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Cosa Nostra
- The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
- Written by: John Dickie
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded 140 years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, Cosa Nostra reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day.
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Cosa Nostra
- The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-01
- Language: English
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Colour
- Travels Through the Paintbox
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book, part travelogue part narrative history, remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.
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Colour
- Travels Through the Paintbox
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-03
- Language: English
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama—where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-03
- Language: English
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Alexandria
- The City That Changed the World
- Written by: Islam Issa
- Narrated by: Islam Issa
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an authoritative history of a city that has shaped our modern world. Soon after being founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria became the crucible of cultural exchange between East and West for millennia and the undisputed global capital of knowledge. It was at the forefront of human progress, but it also witnessed brutal natural disasters, plagues, crusades and violence.
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Alexandria
- The City That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Islam Issa
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-02
- Language: English
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Deeds Not Words
- Written by: Helen Pankhurst
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.
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Deeds Not Words
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-06
- Language: English
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- Written by: Bob Gilbert
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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In 1913 all the musk plants in the world stopped smelling. Unable to resist the lure of this mystery, Bob Gilbert turns detective, determined to find the truth in the tale. Mixing history, memoir, science and nature writing, The Missing Musk takes the listener on a journey of discovery, uncovering the truth behind six mysteries and myths from across the natural world.
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-11
- Language: English
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Written by: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society - between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress. Growing up on 'the last road in London' on an estate at the edge of the woods, John Grindrod had a childhood that mirrored these tensions. His family, too, seemed caught between two worlds: his wheelchair-bound mother and soft hearted father had moved from the inner city and had trouble adjusting.
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-01
- Language: English
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Written by: Bård Borch Michaelsen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act performed only by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud by only an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-04
- Language: English
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