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The Happy Traitor
- Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Kevin Spink
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a senior officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least-known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for betraying to the KGB all of the Western operations in which he was involved, and the names of hundreds of British agents working behind the Iron Curtain. This was the longest sentence for espionage ever to have been handed down by a British court
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Fascinating
- By A. D. Bentley on 13-07-21
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The Happy Traitor
- Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
- Narrated by: Kevin Spink
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Why England Lose
- And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained
- By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn’t America play the sport internationally… and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style?
Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, "Why England Lose" reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.
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Better off reading it
- By MR on 22-07-18
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Why England Lose
- And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 29-04-10
- Language: English
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Good Chaps
- How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Exiled from Downing Street, Boris Johnson may now be best known as the latest GB News presenter. His former senior advisor Dominic Cummings has reinvented himself as political pundit. And Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have been ejected from high-level politics since their infamous mini budget of 2022. But the chumocracy is far from over.
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Very detailed examples of behaviour failing the smelly test
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-24
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Good Chaps
- How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.
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Impossible City
- By Alex kuklenko on 01-08-24
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Barça
- The rise and fall of the club that built modern football
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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After 30 years of unprecedented access, this book takes the listener behind closed doors into the changing room, the training ground and the boardroom to reveal the real stories behind Barça's rise to global sports superpower - and its recent fall from grace. It includes interviews with the towering personalities responsible for transforming Barça including Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola. It details the work of coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists, as well as extraordinary players like Lionel Messi, in building not just a club but a football philosophy.
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A Compact History Of A Sadly Now Disjointed Club
- By Michael on 23-10-21
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Barça
- The rise and fall of the club that built modern football
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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Chums
- How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues—they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them.
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Oxford exposed and it’s impact on U.K.
- By Mary Mercy on 11-12-22
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Chums
- How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 20-10-22
- Language: English
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Soccernomics
- By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Why does England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America play the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.
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Soccernomics
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-06-10
- Language: English
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La complejidad del Barça
- By: Simon Kuper, Carla Montoto - traductor, Genís Monrabà - traductor
- Narrated by: Miguel Coll
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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El Barça no es solo el club deportivo más popular del mundo, es simplemente una de las organizaciones más influyentes del planeta. Con casi 250 millones de seguidores en las redes sociales y 4 millones de visitantes en su estadio cada año, no es de extrañar que su lema sea "Más que un club". Pero no siempre fue así. En las últimas tres décadas, el Barcelona pasó de un equipo regional a una potencia mundial, convirtiéndose en un modelo de excelencia deportiva y un constante ganador de títulos nacionales e internacionales.
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La complejidad del Barça
- Narrated by: Miguel Coll
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-04-22
- Language: Spanish
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