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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- By: Annabelle Hirsch, Eleanor Updegraff - translator
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.
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Ambitious audiobook concept and lots to learn!
- By ladygrey on 10-05-24
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, Jackie Kay, Len Pennie, Shirley Manson, Rebecca Solnit, Sandi Toksvig, Marina Hyde, Naomi Shimada
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- By: Rick Rubin
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall874
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Performance749
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.
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Useful advice, but it is steeped in unscientific bunk of the highest degree
- By Raymond jensen on 23-01-23
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The Creative Act
- A Way of Being
- Narrated by: Rick Rubin
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-01-23
- Language: English
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Dreams From My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall133
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Performance123
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An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a Black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old...
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Great book orated by an even greater writer and story-teller
- By Ms. Jf Materego on 14-03-22
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Dreams From My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- 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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Performance240
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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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My Lady Parts
- A Life Fighting Stereotypes
- By: Doon Mackichan
- Narrated by: Doon Mackichan
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance40
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Doon Mackichan is best known for her comedy characters in the hugely popular Brass Eye, Smack the Pony and Toast of London - but throughout her career there are parts she's refused to take and roles she's been forced to play. The Feisty Feminist. The Hot Lesbian. The Desperate Cougar. In My Lady Parts, Doon shares her experience on stage, screen and in real life, examining how our culture still expects women to adhere to certain stereotypes - and punishes those who don't.
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From smack the pony to flogging feminism to death ..
- By Benny Hawkins on 01-10-23
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My Lady Parts
- A Life Fighting Stereotypes
- Narrated by: Doon Mackichan
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- By: James Muldoon, Mark Graham, Callum Cant
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions that labour under often appalling conditions to make AI possible. Feeding the Machine presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network of organisations that maintain this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of AI.
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Feeding the Machine
- The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
- Narrated by: Orlando Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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The Future Is Peace
- By: Aziz Abu Sarah, Maoz Inon
- Narrated by: Maoz Inon, Aziz Abu Sarah
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines. Throughout their travels, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much pain and suffering on both sides, when there have been so many lives lost and families shattered, how can they ever find hope? In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take listeners on their unforgettable weeklong journey across the holy land.
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A very well written story, albeit with a sad backdrop
- By Amazon Customer on 09-06-26
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The Future Is Peace
- Narrated by: Maoz Inon, Aziz Abu Sarah
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,793
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Performance1,537
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Story1,526
A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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The Dry Season
- Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
- By: Melissa Febos
- Narrated by: Melissa Febos
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa Febos decided to take a break—for three months she would abstain from dating, relationships and sex. Her friends were amused. Did she really think three months was a long time? But to Melissa, it was. Ever since her teens, she had been in one relationship or another. It was time to focus on herself and examine the lifelong patterns that had got her to this point. When those three months ended, she decided to extend her celibate period, fearing that she had not yet gained the clarity she was searching for.
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A brilliant tale of memoirist Melissa Febos’s relationship to love, art, addiction and queerness.
- By Anonymous on 01-07-25
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The Dry Season
- Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
- Narrated by: Melissa Febos
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- By: Pragya Agarwal
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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We've all heard the sayings that girls should be 'sugar and spice and all things nice', while 'boys don't cry'. In Hysterical, Pragya Agarwal dives deep into the history and science that has determined the gendering of emotions to ask whether there is any truth in the notion of innate differences between the male and female experience of emotions. She examines the impact this has on men and women—especially the role it has played in the subjugation of women throughout history—and how a future where emotions are ungendered might look.
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Great book. Poor recording/editing.
- By Nicola Bell on 07-06-24
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Hysterical
- Exploding the Myth of Gendered Emotions
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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What Is a Doctor?
- A GP's Prescription for the Future
- By: Dr Phil Whitaker
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP, Dr Phil Whitaker offers insight into the medical movements, political interference and societal changes that have transformed the role of doctor over the past three decades.
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Important book we should all read
- By Anonymous on 10-09-25
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What Is a Doctor?
- A GP's Prescription for the Future
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- By: David Eagleman
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall320
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Performance279
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Story277
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream? The answers to these questions are not right in front of our eyes; they're right behind our eyes. This book is not simply about what the brain is but what it does. Covering decades of research to the present day, Livewired also presents new findings from Eagleman's own research.
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There are some good bits but overall very labored
- By Roger D. on 08-11-20
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Livewired
- The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
- Narrated by: David Eagleman
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-08-20
- Language: English
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Figuring
- By: Maria Popova
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance39
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Story38
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists - mostly women, mostly queer - whose public contribution has risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience and appreciate the universe.
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Simply beautiful!
- By Amazon Customer on 26-04-20
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Figuring
- Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
- Length: 21 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-02-19
- Language: English
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Hark
- How Women Listen
- By: Alice Vincent
- Narrated by: Alice Vincent, Fiona Hampton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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We’re told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they’re listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men. Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every moment. And then, a baby’s heartbeat arrived. A rapid, pulsing whoosh of white noise. An undeniable rhythm. Once again, Alice’s life became cacophonous – both with a new child, but also with the societal pressures that motherhood holds.
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New listening joy
- By Anonymous on 27-05-25
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Hark
- How Women Listen
- Narrated by: Alice Vincent, Fiona Hampton
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-05-25
- Language: English
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Consolations II
- The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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David Whyte's Consolations use everyday words to present us with a prism through which to better understand ourselves and the lives we walk through. At the request of readers globally, Whyte returns with fifty-two short, elegant meditations on a single word ranging from 'Anxiety' to 'Body', 'Freedom', 'Shame' and 'Moon'. He embraces their nuances, amplitudes and depths, and, in doing so, confronts realities that many of us would spend a lifetime trying senselessly to avoid.
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Consolations II
- The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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Nation of Strangers
- LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
- By: Ece Temelkuran
- Narrated by: Ece Temelkuran
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Dear stranger. Are you home? Do you feel at home? For how much longer? Across the world the number of refugees and exiles, the dispossessed and displaced, the politically homeless and the economically excluded is growing. In the decade since she left her own home, Ece Temelkuran has been a...
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raw @ honest
- By Really positive results from Dr Dent teeth whitening kit will definitely use again in the future on 20-02-26
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Nation of Strangers
- LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
- Narrated by: Ece Temelkuran
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 12-02-26
- Language: English
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Bi
- The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
- By: Dr Julia Shaw
- Narrated by: Dr Julia Shaw, John Sackville, Lauryn Allman
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall178
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Performance156
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Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer some of the questions that many people have about bisexuality. In Bi, Julia Shaw explores how people have defined and measured bisexuality during its long and important history. She looks at behavioural bisexuality in animals, and investigates whether there is a bi gene. She introduces some famous bi activists and scholars whom everyone should know.
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Good introduction if you ignore the last chapters
- By Nick S on 09-01-23
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Bi
- The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
- Narrated by: Dr Julia Shaw, John Sackville, Lauryn Allman
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-06-22
- Language: English
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A Short History Of Myth
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance30
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We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we...
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Robotic reader
- By richard2 on 23-02-19
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A Short History Of Myth
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-06-12
- Language: English
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Hope in the Dark
- The Untold History of People Power
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance32
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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the 21st century.
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Wonderful book but robot like narration
- By monica on 10-03-19
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Hope in the Dark
- The Untold History of People Power
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-02-18
- Language: English
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My Name Is Why
- By: Lemn Sissay
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,379
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Performance2,121
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At the age of 17, after a childhood in an fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and triumph.
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Painful reading
- By candide on 01-09-19
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My Name Is Why
- Narrated by: Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-08-19
- Language: English
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