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Failures of State
- The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus
- By: Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* A GUARDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An astonishing book’ James O’Brien ‘A gripping, devastating read’ Sunday Times The inside story of the UK’s response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday Times Failures of State...
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Exceptional and forensic look at utter the utter failure of the covid government
- By Anonymous on 08-11-23
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Failures of State
- The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Downfall
- Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
- By: Anna Arutunyan, Mark Galeotti
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance45
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Brought to you by Penguin. In the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after...
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Excellent listen.
- By MJSsge on 08-06-25
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Downfall
- Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
- Narrated by: Mark Galeotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall144
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Performance124
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the epic and enthralling story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to...
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Filled with facts and beautifully written
- By Saad on 08-05-18
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Directorate S
- The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-02-18
- Language: English
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Flight 93
- The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
- By: Tom McMillan, Governor Tom Ridge - foreword
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. Utilizing new research tools, the book offers the most complete account of what actually took place aboard United 93—from its delayed takeoff at Newark International Airport to the moment it plunged upside-down into an open field.
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Flight 93
- The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Maoism
- A Global History
- By: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance47
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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
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Pure propoganda
- By Jay Blake on 12-12-19
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Chernobyl Roulette
- A War Story
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Brought to you by Penguin. What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles...
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Chernobyl Roulette
- A War Story
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 03-09-24
- Language: English
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Tweet of the Day
- A Year of British Birds
- By: BBC Natural History Radio
- Narrated by: Bill Oddie, Brett Westwood, Chris Packham, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance43
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First heard every weekday morning at 5.58am on BBC Radio 4, Tweet of the Day captured the imagination of early risers and bird lovers, proving so popular that it was named Radio Programme of the Year 2014. Each episode begins with a bird call or song, followed by fascinating ornithological detail about its owner. This collection contains every edition from the first series, British Birds.
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No track listing.
- By Absolutely amazing. Easy to apply and not a single bubble. Thank you. on 14-09-19
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Tweet of the Day
- A Year of British Birds
- Narrated by: Bill Oddie, Brett Westwood, Chris Packham, David Attenborough, John Aitchison, Kate Humble, Liz Bonnin, Martin Hughes-Games
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-07-18
- Language: English
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No One’s Coming
- The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
- By: Kevin Hazzard
- Narrated by: Nick Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten...
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No One’s Coming
- The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There's Nowhere Else to Turn
- Narrated by: Nick Mills
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy
- The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
- By: Bojan Pancevski
- Narrated by: Michael Golab
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting exposé of the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, the largest act of sabotage in modern history, told through unprecedented access and deep investigative reporting—part geopolitical thriller, part true-crime detective story, part gritty war chronicle In September 2022...
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy
- The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
- Narrated by: Michael Golab
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-06-26
- Language: English
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An Encyclopaedia of Myself
- By: Jonathan Meades
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance74
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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 ‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial Times The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques...
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So dense with detail you could cut & serve as pie
- By B. Ward on 01-09-16
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An Encyclopaedia of Myself
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-05-14
- Language: English
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Why Liberalism Failed
- By: Patrick J. Deneen
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance57
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Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions.
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What happens if history did not end?
- By Hedgehog on 05-05-19
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Why Liberalism Failed
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-05-18
- Language: English
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Korea
- A New History of South and North
- By: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history. Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day.
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Lots of names and dates, not much insight
- By Sean O'Connor on 22-10-24
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Korea
- A New History of South and North
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance54
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'The world's foremost historian of Ukraine. . . the chronicler of a country on the front lines of a seismic European war' Financial Times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and...
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Excellent for understanding the background of the Russo-Ukrainian War
- By Anonymous on 18-01-26
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
- From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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Revenge
- The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power
- By: Alex Isenstadt
- Narrated by: Alan Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From Politico’s National Political Reporter Alex Isenstadt, a fly-on-the-wall account of Donald Trump’s history-defying reelection campaign, illustrating how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to return to the White House. Over the course of the last four years, the American...
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Enjoyable and insightful
- By Lorraine Simpson on 16-08-25
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Revenge
- The Inside Story of Trump's Return to Power
- Narrated by: Alan Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 18-03-25
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance199
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On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,000 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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Hungry Ghosts
- By Barbara on 19-01-18
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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From Russia with Blood
- Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
- By: Heidi Blake
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance209
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The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination ‘A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carré couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not paying attention.’ Oliver Bullough They thought they had found...
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Great story but bizarre narration
- By Ben H on 04-12-19
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From Russia with Blood
- Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Assad or We Burn the Country
- How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
- By: Sam Dagher
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
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Overall86
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Performance73
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From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army...
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excellent overview of the Syrian wat
- By D. Dunne on 24-03-20
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Assad or We Burn the Country
- How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 19 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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The Troubles with Us
- One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way
- By: Alix O’Neill
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Derry Girls meets David Sedaris’ Elske Rahill ‘The writing is full of energy and originality’ Irish Times Growing up on the Falls Road in 1990s Belfast, Alix O'Neill has seen it all – burnt-out buses blocking the route to school, the police mistaking her father for a leading terrorist...
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Great read
- By NL on 31-08-21
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The Troubles with Us
- One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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Downfall of a King
- Juan Carlos of Spain
- By: Paul Preston
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace. Paul Preston, the preeminent historian of modern Spain, here lays bare the complex web of financial and sexual excess that led to the hero’s vertiginous downfall. For decades, King Carlos was immensely...
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Downfall of a King
- Juan Carlos of Spain
- Narrated by: Luis Soto
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 18-06-26
- Language: English
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A History of Modern Syria
- By: Daniel Neep
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, definitive account of modern Syria and its fate Few countries have had as vexed a political history as Syria. Carved out of the Ottoman empire at the end of the First World War, Syria was then brutally ruled by France. This French ‘mandate’ carved out...
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A History of Modern Syria
- Narrated by: Philip Arditti
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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