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In Our Time: 25 Landmarks in Military History
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
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One of BBC Radio's flagship programmes, In Our Time is both highly acclaimed and immensely popular. First broadcast in 1998, it has built an audience of over 2 million listeners, who tune in each week to be enlightened and entertained by Melvyn Bragg and his expert panel as they tackle subjects ranging from macromolecules to the Muses. This special themed collection comprises the highlights of military history: 25 episodes exploring the most important conflicts of the past 3000 years, plus additional programmes discussing the history and future of war and key military themes.
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In Our Time: 25 Landmarks in Military History
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-13-22
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at 15 yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe breakdown when he was 13, he developed a passion for reading and study - though that didn't stop him playing in a skiffle band or falling in love.
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Nothing
- By JOHN on 01-15-24
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Back in the Day
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-25-22
- Language: English
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The Soldier's Return
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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In the spring of 1946, ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the "forgotten war" in Burma to his hometown of Wigton in Cumbria, England, to the joyful relief of his young wife, Ellen. He finds a town in which, seemingly, little has changed: the same twisting alleys, weavers' cottages, and medieval archways, and the same lack of prospects for an uneducated, working-class man like himself. Sam, however, has changed.
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Couldn’t finish
- By Tamara on 04-13-23
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The Soldier's Return
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of the Islamic world through its religion, thinkers, poetry, empire and rulers. Since 1998, In Our Time has been the go-to radio programme for knowledge seekers and inquiring minds. This special themed collection provides a focussed, wide-ranging introduction to 25 of the ideas and events that shaped the Islamic world, highlighting the numerous connections between Islamdom and the West throughout history.
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In Our Time: 25 Journeys Through the History of the Islamic World
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-16-23
- Language: English
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A Time to Dance
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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A Time to Dance charts the consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18. The gap in their backgrounds, expectations, and experience proves to be as wide as that between their ages.
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A touching story that is beautifully narrated
- By Dreamsmith on 02-01-11
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A Time to Dance
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-01-09
- Language: English
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, various
- 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, various
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-14-22
- Language: English
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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The King James Bible has often been called ‘the Book of Books’ both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best-selling book in the world, and many believe it has had the greatest impact.The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature.
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The Bibles cultural influence on our lives
- By david on 11-25-11
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-20-11
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Miracle
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
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In the seventh century, at the dawn of Christianity, Bega, a bewitching Irish princess bestowed with miraculous powers, and Padric, a charismatic British prince gifted with the fiery power of the sword, sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a greater destiny.
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I couldn't....I tried!....but I just couldn't!
- By Heidi on 06-19-03
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The Sword and the Miracle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-23-00
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern.
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-07-19
- Language: English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing, and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine, and the Internet, and it is understood by around 2.2 million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years.
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Educational
- By Debra on 01-28-10
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-26-07
- Language: English
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Crossing the Lines
- A Novel
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives - from growing older to growing up, from first love to leaving home. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is an enthralling successor to the award-winning The Soldier's Return and A Son of War.
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Crossing the Lines
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-23-13
- Language: English
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Crossing the Lines
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Continuing the story of Joe from A Son of War, this is the story of the rapid changes in his life from working-class Wigton to the rarified atmosphere of Oxford as he begins his studies there.
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Crossing the Lines
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-20-07
- Language: English
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The Soldier's Return
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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In the spring of 1946, ex-corporal Samuel Richardson returns home from Burma to Wigton in Cumbria, to the relief of his young wife, Ellen. He finds a town in which little has changed. Sam, however, has changed: the war has left him with traumatic memories. And there's 6-year-old Joe, a baby when Sam volunteered, who can scarcely remember his father. As all three strive to adjust, the bonds of love and loyalty become stretched to breaking point.
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The Soldier's Return
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-06-05
- Language: English
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Grace and Mary
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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John visits his ageing mother, Mary, in her nursing home by the sea, and mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her receding memory, he prompts her with songs, photographs, and questions from their shared past, taking her back to the 1940s, when she was a young woman and he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But as he rekindles her memories, it is her own mother she longs for - and John finds himself delving further back, into the secrets and silences of Mary's fractured childhood, and the unsung sorrows of her thwarted yet spirited mother, Grace.
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Grace and Mary
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: English
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In Our Time
- The Darwin Programmes
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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Published to tie-in with the new series of In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg guides us through the most dramatic moments in our history. Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly entertains and fascinates substantial audiences on Radio 4. He orchestrates the ideas of leading academics in each field, and leads a dynamic and lively discussion.
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In Our Time
- The Darwin Programmes
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-01-09
- Language: English
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Remember Me
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the 60s. From its tentative, unpromising early stages, the relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound impact continues to reverberate 40 years later.
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Remember Me
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-03-08
- Language: English
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A Place In England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him, he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for an uneducated young man in Cumberland before and during World War II, and Joseph's struggle against the odds is the subject of this moving and evocative novel.
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A Place In England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Douglas Tallentire has at last achieved what his father and grandfather before him fought for so bitterly. Educated and independent, he can carve out his own career and spread his wings. But success, freedom and happiness are more elusive than ever in the fiercely competitive '70s. From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York and London, Douglas, like all the Tallentires, must come to terms with private uncertainty and pain.
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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The Hired Man
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early '20s, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer then coal miner, and his wife, Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a novel which has been hailed as a classic of its kind - as meticulously detailed as a social document, as evocative as the writings of Hardy and Lawrence.
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The Hired Man
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-03-15
- Language: English
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A Son of War
- A Novel
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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After the Second World War, many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipated. Like Sam Richardson, who was determined to leave Cumbria for the promised land of Australia. Yet now, a few months on, he has settled for a job in a paper factory, and believes he has put his memories of fighting in Burma behind him. His wife, Ellen, begins to know better...
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A Son of War
- A Novel
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-14-13
- Language: English
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