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A Very Private School
- Written by: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, describing the pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.
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A Very Private School
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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₹1,183.29 or free with 30-day trial
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The School That Escaped the Nazis
- Written by: Deborah Cadbury
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fuelled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England. But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit.
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The School That Escaped the Nazis
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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₹667.71 or free with 30-day trial
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Sad Little Men
- Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- Written by: Richard Beard
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for generations: a training for the challenges of Empire. He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was to not let that show. Being separated from the people who love you is traumatic. How did that feel at the time, and what sort of adult does it mould? This is a story about England, and a portrait of a type of boy, trained to lead, who becomes a certain type of man.
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Sad Little Men
- Private Schools and the Ruin of England
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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₹671.06 or free with 30-day trial
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Exam Nation
- Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
- Written by: Sammy Wright
- Narrated by: Sammy Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.
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Exam Nation
- Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
- Narrated by: Sammy Wright
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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How Britain Really Works
- Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation
- Written by: Stig Abell
- Narrated by: Stig Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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'Absorbing . . . an intelligent and clear-eyed account of much that goes on in our country' Sunday Times 'Wry and readable' Guardian Getting to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. We are a nation that chose Brexit, rejects immigration but is dependent on it, is getting older but less...
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How Britain Really Works
- Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation
- Narrated by: Stig Abell
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release Date: 03-05-18
- Language: English
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