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ID: 735982

Title: Laurie Lee: A BBC Radio Collection: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning & more

Author: Laurie Lee

Narrator: Emily Parish, Full Cast , Jonathan Keeble, Laurie Lee, Niamh Cusack, Ralph Truman, Sunny Leworthy, Tim Mcinnerny

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:07:31

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

A collection of full-cast dramatisations plus interviews with Laurie Lee

Laurie Lee was a poet, novelist and screenwriter renowned for his bestselling autobiographical trilogy Cider With Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War. Among the best loved memoirs in the English language, the books chart Lees life from his boyhood summers in a remote Cotswold village to joining the Republican International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Included here are dramatisations of the first two volumes, alongside a specially written radio play and four fascinating interview programmes.

Cider with Rosie Recorded on location in and around the Slad valley in Gloucestershire, this lyrical, evocative account of Laurie Lees childhood in the West Country just after the First World War stars Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning It is the mid-1930s and 19-year-old Laurie sets out on foot to London, but soon finds himself en route to Spain. Accompanied by his trusty fiddle, he walks the length of the country but as he reaches Almunecar, the Spanish Civil War begins Featuring recordings made in Spain, this irresistible tale stars Jonathan Keeble as Laurie Lee.

I Call Me Adam Laurie Lee retells the story of the Bounty mutineers, as they occupy Pitcairn Island and try to create a new life there. Produced by the celebrated poet and playwright Louis MacNeice, this bloodthirsty take on what happened to Fletcher Christian and his crew stars Ralph Truman and Wilfred Babbage.

Literary Walks: Laurie Lee The poet and author takes Christopher Somerville on a stroll around Slad, where he grew up and where Cider with Rosie is set.

Through My Window: Laurie Lee Casting his eye over the countryside seen from his window, Laurie Lee waxes lyrical over the view that inspired his most famous work.

Laurie Lees Long Sleep This interview with Christopher Cooke from 1989 sees Lee discussing his own sense of mortality.

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ID: 718940

Title: Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Author: Gareth Harney

Narrator: Piers Hampton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:06:51

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, World, Ancient Civilizations, Antiques & Collectibles

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object: the coin.

When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child, he became entranced by its beauty, its permanence, and its unique power to connect us with the distant past. He soon learned that the Romans saw coins as far more than just money these were metal canvases on which they immortalised their sacred gods, mighty emperors, towering monuments, and brutal battles of conquest. Revealed in those intricate designs struck in gold, silver, and bronze was the epic history of the Roman world.

Moneta traces ancient Romes unstoppable rise, from a few huts on an Italian hilltop to an all-conquering empire spanning three continents, through the fascinating lives of twelve remarkable coins. In these handcrafted pieces of ancient art we witness Caesar's bloody assassination, follow the legions to the edge of the known world, take a seat in the packed Colosseum, and ultimately, watch as barbarian armies mass at the gates.

Hold the glory, and the infamy, of ancient Rome in the palm of your hand.

©2024 Gareth Harney (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 757629

Title: Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction: 1st Doctor TV Soundtrack

Author: David Whitaker

Narrator: Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Hartnell, William Russell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:00:56

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Carole Ann Ford narrates the complete TV soundtrack of this eerie adventure set entirely on board the TARDIS.

We are at the very beginning

Escaping from their previous adventure on Skaro, the Doctor, Susan, Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) are inside the TARDIS when it appears to be taken over by an outside force.

Bewildered and confused, the travellers become suspicious of each others motives, and tensions within the Ship begin to rise. The TARDIS appears to be trying to tell them something, yet the Doctor has very little idea of how to stop it hurtling backwards in Time, towards destruction

Carole Ann Ford, who played Susan in the BBC TV series, narrates the visual action, and in a bonus interview she recalls making the TV episodes, which were written by David Whitaker and first broadcast in February 1964.

'The tight, two-episode story works brilliantly as an audio experience. It is augmented by linking narration from Carole Ann Ford, who ensures that listeners new to the story know exactly whats happening ... This is a whole new way of relishing the creepy, unsettling weirdness of Doctor Who The Edge of Destruction.' - Entertainment Focus

? & © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Audio edition written and produced by David Darlington

TV soundtrack digitally remastered by Mark Ayres

Executive Producer: Michael Stevens

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 703081

Title: Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic

Author: Tabitha Stanmore

Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:16:11

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.

A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour MALCOLM GASKILL, author of The Ruin of All Witches

Absolutely fascinating IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time-Travellers Guide to Medieval England

Its 1600 and youve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe theyve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or youre facing trial. Maybe youre looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.

Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, as well as a commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.

I adore Cunning Folk. A truly fascinating and human book Ruth Goodman, author of How To Be a Tudor

Packed with vivid historical anecdotes, this is an intriguing insight into the magical lives of past people and the history of our own superstitions today Marion Gibson, author of Witchcraft

Fascinating . . . opens a window into another world Tracy Borman, author of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I

Full of such magical tips and colourful vignettes . . . crackles with incident Kate Maltby, Financial Times

Spirited and richly detailed New York Times

©2024 Tabitha Stanmore (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 703085

Title: Enlightenment

Author: Sarah Perry

Narrator: Alex Jennings

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:05:17

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Enlightenment is a story of love and astronomy, told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits - torn between their commitment to religion and their desire for more. But their friendship is threatened by the arrival of romantic love.

Thomas falls for James Bower, who runs the local museum. Together they develop an obsession with the vanished nineteenth-century astronomer said to haunt a nearby manor, and whose identity might finally be revealed when a startling discovery is made. As Thomas fears a broken heart, he comes to find solace in astronomy: might it offer as much as earthly or even divine love? Meanwhile Grace meets Nathan, a fellow sixth former. They are drawn recklessly together, but quickly pulled apart, casting Grace into the wider world and far away from Thomas.

In time, the mysteries of Aldleigh are revealed, bringing Thomas and Grace back to each other and to a richer understanding of love, of the nature of the world and their place in it.

This ambitious novel about love and faith and science is Sarah Perry's finest work to date.

'Hugely talented'

SARAH WATERS, author of FINGERSMITH

'Here is a writer who understands life'

JESSIE BURTON, author of THE MINIATURIST

©2024 Sarah Perry (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 703082

Title: Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn

Author: Estelle Paranque

Narrator: Anna Wilson-Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:17:56

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, Europe, History & Culture

Summary:

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A queen on the edge.

Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.

In Thorns and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII.

A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.

©2024 Estelle Paranque (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 738306

Title: Henry Henry

Author: Allen Bratton

Narrator: Sebastian Humphreys

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:37:27

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, LGBTQ, Coming of Age

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

They knew each other because their families knew each other: had known each other, for a long time.

An elegant, audacious and blisteringly funny portrait of inheritance, defiance and love - from a major new talent

London, 2014. Hal Lancaster twenty-two, gay, Catholic, chops lines of cocaine with his myWaitrose card is the reluctant heir of his father Henry, the sixteenth Duke of Lancaster. Henry is half tyrant, half martyr, with an investment in his eldest son that has grown into an obsession. While Hal floats between internships and drinking sessions, Henry keeps him in check with passive-aggression, religious guilt, and a cruelty that Hal sometimes confuses for tenderness.

When a grouse-shooting accident funny in retrospect makes a romance out of Hals rivalry with fumblingly leftist family friend Harry Percy, Hal finds that he wants, for the first time, a life of his own. But his father is an Englishman; he will not let his son escape tradition. To save himself, Hal must reckon not only with grief and shame but with the wounds of his family's past.

'Wonderful' BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late Americans

'A brilliantly glinting and twisted debut' SEÁN HEWITT, author of All Down Darkness Wide

'Carnal and precise' RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster

©2024 Allen Bratton (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 707122

Title: Doctor Who: The Demons Within: 10th Doctor Audio Original

Author: Gary Russell

Narrator: David Banks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:16:40

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

David Banks reads an exciting original adventure for the tenth Doctor and Martha, as played on TV by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman.

The year is 1860, and a lonely house stands on a craggy rock in Ayrshire, Scotland. Inside, two men brace themselves against rushing winds, wailing voices and loud, crashing noises. Goats with fire-red eyes bleat relentlessly, and a procession of weird figures appear, apparently from all ages of man.

Among them, strangest of all, is a tall man with spiky brown hair, wearing a blue suit and waving a small silver candle...

When the Doctor and Martha call at the house, they learn about the mysterious portal that lies within, a doorway leading - where?

It's not long before they join the two men in trying to hold back the monstrous demons within.

David Banks, who played the Cyber Leader in the BBC TV series, reads this suspense-laden tale by Gary Russell.

? 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Reading produced by Neil Gardner/Ladbroke Audio.

Sound design by David Darlington.

Executive producer for BBC Audiobooks: Michael Stevens.

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 703084

Title: Sister in Law: Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men

Author: Harriet Wistrich

Narrator: Catherine Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:04:45

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science, Law

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as common prostitutes, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences in law. Since then there have been important legislative reforms but the law is only as good as those who enforce it.

Telling the stories of a series of ground-breaking cases, Harriet Wistrich illustrates how far misogyny is baked into our justice system. Among the women she has represented are Emma Humphreys and Sally Challen, both of whose murder convictions were overturned in watershed moments, the victims of serial rapist, taxi-driver John Worboys, and the wives and girlfriends of undercover police who were fraudulently deceived into long-term relationships and illegally spied upon.

Her work has involved direct challenges to government departments and cabinet ministers, the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the immigration service, and the Parole Board. It provides critical insight into the many ways issues relating to violence against women intersect with racism, state violence and lack of accountability. And it shows how bringing a feminist lens to legal issues has led to creative solutions and inspiring partnerships.

This important work demands tenacity, compassion and collaboration, but Wistrich shows that it is imperative that we demand better justice and that it is possible to bring about important change.

©2024 Harriet Wistrich (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 700269

Title: Spoiled Heart

Author: Sunjeev Sahota

Narrator: Esh Alladi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:01

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

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The blazing novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge of the Peak District, and with a deeply moving family mystery at its heart

From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room

Nayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town and on his daily run out to the Peaks. Shes come back to the old house at the end of the lane, with her teenage son, Brandon, though nobody seems to remember much about her. Some trouble at school, back in the day. A certain defensiveness. Nayan is powerfully drawn to her, though he doesnt quite know why.

He hasnt risked love since he lost his young family in a terrible accident twenty years before. All his energy has gone into work at the union, trying to make the world better, fairer, as he sees it, as he would have wanted it for his son, and hes now running for the leadership against accomplished newcomer, Megha. Its a huge moment for Nayan, the culmination of everything he believes. But as he grows closer to Helen, and to the possibility that their pasts may have been connected, much more is suddenly threatened than his chances of winning.

A magnificent and multi-layered account of one mans inexorable fall, The Spoiled Heart is an explosively contemporary story of secrets and assumptions whose consequences could never have been imagined. It is a stunning achievement from one of our very finest novelists.

'Sahota is a writer who knows how to turn a phrase, how to light up a scene, how to make you stay up late at night to learn what happens next' - Kamila Shamsie, Women's Prize-winning author of Home Fire

'A wonderfully evocative storyteller' Independent

©2024 Sunjeev Sahota (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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