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ID: 695633

Title: In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics: A BBC Radio 4 Collection

Author: Melvyn Bragg

Narrator: Melvyn Bragg, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:30:37

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science & Technology, Mathematics

Summary:

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 pivotal concepts, theorists and developments that have advanced the science of mathematics

'Might be the best radio programme ever' Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian

In Our Time is a Radio 4 phenomenon, a knowledge juggernaut that has informed and entertained over 2 million listeners each week since its first broadcast in 1998. In its 25 years on air, it has covered an astonishing array of topics, from the Second Law of Thermodynamics to the Sistine Chapel.

Beginning with three introductory episodes, this specially curated collection explores 25 of the most important individuals, ideas and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of mathematics over the past 5,000 years.

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ID: 680823

Title: Be Useful: Seven tools for life

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Narrator: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:19:44

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.

The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.

Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart.

Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, BE USEFUL takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike--some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever.

Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you -- you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.

©2023 Arnold Schwarzenegger (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 692524

Title: Doctor Who: The Third Monsters Collection: 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Doctor Novelisations

Author: Ian Stuart Black, John Peel, Terrance Dicks

Narrator: Anneke Wills, David Troughton, Geoffrey Beevers, Jon Culshaw, Maureen O'brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:50:11

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Five classic TV novelisations that pitch the Doctor against an array of monstrous foes.

In Daleks: The Chase the First Doctor and his friends must flee from the path of a Dalek execution squad.

The Macra Terror awaits the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie within an apparently idyllic Earth colony, whilst in Doctor Who and the Web of Fear the Yeti have colonised the London Underground, at the behest of the Great Intelligence.

Doctor Who and the Mutants relates the oppression of the Solonian people at the hands of Earth authorities, and in Doctor Who and the State of Decay the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter the terrifying Great Vampire.

Maureen O'Brien, Anneke Wills, David Troughton, Jon Culshaw and Geoffrey Beevers read these thrilling tales, with Nicholas Briggs as the voice of the Daleks and John Leeson as the voice of K9.

Duration: 20 hours 40 mins approx.

? 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

'Doctor Who and the Mutants' cover image artwork © Jeff Cummins

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ID: 654123

Title: Night Side of the River: Dazzling new ghost stories from the Sunday Times bestseller

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Narrator: Jeanette Winterson, Vicky Licorish

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:02:56

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Short Stories, Paranormal

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A masterful and eerie collection of ghost stories from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.

We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.

We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.

To live amongst us.

To remind us.

To tempt us.

To take their revenge.

These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

©2023 Jeanette Winterson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 643276

Title: Spine Chillers: A BBC Radio 4 Horror Collection

Author: Colin Haydn Evans, David Campton, Don Webb, Jill Hyem

Narrator: Anna Massey, Carole Boyd, Full Cast , Pam Ferris, Rosemary Leach, Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:03:23

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Paranormal

Summary:

Four hair-raising tales of terror, as heard on BBC Radio 4

'Three hours worth of spooky entertainment ... there are some terrific performances to be enjoyed here' Entertainment Focus

In these four supernatural dramas, first broadcast on radio in 1984, a house hides more than meets the eye; a B & B landlady helps her guests forget their troubles; a Japanese man inadvertently awakens a vengeful spirit; and a mother and baby become unsettled in remote mill.

Written by Colin Haydn Evans, David Campton, Jill Hyem and Don Webb, and starring Anna Massey, Rosemary Leach, Sean Barrett, and Pam Ferris, these eerie, atmospheric stories are guaranteed to give you goosebumps. Just don't listen with the lights off...

Figures - Stuck in a marriage of convenience, unhappy Ann is searching for a refuge. So as soon as she sees the house, she knows it has to be hers. Its past is part of her future - all she has to do is sit in the upstairs room, kept locked for so long, and wait...

Mrs M - Mrs Meadowsweet offers visitors to her country guesthouse a truly carefree holiday. Everybody is so happy. A little abstracted, perhaps, but certainly happy. New arrivals Madge and Arthur are suspicious, but can Mrs M win them over?

Origami - When mild-mannered Mr Shimojo takes a room in Mrs Bestall's house, he becomes an instant hit with her young daughter, teaching her the Japanese art of paper folding. But no one is prepared for the sequence of horrifying events which his presence seems to generate...

Witch Water Green - Barbara Tate and her baby girl are all alone in their new home - a converted mill deep in the countryside. The move has been stressful; Barbara is lonely and the baby is fretful. But there's another, deeper reason for her uneasiness...

Cast and credits

Figures

Ann - Anna Massey

Ralph Symons - Blain Fairman

Rebecca Symons - Jill Lidstone

Peter Fuller - Jon Strickland

Alex Slade - Michael Bilton

Written by Colin Haydn Evans

Directed by Ian Cotterell

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15 February 1984

Mrs M

Mrs Meadowsweet - Rosemary Leach

Madge - Anne Jameson

Arthur - Roger Hume

Simon - Terry Molloy

Miss Brazenose - Joyce Gibbs

Inga - Patricia Gallimore

Written by David Campton

Directed by Peter Windows

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 22 February 1984

Origami

Mr Shimojo - Sean Barrett

Helen Bestall - Carole Boyd

Peter Trent - Christopher Scoular

Lucy Bestall - Helen Worth

Written by Jill Hyem

Directed by Kay Patrick

Pronunciation adviser: Masatoshi Tobia

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 February 1982

Witch Water Green

Barbara Tate - Pam Ferris

Dr Jane Rayner - Jenny Lee

The Rev Roy Brown - Nigel Anthony

Johnny Goad - Brian Southwood

Wendy Williams - Kate Lee

Written by Don Webb

Directed by Tony Cliff

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15 March 1984

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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ID: 668051

Title: Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera

Author: Jane Glover

Narrator: Jane Glover

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

'You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn’t put it down' - Joanna Lumley

An expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart’s formative trips to Italy.

At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane Glover.

Father and son travelled from the theatres and concert salons of Milan to the church-filled streets of Rome to Naples, poorer and more dangerous than the prosperous north, and to Venice, the carnivalesque birthplace of public opera. All the while Mozart was absorbing Italian culture, language, style and art, and honed his craft. He met the challenge of writing Italian opera for Italian singers and audiences and provoked a variety of responses, from triumph and admiration to intrigue and hostility: in a way, these Italian years can be seen as a microcosm of his whole life.

Evocative, beautifully written and with a profound understanding of eighteenth-century classical music, Mozart in Italy reveals how what he experienced during these Italian journeys changed Mozart – and his music – for ever.

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ID: 585081

Title: Level Up: Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating and Upgrade Your Life

Author: Rob Dial

Narrator: Rob Dial

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:42:13

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology

Summary:

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Why is it so hard to actually achieve our goals?

The answer, Rob Dial tells us, is our mindset. We focus on the finished goal, we focus on the outcome, we focus on the many steps between here and there, and in doing so, we get stuck. In his years spent studying human behavior and coaching numerous clients, Dial has found that what people most struggle with is not identifying goals, or even having the motivation to reach them, but creating and sustaining momentum to long-term success. The secret: all we have to do is get just 1% better each day to make huge strides and achieve our goals. When you master your mindset, you master your life.

In this positive, pragmatic book, Rob Dial draws on his own personal story as well as his achievements helping thousands of clients, to create a 6 step programme - Focus, Work, Persist, Rest, Reward, Repeat - that will allow you create and commit to meaningful change in any aspect of your life.

Packed with proven strategies for productivity and neuro-hacks, we can literally rewire our brains to take the necessary action that leads to change.

Combining research-backed science, insightful journal prompts, invaluable examples from real clients, and actionable tools, Level Up empowers readers to create their own roadmap to success.

©2023 Rob Dial (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 679471

Title: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

Author: Nicholas Shakespeare

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29:15:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive.

Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche, and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote.

His childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for Fleming's ambition to be 'the complete man' and he would search for the means to achieve this 'completeness' all his life. Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal life and impressive career before this put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich material for his fiction.

A pivotal figure in the Second World War, Fleming's work on covert naval operations was hugely significant. He also acted as a vital bridge between Britain and America, pursuing this relationship into the Cold War in his later work as a journalist. Widely travelled and incredibly well-connected, from Communist Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Fleming had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of extraordinary change.

Nicholas Shakespeare is one of the most gifted biographers working today. His talent for uncovering material that casts new light on his subjects is fully evident in this masterful, definitive biography. His unprecedented access to the Fleming archives and his nose for a story make this a fresh and eye-opening picture of a man who lived his life in the shadow of his famous creation.

©2023 Nicholas Shakespeare (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 650625

Title: Abroad in Japan

Author: Chris Broad

Narrator: Chris Broad

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:08:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Asia, Essays & Travelogues

Summary:

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When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?

Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world's most mysterious and impenetrable cultures.

Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. With blockbuster moments such as a terrifying North Korean missile incident, a Japanese national TV experience gone horribly wrong and a week spent with Japan's biggest movie star, Ken Watanabe, Abroad in Japan is an extraordinary and informative journey through the Land of the Rising Sun.

©2023 Chris Broad (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 707117

Title: University Tales

Author: Jack Sheffield

Narrator: Geoff Leesley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:49:30

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

York, 1988.

Dr Tom Frith is beginning his first term as a tutor at the University of Eboracum. After teaching primary school children for several years, he's sure shaping the minds of young adults will be a welcome change. But that's before considering the pressures he'll face outside the lecture hall, from helping three hapless students who've been surviving exclusively on porridge, to fielding inappropriate propositions from students chasing higher grades.

And then there's the particular challenge of Edna Wallop, the Acting Head of Faculty. Edna may have grand plans to overhaul the faculty's finances, but Tom can't help being suspicious of her methods...

Meanwhile, Tom meets Inger, an enigmatic Music tutor, and feels an instant spark. One thing's for sure: it's going to be an eventful year on campus, for tutors and students alike!

A hilarious, nostalgic and heart-warming novel about the trials and tribulations of life at a fictional Yorkshire university, perfect for fans of James Herriot and Tom Sharpe.

Praise for Jack Sheffield:

'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' - Alan Titchmarsh

'Jack Sheffield is certainly top of the class with this heart-warming and feel-good series' - Western Morning News

'Reliably entertaining' - Choice

© Jack Sheffield 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

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