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Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness
- THE REVOLUTIONARY MEMOIR FROM THE UK'S MOST CREATIVE VOICE
- By: George the Poet
- Narrated by: George the Poet
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance48
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George the Poet knows better than anybody the importance of understanding your surroundings. Born to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George Mpanga has always been aware of his community. It was both his teacher and his inspiration - giving him the language, the experiences, and the skills to become the person he is today. In Track Record, George unveils the power dynamics that shape our world, shedding light on the forces that restrict Black creativity and put limits on Black excellence.
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Gman
- By Grahame on 23-03-25
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Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness
- THE REVOLUTIONARY MEMOIR FROM THE UK'S MOST CREATIVE VOICE
- Narrated by: George the Poet
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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The Black Angels
- The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
- By: Maria Smilios
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance31
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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery. Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this story follows the intrepid young women, the 'Black Angels', who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city's poorest.
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The Black Angels
- By Mrs Sarah Parkin on 11-09-25
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The Black Angels
- The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
- Narrated by: Gina Daniels
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- Language: English
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- By: Dina Nayeri
- Narrated by: Dlna Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance37
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Story38
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought to, and yet to be a refugee - or an immigrant - is to grapple with your place in the world, attempting to reconcile the life you have known with the unfamiliar. With this comes the weight of the expectations (and fears and resentment) of those born in the host country; foremost is the burden of gratitude: to be forever thankful for the space you have been allowed.
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Dina is so gifted and so brave!
- By ARIA on 20-06-20
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- Narrated by: Dlna Nayeri
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Letter from Japan
- By: Marie Kondo, Marie Iida - translation
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Marie Kondo
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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We discover why appreciating the beauty of sakura, cherry blossom, allows for a moment to deeply experience a season through a single entity (Cherish). In the traditional tea ceremony, we see the importance of kiwameru, the Japanese word for achieving mastery or perfection (Perfect). In umami, we taste how something simple and delicious can nourish the heart (Savour). We explore why the things left unsaid, ma, are just as important as the words we say (Harmonise).
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A lovely and life stimulating book
- By LC on 31-10-25
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Letter from Japan
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Marie Kondo
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall381
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Performance244
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Story245
Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined.…
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Just not for me
- By Mark on 04-04-11
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-03-11
- Language: English
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Sanctuary
- By: Marina Warner
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner's Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today's world of...
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Sanctuary
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-07-25
- Language: English
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Without Prejudice
- A Memoir
- By: Tidjane Thiam
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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In a career that has seen him face coup leaders in his native Ivory Coast and lead some of the most prestigious Western financial institutions, Tidjane Thiam has blazed a trail through African and European politics and business. After a childhood in tumultuous west and north Africa, Thiam broke...
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Phenomenal
- By Michael Turkson on 26-12-25
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Without Prejudice
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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Before and After
- By: Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents - hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate's novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann's child trafficking.
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Heart breaking and heart warming...
- By Jackie on 22-01-23
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Before and After
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-10-19
- Language: English
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Divided Soul
- The Life of Marvin Gaye
- By: David Ritz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Abridged
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Overall63
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Performance52
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Story52
In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.
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More Than a Motown Legend. Great Read!
- By Debs on 27-03-25
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Divided Soul
- The Life of Marvin Gaye
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-08-08
- Language: English
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Country Life
- A Story of Peaks and Troughs
- By: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Narrated by: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways. Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins.
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Simply lovely
- By Ab on 06-05-23
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Country Life
- A Story of Peaks and Troughs
- Narrated by: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 27-04-23
- Language: English
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Temptations
- Revised and Updated
- By: Otis Williams, Patricia Romanowski - with
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Otis Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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The Temptations' heritage, influence, and contributions to American culture and the global music landscape is undeniable. The group produced some of the greatest music of our era and it transcends generations. Through the years, the group's trademark razor-sharp choreography, finely tuned harmonies, and compelling vocals made them the exemplars of the Motown sound. Their story is one of courage, struggle, triumphs, setbacks, and ultimately, international superstardom.
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Hagiography even after the update
- By Honest reader on 17-10-23
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Temptations
- Revised and Updated
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Otis Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-03-20
- Language: English
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Chopping Onions on My Heart
- On Losing and Preserving Culture
- By: Samantha Ellis
- Narrated by: Samantha Ellis
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that’s now on the verge of extinction. The realisation that she won’t be able to tell her son he’s ‘living in the days of the aubergines’ or ‘chopping onions on my heart’ opens the floodgates. The questions keep coming. How can she pass on the stories without passing on the trauma of displacement? Will her son ever love mango pickle?
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Chopping Onions on My Heart
- On Losing and Preserving Culture
- Narrated by: Samantha Ellis
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- By: Tom Phelan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance34
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“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through...
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Reminiscent of a bygone era
- By Claire on 14-02-21
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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A Personal Odyssey
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance86
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Here is the gritty, powerful story of Thomas Sowell's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, a journey that took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.
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Perfect for a Frustrated Academic
- By Dominic on 03-11-25
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A Personal Odyssey
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-11-06
- Language: English
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Ashes and Stones
- A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
- By: Allyson Shaw
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Ashes and Stones is a moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and modern cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. We visit modern memorials, roadside shrines and standing stones, and roam among forests and hedge mazes, folk lore and political fantasies. From fairy hills to forgotten caves, we explore a spellbound landscape.
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Great until the epilogue
- By Julieb on 28-01-23
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Ashes and Stones
- A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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The Good Russian
- In Search of a Nation's Soul
- By: Jana Bakunina
- Narrated by: Jana Bakunina
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the writer Jana Bakunina, who has lived in the UK for 20 years, felt furious, ashamed, but most of all helpless. A year later she travelled to her home city of Yekaterinburg to see how ordinary Russians viewed the conflict—and whether the soul of her nation had truly been crushed.
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Important and timely
- By Sam Corkindale on 20-12-25
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The Good Russian
- In Search of a Nation's Soul
- Narrated by: Jana Bakunina
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Navigating Life as a Brown Girl
- A therapist’s guide for South Asian women
- By: Fahima Ali
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Fahima Ali, a Brown girl raised in the UK, works as a therapist in the South Asian community. Also known as 'The Brown Therapist', she draws on her own lived experience to give a voice, validation and practical support to the often-overlooked struggles women face in the Brown community. As a society, we often fail to acknowledge or understand that people from different cultural backgrounds experience different lived-in circumstances. Our upbringing shapes and impacts our mental health in distinctive ways.
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Navigating Life as a Brown Girl
- A therapist’s guide for South Asian women
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 15-01-26
- Language: English
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- By: susan abulhawa, Huzama Habayeb
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the...
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Thought provoking and disturbing stories
- By lucyb on 04-03-26
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- By: Peter Godwin
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance41
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downward into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years.
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An Epitaph of a Lost Country
- By Ex Rhodie on 09-01-21
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
- A Memoir of Africa
- Narrated by: Peter Godwin
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 18-05-20
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- By: Olaudah Equiano
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1789, this autobiography of Olaudah Equiano comprises a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey. It recounts Equiano's time as a slave, and chronicles his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his freedom.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-19
- Language: English
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