Welcome to the premiere of Audible Original: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover your next favourite listen.

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To kick off your listening journey, we start with you! That’s right, we open the show with a review from a listener who shared their thoughts on the Audible website about audiobook Hiss and Hers by M. C. Beaton.

We’re also giving you honest opinions on Mike Gayle’s new family drama Half A World Away, before turning to an epic West African inspired fantasy with Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Fiction fans, these are for you.

You’ll hear two Audible Editors gush about their new favourite non-fiction listens, Love Factually by Laura Mucha, and My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams. The enthusiasm about Love Factually is not to be missed!

You’ll hear a quick word from the beloved Benjamin Zephaniah before we turn the mic back to you in our Genre corner.

Welcome to episode two of Audible Original: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover the best that Audible has to offer.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re hearing from you! We find out exactly why J. Smith thinks the gamer fantasy novel Sentenced to Troll by S.L Rowland is worth using your credit.

Also, expect honest opinions on our latest listens: this time we’re reviewing David Dimbleby’s intriguing new podcast The Sun King before getting to grips with world history with Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography.

If you’re not sold on our recommendations, listen to two Audible Editors describe why they absolutely love Louise Doughty’s sombre new novel, Platform Seven, and the hilariously naughty podcast Slaving Away by Miranda Kane.

We round off with some surprising history from the insightful Emma Dabiri before we turn the mic around to epic fantasy lover, David, in our Genre Corner.

Welcome to episode three of Audible Original: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover audiobooks, plays, podcasts and dramas available to you on the Audible site.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re hearing from you! This Audible member left a 5 star review of Joe Abercrombie’s Action and Adventure novel The Heroes in the hopes that you’ll love it too.

You can expect to hear more of our new favourite listens. Find out what we really thought of Danny Ben-Moshe tracking down his long lost siblings in the Audible Original podcast, My Lost Family. We’ll also let you know if A Poem A Day by Allie Esiri can help you on your way.

The recommendations do not stop there - listen to Audible Editors describe why they can’t get enough of James Acaster’s Perfect Sound Whatever and Jill Santopolo’s heart-rending romance novel The Light We Lost.

We round off with a bit of comic book chat with Dan Abnett before we turn the mic around to sci-fi fan, Kobi, in our Genre Corner.

Welcome to episode four of Audible Original Podcast: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover the best that Audible has to offer.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re hearing from you! This week we picked out an Audible member’s rousing 5-star review of My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. It’s pretty convincing.

Expect our honest opinions on our new favourite listens. You’ll learn why Everything Is Figureoutable in Marie Forleo’s audiobook and what’s really going on in a teenager’s brain with the Audible Original podcast What Were You Thinking? with Dina Temple-Raston.

Joining us with more recommendations, listen to two Audible Editors describe why they absolutely love the hard-hitting biography The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein and Anna Ellory’s debut historical fiction novel, The Rabbit Girls.

We round off with a quick word from the oh so fabulous Jonathan Van Ness before we turn the mic around to animal facts lover, Sarah, in our Genre Corner.

Welcome to episode five of Audible Original: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover your next favourite listen on the Audible website or app.

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We find out exactly why this Audible member adores the beautifully descriptive exploration of the land beneath our feet in Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

Expect our honest opinions on our latest listens - On Fire by Naomi Klein and a cheery remix of a classic: an audio drama of Emma by Jane Austen.

Listen to two Audible Editors return to the podcast to recommend their new favourite listens Gotta Get Theroux This by Louis Theroux and Gary Owen’s one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott.

We round off with a rib-tickling back and forth from comedy duo Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer of Gone Fishing fame before we turn the mic around to you in our Genre corner.

Welcome to episode six of the Audible Original Podcast: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover audiobooks, plays, podcasts and dramas available to you on the Audible site.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re hearing from you! Listen to this very persuasive review of Tina Fey’s delightfully funny autobiography Bossypants. You’ll definitely want to use a credit on this one.

We’re back with more recommendations of our new favourite listens. Listen to why we fell in love with Tom Hanks' dulcet tones as he narrates The Dutch House by Ann Patchett. We turn up the heat while reviewing the too-hot-to-handle Audible Original podcast It Burns by Marc Fennell.

The recommendations keep coming when two eager Audible Editors return to the podcast to persuade you to listen to some of their favourites: Psycho-logical by Dean Burnett and The Year Of Less by Cait Flanders.

We round off with a little more pomp and circumstance as Lucy Worsley enthuses about Queen Victoria. Listen out for the potato reference. And we end on a high as we turn the mic around to true crime fan Sarah in our Genre corner.

Welcome to episode seven of the Audible Original Podcast: You Heard it Here First. The podcast that helps you discover your next favourite listen.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re jumping straight in with a review from you. This Audible member clearly has a soft spot for romance and hopes that you do too. Listen to their charming review of The Pursuit Of Love by Nancy Mitford.

We’re dropping more gems on you. Find out why the wildly entertaining LGBTQ romantic fantasy Carnival Row: Tangle In The Dark should be on your hit list. We follow this with a review of the deeply moving play Diary Of A Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia.

Two Audible Editors are back to convince you to part with your credit on their new faves: Period Power by Maisie Hill and the Audible Original podcast Putin: Prisoner of Power by Misha Glenny.

We round off with a quick word about French cuisine with Jay Rayner before we turn the mic around to you in our slightly scary Genre corner.

Welcome to episode eight of the Audible Original Podcast: You Heard It Here First. The podcast that helps you discover audiobooks, plays, podcasts and dramas available to you on the Audible site.

Here’s what you can expect from this episode:

We’re hearing from you! We find out exactly why this listener thinks the prison memoir Strangeways: A Prison Officers Story by Neil Samworth is worth using your credit.

You can expect to hear more of our new favourite listens. Find out what we really thought of Dawn O’Porters new chick-lit novel So Lucky. We’ll also let you know if a sex party gone wrong can reel you in with The Goodbye Party by Louis Nowra.

Joining us with more recommendations, listen to two Audible Editors describe why they absolutely love the gut-wrenching Fall and Rise: The Story Of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff and Craig Brown’s deep dive into the life of Princess Margaret in Ma’am Darling.

We round off with Christy Lefteri sharing why she’s able to handle the trauma she witnesses in refugee camps in Greece. We end by turning the mic around to you in our out of this world Genre corner.