Alice
- LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic...
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What a journey!
- By Mrs SC Francis on 03-06-26
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-09-17
- Language: English
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The Blaze of Obscurity
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Overall125
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Performance94
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Read by the author, Clive James. In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye. 'Clive James is an intellectual as...
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Short but Sweet.
- By Bob on 26-10-09
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The Blaze of Obscurity
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-10-09
- Language: English
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Murray Walker
- Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken
- By: Murray Walker, John Nicholl
- Narrated by: Murray Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Performance186
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The voice of motor racing and much loved public figure – and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 – tells the story of his incident-packed life, with a brand new chapter on his globetrotting adventures since retirement...
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Wonderful to hear Murray's voice again
- By Mr. Elbow on 06-09-16
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Murray Walker
- Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken
- Narrated by: Murray Walker
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-09-09
- Language: English
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Stephen Fry
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Robin Morgan-Bentley
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall677
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Performance576
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Story563
Stephen Fry joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss his recording of Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection. From his childhood days as a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society to his performance as Mycroft Holmes, Stephen shares anecdotes relating to his lifelong passion for Sherlock Holmes. He also discusses his experience recording the Harry Potter audiobooks, his own penchant for audiobooks, and his plans for the future.
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Just love Stephen Fry!
- By LoubyLou on 06-04-18
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Stephen Fry
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 15 mins
- Release date: 28-02-17
- Language: English
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