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Putin
- By: Philip Short
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance157
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Story155
Alone among world leaders, Vladimir Putin has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in Western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Despite Western sanctions, the majority have been living better than at any time in the past. By fair means or foul, under Putin's leadership, Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with.
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Captivating
- By Alikado on 23-08-22
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Putin
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: English
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Prince Albert
- The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance43
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Story43
For over six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great empire. Beside her for more than 20 of those years was her beloved husband and the father of their nine children, Prince Albert. A composer, engineer, soldier, politician, linguist and bibliophile, Albert was one of the architects of Victorian Britain's transformation as a centre of political, technological, scientific and intellectual advancement. Albert lived only 42 years but fathered four royal dynasties and helped pioneer the modern constitutional monarchy.
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A perfect companion to the author's previous biography of Queen Victoria.
- By Campesque on 17-02-20
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Prince Albert
- The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Story29
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ‘This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled by Christmas’ THE TIMES (Book of the Year) ‘You may disagree with Lionel Shriver’s...
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Vice-signalling
- By Graham G Grant on 14-02-23
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Abominations
- Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 7 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall102
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Performance62
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Story63
Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife. Inevitably, there was great rivalry between them; there was jealousy too: the desperate jealousy of queens who found themselves abandoned, but also the sexual jealousy of the king who discovered himself betrayed. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its best.
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Six of one, and half a dozen of the other...
- By G. HOLMES on 17-08-07
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 03-01-07
- Language: English
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Speaking Out
- Lessons in Life and Politics
- By: Ed Balls
- Narrated by: Ed Balls
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance212
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Story211
On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead he woke up without a job. For two decades he had occupied a central position within Labour, rising from adviser to Cabinet Minister during the years in power and Shadow Chancellor in Opposition. Throughout one of the most tumultuous periods in recent British history, he made a point of speaking out, whatever the consequences.
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How I misjudged this politician
- By Bev Newman on 07-05-17
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Speaking Out
- Lessons in Life and Politics
- Narrated by: Ed Balls
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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The Last of the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance24
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Story24
Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in this “intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office” (The Washington Post). “Four decades after Watergate shook America, journalist Bob Woodward returns to the scandal to profile Alexander...
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amazing book
- By Dawn on 11-02-17
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The Last of the President's Men
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-10-15
- Language: English
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Dynasty
- Scandals, Triumph, Turmoil and Succession at the heart of Dunnes Stores
- By: Matt Cooper
- Narrated by: Matt Cooper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance51
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Story51
This is the story of the extraordinary family behind one of Ireland's most famous businesses, Dunnes Stores, over three generations and covering nearly 80 years of retailing but going back as far as the 19th century. With drama worthy of the popular TV drama Succession, a real-life Irish family drama shows the children of a dominant founder argue as to who should run the supermarket empire after his death and take the money from it, and how they dealt or not, with addictions and ill health, including alcoholism. This is the story of excess, success and failure.
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Dynasty by Matt Cooper
- By Mary Harling Kelly Creedon on 03-01-26
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Dynasty
- Scandals, Triumph, Turmoil and Succession at the heart of Dunnes Stores
- Narrated by: Matt Cooper
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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Taken on Trust
- By: Terry Waite
- Narrated by: Terry Waite
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance83
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Story82
Held captive from January 1987 to November 1991, for much of the time in solitary confinement, Terry Waite wrote his autobiography in his head. Here is his own heart-rending account of an existence robbed of companionship and of emotional, physical and mental stimulation. He describes how his recollections of life from childhood onwards helped him endure a life of monotony and fear in captivity and reveals the inner strengths, which enabled him to survive his captors’ often savage treatment.
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fabulous
- By mark richardson on 30-11-21
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Taken on Trust
- Narrated by: Terry Waite
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-01-12
- Language: English
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall392
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Performance335
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Story336
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...
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An inspiring story of a polymath
- By Kirstine on 29-12-13
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-04-11
- Language: English
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Do Let’s Have Another Drink
- The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- By: Gareth Russell
- Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance29
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Story30
A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’ During...
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Dreadful
- By Tessa on 17-10-22
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Do Let’s Have Another Drink
- The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Three Times a Countess
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
- By: Tina Gaudoin
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance63
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Story63
Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Just some of the many labels attached to the irrepressible, controversial Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. But who was the real Raine? What was hidden behind the immaculately manicured public façade and her overwhelmingly negative tabloid image? From her childhood days as daughter of romantic novelist powerhouse, Barbara Cartland, to Westminster councillor and wife of Earl Spencer, Three Times a Countess recounts Raine's compelling and glamorous life.
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Interesting
- By naomi on 12-06-23
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Three Times a Countess
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 27-10-22
- Language: English
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JFK Jr.
- An Intimate Oral Biography
- By: RoseMarie Terenzio, Liz McNeil
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell, Kevin R. Free, Lanna Joffrey, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his...
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Insightful
- By Bella A on 19-08-24
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JFK Jr.
- An Intimate Oral Biography
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell, Kevin R. Free, Lanna Joffrey, Kathe Mazur, Leon Nixon, Jade Wheeler, RoseMarie Terenzio
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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After Camelot
- A Personal History of the Kennedy Family--1968 to the Present
- By: J. Randy Taraborrelli
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Ethel, Joan, comes an engrossing and revealing portrait of the next generation of Kennedys. "A page-turning, emotionally riveting saga." ―Book Page For more than half a century, Americans have been captivated by the Kennedys—their joy and...
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Excellent work
- By M on 10-06-13
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After Camelot
- A Personal History of the Kennedy Family--1968 to the Present
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 21 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 24-04-12
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
- By: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance52
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Story52
Queen Victoria had over 30 surviving grandchildren, and to maintain and increase power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynastic marriages. Yet they often had plans of their own, and her matchmaking was further complicated by tumultuous international upheavals. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering, decadent palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions.
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Fully of interesting information
- By Franklymydarling on 15-07-19
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Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 13-02-18
- Language: English
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A Thousand Days
- John F. Kennedy in the White House
- By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 44 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy's tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President Kennedy's inner circle with sweeping research and historic context to provide a look at one of the most legendary presidential administrations in American history.
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A great book about one of the United States Greatest Presidents.
- By Jonathan Cairns on 04-12-24
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A Thousand Days
- John F. Kennedy in the White House
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 44 hrs
- Release date: 02-07-24
- Language: English
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Queens of the Conquest
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall167
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Performance153
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Story154
In the first volume of this epic new series, Alison Weir strips away centuries of romantic mythology and prejudice to reveal the lives of England's queens in the century after the Norman Conquest. Beginning with Matilda of Flanders, who supported William the Conqueror in 1066, to the turbulent life of the Empress Maud, who claimed to be queen of England in her own right and fought a bitter war to that end, the five Norman queens emerge as hugely influential figures and fascinating characters.
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Fascinating book but at times difficult to listen
- By BookWorm on 01-11-17
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Queens of the Conquest
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Series: England's Medieval Queens, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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Queens at War
- England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Wydeville and Anne Neville were the queens who stood by England's sovereigns, caught up in wars that changed the course of their lives, and the course of history. They were also formidable women who defied the limitations of their times, often living out the brutal consequences of their determination.
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excellent conclusion to this series
- By kaykay on 24-02-26
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Queens at War
- England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Series: England's Medieval Queens, Book 4
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 19-09-25
- Language: English
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Power and Glory - As seen on Channel 4’s Edward vs George
- Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
- By: Alexander Larman
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Power and Glory begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it depicts a monarchy - and a country - struggling to cope with the aftermath of World War Two, in an era where old...
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EXCELLENT BOOK
- By Pixie Girl on 16-02-26
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Power and Glory - As seen on Channel 4’s Edward vs George
- Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Hit List
- An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
- By: David Wayne, Richard Belzer
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance31
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For decades, government pundits have dismissed these "coincidental" deaths, even regarding them as "myths" as "urban legends." Like most people, Richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these 'coincidences'. After all, events don't "consult the odds" prior to happening; they simply happen. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were. Some of the deaths seemed purely coincidental; heart attacks, hunting accidents.
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Hugely Repetitive
- By Boo Boo on 22-10-16
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Hit List
- An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-11-13
- Language: English
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Alice
- The Story of Princess Alice of Greece, Prince Philip's Extraordinary Mother
- By: Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse Princess Alice, mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own...
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Fascinating Story
- By Stephen Bentley on 20-04-26
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Alice
- The Story of Princess Alice of Greece, Prince Philip's Extraordinary Mother
- Narrated by: Tim Bentinck
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-04-26
- Language: English
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