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Radio Free Afghanistan
- A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
- Written by: Saad Mohseni, Jenna Krajeski
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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An FT Best Book of the Year 'Perhaps the best of the memoirs of Afghanistan so far published' FT 'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan – brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible – he transformed the Afghan media landscape and...
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Radio Free Afghanistan
- A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- 'as good as journalism gets'
- Written by: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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'A stunning history of now' GREG GRANDIN 'Phenomenal . . . it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world' ROB DELANEY From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in history. But what type of change did they deliver? From the...
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
- 'as good as journalism gets'
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- Written by: Brad de Long
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissatisfied. Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing...
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Allan Aquino
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- Written by: Amit Katwala
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 ‘A wonderful book’ - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who’d conspired with bandits...
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Tremors in the Blood
- Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
- Narrated by: Matt Reeves
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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M
- Son of the Century
- Written by: Antonio Scurati, Anne Milano Appel - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 27 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER M. is a startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. Italy is exhausted. Tired of the political class. Tired of the inept moderates and the agonizing machinations of a...
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M
- Son of the Century
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 27 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 29-04-21
- Language: English
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King's Counsellor
- Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
- Written by: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century. These fascinating diaries begin with Edward VIII's abdication and end with George VI's death and his daughter Elizabeth's Coronation. In between we see George VI at work and play, a portrait more intimate than any other previously published.
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King's Counsellor
- Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 19-11-20
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- Written by: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings...
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 18-06-20
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital
- 1848-1875
- Written by: Eric Hobsbawm
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. It was the triumph of a society which believed that economic growth rests on competitive private enterprise, on success in buying everything in the cheapest market (including labour) and selling it in the dearest.
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The Age of Capital
- 1848-1875
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
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Checkpoint Charlie
- The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- Written by: Iain MacGregor
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the legendary and most important military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States and her allies confronted the USSR during the Cold War. As tensions between east and west rose during the Cold War, East Germany committed $millions to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s....
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Checkpoint Charlie
- The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 24-10-19
- Language: English
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The New Rules of War
- Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
- Written by: Sean McFate
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO An Economist Book of the Year 2019 An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne...
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The New Rules of War
- Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- Written by: Peter Stark
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE The true story of a Founding Father: a new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria. “Lively, well-researched . . . . A discerning history of pre-Revolutionary America and the man who...
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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Born Survivors
- Written by: Wendy Holden
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives and those of their unborn babies.
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Born Survivors
- Narrated by: Wendy Holden, Anne Dover, Eva Clarke
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 22-10-15
- Language: English
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- Written by: Gordon Corera
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
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From the host of The Rest is Classified podcast, this is the secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day. 'The history of MI6 in the words of real spies' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The best post-1949 account of British intelligence I have read' SPECTATOR 'As gripping as any novel'...
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MI6
- Life and Death in the British Secret Service
- Narrated by: Gordon Corera
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 25-03-21
- Language: English
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The Age of Empire
- 1875-1914
- Written by: Eric Hobsbawm
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the 19th century, The Age of Empire covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One - and shaped modern society.
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The Age of Empire
- 1875-1914
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 13-02-20
- Language: English
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to...
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 19-01-21
- Language: English
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Gay Berlin
- Birthplace of a Modern Identity
- Written by: Robert Beachy
- Narrated by: James D Sasser
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its...
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Gay Berlin
- Birthplace of a Modern Identity
- Narrated by: James D Sasser
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Soldiers
- Great Stories of War and Peace
- Written by: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting...
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Soldiers
- Great Stories of War and Peace
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 28-10-21
- Language: English
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Decoding the Devil
- Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
- Written by: Sarah Valentine
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War. Facing the global threat of a rising Communist...
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Decoding the Devil
- Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 02-06-26
- Language: English
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Take Six Girls
- The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
- Written by: Laura Thompson
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a...
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Take Six Girls
- The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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The Black Russian
- Written by: Vladimir Alexandrov
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov, read by Ben Onwukwe. The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia. 'A fascinating tale' Anne Applebaum 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Spectator 'Extraordinary...
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The Black Russian
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Series: Great Lives
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 26-05-26
- Language: English
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