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Hatchet Job
- By: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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A wry, robust and developed defence of accountable critical voices' 4 stars, Total Film For decades, the backbone of film criticism has been the hatchet job – the entertaining trashing of a film by professional reviewers, seen by many as cynical snobs. But with the arrival of the internet...
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A Kermodian rant, and essay on criticism
- By Mendo Shutaro on 15-10-13
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Hatchet Job
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-10-13
- Language: English
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Silent Film
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Donna Kornhaber
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Encompassing the 35 year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief, engaging account, these formative decades come vividly to life.
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Silent Film
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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The Big Bang Theory
- The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series
- By: Jessica Radloff
- Narrated by: Jessica Radloff, Fleet Cooper, Abhay Ahluwalia, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance68
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Story69
The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the most popular sitcom of the last decade, The Big Bang Theory, packed with all-new, exclusive interviews with the producers and the entire cast. The Big Bang Theory is a television phenomenon. To the casual viewer, it’s a seemingly effortless comedy...
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Great info but narration really let it down.
- By Neil on 16-09-25
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The Big Bang Theory
- The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series
- Narrated by: Jessica Radloff, Fleet Cooper, Abhay Ahluwalia, Anna Williford, Suehyla Young, Allan Robertson
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Woke Up This Morning
- The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos
- By: Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance57
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show? What’s the significance of all those eggs? And, what the hell ever happened to the Russian? In Woke Up This Morning, Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa have all the answers – and they’re revealing...
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Unnecessary
- By Kindle Customer on 03-11-21
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Woke Up This Morning
- The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-11-21
- Language: English
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Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill
- The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
- By: Alan Sepinwall
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill: The Better Call Saul Critical Companion collects chief TV critic at Rolling Stone Alan Sepinwall's critical essays on every episode of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series. Sepinwall covered Better Call Saul from start to finish, and conducted exhaustive interviews with creator Vince Gilligan and stars Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seahorn, reproduced here alongside new interviews with series cocreator Peter Gould.
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Saul Goodman v. Jimmy McGill
- The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
- Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-02-25
- Language: English
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Shockaholic
- By: Carrie Fisher
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall279
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Performance252
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Story252
This memoir from the bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking gives you an intimate, gossip-filled look at what it’s like to be the daughter of Hollywood royalty. Told with the same intimate style, brutal honesty, and uproarious wisdom that locked Wishful Drinking on...
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Disappointing. I feel a little cheated.
- By David on 01-03-14
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Shockaholic
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-11-11
- Language: English
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Michael Curtiz
- A Life in Film
- By: Alan K. Rode
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 25 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas—was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his 27-year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, Westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.
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Michael Curtiz
- A Life in Film
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 25 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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Batman and Psychology
- A Dark and Stormy Knight
- By: Travis Langley
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance41
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Story41
Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante.
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Not what I expected at all.
- By Alexander Smith on 22-09-21
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Batman and Psychology
- A Dark and Stormy Knight
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 05-05-20
- Language: English
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The Physics of Star Wars
- The Science Behind a Galaxy Far, Far Away
- By: Patrick Johnson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Explore the physics behind the world of Star Wars, with engaging topics and accessible information that shows how we’re closer than ever before to creating technology from the galaxy far, far away—perfect for every Star Wars fan! Ever wish you could have your very own lightsaber like Luke...
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Some good stuff but really not written for audio
- By Christopher Lanham on 24-01-26
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The Physics of Star Wars
- The Science Behind a Galaxy Far, Far Away
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-11-17
- Language: English
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Welcome to Pawnee
- Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
- By: Jim O'Heir
- Narrated by: Jim O'Heir, George Newbern, Eva Kaminsky, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Jim O’Heir, who played Jerry (or Garry or Larry) on Parks and Recreation and co-hosts the hit podcast Parks and Recollection, brings fans a heartfelt behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved sitcoms, brimming with never-before-told stories featuring the cast and crew!...
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A lovely heart felt book
- By Kyle J. on 08-03-25
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Welcome to Pawnee
- Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
- Narrated by: Jim O'Heir, George Newbern, Eva Kaminsky, Janina Edwards, Roger Wayne, Jim Meskimen, Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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Scream With Me
- Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
- By: Eleanor Johnson
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Eleanor Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER! “Convincing and illuminating.” —The Atlantic A compelling, intelligent, and timely exploration of the horror genre from one of Columbia University’s most popular professors, shedding light on how classic horror films demonstrate larger cultural attitudes about...
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Scream With Me
- Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Eleanor Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-09-25
- Language: English
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Coreyography
- By: Corey Feldman
- Narrated by: Corey Feldman
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall563
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Performance516
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Story515
In this brave and moving memoir, Corey Feldman is revealing the truth about what his life was like behind the scenes: His is a past that included physical, drug, and sexual abuse, a dysfunctional family from which he was emancipated at age fifteen, three high-profile arrests for drug possession, a nine-month stint in rehab, and a long, slow crawl back to the top of the box office.
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Heartbreaking
- By chelynnah on 09-06-16
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Coreyography
- Narrated by: Corey Feldman
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 29-10-13
- Language: English
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How Does It Feel?
- A Life of Musical Misadventures
- By: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance93
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How Does It Feel? follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rock star poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass - and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really.
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Wonderful misadventures!
- By Sorcha Ní Fhlainn on 02-04-23
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How Does It Feel?
- A Life of Musical Misadventures
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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I'll Be There for You
- By: Kelsey Miller
- Narrated by: Kelsey Miller, Amber Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance52
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Join Kelsey Miller as she answers all of these questions and more. And as she relives the show’s most iconic moments, examines some of its controversies, and shines a light on the many trends it inspired – from oversized coffee cups to the much-copied 90s haircut, ‘The Rachel’. Weaving incisive commentary, revelatory interviews and behind-the-scenes anecdotes involving high-profile guest stars, I’ll Be There for You is the most comprehensive take on Friends yet, and the ultimate book for fans everywhere.
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If you LOVE friends, this book isn't for you.
- By Mr Philip Crowder on 22-12-20
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I'll Be There for You
- Narrated by: Kelsey Miller, Amber Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Lynchian
- The Spell of David Lynch
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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'Terrifically lucid and compact . . . an unassumingly intuitive and insightful brief history . . . will tell you more about [Lynch's] life and filmmaking than a thousand academic studies' PETER BRADSHAW, THE SPECTATOR The loss of David Lynch in January 2025 produced an extraordinary outpouring...
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A wonderful tribute to a David Lynch
- By HIAB-X on 05-12-25
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Lynchian
- The Spell of David Lynch
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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Camp!
- The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
- By: Paul Baker
- Narrated by: Paul Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Camp has been an inescapable part of popular culture for at least the last 150 years. Famously unrestrained and ever evolving, it has not only captured the cultural imagination, but also played an important role as a form of protest and resistance. Paul Baker takes us through camp's rebellious and revolutionary past with warmth, humour and sensitivity, starting with the court of Louis XIV and the dandies of the eighteenth century through to Showgirls, Harlem's drag balls and Columbian telenovelas.
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A sashay through history
- By Emma Dermott on 01-07-23
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Camp!
- The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Paul Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- By: Neil Postman
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall259
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Performance218
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In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.
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You'll probably need to slow the narrator down
- By Robbee on 22-08-21
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
- Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-01-07
- Language: English
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As You Wish
- Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- By: Cary Elwes, Joe Layden, Rob Reiner - introduction
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall584
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Performance530
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Story522
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy...
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almost as funny & heartwarming as the film itself
- By emma on 25-10-15
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As You Wish
- Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner, Chris Sarandon, Andy Scheinman, Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 14-10-14
- Language: English
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Your Favorite Scary Movie
- How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
- By: Ashley Cullins
- Narrated by: Roger L. Jackson, Ashley Cullins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance35
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The ultimate story of the Scream movie franchise, featuring interviews from more than eighty key players and an in-depth exploration of the creation and legacy of the films that revived a dying genre In Your Favorite Scary Movie, entertainment journalist Ashley...
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A must for Scream Fans
- By Mrs M on 27-01-26
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Your Favorite Scary Movie
- How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
- Narrated by: Roger L. Jackson, Ashley Cullins
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Footlights
- A Very British Comedy Institution
- By: Robert Sellers
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From Monty Python, The Goodies and Not the Nine O’Clock News to Peep Show, QI and The Great British Bake-Off, its alumni are behind many of the shows that have entertained since the 1960s to today. This book tells the story of the Footlights, chronicling its evolution from its creation in the 1880s to the present.
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The Cambridge Footlights
- A Very British Comedy Institution
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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