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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
- By: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition...
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If you only ever read one book on Politics.
- By IanESJ on 09-02-24
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The Dictator's Handbook
- Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 21-06-22
- Language: English
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Time Shelter
- Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023
- By: Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel - translator
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 'The most exquisite kind of literature... I've put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand to be revisited every now and then. ' OLGA TOKARCZUK, author of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 'Could not be more...
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Endless observations of the past in Eastern Europe
- By Julian Richardson on 21-05-25
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Time Shelter
- Winner of the International Booker Prize 2023
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-10-23
- Language: English
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Speeches of Note
- By: Shaun Usher
- Narrated by: Richard Cordery, Louise Brealey, Nelson Mandela, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Speeches of Note is a celebration of oratory old, new and unspoken. It is an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throughout the ages. Some are surprising, inspiring, hilarious; others are moving, comforting, enlightening. Some of these speeches changed the course of history; others are all but unknown, even undelivered to this day, such as the chilling public announcement to be made by President Nixon should Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon. All are extraordinary.
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Speeches given and not given...
- By K. J. Kelly on 23-09-18
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Speeches of Note
- Narrated by: Richard Cordery, Louise Brealey, Nelson Mandela, Nick Cave, Robert F Kennedy, Geraldine James, Justin Trudeau, Mhairi Black
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- By: Dan Davies
- Narrated by: Peter Dickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance40
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When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
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Fascinating, thought provoking and fun.
- By Tobias F Lloyd on 16-05-24
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- Narrated by: Peter Dickson
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-04-24
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- Adventures in Modern Russia
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall351
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Performance308
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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.
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The aim, to own all forms of political discourse.
- By Wras on 03-04-17
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
- Adventures in Modern Russia
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 10-03-16
- Language: English
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The Death of a President
- November 20-November 25, 1963
- By: William Manchester
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of President John F. Kennedy's death, including the days immediately preceding and following the assassination.
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Brilliant. Definitely worth a second listen.
- By K Hlalat on 08-01-19
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The Death of a President
- November 20-November 25, 1963
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 33 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 18-11-13
- Language: English
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Adults in the Room
- My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall753
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Performance662
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In Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis exposes the shocking reality of how power is wielded behind the scenes at the EU - and argues that only radical reform can save it from collapse. Yanis Varoufakis became globally famous when was elected finance minister of Greece with a specific mandate to say no to the EU: to reject the forced loans and crushing austerity forced upon his country by the Eurozone.
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The most interesting political memoir I have read
- By Nik Jewell on 02-06-17
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Adults in the Room
- My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 25-05-17
- Language: English
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Speaking Out
- Lessons in Life and Politics
- By: Ed Balls
- Narrated by: Ed Balls
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance212
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On the night of 7 May 2015, Ed Balls thought there was a chance he would wake up the next morning as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Instead he woke up without a job. For two decades he had occupied a central position within Labour, rising from adviser to Cabinet Minister during the years in power and Shadow Chancellor in Opposition. Throughout one of the most tumultuous periods in recent British history, he made a point of speaking out, whatever the consequences.
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How I misjudged this politician
- By Bev Newman on 07-05-17
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Speaking Out
- Lessons in Life and Politics
- Narrated by: Ed Balls
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-10-16
- Language: English
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
- Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
- By: Yanis Varoufakis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall627
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Performance536
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The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe’s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, ‘the emerging rock star of Europe’s anti-austerity uprising’ (Telegraph), shows that the origins of the...
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This book should be read or heard by everyone.
- By Trish F on 16-05-16
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
- Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh, Yanis Varoufakis
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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The Shadow Factory
- The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance48
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Today’s National Security Agency is the largest, most costly, and most technologically advanced spy organization the world has ever known. It is also the most intrusive, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails an hour in the United States and around the world. Half a million...
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Not quite what I was expecting
- By Tim GJ on 23-07-20
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The Shadow Factory
- The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 30-09-08
- Language: English
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- By: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Biased
- By R Halls on 09-03-18
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-02-14
- Language: English
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Collusion
- How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House
- By: Luke Harding
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall258
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Performance221
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Story219
A gripping exposé about the biggest political scandal of the modern era. Moscow, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government. London, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect's connections with Russia. Award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump's decades-long relationship with Russia and presents the gripping inside story of the dossier.
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The Devil's Bargain
- By Adam on 14-02-18
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Collusion
- How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-11-17
- Language: English
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Van Gogh's Ear
- The True Story
- By: Bernadette Murphy
- Narrated by: Su Douglas
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance80
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On a dark night in Provence in December 1888 Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. It is an act that has come to define him. Yet for more than a century biographers and historians seeking definitive facts about what happened that night have been left with more questions than answers. In Van Gogh’s Ear Bernadette Murphy sets out to discover exactly what happened that night in Arles. Why would an artist at the height of his powers commit such a brutal act?
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Wonderful story but so hard to listen to!
- By Nicola Lawton on 20-07-16
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Van Gogh's Ear
- The True Story
- Narrated by: Su Douglas
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-07-16
- Language: English
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Liar's Kingdom
- How To Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
- By: Andrew Weissmann
- Narrated by: Andrew Weissmann
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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"The 2020 election was a total FRAUD!" "I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." "There is NO WAY Biden got 80,000,000 votes!!!" These and other lies by Donald Trump sparked a historic insurrection to topple our democracy and undermined the public's faith...
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Liar's Kingdom
- How To Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
- Narrated by: Andrew Weissmann
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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Guest House for Young Widows
- Among the Women of ISIS
- By: Azadeh Moaveni
- Narrated by: Sarah Agha
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance50
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A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State—based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. FINALIST FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A BEST BOOK...
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Excellent
- By Mauve dreamer on 03-11-19
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Guest House for Young Widows
- Among the Women of ISIS
- Narrated by: Sarah Agha
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance91
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No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
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Gives no practical steps only summary of dictators
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-21
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How to Be a Dictator
- The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- Narrated by: Jack Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 16-10-19
- Language: English
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Chasing Aliens
- Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands
- By: Daniel Lavelle
- Narrated by: Daniel Lavelle
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From Orwell Prize-winning Daniel Lavelle comes a wild road trip chasing aliens through the UFO heartlands The US government has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena in a secret division of the Department of Defence. A former intelligence official urged the...
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Chasing Aliens
- Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands
- Narrated by: Daniel Lavelle
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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The Benn Diaries, 1940-1970
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Abridged
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Overall66
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Performance46
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This abridged audio edition of the Diaries, read by the author, conveys even more directly than the Diaries themselves the achievements, conflicts, and dramatic events in a unique political life.
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You are there!
- By Conrad on 01-04-14
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The Benn Diaries, 1940-1970
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-11-07
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- By: Michael Booth
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall139
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Performance118
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.
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Hugely informative
- By Tim Gauntlett on 21-10-20
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Three Tigers, One Mountain
- A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-04-20
- Language: English
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Fall of the Shah
- A BBC Radio Full Cast Drama
- By: Steve Waters
- Narrated by: Diana Rigg, Philip Arditti, Dana Haqjoo, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Something is coming. What is on the horizon for the people of Iran? Can America's friendship with Iran survive? From Jimmy Carter's optimistic visit to Tehran in December 1977 to the trial of the state's enemies in 1979, this nine-part drama tells the story of the Iranian Revolution, where protestors took to the streets in support of the exiled religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shah requested help from an America already torn apart by its own conflicts.
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Fall of the Shah
- A BBC Radio Full Cast Drama
- Narrated by: Diana Rigg, Philip Arditti, Dana Haqjoo, Moe Bar-El, Afsaneh Dehrouyeh, Amir El-Masry, Peter Polycarpou, Paul Chahidi, Vincent Ebrahim, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-11-22
- Language: English
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