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Our Great Canal Journeys
- By: Timothy West
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance61
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Story61
For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrowboats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The two iconic actors have spent many of the happiest days of their life together enjoying the calming pleasures of watching land and nature unfold before them at four miles an hour.
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Book 0me by Timothy West
- By K. Faulkner on 25-10-23
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Our Great Canal Journeys
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-04-18
- Language: English
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Journey Without Maps
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually uncharted republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.
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Fascinating
- By Leonard Turton on 22-08-22
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Journey Without Maps
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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Toujours Provence
- By: Peter Mayle
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the bottom of the garden, you might think there is little time left for pleasures of the table. Toujours Provence proves that while you might not be able to get away from it all, you can have fun trying.
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Dreadful
- By Anonymous on 01-05-24
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Toujours Provence
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Series: Provence, Book 2
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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An Area of Darkness
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.
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Arrogant narrator
- By ftyner on 02-12-25
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An Area of Darkness
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 25-05-21
- Language: English
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On the Slow Train Again
- By: Michael Williams
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance39
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Story39
Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London’s commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. Here is a unique travel companion celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage....
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Excellent
- By Andrew on 05-04-12
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On the Slow Train Again
- Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-11-11
- Language: English
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Round Ireland With A Fridge
- By: Tony Hawks
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall386
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Performance300
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Story301
Whilst in Ireland for an International Song Competition, Tony Hawks was amazed to see a hitch-hiker, trying to thumb a lift, but with a fridge. This seemed amazingly optimistic - his Irish friends, however thought nothing of it at all. 'I had clearly arrived in a country', writes Tony, 'where...
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The Fridge Man
- By Paul on 21-02-12
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Round Ireland With A Fridge
- Narrated by: Tony Hawks
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-04-11
- Language: English
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The Only Way Is West
- A Once in a Lifetime, 500 Mile Adventure Walking Spain’s Camino de Santiago
- By: Bradley Chermside
- Narrated by: Joel Daffurn
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance92
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Story92
What would you do if you're given a €20 note in Greece with an email address scribbled on it: Spend it, slip the suspect counterfeit bill into an enemy’s birthday card, or send an email, hoping it will lead to you finding everlasting love? Brad, a hopeless romantic, chose the latter. Two years later, his love life remains a disaster and his career is misfiring. As he’s about to walk Spain’s fabled Camino de Santiago to ponder some profound life changes, Brad receives a reply.
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Arrogant, conceited author
- By A. Salim on 20-05-22
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The Only Way Is West
- A Once in a Lifetime, 500 Mile Adventure Walking Spain’s Camino de Santiago
- Narrated by: Joel Daffurn
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-05-20
- Language: English
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The Gran Tour
- Travels with My Elders
- By: Ben Aitken
- Narrated by: Ben Aitken
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance89
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Story87
When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, 16 pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last.
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Quirky and very English
- By rikki on 21-05-21
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The Gran Tour
- Travels with My Elders
- Narrated by: Ben Aitken
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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The Durrells of Corfu
- By: Michael Haag
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance78
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Story77
Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved best seller, My Family and Other Animals. These books in turn are based somewhat loosely on actual events. The real-life Durrells went to Corfu at the urging of Lawrence Durrell, who was already living on the island with his wife, Nancy Myers. Their intent was to keep the family together as his mother, Louisa, was drinking heavily and recovering from a breakdown.
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Really interesting and amusing tales of the family
- By Sara on 04-01-18
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The Durrells of Corfu
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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Race to the Pole
- By: Ben Fogle
- Narrated by: James Cracknell, Ben Fogle
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
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Overall184
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Performance144
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Story143
New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the first time since the great Norwegian, Roald...
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Epic tale of adventure
- By G. Davidson on 07-07-14
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Race to the Pole
- Narrated by: James Cracknell, Ben Fogle
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 09-06-09
- Language: English
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Wayfarer
- Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths
- By: Phoebe Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story13
Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024 Travel Book of the Year at the Inspire Global Media Awards 'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along paths of emotional understanding and physical wonder.'...
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Wayfarer
- By Graham on 12-01-26
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Wayfarer
- Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Billy Connolly's Route 66
- The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: James McPherson
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance106
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Story105
Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he first heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock 'n' roll records of all time. And now he's finally had the chance to do it, heading out on his custom-made trike in search of the real America that can still be found beyond the nation's freeways.
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The book will be better...........................
- By colin_mcleod@mmltd.uk.com on 25-10-11
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Billy Connolly's Route 66
- The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip
- Narrated by: James McPherson
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-10-11
- Language: English
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- By: Chris Stewart
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance92
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Story91
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to leave for university. We find Chris, a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch for visiting British chef, Rick Stein; and, most movingly, visiting famine-stricken Niger for Oxfam.
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Sublime story telling
- By Jodie Holyoak on 23-02-23
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Last Days of the Bus Club
- Narrated by: Chris Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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La Vie
- A year in rural France
- By: John Lewis-Stempel
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance49
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Story49
Brought to you by Penguin. The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the...
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A delight
- By Hils on 18-06-23
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La Vie
- A year in rural France
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-05-23
- Language: English
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The Gathering Place
- A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times
- By: Mary Colwell
- Narrated by: Mary Colwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Story11
Pilgrims have always walked in times of upheaval, pitching themselves against weather, hunger, thirst and sometimes pain as they tread the paths their ancestors followed before them. In The Gathering Place, author, nature campaigner and veteran solo walker Mary Colwell undertakes a 500-mile pilgrimage along the Camino Francés in northern Spain at a unique moment in history – a time of pandemic, profound political change, and a climate and biodiversity emergency.
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A Rich Experience
- By Amazon Customer on 24-02-24
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The Gathering Place
- A Winter Pilgrimage Through Changing Times
- Narrated by: Mary Colwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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American Shaolin
- Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
- By: Matthew Polly
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance77
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Story77
Growing up a 90-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.
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A Hidden Gem!
- By C. Carey on 15-09-25
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American Shaolin
- Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-12-18
- Language: English
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The PPL Pilot’s guide
- By: Jake Castle
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Performance2
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Jake Castle is a 30 year old EASA ATPL and CAA PPL holder from Essex England but currently residing in Malaga Spain. Self described as “not the smartest bloke” they have created a guide to all the exercises in the PPL syllabus to help break down into easy to understand chunks, helping you to maximise your time in your costly flying lessons learning to fly, not remembering how to fly. As an auditory and kinaesthetic learner, they are someone that when driving to the airfields would have a roughly hour long drive to and from, and so would often need something to listen to, and they just ...
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Great for PPL and beyond
- By Anonymous on 31-07-25
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A Sense of Place
- A journey around Scotland’s whisky
- By: Dave Broom
- Narrated by: Dave Broom
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance8
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Story9
In this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir - the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feed and enhance the whisky itself. Travelling around his native Scotland and visiting distilleries from Islay...
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Not just another book about whisky.
- By Richard burden on 18-02-25
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A Sense of Place
- A journey around Scotland’s whisky
- Narrated by: Dave Broom
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-09-22
- Language: English
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Long Road from Jarrow
- A journey through Britain then and now
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance216
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Story216
In the autumn of 1936, some 200 men from the Tyneside town of Jarrow marched 300 miles to London in protest against the destruction of their towns and industries. Precisely 80 years on, Stuart Maconie walks from north to south, retracing the route of the emblematic Jarrow Crusade. Following history's footsteps, Maconie is in search of what modern Britain is really like today.
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Fabulous, edgy recreation of the Jarrow March
- By Mr SA Lambe on 27-08-17
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Long Road from Jarrow
- A journey through Britain then and now
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-07-17
- Language: English
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Sightseeing Japan
- By: Jason Nieling and Paul Bresin
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Welcome to Sightseeing Japan! Join hosts Jason Nieling and Paul Bresin as they explore the land of the rising sun. New podcast episodes are released every other week covering a range of topics, from geisha to vending machines and everything in between.
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Absolutely love this podcast
- By Davie on 05-01-23
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