Acclaimed actor and writer Michael Palin reads his own account of his third and most ambitious world adventure.

Following the hugely popular and successful ‘Around the World in 80...

Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been...

The second module in the complete course, which includes additional modules for negotiation at home and at work.

Negotiation is a skill people need to use every day. In this audio...

Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Human beings...

The good life abroad just keeps getting better and better as Chris Stewart, one-time 'Genesis' drummer, turned sheepshearer, turned bestselling writer, returns with a new book on his life in the...

What motivates people to do their best work in any endeavor they undertake? Management theory and practice has traditionally focused on elements that Kenneth Thomas calls “extrinsic...

‘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...

Listen to the book Barack Obama cites as a major influence on his planning for the presidency. Jonathan Alter, a senior editor at 'Newsweek,' tells how, when Franklin Roosevelt took office in...

Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited...

lost in language & sound is a vibrant and vital collection that celebrates the three most important muses in the life and work of Ntozake Shange—language, music, and dance. In this deeply...

Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving us a view through the keyhole of the people and...

I learned very early in my life that nothing was for ever; so I should have been aware of disillusion in early middle age: but, somehow, we try to obliterate early warnings and go cantering along...

Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years--logging more than four million miles--in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for...

Joanna Lumley was not slow in agreeing to spend nine days on a desert island off the coast of Madagascar with the bare minimum of kit. This is the fascinating diary of her experiences. She rises...

Volume Two of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series traces America’s story from the Civil War to World War Two.

This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through...