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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history, City of Light, City of Shadows, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself.
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Fast paced evocative story for our times.
- By Campesque on 01-06-24
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his...
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-09-03
- Language: English
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- By: Alice Goffman
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance15
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A riveting, groundbreaking account of how the war on crime has torn apart inner-city communities. Forty years in, the tough-on-crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system but for their family members and working neighbors.
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On The Run
- By Amazon Customer on 15-09-22
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On the Run
- Fugitive Life in an American City
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 21-07-15
- Language: English
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This Is London
- Life and Death in the World City
- By: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance51
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Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.
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A Painful Read
- By M. McGuirk on 23-12-21
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This Is London
- Life and Death in the World City
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-03-19
- Language: English
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England's Villages
- An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
- By: Dr Ben Robinson
- Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance16
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England's villages have survived, developed and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village, and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist.
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Interesting but...
- By Grace on 18-04-24
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England's Villages
- An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
- Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance18
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London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
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Finally, Iain Sinclair!
- By katy on 24-04-21
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The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-03-21
- Language: English
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- By: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance36
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Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.
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A good intro to the regular podcast
- By NERDSAPIEN on 28-07-21
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall90
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Performance80
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National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has...
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If you really want to understand homelessness..
- By The Tuscan on 03-05-22
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-10-21
- Language: English
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Underwater
- How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare
- By: Ryan Dezember
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A cautionary tale of Wall Street's push to turn homes into assets, Underwater is a powerful, incisive story that chronicles the crash and its aftermath from a fresh perspective—the forgotten, middle-class homeowner. His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck...
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Underwater
- How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 14-07-20
- Language: English
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Squirrel Hill
- The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
- By: Mark Oppenheimer
- Narrated by: Mark Oppenheimer
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America's renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must confront on the road to healing. Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, is one of the oldest Jewish...
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Squirrel Hill
- The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Mark Oppenheimer
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-10-21
- Language: English
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- By: Colin Ellard
- Narrated by: John Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and nature - places we escape to and can’t escape from - have influenced us throughout history and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating.
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Exceptional Narration, Stunning Research
- By Brinda G. on 05-08-21
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Places of the Heart
- The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
- Narrated by: John Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-12-18
- Language: English
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- By: Ben Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny...
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A Highly Recommended Listen
- By Andrew on 23-09-22
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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Nemesis
- One Man and the Battle for Rio
- By: Misha Glenny
- Narrated by: Misha Glenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance59
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His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang culture and destitution while everyone around him drew guns and partied.
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A great Audiobook!
- By Mr Brian Gould on 19-01-18
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Nemesis
- One Man and the Battle for Rio
- Narrated by: Misha Glenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-09-15
- Language: English
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Troop 6000
- The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World
- By: Nikita Stewart
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The inspiring true story of the first Girl Scout troop founded for and by girls living in a shelter in Queens, New York, and the amazing, nationwide response that it sparked “A powerful book full of powerful women.”—Chelsea Clinton Giselle Burgess was a young mother of five trying to...
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Troop 6000
- The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-05-20
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- By: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance104
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Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and of the mighty power of God to accomplish the impossible.
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Incredible. The wonderful power of the Holy Spirit
- By EM on 14-04-18
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-11-08
- Language: English
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Order Without Design
- How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
- By: Alain Bertaud
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance2
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Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground - the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative - “sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient” - often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings.
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Order Without Design
- How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-11-20
- Language: English
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- By: James Bridle
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance39
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: The belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Author James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.
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Fifth-form leftist tosh, narrated by a lunatic
- By Olly Buxton on 21-07-19
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Underground London
- By: Stephen Smith
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Overall117
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Performance67
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What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in Underground London, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground London, it's also an exploration through time.
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Shame about the narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 22-02-11
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Underground London
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-11-10
- Language: English
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An Invisible Thread
- The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
- By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of...
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One of the most inspirational books I've ever read
- By H Tipton on 03-02-23
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An Invisible Thread
- The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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A Child of the East End
- By: Jean Fullerton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance33
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Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through the dark times with humour and heart. Drawing on both family history and her own memories of growing up in the 1950s and '60s, as well as her working life as a district nurse and local police officer, Jean Fullerton vividly depicts this fascinating part of London.
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Really Lovely reflection
- By Steve Barns on 11-02-26
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A Child of the East End
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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