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The Prime Ministers
- Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May
- By: Steve Richards
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall478
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Performance408
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At a time of unprecedented political upheaval, this magisterial history explains who leads us and why. From Harold Wilson to Theresa May, it brilliantly brings to life all nine inhabitants of 10 Downing Street over the past 50 years, vividly outlining their successes and failures - and what made each of them special. Based on unprecedented access and in-depth interviews, and inspired by the author's BBC Radio 4 and television series, Steve Richards expertly examines the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world.
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Excellent if a little "written from the left".
- By Andrew James Roberts on 29-04-20
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The Prime Ministers
- Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to May
- Narrated by: Steve Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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The West End Front
- The War Time Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
- By: Matthew Sweet
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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It’s the Second World War and the Savoy, the Dorchester, and Claridge’s teem with those determined not to allow Hitler to impact on their way of life. Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas. Royals: Meet Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, born in a suite at Claridge’s that was declared Yugoslav territory for the night. Players: Meet Joyce Stone, whose husband leads the band at the Dorchester. West End Front is a witty and eye-opening account of the extraordinary events that unfolded under the reinforced ceilings of London’s grand hotels.
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Exceptional book.Matthew Sweet excellent as always
- By Rachel on 19-03-17
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The West End Front
- The War Time Secrets of London's Grand Hotels
- Narrated by: Christopher Oxford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-12-12
- Language: English
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The Graces
- The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court
- By: Breeze Barrington
- Narrated by: Breeze Barrington, Phyllida Nash
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Bloomsbury presents The Graces by Breeze Barrington, read by Phyllida Nash and with the prologue read by Breeze Barrington 'Sparkling ... Britain’s only Italian queen is brought vividly to life' LINDA PORTER A spellbinding work of history that uncovers the inner lives and work of Maria of...
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The Graces
- The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court
- Narrated by: Breeze Barrington, Phyllida Nash
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Power and the Palace
- The explosive new royal book that reveals what happens between 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace in times of crisis
- By: Valentine Low
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance16
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'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems' - Telegraph Covering 200 years of royal history from Queen Victoria to King Charles, and looking forward to the future reign of...
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Clear and captivating
- By Karen on 13-11-25
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Power and the Palace
- The explosive new royal book that reveals what happens between 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace in times of crisis
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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Where We Are
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance144
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Story142
Following his highly acclaimed and best-selling book England: An Elegy (Bloomsbury Continuum), Roger Scruton now seeks to assess the basis of national sentiment and loyalty at a time when the United Kingdom must redefine its position in the world. To what are our duties owed and why?
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Nicely read and well balanced arguments
- By Kid Ooshi on 06-09-18
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Where We Are
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-11-17
- Language: English
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The Elgin Affair
- The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
- By: Theodore Vrettos
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance45
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Story44
This story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full detail "the greatest art theft in history." Almost 200 years after they were "purchased" from Greece, the finest and most famous marbles of antiquity still remain a burning issue. This compelling, controversial story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful detail "the greatest art theft in history", a steamy tale of obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin.
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Extremely interesting & beautifully read
- By Parissa on 29-04-21
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The Elgin Affair
- The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-01-13
- Language: English
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The Tudors in Love
- By: Sarah Gristwood
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they’re dismissed as something existing only in books and song - those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not so. In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty.
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A thorough study but nothing new about the Tudors
- By Corsaire on 09-03-22
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The Tudors in Love
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 23-09-21
- Language: English
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- By: Nicola Tallis
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance69
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Story70
'Good people, I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the words uttered by 17-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Forced on to the throne by power players at court, Queen Jane reigned for just 13 days before being imprisoned in the tower, condemned for high treason and executed.
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Absorbing and well read episode of Tudor history.
- By ColCam on 02-10-17
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-09-17
- Language: English
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Roman Britain
- A New History: Revised Edition
- By: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius's advice to the Britons in 410 to fend for themselves. He then tackles the issues facing Britons after the absorption of their culture by an invading army, including the role of government and the military in the province, religion, commerce, technology, and daily life. For this revised edition, the text and bibliography have been updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in recent years.
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when a book should be read by the author
- By Elf on 13-05-25
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Roman Britain
- A New History: Revised Edition
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- By: Nicola Clark
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Ever present and yet hidden behind the scenes, these women held the secrets and the hearts of some of the Tudor period's most powerful men and women. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII's wives were far more than decorative 'extras': they were serious political players who changed the course of history, and four of them became queen themselves.
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narrator
- By julie ann sterndale on 23-01-26
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Strictly Ann
- The Autobiography
- By: Ann Widdecombe
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Story14
With characteristic verve and integrity, Ann Widdecombe recalls her life and highlights the people and events that most influenced her along the way. From her early family life in Singapore and her convent school days to her student ambitions at Birmingham and Oxford, and her long-serving years...
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spot on
- By Louis on 30-12-20
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Strictly Ann
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-08-13
- Language: English
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Kiss Myself Goodbye
- The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
- By: Ferdinand Mount
- Narrated by: Paul Blezard
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall284
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Performance251
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Story249
Bloomsbury presents Kiss Myself Goodbye by Ferdinand Mount, read by Paul Blezard. 'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' – Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' – Hadley Freeman ‘Wonderful, funny and wise’ – Kate Summerscale...
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CONCENTRATE
- By gary l. on 19-01-21
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Kiss Myself Goodbye
- The Many Lives of Aunt Munca
- Narrated by: Paul Blezard
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Arnhem
- Great Battles
- By: Christopher Hibbert
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Nine thousand men of the First British Airborne Division were parachuted into the peaceful countryside that surrounded Arnhem. Their objective was to capture and hold the bridge over the Rhine ahead of the advancing British Second Army. Nine days later, after some of the fiercest street-fighting of the war, 2,000 paratroopers managed to escape to safety.
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superb and gripping account
- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-23
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Arnhem
- Great Battles
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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The Conservatives
- By: Robin Harris
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance51
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The history of the Conservative party has, extraordinarily, rarely been written in a single volume for the general reader. There are academic multi-volume accounts and a multitude of smaller books with limited historical scope. But now, Robin Harris, Margaret Thatcher's speechwriter and party insider, has produced this authoritative but lively history book which tells the whole story and fills a gaping hole in Britain's historiographical record.
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Conservative Party Unwrapped
- By Kevin Viney on 21-11-15
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The Conservatives
- Narrated by: Nigel Anthony
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-11-11
- Language: English
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A Soldier's Story
- Neville ‘Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day
- By: Mike Wood
- Narrated by: Malcolm Tomlinson, Mike Wood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance81
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Story80
'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.' Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9 'The amazing account of a young man, Neville 'Timber' Wood, who, despite...
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Excellent
- By D Roberts on 07-08-20
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A Soldier's Story
- Neville ‘Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day
- Narrated by: Malcolm Tomlinson, Mike Wood
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Coffee with Hitler
- The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis
- By: Charles Spicer
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians, and businessmen, they hoped to use the recently founded Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilize and enlighten the Nazis. Straddling the porous border between hard and soft diplomacy, their activities fueled tensions between the amateur and the professional diplomats in both London and Berlin.
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A very thoughtful read
- By E P on 31-10-22
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Coffee with Hitler
- The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilize the Nazis
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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Wilderlands
- The Human History of Wild Britain
- By: Eloise Kane
- Narrated by: Eloise Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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In Wilderlands, archaeologist Eloise Kane unearths 12,000 years of our changing relationship with and influence on the landscape. Through prehistory, Roman occupation, the Middle Ages and beyond, we see the unfamiliar beasts of our old wild make way for species such as brown hare and fallow deer, now romanticised as eternal symbols of the British countryside, but introduced much later than we might think. Places free from our influence haven't existed for a very long time. But Eloise Kane invites us to rethink our definition of the wild - not as separate from us.
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A life changing expectation of the world I thought I knew.
- By Kathryn Bennett on 07-06-26
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Wilderlands
- The Human History of Wild Britain
- Narrated by: Eloise Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs
- Peaky Blinders, Book 2
- By: Carl Chinn
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes. Well-known social historian, broadcaster and...
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Hmm, perhaps factually correct view but...
- By Tibor Sarkozi on 22-03-21
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Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs
- Peaky Blinders, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Peaky Blinders
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- 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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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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On Chapel Sands
- My mother and other missing persons
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall222
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Performance197
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Brought to you by Penguin. **BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** 'A modern masterpiece' Guardian Uncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was...
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Lost and found
- By Rachel Redford on 01-09-19
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On Chapel Sands
- My mother and other missing persons
- Narrated by: Laura Cumming
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 23-08-19
- Language: English
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