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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance90
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Brought to you by Penguin. The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far...
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Reader should have been coached on pronunciation.
- By andrew james lilley on 05-11-19
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- By: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its...
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Quite shocking
- By David H. Furnival on 14-03-21
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- By: Brian Groom
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance73
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A Waterstones Best History Book of the Year The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. ‘Entertaining’ The Times ‘Definitive’ The Mirror ‘Highly readable’ Financial Times A work of unrivalled scale and ambition, Northerners is the...
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‘Northern’ Narrator is dreadful
- By The Commandante on 01-08-23
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Northerners
- A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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The Indifferent Stars Above
- The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance140
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier “An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times...
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Terrible Narrator - I returned it
- By Lucie on 03-04-25
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The Indifferent Stars Above
- The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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Did She Kill Him?
- A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic
- By: Kate Colquhoun
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick. The ‘Maybrick Mystery’ had all the makings of a sensation and cracked the varnish of Victorian respectability. Florence’s fate was fiercely debated on the front pages of the newspapers and in parlours and backyards across the country.
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VERY ANNOYING NARRATOR
- By Mayca Estevez on 10-01-21
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Did She Kill Him?
- A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic
- Narrated by: Maggie Mash
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-12-14
- Language: English
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Metternich
- Strategist and Visionary
- By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance28
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Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress national independence, and oppose the dreams of social change that inspired the revolutionaries of 1848. Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized.
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In Defence of Metternich
- By Kindle Customer on 13-08-22
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Metternich
- Strategist and Visionary
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-06-22
- Language: English
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The Legend of Albert Jacka
- From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become. Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. Bert soon enlisted in the Australian Imperial...
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The Legend of Albert Jacka
- From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1
- Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-10-24
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
- By: Andrew Carnegie
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance103
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His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him "St. Andrew." British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him an "example" for the wealthy. Such terms seldom apply to multimillionaires. But Andrew Carnegie was no run-of-the-mill steel magnate. At age 13 and full of dreams, he sailed from his native Dunfermline, Scotland, to America. Here, in one volume, are two impressive works by Andrew Carnegie himself: his autobiography and The Gospel of Wealth, a groundbreaking manifesto on the duty of the wealthy to give back to society all of their fortunes.
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Just an amazing download of information
- By Arnold Terry on 29-04-22
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 16-01-18
- Language: English
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Red Platoon
- A True Story of American Valour
- By: Clinton Romesha
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Clinton Romesha
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall320
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Performance291
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Story289
On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 13-hour battle - and eventual victory - cost eight men their lives. Red Platoon is the riveting firsthand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defence of the outpost and the counterattack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire and received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
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really gopd
- By jamie on 05-11-16
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Red Platoon
- A True Story of American Valour
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Clinton Romesha
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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Escaping with His Life
- From Dunkirk to D-Day & Beyond
- By: Sir Nicholas Young
- Narrated by: Sir Nicholas Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Very few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk, he volunteered for the newly formed commandos and took part in their first operation: the raid on the Lofoten Islands. He fought and was captured in Tunisia. He went on the run before his POW camp at Fontanellato was taken over by the Nazis after the September 1943 Italian armistice. He spent six months on the run in the Apennine mountains aided by brave and selfless Italians, many of whom were actively fighting their occupiers.
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Just a wonderful read
- By Jon 505 on 26-08-25
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Escaping with His Life
- From Dunkirk to D-Day & Beyond
- Narrated by: Sir Nicholas Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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Charlemagne
- By: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance34
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When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe.
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Very heavy going
- By Amazon Customer on 01-12-17
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Charlemagne
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 30 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-09-17
- Language: English
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My Early Life
- By: Winston Churchill
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall308
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Performance278
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One of the classic volumes of autobiography, My Early Life is a lively and colourful account of a young man's quest for action, adventure and danger. Churchill's schooldays are undistinguished, but he is admitted to Sandhurst and embarks on a career as a soldier and a war correspondent, seeing action in Cuba, in India, in the Sudan - where he took part in the battle of Omdurman, of which he gives us a stirring account - and finally in South Africa.
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A very good listen
- By M. K. Slaughter on 07-01-15
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My Early Life
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 11-07-14
- Language: English
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William Wilberforce
- Life of the Great Anti-Slave-Trade Campaigner
- By: William Hague
- Narrated by: Steve Hodson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance145
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Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the Commons Debates of some the finest orators in Parliament, having become one of the most respected speakers of those times.
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Fantastic
- By VeniVediVocali on 24-11-12
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William Wilberforce
- Life of the Great Anti-Slave-Trade Campaigner
- Narrated by: Steve Hodson
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-10-09
- Language: English
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A History of Treason
- The Bloody History of Britain Through the Stories of Its Most Notorious Traitors
- By: The National Archives
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Appealing to a range of audiences, it covers more than 650 years of momentous history through the use of both famous and lesser known events which shaped Britain. Using original documents and detailed research undertaken by The National Archives' record specialists, it will cover moments in history which led to fundamental changes in eras. It will also include unique discoveries from these archives, uncovering mysteries and stories of how dealing with treason have brought about the changes which have influenced and shaped Britain throughout the centuries.
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Beautifully narrated
- By Maud on 10-12-25
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A History of Treason
- The Bloody History of Britain Through the Stories of Its Most Notorious Traitors
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The Demon of Unrest
- Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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Overall20
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times). On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln...
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Fantastically written and wonderfully read.
- By Anonymous on 09-10-24
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The Demon of Unrest
- Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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The First Fascist
- The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
- By: Sergio Luzzatto
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The extraordinary story of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the father of fascism, and his ominous legacy In nineteenth-century France, the first fascist was born. Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès became the first...
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The First Fascist
- The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Morès
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-02-26
- Language: English
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The Rebel Romanov
- By: Helen Rappaport
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna, granddaughter-in-law. This is the story of Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg, the Rebel Romanov. Born in 1781 in a small impoverished duchy of Germany, Julie's quiet life took a...
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A Footnote.
- By Stephen Bentley on 14-02-25
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The Rebel Romanov
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 3 of a 3-Part Recording)
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years At the...
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Edit out cassette tape instructions
- By Client d'Amazon on 10-04-20
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Master of the Senate
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 3 of a 3-Part Recording)
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 3.3
- Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-08-05
- Language: English
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Queen Bees
- Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars – A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
- By: Siân Evans
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance96
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'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN 'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES 'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLS Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships...
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Educational and Informative!
- By Fiona on 06-12-16
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Queen Bees
- Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars – A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
- Narrated by: Carole Boyd
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 08-09-16
- Language: English
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Our Story
- By: Reginald Kray, Ronald Kray, Fred Dinenage
- Narrated by: David John, Fred Dinenage
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Overall320
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Performance279
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London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . . The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by...
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Nurture or Nature
- By M. McGuirk on 13-01-22
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Our Story
- Narrated by: David John, Fred Dinenage
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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