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Alan And Thora
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Thora Hird
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance37
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Story37
Until the time of her death in 2003, much-loved actress Thora Hird worked regularly with the playwright Alan Bennett. Now, in a specially written introduction and postscript, Bennett recalls his work and friendship with Thora, and introduces three examples of their collaboration. In The Last of...
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Wonderful Alan and Thora at their best
- By denise on 09-07-13
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Alan And Thora
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett, Thora Hird
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-04-05
- Language: English
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- By: Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall463
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Performance394
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Story388
From the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer, Left Out draws on unrivalled access throughout the party and to both leaders' inner circles to provide a blistering narrative exposé of the Labour Party during one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in its history. It reveals a party riven by factionalism and at war over ideology, then incapacitated by crisis and indecision.
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Very good although too charitable to Corbyn.
- By Emily Senior on 16-09-20
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Is a River Alive?
- The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Robert Macfarlane
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall169
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Performance157
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Story157
Brought to you by Penguin. From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title. At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings...
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He cares passionately about his subject.
- By Mr. Graham Smillie on 14-06-25
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Is a River Alive?
- The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Robert Macfarlane
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Purgatory
- A Prison Diary 2
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall536
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Performance482
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Story483
Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The tediousness of prison life kicks in for prisoner FF8282, also known as author Jeffrey Archer, in the second volume of his best-selling series The Prison Diaries. Still his fellow inmates show inspiring spirit and courage, amid an otherwise gloomy prison landscape, revealing that even in the darkest hours light can always be found.
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it’s just not cricket
- By StephanieH on 07-12-21
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Purgatory
- A Prison Diary 2
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Prison Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-04-21
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
- The Complete Man
- By: Nicholas Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance52
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Story52
Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche, and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Nicholas Shakespeare is one of the most gifted biographers working today and his unprecedented access to the Fleming archives and his nose for a story make this a fresh and eye-opening picture of a man who lived his life in the shadow of his famous creation.
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An Outstanding Biography
- By JOHN on 16-12-24
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Ian Fleming
- The Complete Man
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 29 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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The Story of Russia
- 'An excellent short study'
- By: Orlando Figes
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall122
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Performance112
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Story111
Bloomsbury presents The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes, read by David Sibley. A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History ‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM ‘A...
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So disappointing
- By Routini on 18-09-22
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The Story of Russia
- 'An excellent short study'
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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Escape from Alcatraz
- By: J. Campbell Bruce
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance98
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Story98
Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, called "The Rock" and known for its harsh conditions. This gripping true crime classic, originally written in 1963 and newly reissued, tells the story of life on The Rock and of 14 ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners.
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A thought provoking insight into Alcatraz.
- By Benjamin101 on 12-12-14
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Escape from Alcatraz
- Narrated by: Patrick Cullen
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-03-06
- Language: English
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- By: Omar El Akkad
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance241
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Story241
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West would be a place of freedom and justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.
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The Most Important Book of Our Time
- By Cshaw on 20-04-25
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Baltic
- The Future of Europe
- By: Oliver Moody
- Narrated by: Kaffe Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance116
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Story116
THE MUST-READ BOOK ON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FLASHPOINT A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, THE SPECTATOR AND DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent ... As exciting to read as it is important' Peter Frankopan 'Fascinating ... essential reading' Helen Thompson 'Alarming and uplifting' John Kampfner The...
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Finally
- By Justine on 19-11-25
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Baltic
- The Future of Europe
- Narrated by: Kaffe Keating
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Agents of Influence
- Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA
- By: Aaron Edwards
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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Story47
Recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and Sinn Féin during the height of the Northern Ireland Troubles, they were ‘agents of influence'. With codenames like INFLICTION, STAKEKNIFE, 3007 and CAROL, these spies played a pivotal role in the fight against Irish republicanism. Now, for the first time, some of these agents have emerged from the shadows to tell their compelling stories. Agents of Influence takes you behind the scenes of the secret intelligence war which helped bring the IRA's armed struggle to an end.
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Well researched but heavily biased.
- By Chris on 30-01-26
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Agents of Influence
- Britain's Secret Intelligence War Against the IRA
- Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-03-24
- Language: English
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How to Think Like Socrates
- Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life
- By: Donald Robertson
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance47
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Read by the author, Donald J. Robertson. 'One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy for building a good and successful life' Tom Morris, bestselling author of Plato's Lemonade Stand and Stoicism for Dummies How can we apply the teachings of the greatest...
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Could cut perhaps 40% of this away without losing substance. Good nevertheless.
- By ADJ on 31-12-24
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How to Think Like Socrates
- Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life
- Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-11-24
- Language: English
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- By: Mark 'Billy' Billingham, Simon Slater
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,388
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Performance3,856
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Story3,855
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. ‘The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham. They are the backbone of the British military and I for one am thankful he is on our side!’ – Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'The most experienced Special Forces soldier in recent...
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misleading
- By Anonymous on 16-12-19
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The Hard Way
- Adapt, Survive and Win
- Narrated by: Mark 'Billy' Billingham
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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The Queen
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Andrew Morton, Judy Bennett
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall474
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Performance439
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Story438
For years she prayed for her mother to give birth to a son. She longed to be spared her destiny as Britain's future Queen. Her dream was to live in the country surrounded by children, dogs and horses. But Elizabeth did her duty, the young princess pledging before her people that she would dedicate her whole life to the service of Britain and the Commonwealth. She hoped that that day would be a long way off. It was not to be. Only 25 when she became Queen after the premature death of her father, King George Vl, Elizabeth has become the stuff of superlatives.
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RIP Your Majesty
- By English Atheist on 09-09-22
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The Queen
- Narrated by: Andrew Morton, Judy Bennett
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-05-22
- Language: English
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall179
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Performance151
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Story151
Brought to you by Penguin. From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant...
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Too existencial poetic crap
- By Amazon Customer on 24-02-20
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 18-02-20
- Language: English
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America Before
- A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
- By: Graham Hancock
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall888
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Performance762
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Story761
We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago - amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago - many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.
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No photos
- By Amazon Customer on 06-05-19
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America Before
- A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse
- Narrated by: Graham Hancock
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Mind
- By: Georg Wilhelm Hegel
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Philosophy of Mind is the third and final part of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the collection in which Hegel (1730-1831) offered an overview of his life’s work. Though originally written in 1817, he revised it in 1830, thus providing a finished form the year before his death. Hegel used the three parts of the Encyclopaedia - Science of Logic, Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Mind - as a basis for lectures at the Universities of Heidelberg which he joined in 1816, and in Berlin in 1820.
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Philosophy of Mind
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-11-18
- Language: English
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The Black Door
- Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
- By: Richard Aldrich, Rory Cormac
- Narrated by: Tom Clegg
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall291
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Performance263
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Story259
The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council. Intelligence can do a prime minister’s dirty work. For more than a century, secret wars...
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Utterly fabulous
- By NickNoodles on 20-09-16
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The Black Door
- Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
- Narrated by: Tom Clegg
- Length: 25 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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- When Ideology Meets Reality
- By: Helen Joyce
- Narrated by: Helen Joyce
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall569
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Performance504
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Story501
Gender identity ideology is about more than Twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just 10 years, laws, company policies, school and university curricula, sport, medical protocols, and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex. People are being shamed and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining "man" and "woman". While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned, it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies.
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Bravely highlighting the danger of trans activism
- By Scott on 08-11-21
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Trans
- When Ideology Meets Reality
- Narrated by: Helen Joyce
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-10-21
- Language: English
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Damaged Goods
- The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green
- By: Oliver Shah
- Narrated by: Oliver Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall536
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Performance469
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Story471
Penguin Audio presents Damaged Goods written and read by Oliver Shah. DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's...
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How do they sleep at night?
- By stevieg on 17-07-18
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Damaged Goods
- The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green
- Narrated by: Oliver Shah
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Be Like the Sea
- Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain
- By: Marie Gleeson
- Narrated by: Marie Gleeson
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Gleeson learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind – not against it. These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all.
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Be Like the Sea
- Life, Learnings and Leadership from an Irish Navy Captain
- Narrated by: Marie Gleeson
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-07-26
- Language: English
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