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The Making of Modern Medicine
Reader: Andrew Cunningham
This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.‘The...
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America, Empire of Liberty: Volume 1 - Liberty and Slavery
Volume One of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series explores the origins of contemporary USA from its beginnings to the 1860s.This epic narrative tells America’s story through the...
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America, Empire of Liberty: Volume 1 - Liberty and Slavery
Volume One of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series explores the origins of contemporary USA from its beginnings to the 1860s.This epic narrative tells America’s story through the...
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The Murder of the Century
Reader: William Dufris
Edgar Award nominee! In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in...
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The Making of Music: Volume 2
James Naughtie, in this major Radio 4 series, uncovers the roots of our music, revealing the soundtrack to our history. Volume 2 opens with the modernism of Wagner and Liszt.On the eve of a...
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Twelve Desperate Miles
Reader: Joe Barrett
Twelve Desperate Miles is the story of the November 1942 invasion of Axis forces in North Africa consisting of more than 100 ships carrying over 30,000 soldiers, with a spotlight on a little-known...
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Founding Faith
Reader: David Colacci
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation." Many on...
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Four Weeks in May
On 25 May 1982, at a critical juncture in the Falklands War, the destroyer HMS Coventry was attacked by Argentinean aircraft. In a devastating strike, she was hit by three bombs, two of which...
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The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Reader: Kim Hicks
It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and...
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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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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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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...
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The Invention of Childhood
Reader: Michael Morpurgo
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful...
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Radio 4's History of Private Life
Professor Amanda Vickery is one of the most charismatic historians in Britain today. In 'A History of Private Life' she reveals the intimate secrets of life at home, from the Tudor mansion to the...
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America, Empire of Liberty: Volume 2 - Power and Progress
Reader: Various
Volume Two of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series traces America’s story from the Civil War to World War Two.
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A History of Britain: Volume 1 - At the Edge of the World? 3000BC-AD1603
The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years...
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This Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 2 - 1783-1876
Reader: Various
This is volume 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.BBC Radio 4’s monumental history of Britain picks up the story...
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This Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 3 - 1876-1947
Reader: Various
As this final part of the story of the British Empire begins, the Empire is at its peak. It would continue to grow, but the self-confidence, the success, and the sheer splendour of the Empire in...
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