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Halfway to Hollywood
- Diaries 1980-1988, Volume Two
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 28 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life....
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Like a Palin journey - you want it to keep going
- By F. Hopkinson on 10-11-23
By: Michael Palin
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....
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Wholly inappropriate choice of reader
- By John Adamson on 08-04-21
By: Chips Channon
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
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Enchanting and wickedly observant
- By J.K. Watson on 09-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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King's Counsellor
- Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
- By: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century....
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Sir Tommy Lascelles
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-21
By: Sir Alan Lascelles, and others
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End of a Berlin Diary
- The Berlin Diary Series, Book 2
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s....
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Not so good as part 1
- By Mariush on 18-04-22
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement....
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Wonderfully enthralling and yet painfully snobbish
- By Philip Moore on 16-01-22
By: Chips Channon
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Halfway to Hollywood
- Diaries 1980-1988, Volume Two
- By: Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Michael Palin
- Length: 28 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life....
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Like a Palin journey - you want it to keep going
- By F. Hopkinson on 10-11-23
By: Michael Palin
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
- 1918-38
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 39 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Born in Chicago in 1897, 'Chips' Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958....
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Wholly inappropriate choice of reader
- By John Adamson on 08-04-21
By: Chips Channon
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Alan Bennett: Diaries
- By: Alan Bennett
- Narrated by: Alan Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Original Recording
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Alan Bennett is one of the country's most celebrated and best-loved authors. This is an unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter....
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Enchanting and wickedly observant
- By J.K. Watson on 09-02-23
By: Alan Bennett
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King's Counsellor
- Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
- By: Sir Alan Lascelles, Duff Hart-Davis
- Narrated by: Pip Torrens
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of the royal household and Downing Street during the first half of the 20th century....
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Sir Tommy Lascelles
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-21
By: Sir Alan Lascelles, and others
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End of a Berlin Diary
- The Berlin Diary Series, Book 2
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William L. Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while on assignment in Europe during the 1930s....
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Not so good as part 1
- By Mariush on 18-04-22
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2)
- 1938-43
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This second volume of the best-selling diaries of Henry 'Chips' Channon takes us from the heady aftermath of the Munich agreement, when the prime minister Chips so admired was credited with having averted a general European conflagration, through the rapid unravelling of appeasement....
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Wonderfully enthralling and yet painfully snobbish
- By Philip Moore on 16-01-22
By: Chips Channon
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Modern Nature
- Journals, 1989 - 1990
- By: Derek Jarman
- Narrated by: Julian Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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A meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature....
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Beautiful diary but not great narration
- By Miss Emma Bonnici on 24-06-21
By: Derek Jarman
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
- By: Chips Channon
- Narrated by: Tom Ward
- Length: 48 hrs and 17 mins
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This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour....
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Good production but flawed!
- By Fiona on 13-02-23
By: Chips Channon
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The Reagan Diaries
- Extended Selections
- By: Ronald Reagan
- Narrated by: Eric Conger
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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The Reagan Diaries provides a striking insight into one of this nation's most important presidencies and sheds new light on the character of a true American leader....
By: Ronald Reagan
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The Pillow Book
- By: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century....
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A fascinating contemporaneous insight...
- By Double D on 03-03-23
By: Sei Shōnagon
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Letters from Brenda
- Two Suitcases. 75 Lost Letters. One Mother.
- By: Emma Kennedy
- Narrated by: Emma Kennedy, Juliet Stevenson, Rafa Euba
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters....
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Wonderful!
- By Simon Benham on 14-06-22
By: Emma Kennedy
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Who's In, Who's Out
- The Journals of Kenneth Rose
- By: Kenneth Rose
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
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Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for over 70 years. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft....
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British History at it’s Best
- By Anonymous User on 08-11-20
By: Kenneth Rose
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Puto cáncer
- By: Mayra Sánchez
- Narrated by: Mavi Lacovara
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Puto cáncer, en palabras de la autora, se trata del diario íntimo de una paciente oncológica...
By: Mayra Sánchez
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service....
By: Jack Kerouac, and others
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The Collected Works of Jim Morrison
- Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics
- By: Jim Morrison, Tom Robbins - foreword
- Narrated by: Jim Morrison, Liz Phair, Oliver Ray, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks....
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Just beautiful
- By Penny C Holmes on 15-03-22
By: Jim Morrison, and others
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1
- I Know My Own Heart
- By: Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread - editor
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister: the inspiration for Gentleman Jack and Emma Donoghue's novel Learned By Heart....
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PLEASE DO THE OTHER ONE!! PRIEST
- By Anonymous User on 11-02-24
By: Anne Lister, and others
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Tales from the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess
- By: Amanda Owen
- Narrated by: Amanda Owen
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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A charming, evocative collection of Amanda Owen's columns in The Dalesman magazine, describing life on the farm for her family....
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Binged the book in night
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-21
By: Amanda Owen
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London Journal
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship....
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outrageous but fascinating
- By CKC on 11-10-20
By: James Boswell
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Scott of the Antarctic
- Performed by Edward Fox in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Edward Fox OBE, Gordon Fithen
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott went back to the huge frozen wasteland of the Antarctic with the intention of reaching the South Pole, by a long and terribly arduous trek across the ice....
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Scott’s last Journey
- By Markus Piscapore-Caruana on 28-04-23
By: Mr Punch
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Vom Gehen im Eis
- München - Paris 23.11. - 14.12.1974
- By: Werner Herzog
- Narrated by: Werner Herzog
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Im November 1974 bricht Werner Herzog zu einer Wanderung von München nach Paris auf. Sollte er die französische Hauptstadt erreichen...
By: Werner Herzog
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How to End a Story
- Diaries 1995-1998
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs
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Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rails against the confines. At the same time, she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship—and the truth of her own self....
By: Helen Garner
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The Letters of Lord Byron
- Performed by Robert Powell in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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George Gordon Byron was born in 1788, the son of the profligate 'Mad Jack' Byron, and succeeded to the title in 1798 moving to the family seat of Newstead Abbey....
By: Mr Punch
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Free at Last!
- The Diaries 1991-2001
- By: Tony Benn
- Narrated by: Tony Benn
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Tony Benn's diaries began in 1940, and have been compared to those of Pepys in their detail, scope, and accuracy....
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An honourable man
- By David on 08-09-05
By: Tony Benn
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Silentium
- By: Hamvas Béla
- Narrated by: Rátóti Zoltán
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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A Silentium című kötet négy esszéje napló. De nem a történeti eseményeké, hanem a léleké. A második világháború pokolra...
By: Hamvas Béla
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The Voyage of the Beagle
- By: Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Voyage of the Beagle foreshadows Darwin's world-changing On The Origin of Species (also a CSA Word audiobook read by Richard Dawkins), in its constant intellectual quest....
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fantastic tales of Darwin's infamous voyage
- By P. Winter on 14-02-15
By: Charles Darwin
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Fire
- From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
- By: Anais Nin
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
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The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....
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Narrator made a choice
- By Kindle Customer on 14-08-22
By: Anais Nin
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- Performed by Fiona Shaw in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Born at Steventon in 1775, the daughter of a Hampshire clergyman, Jane Austen was the youngest of seven children. She lived a quiet life, moving to Bath, Southampton, Chawton and eventually to Winchester where she died unmarried in 1817 at the age of 42....
By: Mr Punch
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Andrew Murray Collection on Prayer
- Humility, Absolute Surrender, the Ministry of Intercession, the Power of the Blood of Jesus and Others
- By: Andrew Murray
- Narrated by: Tom Chandler
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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Selected from his many books and papers, the Andrew Murray Collection on Prayer serves as a manual for Christians who long to rediscover the joy of a life devoted to serving with Christ to bring love to a hurting world....
By: Andrew Murray
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Queen Victoria's Highland Journals
- Performed by Virgina McKenna in a Dramatised Setting
- By: Mr Punch
- Narrated by: Virginia McKenna OBE, Mark Hardy
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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Succeeding William IV in 1837, Victoria reigned for nearly 64 years and was always a keen chronicler of life around her, through both her paintings and the detailed diary she kept from the age of 13....
By: Mr Punch
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War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers
- By: Alan Beardsley
- Narrated by: Steve Davison Smith
- Length: 22 hrs and 3 mins
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Discovered in 2020 after spending the last 75 years in an attic, War Diary: The Diary of Mike Rogers is a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....
By: Alan Beardsley