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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean, The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. The story of the nutmeg becomes a parable revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials.
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Eye-opening read
- By Mrs. Z. L. James on 17-11-22
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The Nutmeg's Curse
- Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
- By: Tarquin Hall
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali appears, and strikes one of their number dead.The goddess disappears without trace, and soon news of the crime has all India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic and rationalist Dr Suresh Jha, enemy of all gurus and mystics, and he has been silenced in a manner calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters.
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Fed up with the predictable then try this series
- By Jane on 29-08-16
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The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Series: Vish Puri, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-04-11
- Language: English
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- By: Paul Scott
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each, physical violence, racial animosity, the coercion of the weak by the strong all play their part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty, and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.
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Mesmerising!
- By Pamela Brooks George on 23-03-13
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The Jewel in the Crown
- Raj Quartet
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Series: The Raj Quartet, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-04-11
- Language: English
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Joseph Anton
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Sam Dastor
- Length: 27 hrs
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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran". So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team.
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Where to start...
- By Thomas on 24-10-12
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Joseph Anton
- Narrated by: Salman Rushdie, Sam Dastor
- Length: 27 hrs
- Release date: 18-09-12
- Language: English
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Between the Assassinations
- By: Aravind Adiga
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and of an India that modern literature has rarely addressed.
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Between the Assassinations
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-09-09
- Language: English
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Great Explorers
- By: David Angus
- Narrated by: Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, Kerry Shale
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world by their vision, courage, and sheer doggedness. They were very different people, from bold adventurers facing the unknown with enjoyment to careful, more scientific individuals. Their journeys are placed within their historical context, but also contain the words of the men themselves.
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Great Explorers
- Narrated by: Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, Kerry Shale
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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The Case of the Love Commandos
- By: Tarquin Hall
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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The wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri. When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead set against the union. She’s from a high-caste family; he’s an Untouchable, from the lowest strata of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s father locks her up and promises to hunt down the “loverboy dog.” Fortunately, India’s Love Commandos, a group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. But just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously snatched from his hiding place.
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Entertaining, funny and clever
- By Dr B Gumbrell on 21-06-15
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The Case of the Love Commandos
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Series: Vish Puri, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-10-13
- Language: English
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Rebels Against the Raj
- Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
- By: Ramachandra Guha
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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Rebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the freedom movement fighting for independence. Of the seven, four were British, two American and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, organic agriculture, environmentalism.
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Brilliantly moving history
- By Andrew on 02-05-23
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Rebels Against the Raj
- Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: English
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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
- By: Jeremy Siepmann
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, David Timson, Nigel Anthony, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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No great composer’s story is more predominantly happy than Haydn’s, though even his has its share of clouds. A classic rags-to-riches tale, it sees him move from humble beginnings through decades as a liveried servant to his emergence as the most popular and successful composer of his time. One of the healthiest and least neurotic artists in musical history, he did more than any other single figure to pioneer the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet - and he was the first truly great practitioner of each.
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Joseph Haydn: His Life and Works
- Narrated by: Jeremy Siepmann, David Timson, Nigel Anthony, Sam Dastor, Steve Hodson, Roger May, Frances Jeater
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 21-12-12
- Language: English
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The Archipelago of Another Life
- By: Andreï Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
- Narrated by: Philip Stevens, Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end all wars, for in the atomic age man has sown the seeds of his own destruction. Among them is Pavel Gartsev, a reservist. Orphaned, scarred by the last great war and unlucky in love, he is an instant victim for the apparatchiks and ambitious careerists who thrive within the Red Army's ranks.
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Not what I was expecting
- By The Curator on 11-10-19
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The Archipelago of Another Life
- Narrated by: Philip Stevens, Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-10-19
- Language: English
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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Ideal team
- By Sententiae on 19-02-22
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
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Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.
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Loved every minute of my listening
- By Anonymous User on 19-04-24
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 27-07-21
- Language: English
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We That Are Young
- By: Preti Taneja
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal, Sam Dastor
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence - only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On the same day, Sita, Devraj's youngest daughter, absconds - refusing to submit to the marriage her father wants for her. Meanwhile, Radha and Gargi, Sita's older sisters, are left to run the Company.... And so begins a brutal, deathly struggle for power, ranging over the Palaces and slums of New Delhi, the luxury resorts and spas of Amritsar and Srinagar.
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really couldn't get into the narrative
- By tfdodo on 04-02-20
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We That Are Young
- Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal, Sam Dastor
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-08-18
- Language: English
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Crater's Edge
- By: Michal Giedroyc
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In September 1939, a 10-year-old boy, Micha Giedroyc watched the Russian security police seize his home in eastern Poland. His father, a senator and judge, was imprisoned while his mother, with Micha and his two sisters, were left on the streets of the local town to fend for themselves. Later they were transported in cattle trucks to the wastes of Soviet Siberia, with hundreds of thousands of other deportees. 'Here, by the will of the rulers of the Soviet Empire, we were to toil and die.'
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An extraordinary journey told in amazing clarity
- By Badger on 05-04-20
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Crater's Edge
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including The Home and the World & The Red Oleander
- By: Rabindranath Tagore
- Narrated by: Sacha Dhawan, Indira Varma, Sam Dastor, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems; exchanged ideas with Yeats, Einstein and Gandhi, and was hugely influential in promoting Indian culture to the West. This collection includes some of Tagore's key novels, plays and short stories, as well as his best-known poem and four fascinating biographical programmes.
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Rabindranath Tagore: A BBC Radio Collection
- Including The Home and the World & The Red Oleander
- Narrated by: Sacha Dhawan, Indira Varma, Sam Dastor, Renu Setna, Ronny Jhutti, Saeed Jaffrey, Aileen Gonsalves, Shireen Shah, full cast, Zia Mohyeddin, Peter Barker
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-12-23
- Language: English
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Ibn Battuta
- Narrated by: Frances Jeater, Sam Dastor, Kerry Shale
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 02-12-13
- Language: English
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North of Dawn
- A Novel
- By: Nuruddin Farah
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children hunger for the freedoms of their new homeland, a rift that will have lifealtering consequences for the entire family.
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Great novel
- By Sahar Abdulla on 13-01-19
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North of Dawn
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Last Man In Tower
- By: Avarind Adiga
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society - a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums - is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah’s luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram’s Tower A.
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Bad Narration can spoil a good book
- By JGO on 27-05-16
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Last Man In Tower
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-10-11
- Language: English
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The Devil's Feast
- By: M. J. Carter
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate and soon discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club's handsome façade - and in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, 'the Napoleon of food', a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity.
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Too much food
- By soosiewoosie on 30-09-17
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The Devil's Feast
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Series: Avery and Blake, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-08-17
- Language: English
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The Mimic Men
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned, and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph's constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India's many "Mimic Men".
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very perceptive and possessing a haunting tragedy
- By Doyle on 04-11-18
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The Mimic Men
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-03-17
- Language: English
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