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  • Poor cover art

    • Poor

    • By: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 878 ratings

    • As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

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    • HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3

    • I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
    • By: John Sutton
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Drugs. Riots. Shanks. Dirty Protests. Violent Freemason guards. Self-mutilation and suicides. Welcome to the brutal truth about life as a prison officer.

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    • London Labour and the London Poor

    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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    • The Social Distance Between Us

    • How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings

    • From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

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    • Poor Economics

    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • Economic Gangsters

    • Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
    • By: Raymond Fisman, Edmund Miguel
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity.....

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    • The Corner

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings

    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • Damnation Island

    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • Vagabonds

    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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    • The Shame Game

    • Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
    • By: Mary O'Hara
    • Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality....

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    • Anti-Social

    • The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
    • By: Nick Pettigrew
    • Narrated by: Nick Pettigrew
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings

    • Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other’s throats....

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    • Thirst

    • A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
    • By: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
    • Narrated by: Scott Harrison
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings

    • An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....

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    • Twilight of the Elites

    • Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
    • By: Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm DeBevoise - Translated by
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

    • Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" - one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal....

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    • Who Killed My Father

    • By: Édouard Louis
    • Narrated by: Edouard Louis
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father....

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    • The Mole People

    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

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    • The War on Disabled People

    • Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe
    • By: Ellen Clifford
    • Narrated by: Nadia Albina
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 27-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for ‘grave and systematic violations’ of disabled people’s rights....

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    • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams

    • By: Jeff Pearce
    • Narrated by: Robin Morrissey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams is the heartwarming true story of a little boy who had nothing but gained everything and proof that, sometimes, rags can be turned into riches....

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    • Out of Poverty

    • What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
    • By: Paul Polak
    • Narrated by: Eric Bodrero
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Paul Polak, whose organization International Development Enterprises (IDE) has directly helped over 17 million people get out of poverty permanently, exposes the top 3 things we are doing wrong....

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    • I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth

    • By: Paul London
    • Narrated by: Paul London
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 17-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • When it comes to Skinheads, I see a lot of people these days re-writing history, whitewashing the youth cult or bending the truth to suit their political narrative.

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