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The Hungry Empire
- How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
- By: Lizzie Collingham
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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In 20 meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes. To be British was to eat the world. The empire allowed Britain to harness the globe’s edible resources from salt beef to sugar. By the 20th century the wheat to make the working man’s loaf of bread was supplied by Canada, and his Sunday leg of lamb had been fattened on New Zealand’s grasslands. Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire.
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spectacular book. A must read.
- By Mr D G Key on 02-11-21
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The Hungry Empire
- How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-03-18
- Language: English
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Today We Die a Little
- By: Richard Askwith
- Narrated by: Richard Askwith
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals, set 18 world records and went undefeated over 10,000 metres for six years. He redefined the boundaries of endurance, but his toughness was matched by a spirit of friendship and a joie de vivre that transcended the darkest days of the Cold War. His triumphs put his country on the map, yet when Soviet tanks moved in to crush Czechoslovakia's new freedoms in 1968, Zátopek paid a heavy price for his defence of 'socialism with a human face'. Rehabilitated two decades later, the world had all but forgotten him.
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What a wonderfully written and researched tribute to the great man
- By Osteo McG on 16-05-24
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Today We Die a Little
- Narrated by: Richard Askwith
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-02-22
- Language: English
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Hollywood Wants to Kill You
- The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
- By: Rick Edwards, Michael Brooks
- Narrated by: Rick Edwards, Michael Brooks
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Asteroids, killer sharks, nuclear bombs, viruses, deadly robots, climate change, the apocalypse – why is Hollywood so obsessed with death and the end of the world? And how seriously should we take the dystopian visions of our favourite films? With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks explore the science of death and mass destruction through some of our best-loved Hollywood blockbusters.
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Engaging and entertaining
- By vcart on 10-10-20
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Hollywood Wants to Kill You
- The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
- Narrated by: Rick Edwards, Michael Brooks
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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The Valley
- A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
- By: Richard Benson
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 19 hrs
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The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's 92 years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family's attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter defeat.
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The Valley
- A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 19 hrs
- Release date: 01-08-15
- Language: English
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Our Daily War
- By: Andrey Kurkov
- Narrated by: Andrey Kurkov
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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A collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv - an unmatched record of a brilliant, distinguished writer reporting from throughout his war-ravaged country. Andrey Kurkov - "Ukraine's greatest novelist," in the words of Giles Harvey in the New York Times - "is fighting for his country."
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Our Daily War
- Narrated by: Andrey Kurkov
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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Jacinda Ardern
- A New Kind of Leader
- By: Madeleine Chapman
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In this revealing biography, journalist Madeleine Chapman discovers the woman behind the headlines. Politically engaged from an early age, Ardern has encountered her fair share of sexism, but rather than let that harden her, she advocated 'rising above' critics. In her first press conference, she announced an election campaign of 'relentless positivity' - the tactic was a resounding success. But can Ardern live up to her promise? And what can we learn from the world's reaction to this inspiring leader?
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Jacinda Ardern
- A New Kind of Leader
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-08-20
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter
- By: Caroline Moorehead
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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In Paris, January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of the German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eldest a farmer’s wife of 68; there were among them teachers, biochemists, sales girls, secretaries, housewives and university lecturers. The women turned to one another, finding solace and strength in friendship and shared experience.
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Gripping account of the struggle to survive
- By Carol on 17-06-15
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A Train in Winter
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-03-12
- Language: English
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A Force to Be Reckoned With
- A History of the Women's Institute
- By: Jane Robinson
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. About 215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class and has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women.
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History of the WI.
- By Teresa Cooper on 14-08-15
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A Force to Be Reckoned With
- A History of the Women's Institute
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-04-12
- Language: English
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Jacinda Ardern
- Leading with Empathy
- By: Supriya Vani, Carl A. Harte
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy carefully explores the influences that have shaped Ardern. Peace activist and journalist Supriya Vani and writer Carl A. Harte build their narrative through Vani's exclusive interviews with Ardern, as well as the prime minister's public statements and speeches and the words of those who know her. We visit the places, meet the people and understand the events that propelled the daughter of a small-town Mormon policeman to become a social democrat, a passionate Labour Party politician and a modern leader admired for her empathy and courage.
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Am inspirational woman
- By Tracey M on 12-03-23
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Jacinda Ardern
- Leading with Empathy
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Bletchley Park's Secret Source
- By: Peter Hore
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding the Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary untold story of the Y service, a secret even more closely guarded than Bletchley Park. 'Y service' was the code for the chain of wireless intercept stations around Britain and all over the world.
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Great insight to to Bletchley Park.
- By R Anderson on 03-03-23
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Bletchley Park's Secret Source
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-08-22
- Language: English
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The Professor
- By: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The hero of Charlotte Brontë's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school.
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The Professor
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- By: Fergus Hume
- Narrated by: Toby Webster
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Mr. Royston is driving his hansom through the night-time streets of Melbourne when he is hailed by a man supporting a slumped, intoxicated figure and requesting that the cabman take the unfortunate fellow home - before proceeding to drop his burden and make a rapid exit.
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Great Victorian Murder
- By Sceptical Sorcerer on 03-01-24
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
- Narrated by: Toby Webster
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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Hearts and Minds
- By: Jane Robinson
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impassioned crusaders have their admirers; some agree with their aims if not their forceful methods, while others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote. Meanwhile, hundreds of women are stepping out onto the streets of Britain. They are the suffragists: nonmilitant campaigners for the vote, on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage.
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Hearts and Minds
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-02-18
- Language: English
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Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
- A Memoir
- By: Wendy McCarthy
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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For more than 50 years, Wendy McCarthy has been on the leading edge of Australian feminism, and her trailblazing advocacy and leadership have made her a widely respected and revered figure: a woman who shaped her times as much as she was shaped by them. Now, at 80 years of age, she shares her remarkable life and achievements. From sheltered country schoolgirl to relentless campaigner for abortion and contraception, from passionate teacher to lifelong advocate for education, Wendy smashed the glass ceiling again and again.
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Don't Be Too Polite, Girls
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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A Witness of Fact
- The Peculiar Case of Chief Forensic Pathologist Colin Manock
- By: Drew Rooke
- Narrated by: Lockie Chapman
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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For nearly three decades, Dr Colin Manock was in charge of South Australia's forensic pathology services. In cases of unexpected or unexplained death, it was his job to determine when a person took their final breath, and whether they had died naturally - or not. But Manock did not have the necessary training for such a specialist role, and made serious errors in several major cases. The full extent of his wrongdoing, and the exact number of cases impacted by it, remain a mystery more than twenty-five years after he retired.
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A Witness of Fact
- The Peculiar Case of Chief Forensic Pathologist Colin Manock
- Narrated by: Lockie Chapman
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-10-22
- Language: English
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The Last Matchmaker
- By: Willie Daly, Philip Dodd
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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For centuries, Irish matchmakers have performed a vital service, bringing people together in love and marriage. Willie Daly, whose father and grandfather were matchmakers before him, is the most celebrated of them all. Each year his tiny home town of Lisdoonvarna (population 800) hosts a matchmaking festival that attracts 40,000 visitors from around the world.
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The Last Matchmaker
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-10-10
- Language: English
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The Convoy
- By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
- Narrated by: Chloë Sommer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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On the 18th of June 1994, weeks before the end of the massacres in which hundreds of thousands of her fellow Tutsi, Rwanda's Bantu-speaking ethnic group, were slaughtered by the Hutu, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were fortunate to find a safe passage out of Rwanda with a convoy of children organised by a Swiss humanitarian organisation. Fifteen years later, after rebuilding her life and becoming a successful novelist, Mairesse is ready to begin the long process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape.
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The Convoy
- Narrated by: Chloë Sommer
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Currowan
- A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia’s Worst Summer
- By: Bronwyn Adcock
- Narrated by: Olivia Beardsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest, the Currowan fire was one of the most terrifying episodes of Australia's Black Summer. It burnt for 74 days, consuming nearly 5,000 square kilometres of land, destroying well over 500 homes and leaving many people shattered. In the aftermath, there were questions. Why were resources so few that many faced the flames alone? Why was there back-burning on a day of extreme fire danger? Why weren’t they better prepared?
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Currowan
- A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia’s Worst Summer
- Narrated by: Olivia Beardsley
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Jacinda Ardern
- Leading with Empathy
- By: Supriya Vani, Carl A. Harte
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy carefully explores the influences - personal, social, political and emotional - that have shaped Ardern. Peace activist and journalist Supriya Vani and writer Carl A. Harte build their narrative through Vani's exclusive interviews with Ardern, as well as the prime minister's public statements and speeches and the words of those who know her.
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Jacinda Ardern
- Leading with Empathy
- Narrated by: Kirsty Gillmore
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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