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Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story
- All the Bumps of Cycling's Cobbled Classic
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: Nick O'Kelly
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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The Paris-Roubaix bicycle race, nicknamed "The Hell of the North," is famous for sending riders over brutal cobblestone roads. Only the strong, brave and lucky survive the hours of bone-shaking racing without suffering some mishap or catastrophe. It is so difficult no one wins it by accident, and winning Paris-Roubaix automatically puts a rider among the immortals of the sport. Why did Paris-Roubaix emerge to be such a special race? Les Woodland tells the inside story of one of cycling's classics.
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Well worth a listen
- By George on 10-07-14
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Paris-Roubaix, The Inside Story
- All the Bumps of Cycling's Cobbled Classic
- Narrated by: Nick O'Kelly
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
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The Story of the Giro d'Italia
- A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume Two: 1971-2011
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 11 hrs
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The Giro d'Italia is one of the world's most important and popular bicycle races, yet there is almost no information in English about this magical Italian race's rich past. With The Story of the Giro d'Italia, the fabulous history of Italy's national tour is at last available. Volume One took the story of the Giro from its origin as a desperate promotional gamble by a nearly broke newspaper to Eddy Merckx's convincing 1970 victory.
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The Story of the Giro d'Italia
- A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume Two: 1971-2011
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Series: The Story of the Giro d'Italia, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 12-07-13
- Language: English
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The Story of the Tour de France: Volume 2 - 1976-2018
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Volume one of The Story of the Tour de France concluded with Bernard Thévenet’s dramatic victory over Eddy Merckx in the 1975 Tour. Volume two opens with super-climber Lucien van Impe’s taking advantage of a course made for the riders with wings. His win was followed by the dominating presence of Bernard Hinault, who became the third rider to win the Tour five times.
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The Story of the Tour de France: Volume 2 - 1976-2018
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Series: The Story of the Tour de France, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 10-05-21
- Language: English
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The Story of the Tour de France - Volume 1: 1903-1975
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
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At the dawn of the 20th century, French newspapers used bicycle races as promotions to build readership. Until 1903 these were one-day events. Looking to deliver a coup de grâce in a vicious circulation war, Henri Desgrange - editor of the Parisian sports magazine L’Auto - took the suggestion of one of his writers to organize a race that would last several days longer than anything else, like the six-day races on the track, but on the road. The race was an electrifying success. Held annually (suspended only during the two World Wars), the Tour grew longer and more complex.
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The Story of the Tour de France - Volume 1: 1903-1975
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Series: The Story of the Tour de France, Book 1
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 22-12-20
- Language: English
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Sticky Buns Across America: Back-Roads Biking from Sea to Shining Sea
- By: Léo Woodland
- Narrated by: Nathan William Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Sticky Buns Across America is the story of one of the four continents and one of the countries Woodland has crossed by bike, this time with patient wife Steph: a tale of riding across small-town America (and occasional bits of Canada, although to Americans that doesn't count). It's not a tale of heroic battling with storms, riots, poison ivy, Americans, and other problems. Instead, sit back and enjoy an eccentric account of encounters made and experiences lived. Plus, it has to be admitted, a lot of sticky buns eaten.
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Sticky Buns Across America: Back-Roads Biking from Sea to Shining Sea
- Narrated by: Nathan William Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 24-04-14
- Language: English
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Tour of Flanders
- The Inside Story: The Rocky Roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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The Tour of Flanders is Belgium's most brutal day in the saddle. The bike-crazed Flemish don't just send riders over cobblestone roads. Nor are they content to break the racers' legs with nearly 20 steep hills. No, the worst of all cycling worlds meet in Flanders with narrow, vertical roads paved with slippery, dangerous cobbles. The hills are so steep they are called "muurs", or walls, and they come one after another, for hours, until the riders are shattered with exhaustion. The Tour of Flanders is so fiendishly difficult that the man who wins it earns everlasting fame.
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Factual story spoilt by Narrator
- By mr Wiggins on 07-03-14
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Tour of Flanders
- The Inside Story: The Rocky Roads of the Ronde van Vlaanderen
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-02-14
- Language: English
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Melanoma
- It Started with a Freckle
- By: David L. Stanley
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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With Melanoma: It Started with a Freckle, David L. Stanley invites you to join him on an inside tour of his cancer. You'll travel with Stanley from the dimly lit and elegantly decorated office of the dermatologist to the fluorescent glare of the operating room theater and back to the workplace as he faces up to melanoma, the only major cancer that has seen its incidence rise since 2000, with humor, humility, and a deep understanding of the disease borne of research and science.
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Melanoma
- It Started with a Freckle
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-05-16
- Language: English
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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When more than 100 men or women go racing down a road, inches away from each other, in all weather, over all kinds of roads, the opportunity for a brilliant win or a terrible accident is always there. For more than a century, bicycle racers have sought glory, but have often found only misery. There can be only one winner, and even that triumph can be mixed with terrible loss. Fausto Coppi, coached by a blind man, set the World Hour Record in Milan during the war while the city was being shattered by bombs.
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Heard some of these before
- By stufie on 07-06-18
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Cycling's 50 Triumphs and Tragedies
- The Rise and Fall of Bicycle Racing's Champions
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-10-15
- Language: English
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The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After listening to Les Woodland's The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories the listener might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier.
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The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 17-06-15
- Language: English
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Cycling's World Championships
- The Inside Story
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Champion of the world! For a year the World Cycling Champion gets to wear a special white jersey with rainbow stripes. And then, for the rest of his career, he can wear a jersey with rainbow cuffs and collar. Unlike the Tour de France's Yellow Jersey, which can only be worn while leading the race, the rainbow is earned for life.
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Cycling's World Championships
- The Inside Story
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-07-17
- Language: English
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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The Tour de France is the greatest bike race in the world, but it began as a humble promotional gimmick for a floundering newspaper. More than 100 years later, the Tour still captivates the world and is broadcast to over 180 countries. How did a few men looking for some way to save their struggling business become masters of a giant, successful enterprise? Les Woodland tells the inside story of the Tour de France through the prism of the men who started it, and those who now run it.
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Good but really only for cyclists.
- By P. Wyeth on 22-10-16
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Tour de France: The Inside Story
- Making the World's Greatest Bicycle Race
- Narrated by: Oscar Sparrow
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 14-07-14
- Language: English
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Epictetus
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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What’s the big idea? Former slave Epictetus argues that since we cannot control the external world, true freedom comes from the reasoned control of one’s own desires and passions. This is the core of Stoic thought that Epictetus taught in Western Greece about AD 100. Stoicism became the dominant moral philosophy of the Hellenistic and Roman world, and Epictetus became its dominant and most respected teacher. Though Epictetus wrote nothing that has survived, writer Arrian attended his lectures and took those notes that preserved Epictetus’ teachings.
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-08-22
- Language: English
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2023: The Viking Again Conquers the Tour
- The Story of the Tour de France
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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This telling of the 2023 Tour de France is an addition to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World, and four supplements.
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2023: The Viking Again Conquers the Tour
- The Story of the Tour de France
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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Cycling Heroes
- The Golden Years
- By: Les Woodland
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Les Woodland climbed aboard his old Carlton bike to take a nostalgia trip across Belgium and Holland to visit some of cycling's greatest riders. Cycling Heroes: The Golden Years tells the story of that journey he took in the early 1990s and the time he spent with some of the finest riders from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
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Good book, let down by narration
- By PJ on 10-09-17
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Cycling Heroes
- The Golden Years
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-03-15
- Language: English
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The Story of the Tour de France
- 2020: The Tour During COVID-19; Better Late than Never: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Except for the two world wars, the Tour has been run annually since that 1903 race, and yearly addendums seem the best way to keep telling the story. So please join us as we go on the 107th trip around La Belle France. Let’s see how those new faces of the 2019 Tour did in 2020.
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The Story of the Tour de France
- 2020: The Tour During COVID-19; Better Late than Never: How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Series: The Story of the Tour de France
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-01-21
- Language: English
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The Story of the Tour de France. 2019: A Year of New Faces
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr
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This telling of the 2019 Tour de France is a supplement to our two-volume The Story of the Tour de France. Volume one told the story of the Tour's origins and each edition of the race from 1903 through 1975. The 2019 edition was filled with surprises with young riders taking control of the race. Every day had something happen that confounded the experts. The winner did not emerge until Mother Nature surprised everyone in late July with snow and ice. With just three stages to go, mud, hail, and ice on an Alpine road changed everything.
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The Story of the Tour de France. 2019: A Year of New Faces
- How a Newspaper Promotion Became the Greatest Sporting Event in the World
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Series: The Story of the Tour de France
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 11-10-19
- Language: English
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Plato's Apology
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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What’s the big idea? To Socrates, living according to his values was more important than life itself. Plato’s Apology is in three parts: Socrates’ personal defense in his trial for impiety and corrupting the young, his plea before being sentenced, and his address to the jurors after he was condemned to death. This book includes an introduction, telling who Socrates was and how he came to be on trial for his life before his fellow Athenians.
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Plato's Apology
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Marcus Aurelius
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
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What’s the big idea? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius believed that in a palace or a soldiers’ camp one can live a life free of envy and desire, neither pursuing pleasure nor fearing pain as one performs the duties life has assigned. I have worked to make his Meditations as understandable as possible. By the end of the book, the emperor’s philosophy will be crystal clear. So please travel back almost 2,000 years ago and join Marcus Aurelius as sits in his camp in the evening meditating on life.
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 18-08-22
- Language: English
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Plato's Phaedo
- What's the Big Idea?
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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What's the big idea? Socrates argues that there are reasons to believe the soul is immortal and will live on after the body’s death. This dialogue tells us how Socrates spent the last day of his life with several friends, and how he met his end. Though soon to take a fatal drink of poison, Socrates insisted on discussing the soul and tried to prove its immortality.
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Plato's Phaedo
- What's the Big Idea?
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-11-22
- Language: English
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The Story of the Tour de France, 2022
- The Fastest Tour Ever
- By: Bill Mcgann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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2019 had a stunning surprise winner in 22-year-old Egan Bernal, the youngest rider to wear the race-leader’s Yellow Jersey in Paris since that jersey was first awarded in 1919, and the third-youngest rider ever to have won the Tour de France.
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The Story of the Tour de France, 2022
- The Fastest Tour Ever
- Narrated by: David L. Stanley
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 11-11-22
- Language: English
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