
History Audiobooks
A Less Boring History of the World
Reader: Miles Jupp
Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach... A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark about the Enlightenment? Or do you need a revision course on the entire history of the world and...
£7.95 £20.50
Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Peel (Series 1, Episode 3)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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The King James Bible: Readings from the New Testament
Reader: Various
The King James Bible is the most widely published and the most influential book in the English language. To mark its 400th anniversary and celebrate its language, imagery, poetry and storytelling,...
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America, Empire of Liberty: Volume 3 - Empire and Evil
Reader: Various
Volume Three of David Reynolds’ award-winning BBC Radio 4 series runs from the origins of the Cold War to the inauguration of Barack Obama.This epic narrative tells the saga of the United...
£4.99 £15.99
William Wilberforce: Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner
Reader: Steve Hodson
Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was...
£10.99 £21.99
A History of Britain: Volume 2
Reader: Stephen Thorne
This is the second book of Simon Schama’s epic three-volume journey into Britain’s past. It is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life,...
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A History of the English Speaking Peoples: The New World
Reader: Christian Rodska
Between 1485 and 1688 England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII; his daughter Elizabeth battled for succession at home and supremacy at home, and the discovery of 'the round world'...
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Globish
Packed with nuggets of information about language, culture, history and power, this title traces the way that the English language has twisted and turned in response to the way the world has changed.
£12.95 £23.50
Routes of English: Pitmatic (Series 3, Programme 1)
Talk of the town, talk of the pit in Ashington, Northumberland.
It's been called the most beautiful dialect in England. It's the talk of coastal Northumberland that until recently...£1.24 £2.49
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Reader: Various
In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museum’s vast and...
£13.12 £34.99
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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Letter from America: Volume 1: The Early Years 1946-1968
Reader: Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke presents his own personal selection of ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts from the early years 1946-1968.Alistair Cooke is the microphone’s great observer, the doyen of...
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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...
£1.84 £3.69
The New Testament: Paul's Letter to The Romans
'Paul’s Letter to the Romans':Roger McGough reads the first of the 'Letters of Paul', in which he explains how salvation is offered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Specially composed music...
£1.49 £3.69
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Sir Ranulph Fiennes takes a journey around his eccentric family tree, and reveals how he came to be described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'.
£19.99£13.49
Eyewitness 1990 - 1999
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.'Eyewitness' provides a rare and fascinating...
£4.99 £10.99
This Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 1 - 1155-1783
Reader: Various
This is volume 1 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.The original ground-breaking series of 'This Sceptred Isle' was a...
£4.99 £15.99
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the...
£9.99 £19.69
Churchill: A Life, Part 1 (1874-1918)
Reader: Christian Rodska
‘Churchill: A Life’ follows Winston Churchill from his earliest days to his moments of triumph. Here, the drama and excitement of his story are ever-present. Martin Gilbert gives us a vivid...
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Routes of English: A World of Many Englishes (Series 2, Programme 6)
Two countries separated by a common language, but there are more than two Englishes.
We've been speaking English for more than 1,000 years and over that time it has changed radically....£1.24 £2.49
Speaking for Themselves: Volume 2
Reader: Michael Jayston
The letters in volume two reveal the central role Winston Churchill played from 1931 to 1964 in world history. However, Clementine’s interest in politics was almost as intense as his. Here,...
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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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Routes of English: Conclusion (Series 3, Programme 6)
The final programme in the series considers the future of English dialects.
In the last programme in the series Melvyn looks at Standard English. He is joined by Lynda Mugglestone,...£1.24 £2.49
Bluestockings
In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the female brain was thought to be 1500 grammes lighter than a man’s, and doctors warned that if women...
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Vessel of Sadness
Italy, 1944, is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written.
They didn’t know where they were going and they...£20.50











