A History of Britain: Volume 1
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is at the heart of this first volume of Simon Schama’s grippingly written history. He poses questions of compelling...
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Letter from America: Volume 3: The Final Years 1982-2003
Reader: Alistair Cooke
A selection of Letter from America broadcasts from the years 1982-2003, plus a tribute to Alistair Cooke.‘Such experience, wisdom and education are unlikely ever again to combine in one...
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Alistair Cooke's America
For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his classic ‘personal history’ of America, guiding us through...
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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1979-1999
Reader: Robert Powell
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day.Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle',...
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Alistair Cooke's Letters from America: The Elections
Reader: Alistair Cooke
Five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Cooke’s Elections’.
Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of...$7.77 $12.95
The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
Reader: Christian Rodska
Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable, for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
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The Making of Music: Volume 1
James Naughtie, in this major Radio 4 series, uncovers the roots of our music, revealing how composers and performers, princes, patrons and chance happenings built a classical tradition that has...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: The Complete Series 2
The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers.This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and...
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Who Runs Britain?
On 13th September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan from the Bank of England. It was the...
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Race Rules
An esteemed scholar reveals the undertow of race in three events: the O.J. verdict, Powell's uncandidacy, and Farrakhans bid for leadership. Winner of a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award.
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The Missing of the Somme
Reader: Antony Ferguson
Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D. H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his remarkable book on...
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Alistair Cooke's Seasonal Letters from America
Reader: Alistair Cooke
A BBC Radio 4 series presented by Justin Webb, featuring eight seasonal letters from the great broadcaster.
This selection contains eight of ‘Cooke’s Christmas’ and ‘New Year...$7.77 $12.95
The Grasmere Journals
This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three...
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The Story of the King James Bible: The Commission
To mark the 400th anniversary of this ‘noblest monument of English prose’, James Naughtie tells the story of how and why James I (VI of Scotland), commissioned a new translation of The...
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Among the Managers
Reader: Robert Preston
It's a world in which teamwork and goals are more than just motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way since men in...
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Farewell to Winston
Reader: Nicholas Witchell
Nicholas Witchell presents the BBC Radio 4 programme that marked the final farewell to a great statesman.'A remarkable documentary capturing the day when the people of London paid their...
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Alistair Cooke: Reporting America
Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern...
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Why Alfred Burned the Cakes: A King and His Eleven-Hundred-Year Afterlife
Reader: Bill Wallis
When the BBC conducted their Greatest Briton poll, Alfred the Great was the only king to make it into the top twenty. One can be sure that the story of the cakes left to burn by a disguised...
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Attila the Hen (BBC Radio 4)
Reader: Cast
BBC Radio 4 programme all about the fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden, a hobby which shows no sign of waning.Natalie Haynes has heard some dark rumours about the true habits of...
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The Second World War: The Grand Alliance
Reader: Christian Rodska
Churchill’s history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is...
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Nixonland
Reader: Stephen R. Thorne
From one of America’s most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting back story to the red state/blue state...
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The Essential Letters from America: 1990's
Reader: Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke’s finest radio reportage from 1991-1999.
Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly Letter from America....$11.97 $19.95$14.97 $29.95
Speaking for Themselves: Volume 1
Reader: Michael Jayston
Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, and this comprehensive collection of personal correspondence has been...
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BBC War Reports: Home Front Telegraph Promotion
Reader: Others
Beginning with Neville Chamberlain’s announcement as Prime Minister that 'this country is at war with Germany', this disc includes eyewitness accounts of ordinary people caught up in the...
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Effie
Reader: Sophie Ward
Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found...
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