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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
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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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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- By: Anne Curzan
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan “I was bowled over, page after page, by the author’s fine ear for our language and...
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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For F*ck's Sake
- Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
- By: Rebecca Roache
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration of the various puzzles that surround swearing, philosopher Rebecca Roache argues that what makes swearing offensive is not really the words at all: the offensiveness lies in what we don't say. The unspoken—and usually unconscious—inferences that speakers and listeners make about each other are key to explaining swearwords' capacity to shock.
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For F*ck's Sake
- Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Nobody
- By: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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George and Weedon Grossmith were born in London into a theatrical family, and it was natural that they should both take up careers on the stage. Weedon initially studied art but later joined his brother, George, in the theatre.
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A window into a different time
- By Ben Yosef on 02-12-24
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The Diary of a Nobody
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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Key Out of Time
- Time Traders, Book 4
- By: Andre Norton
- Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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It's a good thing that Time Agents are intensively trained. When Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe set up a time gate on the alien world of Hawaika for an exploration into its troubling past, they didn't anticipate that a storm would sweep them and their helper Karara Trehern and her two dolphins through it unprepared...and then collapse the gate. Trapped in a time of sword-and-spear technology, they rapidly discover that each of the world's cultures appear to be trying to wipe one another out.
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Key Out of Time
- Time Traders, Book 4
- Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
- Series: Time Traders, Book 4
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-03-12
- Language: English
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Our Mutual Friend
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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Charles Dickens' classic novel of mystery, read by Alex Jennings. A body is found in the River Thames and is identified as John Harmon. He was due to inherit a great fortune on the condition that he marry a young woman called Bella Wilfer. And so the story begins and unravels and we are...
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Our Mutual Friend
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-08-06
- Language: English
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- By: Rudolf Erich Raspe
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first volume of The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe. The Baron relates his fantastical experiences and exploits, telling of the many singular incidents such as climbing to the moon on a beanstalk, riding on a cannon ball, being swallowed by a fish and being rescued from its insides, flying on an eagle from Margate to America, and many other incredible adventures, and challenges anyone who doubts him, asserting he is "a traveler of veracity!"
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-06-17
- Language: English
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- By: Charles Kingsley
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A main-stay of British children's literature through the 1920's, The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby was written by Rev. Charles Kinglsey as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine in 1862-63.
Although some of the author's opinions seem dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over icebergs, is still a wonderful adventure tale for children. The book was adapted into an animated film in 1978 and produced as a play at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003.
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morals and ethics
- By Mrs T H Hall on 23-08-24
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-01-12
- Language: English
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Tarzan the Terrible, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is the eighth book in the Tarzan series. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels. Burroughs created the characters of Tarzan and John Carter, as well as the fictional landmass in the Earth known as Pellucidar.
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Series: Tarzan, Book 8
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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How to Kill a Language
- Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
- By: Sophia Smith Galer
- Narrated by: Sophia Smith Galer
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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An urgent, globe-spanning exploration of languages at risk, from Kichwa to Ukrainian, that asks: What do we lose—culturally, politically, and personally—when a language is silenced? “A vivid, hopeful portrait of how people around the world are staying connected to their linguistic roots...
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How to Kill a Language
- Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
- Narrated by: Sophia Smith Galer
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-07-26
- Language: English
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Phineas Finn
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Phineas Finn is an Irish M.P.A. climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today.
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Philandering Phineas - full of character
- By Janice on 18-03-10
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Phineas Finn
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Series: The Pallisers, Book 2
- Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-07-06
- Language: English
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Jennie Gerhardt
- A Novel
- By: Theodore Dreiser
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Jennie Gerhardt is the tragic story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from an extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her family, the family of one of the wealthy men, and society in general react to her situation is the basis of this classic story.
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Jennie Gerhardt
- By Reene on 14-01-22
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Jennie Gerhardt
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-05-16
- Language: English
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The Confession
- By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Was that dear little lady Emily Benton guilty of murder, or was the written confession discovered by her tenant actually trumped up? This one will keep you guessing!
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The Confession
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- By: Sheela Banerjee
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging - be that a legacy of colonialism or persecution, the desire to fit in, or the complex cultural inheritance from one's parents. In What's in a Name?, Sheela Banerjee unravels the personal histories of friends and family through their names. And while tracing their heritage across centuries and continents - from west London to British India, and from 1960s Jamaica to pre-Revolutionary Russia - Sheela also tells the story of twentieth-century immigration to the UK.
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This book is a goldmine of fascinating information
- By Amazon Customer on 12-08-24
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What's in a Name?
- Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain
- Narrated by: Sheela Banerjee
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-08-23
- Language: English
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- By: George Horace Lorimer
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.
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This is a lesson for all men.
- By Small on 05-04-20
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-05-17
- Language: English
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Achieving Authentic Australian Accents: A Toolkit for Actors
- Craft an Australian Accent for the Stage or Screen
- By: Stephanie Lam
- Narrated by: Debbie Foster
- Length: 30 mins
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This guide enables you to create an authentic Australian accent. The course starts by discussing the oral posture necessary to develop an Australian accent including various exercises to help apply the knowledge areas that are discussed. Then the course includes additional exercises to rehearse and refine your Australian accent as you listen to native speakers and then repeat key words and phrases in a structured setting, giving you quick feedback to improve and refine you accent.
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Achieving Authentic Australian Accents: A Toolkit for Actors
- Craft an Australian Accent for the Stage or Screen
- Narrated by: Debbie Foster
- Length: 30 mins
- Release date: 10-03-23
- Language: English
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- By: Michael Erard
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-06-13
- Language: English
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The Language-Lover's Lexipedia
- From the creator of the League of the Lexicon board game
- By: Joshua Blackburn
- Narrated by: Joshua Blackburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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Bloomsbury presents The Language Lover's Lexipedia written and read by Joshua Blackburn FROM THE INVENTOR OF THE LEAGUE OF THE LEXICON BOARDGAME – THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL WHO LOVE WORDS AND LANGUAGE. 'A word-lover's dream' Stephen Fry Want to uncover the secret of Ikea product names? Learn...
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The Language-Lover's Lexipedia
- From the creator of the League of the Lexicon board game
- Narrated by: Joshua Blackburn
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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The Language Food
- A Linguist Reads the Menu
- By: Dan Jurafsky
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a micro-universe of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips.
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Not the best reader, and needs PDF supplement
- By Jenni G on 07-06-23
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The Language Food
- A Linguist Reads the Menu
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 22-10-14
- Language: English
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- By: William Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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Eve Best, Danny Sapani and Shaun Dooley star in this modern, riveting and magical production of The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale treads new dramatic ground embracing tragedy, poetry, folklore, magic realism, music, comedy and the infamous stage direction 'exit pursued by a bear'. One of Shakespeare's mesmerising later productions, it is often considered a 'problem play' as it starts with a tragedy and ends in a romance.
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The Winter's Tale
- BBC Radio Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Danny Sapani, Eve Best, full cast, Karl Johnson, Paul Copley, Shaun Dooley, Susan Jameson
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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