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Odd Boy Out
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn't know or hasn't met. Now a grandparent, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the 'woolly jumper years', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment.
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A busy and very interesting life!
- By Andrew Mchardy on 29-09-21
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Odd Boy Out
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable.' 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and a man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business in hand.' So says Police Chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde in a Chelsea drawing room, in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle. The business they are gathered to discuss is none other than the case of Jack the Ripper, the most notorious murderer in England. And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries.
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Highly entertaining and imaginative
- By Kirstine on 12-11-19
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Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-17
- Language: English
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Have You Eaten Grandma?
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Have You Eaten Grandma? written and read by Gyles Brandreth. It can be much harder than it seems; commas, colons, semicolons and even apostrophes can drive us all mad at times, but it riles no one more than the longest-serving resident of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, grammar guru Gyles Brandreth. In this brilliantly funny tirade and guide, Gyles anatomises the linguistic horrors of our times, tells us where we've been going wrong (and why) and shows us how, in future, we can get it right every time.
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Very funny but hard to follow in this format
- By K. J. Kelly on 09-12-18
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Have You Eaten Grandma?
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Philip
- The Final Portrait
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her 'constant strength and guide'. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about those 'gaffes' and the rumours of affairs? This is the final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. It is also the portrait of a remarkable marriage that endured for more than 70 years.
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Wonderful
- By Delissa on 02-05-21
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Philip
- The Final Portrait
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 27-04-21
- Language: English
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world. Allow Gyles Brandreth to be your guide to not only the wonders of poetry - and there are many - but also its practical uses in everyday life.
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Beautiful
- By Mrs T. on 23-01-22
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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This is a story of the most well documented, most commented on love affair of our times. Yet the personalities behind the facade remain elusive and the nature of their relationship is an enigma. This is the first major biography of Charles and Camilla, two people who have battled against the curious lot that fate has thrown their way. Gyles Brandreth returns to the same ground as his last book, the bestselling "Philip and Elizabeth"; "Portrait of a Marriage".
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Fascinating Detailed Account Of Royal Life
- By Joan on 03-03-18
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Charles and Camilla
- Portrait of a Love Affair
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-12-14
- Language: English
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Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
- Oscar Wilde Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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"I see murder in this unhappy hand...." When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "Murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen "victims" begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag....
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Gripping yet easy listening
- By Claire on 23-03-14
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Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
- Oscar Wilde Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Series: Oscar Wilde Mysteries, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-03-12
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- By: Oscar Wilde, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.
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Beautiful and Impossible Things
- Narrated by: John Telfer, Gyles Brandreth - introduction
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-02-18
- Language: English
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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On 18th February 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry left a visiting card at the Albemarle Club on which he had written: "To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite." The accusation led to a series of three trials and the imprisonment of Wilde. This compelling dramatic recreation has been carefully compiled from the original trial transcripts.
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Astonishing performance by Martin Jarvis
- By Nicholas on 26-11-10
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-05-06
- Language: English
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The 7 Secrets of Happiness
- An Optimist’s Journey
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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On June 17, 2013, Gyles Brandreth delivered the Baggs Memorial Lecture at the University of Birmingham - an annual conference on the theme of happiness and how it can be achieved. His speech was met with thunderous applause and a widespread demand to know more about the secrets of being happy, so he set about writing this poignant book of truths, sprinkled with British wit and humor throughout. With extensive research backing him, Brandreth travels the world over and meets numerous luminary figures, asking the questions: What is happiness?
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Change the Narrator NOW!
- By Chris F on 27-03-15
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The 7 Secrets of Happiness
- An Optimist’s Journey
- Narrated by: Raymond Scully
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-02-14
- Language: English
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Commonwealth Poetry Podcast
- By: Gyles Brandreth & Aphra Brandreth
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Poetry from around the world! A fortnightly celebration of Poetry and The Commonwealth - where award winning podcaster Gyles Brandreth and his daughter Aphra visit each of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth, meeting poets, performers and people who love poetry and discovering new poems each episode.
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Commonwealth Poetry Podcast
- 6 episodes
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Word Play
- A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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The aim of this audiobook is entertainment - and surprise - but there will be a fair bit of erudition and incidental education along the way. We discover the oldest words, the newest, the longest, the shortest, the most frequently used, the costliest (yes, words can come with prices attached), the funniest, the most fatal, the most unusual...From the words Shakespeare gave us to the latest in sexting, the best and the worst, the most amusing and amazing words are here.
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Thoroughly entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 15-03-17
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Word Play
- A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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The 24 Minutes of Le Mans
- A Race through History on the Wheels of the Porsche 919 Hybrid
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 24 mins
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The 24 Minutes of Le Mans are our tribute to the 919 Hybrid. An audiobook, filled with 24 breathtaking stories from the history of Porsche in Le Mans - with contributions from Le Mans legends like Hans-Joachim Stuck, Derek Bell or Hans Herrmann.
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The 24 Minutes of Le Mans
- A Race through History on the Wheels of the Porsche 919 Hybrid
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 24 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Living with the Enemy
- The Complete BBC Radio Comedy
- By: Nick Revell, Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth, Nick Revell, full cast, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Nick Reynolds is a lefty alternative comedian-turned-holistic therapist. Living on the floor below him is Gyles Brandon, an ex-Tory MP turned media darling. Poles apart, they’d never choose each other as friends, but when Nick accidentally floods Gyles’ apartment, they become reluctant flat-sharers. Joined by Gyles’ goddaughter Sophie Okuyu, the spoilt daughter of a corrupt African politician, the housemates get into various scrapes....
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Living with the Enemy
- The Complete BBC Radio Comedy
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth, Nick Revell, full cast, Gugu Mbatha-Raw
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 21-05-20
- Language: English
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Tales from Hans Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Pantomime
- By: Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Leslie Crowther, Gyles Brandreth, Dora Bryan, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Pantomime Stories – "Babes in the Wood"; "Cinderella"; "Dick Whittington"; "Jack and the Beanstalk"; "Puss in Boots"; "The Sleeping Beauty". Brothers Griimm Fairy Tales – "Rapunzel"; "Rumplestiltskin"; "The Frog Prince"; "The Three Musicians". Hans Andersen Fairy Tales – "The Nightingale"; "The Emperor's New Clothes"; "The Little Match Girl"; "The Tinder Box"; "The Ugly Duckling"; "Thumbelina".
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Tales from Hans Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Pantomime
- Narrated by: Leslie Crowther, Gyles Brandreth, Dora Bryan, Ian Ogilvy, Fiona Fullerton, Michele Dotrice, Jane Asher
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-06-14
- Language: English
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