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Read by the author, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. A British Childhood is at once a searing account of our failure to look after the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence of childhood. During his time as Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce...

CAN WE FIX HOW WE LOOK AFTER CHILDREN IN CARE? The audio edition includes an exclusive bonus track with author Chris Wild and actor Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Line of Duty, Unforgotten, The Night Manager). Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training - campaigner...

Brought to you by Penguin. Motherhood is a political state. Helen Charman makes a radical case for what liberated mothering could be, and tells the story of what motherhood has been, from the 1970s to the 2010s. When we talk about motherhood and politics together, we usually talk about isolated...

Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men but boys, many of whom were under the age of 16 and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, Caroline Cox reconstructs the lives and stories of this young subset of early American soldiers, focusing on how these boys came to join the army and what they actually did in service.

"Marco Rubio Bets on Nevada, a State That Shaped His Childhood" is from the US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jeremy W. Peters and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.