Speech Science

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    • Why It Matters
    • By: Andrew Doyle
    • Narrated by: Andrew Doyle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years, it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn....

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    • By: Simon Prentis
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 13-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it....

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    • A Global History from Socrates to Social Media
    • By: Jacob Mchangama
    • Narrated by: Paul Mendez
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Hailed as the 'first freedom', free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political and cultural history of this idea....

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    • By: Marcus Garvey
    • Narrated by: Yosef Kent
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the 20th century....

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    • How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind
    • By: Kulreet Chaudhary
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist, and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of sound, showing listeners how they can use it to improve their mental and physical wellbeing....

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    • By: Oliver Sacks
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices offers a way into a world that is, for many people, alien and unfamiliar - for to be profoundly deaf is not just to live in a world of silence but also to live in a world where the visual is paramount....

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    • The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
    • By: P. E. Moskowitz
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech - and how we can reclaim it....

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    • 51 Speeches (1934-45)
    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Winston Churchill
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-22
    • Language: English
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    • Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. These recordings capture 51 of Churchill’s speeches over 1934-45....

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    • Essays, Speeches, Meditations
    • By: Toni Morrison
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation....

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    • The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
    • By: Joshua Wong, Jason Y. Ng
    • Narrated by: Dexter Galang
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • At what point do you stand up to power? Age 14, Joshua Wong made history....

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    • The Fortress of Corrupt Ideas and How to Tear It Down
    • By: Nesrine Malik
    • Narrated by: Nesrine Malik
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • We are in a unique moment as it is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are in danger of being exposed as falsehoods, that the myths, be it of sexual liberation or of white non-identity....

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    • What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
    • By: Michelle MacRoy-Higgins PhD, Carlyn Kolker
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers....

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    • By: Tom Wolfe
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-16
    • Language: English
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    • The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong....

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    • Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception
    • By: Cass R. Sunstein
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem....

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    • Speeches that shape the world - and why we need them
    • By: Philip Collins
    • Narrated by: Philip Collins, Ben Onwukwe, Eric Meyers, Helen Keeley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In his work as a speechwriter to senior politicians and business leaders around the world, Philip Collins has become well versed in understanding what it is that makes a speech great....

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    • A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England
    • By: John Milton
    • Narrated by: Martin Oldfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • A prose polemic delivered to Parliament in 1644, "Areopagitica" stands as one of the most impassioned defenses of the freedom of expression in Western history....

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