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Charles Dickens: A BBC Biography
- By: Armando Iannucci, Melvyn Bragg, Sam West, and others
- Narrated by: Armando Iannucci, Melvyn Bragg, Sam West, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
Charles Dickens was a literary giant, second only to Shakespeare in the ranks of England's greatest writers. This extensive biographical collection looks at the man, his novels and his legacy to provide an all-round portrait of the much-loved author.
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Dickens Forever
- By Lata Mayer on 10-11-23
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Charles Dickens: A BBC Biography
- Narrated by: Armando Iannucci, Melvyn Bragg, Sam West, Tess Hadley, Romesh Gunesekera, A.L. Kennedy, Alexander McCall Smith, Claire Tomalin
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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The Hired Man
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story26
Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a novel which has been hailed...
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Outstanding and real story-telling
- By Xander on 05-05-18
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The Hired Man
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 03-12-15
- Language: English
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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In this collection, Melvyn Bragg surveys how English has evolved over 1,000 years. He starts by looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how English has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin and Old French to dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries. He also examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks and, lastly, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Remember Me
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance7
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Story7
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate forty years later.
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I have read this book and found it very moving.
- By Chris O'Neill on 18-06-19
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Remember Me
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-03-09
- Language: English
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12 Books That Changed The World
- How words and wisdom have shaped our lives
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Bill Bingham, Hugh Ross, Patricia Hodge, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall27
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Performance14
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Story14
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the...
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12 Books That Changed The World
- How words and wisdom have shaped our lives
- Narrated by: Bill Bingham, Hugh Ross, Patricia Hodge, Robert Powell
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-05-06
- Language: English
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In Our Time
- The Written World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Broadcaster and arts presenter Melvyn Bragg fronts 'The Written World', a five-part BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history. In the first programme he looks at the technology...
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In Our Time
- The Written World
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-01-12
- Language: English
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Kingdom Come
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive Seventies. From...
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Thy will be done.
- By Seayeaitch on 18-07-18
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Kingdom Come
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-12-15
- Language: English
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A Time to Dance
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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Story7
A Time to Dance charts the consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18. The gap in their backgrounds, expectations, and experience proves to be as wide as that between their ages.
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A Time to Dance
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-10-09
- Language: English
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A Place in England
- Cumbrian Trilogy Book 2
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story9
Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland before and during World War II, and Joseph's struggle against the odds is the subject of this...
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Wearisome detail
- By J A. Leisten on 10-11-22
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A Place in England
- Cumbrian Trilogy Book 2
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-12-15
- Language: English
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The Matter of the North
- How the North of England Shaped Modern Britain
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Judi Dench, Simon Armitage, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
In this captivating 10-part series, Melvyn Bragg brings all his enthusiasm, experience and expertise to a subject that has enthralled him his entire life: the importance of the North in shaping the United Kingdom. Joined by special guests, he charts the ebb and flow of Northern power and influence, examining how one smallish geographical region came to have such an enormous effect on our culture worldwide: from science and philosophy to music and sport.
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Concise and informative
- By Seayeaitch on 22-07-23
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The Matter of the North
- How the North of England Shaped Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Judi Dench, Simon Armitage, Maxine Peake, Joan Bakewell, full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Voices Of The Powerless The Complete Series
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance27
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Story26
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at critical moments across the last 1,000 years. The Norman Conquest is his...
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Whispers from history
- By Nigel on 09-07-11
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Voices Of The Powerless The Complete Series
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Series: Voices of the Powerless
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-05-11
- Language: English
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Grace and Mary
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance73
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Story74
Could he not put together a memory for her? Perhaps he could become her memory. To build it from fragments, or make it up. And most of all bring back Grace. Her own mother. John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore...
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A tender story that's both sad and uplifting
- By Kirstine on 22-05-13
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Grace and Mary
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
A profoundly thought-provoking, moving novel that breathes fresh life into one of history's most remarkable and enduring love stories. Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous, radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, consents to be her tutor. But what starts...
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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The Adventure Of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Overall8
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Performance2
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Story2
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people...
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English in the making
- By Rogayah on 25-05-08
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The Adventure Of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-06-07
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Radio 4's In Our Time has established itself at the pinnacle of essential conversation on a wide range of subjects from science, history, philosophy and the arts. The programme, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2023, is presented by Melvyn Bragg with contributors from the diverse worlds of academia. Opening with four contextual episodes - The Artist, Imagination, The Muses, and Architecture and Power - this thematic anthology contains 25 programmes on the history of visual art. Included are artistic styles and movements.
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 12-10-23
- Language: English
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Remember Me...
- 'Remarkable' - Sunday Times
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall6
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Performance0
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It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation…Nothing should have come of it. A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages...
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A very dull romance....
- By Joan on 21-07-08
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Remember Me...
- 'Remarkable' - Sunday Times
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 03-04-08
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Miracle
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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Story7
In the seventh century, at the dawn of Christianity, Bega, a bewitching Irish princess bestowed with miraculous powers, and Padric, a charismatic British prince gifted with the fiery power of the sword, sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a greater destiny.
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Hard to listen to
- By Gary Robinson on 25-09-24
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The Sword and the Miracle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-11-00
- Language: English
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Crossing the Lines
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance2
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Continuing the story of Joe from A Son of War, this is the story of the rapid changes in his life from working-class Wigton to the rarified atmosphere of Oxford as he begins his studies there.
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Crossing the Lines
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-08-07
- Language: English
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In Our Time
- The companion to the Radio 4 series
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Story1
Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, science and...
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In Our Time
- The companion to the Radio 4 series
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-12-09
- Language: English
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