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Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
Reader: Carole Boyd
Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time, a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and...
The World's Strongest Librarian
Reader: Stephen R. Thorne
At first glance, Josh Hanagame seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7'', competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette Syndrome. But books are his first...
Lessons from Everest
Reader: Dr. Tim Warren
After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking...
My Foot is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
Reader: Gabrielle Reece
Much has happened to Gabrielle Reece since her 1997 bestseller Big Girl in the Middle. She's still gorgeous, still 6'3'', and a dominant force on and off the beach, but in the last fifteen years,...
Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story (Part 1)
Reader: Lisa 'Simone' Kelly
Winner of The Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Music Documentary. Nina's daughter Simone explores the life and career of her mother - the protest singer, jazz chanteuse, blues artist and live...
Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story (Part 2)
Reader: Lisa 'Simone' Kelly
In the second episode of this two-part documentary series, Nina's daughter Simone explores her mother's musical style and what she was like as a live performer. Her musical style can only be...
Let Me Tell You a Story
Reader: Anna Bentinck
Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She only knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe...
The Girl with No Name
Reader: Pam Ward
In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went...
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
Reader: Susan Boyce
Nabokov famously decreed his works "art for art's sake," drawing ire from other Russian exiles like Solzhenitsyn, who wondered why emigre authors like Nabokov did not write about the "blood...
Wainwright: The Biography
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...
The Man Who Was George Smiley
Reader: Christian Rodska
After the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks hit an all-time low, John le Carré's intellectual hero George Smiley came to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow...
Roots
Reader: Avery Brooks
This monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning saga and iconic bestseller is available for the first time on audio. 'Roots' begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later...
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
Reader: Susan Boyce
Nabokov famously decreed his works "art for art's sake," drawing ire from other Russian exiles like Solzhenitsyn, who wondered why emigre authors like Nabokov did not write about the "blood...
Mick Jagger In His Own Words
Reader: Mick Jagger
A fascinating collection of archive interviews with the famed lead singer of the Rolling Stones. In this archive we hear--in his owns words--about being the voice of his generation. He talks about...
The Girl with No Name
Reader: Pam Ward
In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went...
Let Me Tell You a Story
Reader: Anna Bentinck
Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She only knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe...
Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story (Part 1)
Reader: Lisa 'Simone' Kelly
Winner of The Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Music Documentary. Nina's daughter Simone explores the life and career of her mother - the protest singer, jazz chanteuse, blues artist and live...
Feeling Good: The Nina Simone Story (Part 2)
Reader: Lisa 'Simone' Kelly
In the second episode of this two-part documentary series, Nina's daughter Simone explores her mother's musical style and what she was like as a live performer. Her musical style can only be...
My Foot is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
Reader: Gabrielle Reece
Much has happened to Gabrielle Reece since her 1997 bestseller Big Girl in the Middle. She's still gorgeous, still 6'3'', and a dominant force on and off the beach, but in the last fifteen years,...
Lessons from Everest
Reader: Dr. Tim Warren
After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking...
The World's Strongest Librarian
Reader: Stephen R. Thorne
At first glance, Josh Hanagame seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7'', competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette Syndrome. But books are his first...
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