Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue
A Strip of Blue Proper Names
Our War Eating Out
An Ideal Home Aunt Eveline
A Shy Butcher Unsaid Prayers
Days Out No Mean City
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style.
Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families, he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood; Bennett's father's a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties and life 'Down South'.
He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano, in tales that are told with that wry observation and ironic understatement that has earned Alan Bennett his place in the forefront of contemporary writing.
Author : David Starkey
Peformed By : Tim Piggot-Smith
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 5 hours 16 minutes
Type : Royalty and Heads of State Historical British Biographical
$16.99
Monarchy is more than the biographies of the kings and queens of England. It is an in-depth examination of what the English… More info...
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Author : Simon Winchester
Peformed By : Simon Winchester
Published By : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 10 hours
Type : Historical Biographical
$39.95 $21.95
From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of the father of modern geology. More info...
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Author : Plato
Peformed By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours 40 minutes
Type : Philosophy Ancient Biographical Historical
$18.75
The trial and death of Socrates remains a powerful document not least because it gives a first-hand account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. More info...
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Author : David Starkey
Peformed By : Patricia Hodge
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 6 hours 31 minutes
Type : Historical Royalty and Heads of State British Pre 1900 Biographical
$16.99
The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages... More info...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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