We Die Alone
In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from Britain to Nazi-occupied Norway. Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed, and...
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Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley
Reader: Robert Hardy
Readings of selected correspondence between the poet Philip Larkin (played by Alan Bennett) and the writer Kingsley Amis (played by Robert Hardy). A meeting at Oxford University during World War...
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Nella Last's War
In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a regular diary that lasted for thirty years. The account that she left of life during the Second World War is moving, fascinating and...
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Me and Mine
Leaving home was a simple ‘sail or starve’ choice for Anna Mangan’s aunts and uncles; there was no work in rural Ireland, nor any prospect of it. Letters from friends and neighbours already...
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Brief Lives
Reader: Anna Massey
‘Brief Lives’ is an affectionate and fascinating collection of biographies of people W.F. Deedes had encountered in his seventy years as a journalist.In this eclectic selection of...
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Elizabeth: Her Life, Our Times
Reader: Alan Titchmarsh
In this timely, touching book, bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh offers an evocative portrait of the royal family, while also exploring their adapting roles against a backdrop of social change....
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Rosie's War: An English Woman's Escape from Occupied France
This is the extraordinary true story of a plucky young woman and her dramatic escape from a German-run internment camp in Occupied France.Written in Rosemary's own words and completed by her...
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John Lennon: The Life - Volume 2
This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life, including the songs that turned him, posthumously, into almost a secular saint. In...
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Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and
Reader: Sophie Ward
Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her...
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Churchill Remembered
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full.From his earliest days...
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Drury Lane to Dimapur
Reader: Belinda Lang
Glamorous, ambitious and headstrong, Doreen Lawrence entertained audiences in Britain throughout the Blitz and from 1942 the troops in India, Africa and Burma. From the age of four, the theatre...
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Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage
Reader: Gyles Brandreth
This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very different people.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life In Our Times
The Queen’s story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives.In this definitive...
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