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Emlyn Williams: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full Cast Productions including The Corn Is Green
- By: Emlyn Williams
- Narrated by: Imelda Staunton, Anna Massey, Michael Redgrave, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...
By: Emlyn Williams
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Otherworld
- Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland
- By: Lisa M. Bitel
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of...
By: Lisa M. Bitel
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art, and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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For thirty years Anne Enright—one of our greatest living novelists (Times)—has been paying attention: casting her distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: She interprets Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway, writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights…
By: Anne Enright
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George Eliot
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Juliette Atkinson
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...
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Toutes les nuances de la nuit
- By: Chris Whitaker, Cindy Colin-Kapen
- Narrated by: Alice de Ferran
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Jusqu'à ce jour de 1975, Monta Clare était une petite communauté tranquille des Ozarks. Le jeune Patch McCauley a disparu. Dans la forêt voisine, on a retrouvé son tee-shirt, maculé de sang. Saint, une jeune fille du village au caractère bien affirmé, décide de faire tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour découvrir ce qui est arrivé à son ami. Trois cent sept jours plus tard, Patch McCauley réapparaît. Il faudra des décennies pour élucider tous les mystères et faire la lumière sur ce qui s'est réellement passé durant ces trois cent sept jours.
By: Chris Whitaker, and others
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La natura è melodia
- By: Emily Dickinson, Margherita Guidacci - traduttore
- Narrated by: Anna Charlotte Barbera
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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La vasta produzione è infatti pervasa dalla personalità schiva eppure dirompente che la contraddistinse: gli affetti, la natura, il pensiero ossessivo della morte e dell'abbandono ne sono protagonisti vivi, che Dickinson racconta con uno sguardo in apparenza semplice e ritirato, in realtà ricco di complessità. Nei suoi versi ritroviamo lo scorrere ciclico ma effimero delle stagioni, i fiori e soprattutto gli animali, in grado di risvegliare in lei la più variegata gamma dei sentimenti, dalla repulsione allo sgomento, dall'ironia all'incanto.
By: Emily Dickinson, and others
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Emlyn Williams: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full Cast Productions including The Corn Is Green
- By: Emlyn Williams
- Narrated by: Imelda Staunton, Anna Massey, Michael Redgrave, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...
By: Emlyn Williams
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Otherworld
- Nine Tales of Wonder and Romance from Medieval Ireland
- By: Lisa M. Bitel
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of...
By: Lisa M. Bitel
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art, and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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For thirty years Anne Enright—one of our greatest living novelists (Times)—has been paying attention: casting her distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. These essays, collated from across Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen-eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: She interprets Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway, writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights…
By: Anne Enright
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George Eliot
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Juliette Atkinson
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...
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Toutes les nuances de la nuit
- By: Chris Whitaker, Cindy Colin-Kapen
- Narrated by: Alice de Ferran
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Jusqu'à ce jour de 1975, Monta Clare était une petite communauté tranquille des Ozarks. Le jeune Patch McCauley a disparu. Dans la forêt voisine, on a retrouvé son tee-shirt, maculé de sang. Saint, une jeune fille du village au caractère bien affirmé, décide de faire tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour découvrir ce qui est arrivé à son ami. Trois cent sept jours plus tard, Patch McCauley réapparaît. Il faudra des décennies pour élucider tous les mystères et faire la lumière sur ce qui s'est réellement passé durant ces trois cent sept jours.
By: Chris Whitaker, and others
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La natura è melodia
- By: Emily Dickinson, Margherita Guidacci - traduttore
- Narrated by: Anna Charlotte Barbera
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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La vasta produzione è infatti pervasa dalla personalità schiva eppure dirompente che la contraddistinse: gli affetti, la natura, il pensiero ossessivo della morte e dell'abbandono ne sono protagonisti vivi, che Dickinson racconta con uno sguardo in apparenza semplice e ritirato, in realtà ricco di complessità. Nei suoi versi ritroviamo lo scorrere ciclico ma effimero delle stagioni, i fiori e soprattutto gli animali, in grado di risvegliare in lei la più variegata gamma dei sentimenti, dalla repulsione allo sgomento, dall'ironia all'incanto.
By: Emily Dickinson, and others
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Considérations actuelles sur la guerre et sur la mort
- By: Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Yannick Lopez
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Dans cet essai publié en 1915, Freud analyse, d’un point de vue psychanalytique, le bouleversement moral et psychique provoqué par la guerre. Il y aborde la désillusion causée par la guerre et notre rapport à la mort, en soulignant la permanence chez l'homme de pulsions destructrices.
By: Sigmund Freud
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An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
- By: Hélène Giannecchini
- Narrated by: Mia Khan
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed 'marginal' into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments.
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Amerigo (New Translation)
- By: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: Charles Owen
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do two continents bear Amerigo Vespucci's name instead of Columbus's, despite Columbus reaching the New World first? Stefan Zweig solved this historical mystery in his 1942 final work through archival detective work. The answer: A German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller, working in 1507, read an account claiming Vespucci reached the mainland before Columbus. Based on this likely forged document, Waldseemüller labeled the continents "America." The name spread across Europe in thousands of copies before the error was recognized—by then, too late to correct.
By: Stefan Zweig
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Wälsungenblut
- 150 Jahre Thomas Mann
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Hans-Jürgen Schatz
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Die Novelle von Thomas Mann entstand 1906, wurde aber erst 1921 veröffentlicht und persifliert Richard Wagners Musikdrama Die Walküre, indem sie die snobistische Selbstverliebtheit und inzestuöse Beziehung des reichen, jüdischen Zwillingspaars Siegmund und Sieglind beschreibt. Der Titel spielt auf eine Stelle in der Walküre an, in der Siegmund seine Zwillingsschwester Sieglinde mit den Worten „Braut und Schwester bist du dem Bruder / so blühe denn, Wälsungenblut" zum Inzest (und Ehebruch) auffordert.
By: Thomas Mann
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Quiet History Behind Moby-Dick
- The World of 19th-Century Seafarers
- By: Dakikon Publishing
- Narrated by: Amélie Trufant Dawson
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Quiet History Behind Moby Dick is not a retelling of the novel, nor a study of its plot or symbols. It is a journey into the unnoticed world that surrounded nineteenth-century seafarers—the ordinary lives, quiet routines, and inner landscapes that existed beyond the drama of storms and legends. This book explores the human reality behind long voyages at sea: the ports sailors waited in, the shores they left behind, and the ships that became their temporary homes.
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Moosland
- By: Katrin Zipse
- Narrated by: Maria Wördemann
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Als Elsa im Sommer 1949 in Island ankommt, ist sie eine von vielen. Dennoch entsteht zwischen Grassodenhaus, leuchtenden Wiesen und endlosem Meer ein Zusammenleben, das sich Elsa irgendwann nicht mehr vom Leibe halten kann. Allein ihre Anwesenheit verändert die Dynamik auf dem Hof – besonders die der Bauernsöhne. Es gibt Erwartungen, ausgesprochene und unausgesprochene.
By: Katrin Zipse
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Tu m'avais promis
- By: Maud Ankaoua
- Narrated by: Camille Lamache
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Luce compte les jours depuis trois ans ! Son père, Gabin, lui avait fait la promesse de l'emmener en voyage pour ses huit ans. Malgré ses appréhensions, le quadragénaire sait qu'il doit honorer son engagement, et la décision est prise : ils s'envoleront bientôt pour rejoindre la tante de la petite fille en mission vétérinaire au Kenya. Mais le départ a un goût doux-amer : l'absence de Julie, la maman de Luce et la femme de Gabin, leur serre le coeur à tous les deux. Elle a disparu il y a déjà sept ans, sans que jamais sa trace soit retrouvée.
By: Maud Ankaoua
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Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle
- By: Simone Schwarz-Bart
- Narrated by: Géraldine Asselin
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Télumée, paysanne de la Guadeloupe née au début du siècle, a été élevée par sa grand-mère, « haute négresse » justement nommée Reine Sans Nom. Télumée a souffert de sa condition de femme, de Noire et d'exploitée. Pourtant, qu'elle soit en compagnie d'Elie ou au côté d'Amboise, le révolté, sa volonté de bonheur, de « récolter par pleins paniers cette douceur qui tombe du ciel », est la plus forte.
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首飾り
- By: ギ・ド・モーパッサン
- Narrated by: 伊藤 治明
- Length: 30 mins
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この作品のオチは夏目漱石によって酷評されました。モーパサンは何を苦しんでこの夫婦の美徳を殺して仕舞ったのか分らない」と言っています。作品中に出てくる「フラン」は現在の日本円で、400フラン=40万円、4万フラン=4千万円です。
By: ギ・ド・モーパッサン
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ある自殺者の手記
- By: ギ・ド・モーパッサン
- Narrated by: 伊藤 治明
- Length: 22 mins
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小酒井不木も同名の作品を出していますが、もちろん内容も受ける印象も全く違います。両方を聞き比べてみて、作家がこの題名でこのテーマで何をどう書くのかという比較をすると、俄然面白くなります。モーパッサンの作品は、特にこの作品は聴き終えた直後はあまり印象に残りませんが、それでもすぐにもう一度聴きなおしてようやく納得するという不思議な一面があります。
By: ギ・ド・モーパッサン
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Danser sur les volcans
- By: Laure Manel
- Narrated by: Juliette Aver
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Huit femmes embarquent pour un road-trip de deux semaines en Islande. Elles n’ont rien en commun, ou presque. Il y a Rose et Lou, le duo mère-fille; Stéphanie, célibataire sans enfant; Sarah et Chloé, les deux jeunes Parisiennes; Delphine, la cinquantenaire casanière; Carole, la prof de yoga, et Nadine, la retraitée renfrognée. Entre écarts générationnels, personnalités et visions de la vie différentes, il n’est pas toujours facile de faire groupe. Pourtant, de cascades en confidences, de marches en révélations, ce voyage pourrait les transformer.
By: Laure Manel
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A Fragile Map & Other Poems: Poetry of Empowerment
- By: Anne Brooke
- Narrated by: Brittany Brewer
- Length: 25 mins
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As we grow older, we cannot always see the way ahead, and life becomes more fragile. This thoughtful poetry collection explores the theme of empowerment to shape our life journeys. Discover how nature, meditation and a deeper understanding of the small joys we experience every day can help us walk a steadier and more confident path. Perfect for lovers of inspirational poetry which never ignores the reality of the world in which we live.
By: Anne Brooke