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Frostquake
- The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country
- By: Juliet Nicolson
- Narrated by: Lucy Briers
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for 10 weeks. The drifts in East Sussex reached 23 feet. In London, milkmen made deliveries on skis. On Dartmoor 2,000 ponies were buried in the snow and starving foxes ate sheep alive. It wasn't just the weather that was bad. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Interesting
- By Mirium on 03-03-21
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Frostquake
- The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country
- Narrated by: Lucy Briers
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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X Troop
- The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
- By: Leah Garrett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance48
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June 1942. The Third Reich is victorious everywhere. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who escaped to Britain just before the War. Many have lost their families, their homes - their whole worlds. And now, in the crucial final battles against the Nazis, they will stop at nothing to defeat them. Trained in counterintelligence and advanced combat, this top secret unit becomes known as X Troop.
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Very good story, well narrated
- By Emmy on 25-06-21
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- By: Peter Doggett
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.
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History buffs delight
- By Sherry Fard on 27-08-22
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Growing Up
- Sex in the Sixties
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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The Turning Point
- A Year That Changed Dickens and the World
- By: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- Narrated by: Philip Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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The year is 1851. It's a time of radical change in Britain, when industrial miracles and artistic innovations rub shoulders with political unrest, poverty and disease. It's also a turbulent time in the private life of Charles Dickens, as he copes with a double bereavement and early signs that his marriage is falling apart. But this formative year will become perhaps the greatest turning point in Dickens' career, as he embraces his calling as a chronicler of ordinary people's lives and develops a new form of writing that will reveal just how interconnected the world is becoming.
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Excellent Biography
- By Christine on 10-11-22
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The Turning Point
- A Year That Changed Dickens and the World
- Narrated by: Philip Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Believable Lies
- The Misfits Who Fought Churchill's Secret Propaganda War
- By: Terry Stiastny
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of the Second World War, a team of unlikely and ill-assorted characters assembled in their secret country headquarters. They had left their civilian roles as politicians, journalists, novelists and spies, advertisers, artists and even forgers, to work for a covert government organisation preparing to broadcast British propaganda into occupied territory. These men and women would become the Political Warfare Executive.
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Excellent story much of which I was unaware
- By Nick Le Huray on 23-09-25
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Believable Lies
- The Misfits Who Fought Churchill's Secret Propaganda War
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-06-25
- Language: English
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Napoleon
- A Life
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 32 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George...
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The Bettencourt Affair
- The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris (t)
- By: Tom Sancton
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has...
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Great book, extraordinary story
- By Martins on 19-06-24
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The Bettencourt Affair
- The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris (t)
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
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A Duty of Care
- Britain Before and After COVID
- By: Peter Hennessy
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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The 'duty of care' which the state owes to its citizens is a phrase much used, but what has it actually meant in Britain historically? And what should it mean in the future, once the immediate COVID crisis has passed? In A Duty of Care, Peter Hennessy divides post-war British history into BC (before corona) and AC (after corona). He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state.
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Excellent account of modern welfare development
- By The Collector on 22-04-22
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A Duty of Care
- Britain Before and After COVID
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Who Killed Una Lynskey?
- A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda ‘Heavy Gang’
- By: Mick Clifford
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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In Who Killed Una Lynskey?, award-winning journalist Mick Clifford has built a compelling portrait of the case from interviews with the surviving main players, as well as exclusive access to the files of a private investigator who uncovered information the gardaí missed - or ignored. A timely, humane and compulsive listen, this is a groundbreaking account of the botched investigation and its devastating consequences for not just four devastated families, but also the reputation of the gardaí.
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GAVE UP
- By D. Gallagher on 14-05-25
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Who Killed Una Lynskey?
- A True Story of Murder, Vigilante Justice and the Garda ‘Heavy Gang’
- Narrated by: Ciaran O'Brien
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-08-24
- Language: English
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The Britannias
- An Island Quest
- By: Alice Albinia
- Narrated by: Alice Albinia
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae. Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past to understand the present, this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics and subversive voices.
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Really interesting but poorly read
- By Miss B K M Jones on 26-01-26
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The Britannias
- An Island Quest
- Narrated by: Alice Albinia
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Atomic Spy
- The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- By: Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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"Nancy Greenspan dives into the mysteries of the Klaus Fuchs espionage case and emerges with a classic Cold War biography of intrigue and torn loyalties. Atomic Spy is a mesmerizing morality tale, told with fresh sources and empathy." --Kai Bird, author of The Good Spy and coauthor of American...
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Delivery
- By chris r. on 04-12-23
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Atomic Spy
- The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-05-20
- Language: English
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Zlata's Diary
- By: Zlata Filipovic
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The child's diary that awakened the conscience of the world When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it...
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Zlata's Diary
- Narrated by: Eve Bianco
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 18-12-18
- Language: English
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
- By: Lyn Smith
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance40
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Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, the series now chronicles one of human histories darkest hours. The author comes to the project following her significant work in recording the experiences of Holocaust survivors for the Imperial War Museum sound archive, one of the most important archives of its kind in the world. The intertwined moving and revealing interviews reveal the sheer complexity and horror of the Holocaust.
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Poignant memories
- By Judith on 11-04-06
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Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-11-05
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- By: Patrick Joyce
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people. In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes, we discover a rich and complex culture: traditions, songs, celebrations, and revolts, across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland, through the 19th century to the present day.
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Superb!
- By Martin and Sofia Carter on 21-06-25
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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The Tunnels
- The True Story of Tunnel 29 and the Daring Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
- By: Greg Mitchell
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the wall. Then, as the world's press heard about the secret projects, two television networks raced to be the first to document them from the inside, funding two separate tunnels for exclusive rights to film the escapes.
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amazing story
- By JojoBean on 12-03-21
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The Tunnels
- The True Story of Tunnel 29 and the Daring Escapes Under the Berlin Wall
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 18-10-16
- Language: English
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Emergency State
- How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
- By: Adam Wagner
- Narrated by: Adam Wagner
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance28
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On 26 March 2020, a new law appeared. In 11 pages, it locked down tens of millions of people, confined us to our homes, banned socialising, closed shops, gyms, pubs, places of worship. It restricted our freedoms more than any other law in history, justified by the rapid spread of a deadly new virus. You might have expected such a law to be fiercely debated in Parliament. But it wasn't debated at all. A state of emergency was declared, meaning the law came into force the moment it was signed.
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A compelling and enlightening read!
- By Lucy on 06-02-23
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Emergency State
- How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Adam Wagner
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Bunker Hill
- A City, a Siege, a Revolution
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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What lights the spark that ignites a revolution? Lost in the story of America’s path to independence is the tumultuous nature of that nation’s origins: the interplay of ideologies and personalities that provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans, and sailors to take up arms in pursuit of liberty.... A city of 15,000 inhabitants packed onto a land-connected island a little over one square mile, Boston in 1775 was also a city occupied by the British.
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Bunker Hill
- A City, a Siege, a Revolution
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-11-15
- Language: English
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Chasing Venus
- By: Andrea Wulf
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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On a summer's day in June 1761, astronomers all over the world cast their eyes to the sky to witness a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. It was one of the most important collaborations of scientific history, as by racing to different points around the world and comparing results, these men hoped to unlock the key to one of the most pressing questions of the Enlightenment: the distance between the Earth and the sun, which would allow them to calculate the dimensions of our solar system.
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Chasing Venus
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-07-14
- Language: English
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Churchill and the King
- The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI
- By: Kenneth Weisbrode
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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The intriguing bond between monarch and prime minister and its crucial role during World War II The political and personal relationship between King George VI and Winston Churchill during World War II is one that has been largely overlooked throughout history, yet the trust and loyalty these men...
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The Dog and the Sparrow
- By A. J. Taylor on 03-02-22
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Churchill and the King
- The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI
- Narrated by: Christian Rodska
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 31-10-13
- Language: English
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Sugar and Slate
- Black Britain: Writing Back, Book 12
- By: Charlotte Williams, Bernadine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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As the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams's childhood world was one of mixed messages dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half-Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all.' Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of self-discovery, from the small north Wales town of her birth to Africa, the Caribbean and back to Wales.
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Fascinating autoethnography
- By ko on 14-06-25
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Sugar and Slate
- Black Britain: Writing Back, Book 12
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo, Zadeiah Campbell-Davies
- Series: Black Britain: Writing Back, Book 12
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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