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Some people say 'sconn' while others say 'schown'. He says 'bath' while she says 'bahth'. You say 'potayto'. I say 'potahto'. And - wait a second, no one says 'potahto'. No one's ever said 'potahto'. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of received pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father, David, travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English.

Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Portuguese language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by...

Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the German language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer Jacques Prévert, the writer known in...