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Survival is a Promise
- The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde’s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Audre Lorde. Her life and work swell to become a cosmic force, showing us the grand possibility of life together on earth.
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gorgeous, detailed, extraordinary
- By Enduro Girl on 12-11-24
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Survival is a Promise
- The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-08-24
- Language: English
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Great Writers' Lives
- A BBC Biography Collection
- By: Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock, and others
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Fay Weldon, Prue Leith, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Famous fans choose their favourite writers for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives. For 20 years, Great Lives has been a cornerstone of the Radio 4 schedules, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. Each week, a well-known personality is invited to select someone who has inspired them. They then discuss the 'Great Life' with the presenter and a guest expert to decide whether their hero really merits the accolade.
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Great Writers' Lives
- A BBC Biography Collection
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Fay Weldon, Prue Leith, Armando Iannucci, Caroline Criado Perez, Andrew Motion, Rich Hall, Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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Editor
- A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Max Hastings
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Including an introduction read by the author, Max Hastings. 'Much excellent gossip, some of it wildly indiscreet . . . Hastings is a brilliant reporter' – Sunday Telegraph 'The acuity of his insights make this book a wholly compelling read' – Observer In February 2002 Max Hastings retired...
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Outstanding Memoir
- By Adrienne on 29-09-25
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Editor
- A decade's strife with PMs, proprietors and royals while resurrecting The Daily Telegraph
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong, Max Hastings
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- By: Emily Van Duyne
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination―the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne―a superfan and scholar―radically reimagines the last years of Plath’s life, confronts her suicide and the construction of her legacy.
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Exceptional
- By Zoe on 09-07-25
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Loving Sylvia Plath
- A Reclamation
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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A Moment of War
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story27
Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept...
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historic masterpiece
- By Ralph Welsman on 25-12-23
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A Moment of War
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: Cider with Rosie, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- By: Charles Nicholl
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance20
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In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - providing us with the only surviving record of his spoken words. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but neglected episode in Shakespeare's life.
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Much more than Shakespeare's life.
- By Stephen on 24-12-09
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The Lodger
- Shakespeare on Silver Street
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 15-10-08
- Language: English
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall133
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Performance116
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Story117
Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 Hisham Matar was nineteen when his father was kidnapped and taken...
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Search for justice and closure - a Libyan story
- By Anthony Zwi on 18-12-16
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-06-16
- Language: English
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Tolstoy
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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Story26
In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia.
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A fascinating biography
- By Kirstine on 12-04-16
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Tolstoy
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-06-15
- Language: English
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The Forest is the Path
- By: Gary Lightbody
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance48
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Story48
'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' Bono 'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' The Irish Times ‘[An] astoundingly poetic book’ Pandora Sykes You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The...
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Emotional, raw and profound
- By Kindle Customer on 01-05-26
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The Forest is the Path
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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The Uncool
- By: Cameron Crowe
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance40
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Story40
The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous...
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Almost Famous: The True Story
- By Mr. Gregg Nicholl on 07-03-26
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The Uncool
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Clothes... and other things that matter
- A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue
- By: Alexandra Shulman
- Narrated by: Alexandra Shulman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Story73
'She has written about her clothes, and given us some scintillating reading. [...] hugely engaging memoir.' - Emily Bearn, The Spectator 'I really loved this book - it's warm, thought-provoking and honest. In the end, I had to ration myself because I didn't want to finish. In these frankly...
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Loved, as much as I used to love Vogue magazine!
- By wendy eckhardt on 01-09-20
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Clothes... and other things that matter
- A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue
- Narrated by: Alexandra Shulman
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- By: Kerry Hudson
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall438
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Performance388
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Story385
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to...
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Everyone should hear or read this.
- By More than a Mum on 20-05-19
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Lowborn
- Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
- Narrated by: Kerry Hudson
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-05-19
- Language: English
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations...
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- Language: English
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- By: John Betjeman
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall34
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Performance20
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'For myself/ I knew as soon as I could read and write/ That I must be a poet. Even today,/ When all the way from Cambridge comes a wind/ To blow the lamps out every time they're lit/ I know that I must light mine up again.' From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old...
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A beautiful listen
- By Hilary on 18-01-16
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Summoned By Bells A Life In Verse
- Narrated by: John Betjeman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 09-10-08
- Language: English
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Old in Art School
- By: Nell Painter
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school - in her 60s - to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance between the pursuit of art and the inevitable, sometimes painful, demands of a life fully lived.
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me, me, me
- By mcgeordie on 09-07-18
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Old in Art School
- Narrated by: Nell Painter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 19-06-18
- Language: English
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- By: Seán Hewitt
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance36
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Story36
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.
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Haunting memoir
- By A reader on 28-02-23
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-07-22
- Language: English
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- By: Marion Meade
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-12-04
- Language: English
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.
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Fascinating history destroyed by narration
- By Cassandra on 03-06-22
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Threads
- My life in style, a deeply personal memoir from a British fashion icon
- By: Paul Smith
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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From a Nottingham alleyway to a global empire, Threads is the story of a truly unique British fashion icon. ‘I always say that you can find inspiration in everything. And if you can't, look again’ – Sir Paul Smith Sir Paul’s journey has been anything but conventional: from leaving school...
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Threads
- My life in style, a deeply personal memoir from a British fashion icon
- Narrated by: Bill Nighy
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 10-09-26
- Language: English
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes that rendered him half-blind, he has been captivated by Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare and so much more
- By S C DYKES on 01-02-26
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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