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Great Musicians' Lives
- A BBC biography collection
- Written by: Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock,
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Phill Jupitus, Hanif Kureishi,
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Distinguished guests nominate a great musician for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives For 20 years, Great Lives has been a linchpin of Radio 4, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. In it, a household name is invited to choose one of their heroes to discuss...
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Great Musicians' Lives
- A BBC biography collection
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Phill Jupitus, Hanif Kureishi, Simon Armitage, Michael Morpurgo, Stuart Maconie, Joan Bakewell, Francine Stock, Humphrey Carpenter
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Ones
- Written by: Prince
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye, Dan Piepenbring, Esperanza Spalding
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words - featuring the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and...
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The Beautiful Ones
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye, Dan Piepenbring, Esperanza Spalding
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 29-10-19
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music
- Written by: Andrew Ford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Shortest History of Music takes us on a lively tour through several thousands of years of music history, tracing our relationship with this essential art and allowing us to freshly appreciate and understand music today.
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The Shortest History of Music
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release Date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Written by: Sacha Lord, Luke Bainbridge
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Written by: Harry Sword
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
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Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Medical Grade Music
- Written by: Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music. Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000s at a gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Over the next few years, this unlikely duo's shared affinity for visionary psychedelic music would become the foundation of not only a firm friendship, but also the most infectiously inclusive broadcasting style since the much-mourned death of John Peel.
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Medical Grade Music
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth
- Written by: Michael Spitzer
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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One hundred and sixty-five million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. Sixty-six million years ago was the first melody. Forty thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musical instrument. Today music fills our lives. How we have created, performed and listened to this music throughout history has defined what our species is and how we understand who we are. Yet music is an overlooked part of our origin story.
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The Musical Human
- A History of Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Hammer of the Gods
- The Led Zeppelin Saga
- Written by: Stephen Davis
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The gold-standard biography of the band Led Zeppelin—revised and updated with new material for fans of the band and this beloved rock classic. “One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written.” —Chicago Tribune The members of Led Zeppelin are major deities in the pantheon of rock...
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Hammer of the Gods
- The Led Zeppelin Saga
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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When the Drummers Were Women
- A Spiritual History of Rhythm
- Written by: Layne Redmond
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history.
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When the Drummers Were Women
- A Spiritual History of Rhythm
- Narrated by: Kristi Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Written by: Lizzy Goodman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR and GQ Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a group of...
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Meet Me in the Bathroom
- Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Written by: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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’An absolutely masterly work’ Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and...
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Length: 28 hrs and 19 mins
- Release Date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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God Save the Queens
- The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
- Written by: Kathy Iandoli
- Narrated by: Kathy Iandoli, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop’s female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop to Shea Serrano’s The Rap Yearbook, focuses...
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God Save the Queens
- The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
- Narrated by: Kathy Iandoli, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- Written by: Tom Service
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium. Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral...
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A History of the World in 50 Pieces
- An Official Radio 3 book
- Narrated by: Tom Service
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift
- The Whole Story
- Written by: Chas Newkey-Burden
- Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET’S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world A small-town girl with...
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Taylor Swift
- The Whole Story
- Narrated by: Norma Butikofer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 28-03-24
- Language: English
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- Written by: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is read by the author and includes an exclusive Q&A between Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson 'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' – Richard Ayoade How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air? How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers?...
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release Date: 10-09-25
- Language: English
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Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
- A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
- Written by: Howard Bloom
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Howard Bloom - called “the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known” by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jethro Tull - is a science nerd who knew nothing about popular music. But he founded the biggest PR firm in the music industry and helped build or sustain the careers of our biggest rock legends, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Chaka Khan, and 100 more. What was he after? He was on a hunt for the gods inside of you and me.
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A Frank account of a music industry insider
- By Destination Infinity on 22-02-23
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Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me
- A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 18-08-20
- Language: English
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Written by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Kelefa Sanneh has made a deep study of how our popular music unites and divides us, the tribes it forms, and how its genres, shape-shifting across the years, give us a way to track larger forces and concerns. Sanneh debunks cherished myths, reappraises beloved heroes and upends familiar ideas of musical greatness, arguing that sometimes the best popular music isn't transcendent: it expresses our grudges, as well as our hopes, and it is motivated by greed as well as inspiration.
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Major Labels
- A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
- Narrated by: Kelefa Sanneh
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release Date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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100 Years of Grand Ole Opry
- A Celebration of the Artists, the Fans, and the Home of Country Music
- Written by: The Members of the Grand Ole Opry, Craig Shelburne, Brenda Colladay
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Terri Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Since 1925, the Grand Ole Opry has left an undeniable mark on American culture. What began as an impromptu performance of old-time fiddle tunes has transformed into the longest-running radio broadcast in US history, as well as a live performance for millions of country music fans each year. Replete with gorgeous illustrations and tributes from country music’s biggest names, 100 Years of Grand Ole Opry is a glorious, one-of-a-kind celebration, and a must-have for any country music fan.
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100 Years of Grand Ole Opry
- A Celebration of the Artists, the Fans, and the Home of Country Music
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Terri Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 15-04-25
- Language: English
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Jacked (Ad-Free)
- Written by: Wondery | UMG
- Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
- Original Recording
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Have you ever had a dream? Something you wanted so bad you just couldn’t let it go? For a group of kids in Harlem in the Eighties, their dreams would change pop music forever. Teddy Riley, Timmy Gatling, and Aaron Hall form a group called Guy that would fuse hip-hop and R&B and launch a new sound.
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The Vinyl Diaries
- Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy
- Written by: Pete Crighton
- Narrated by: Pete Crighton
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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A poignant, funny, and lively memoir of sexual awakening, music, and discovering one's true self. Pete Crighton came of age in the early/mid 1980s in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Growing up in Toronto, he was terrified that his friends and schoolmates would find out that he was “different” at a...
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The Vinyl Diaries
- Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy
- Narrated by: Pete Crighton
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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