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Titolo: I Longobardi (Storia d'Italia 13)

Autore: div.

Narratore: Eugenio Farn

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 50 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-28-14

Editore: Il Narratore s.r.l.

Categoria: History, European

Riepilogo Editore:

Per oltre duecento anni, dal 568 al 774, gran parte della penisola italiana cadde sotto il dominio di un popolo germanico, i Longobardi. Oggi l'eredità più visibile di quella occupazione è il nome di una grande regione, la Lombardia, che viene dalla parola Longobardia "terra dei Longobardi". L'importanza dei Longobardi nella storia italiana è stata enorme: con il loro arrivo finì l'unità politica della penisola (occorreranno tredici secoli perché l'Italia ritrovi tale unità); nella società e nella cultura essi introdussero modi di pensare e di agire estranei al mondo romano e tipici dei popoli germanici; infine, grazie ai Longobardi, l'Italia si staccò dall'Impero Bizantino e divenne parte dell'Europa occidentale.

L'audiolibro racconta le vicende dell'invasione e dello stabilirsi del dominio longobardo, dei rapporti fra questo popolo e i discendenti dei Romani, le forme e le regole della loro civiltà.

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Title: Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn

Author: N. A. Pickford

Narrator: Katie Scarfe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-14

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins.

Who is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist? Or is it a political assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was, after all, a key player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, as his brother Charles II's successor.

N.A. Pickford creates a world of tension and insecurity, of constant plotting and counter-plotting and of rabid anti-Catholicism, where massive street demonstrations and public Papal burnings are weekly events. The action moves from the great landed estates of Syon and Petworth to the cheap taverns and brothels of London, and finally to Newgate and the gallows - the sporting spectacle of the day. In the process, the book gives us a vivid and deeply researched portrait of Restoration society.

Members Reviews:

Alnwick Castle

During a tour of Alnwick Castle in May this year, we saw the portrait of Lady Betty. The Guide told us briefly her tragic story.

I wanted to know more and found out about the book by contacting the Castle info services which were really helpful,

The story is quite long but seems well researched. I can recommend the Castle tour and the book / Audible highly.

It's a page truner!

The performance was great!! Katie Scarfe was VERY good - but that may be because she had such and intriguing and wonderful story to read!!!

The background research is very very good! Well done Mr Pickford!

The story not only tells you of the murder of Mr Thynn (pronounced Thin) and the poor little Bette (pronounced Betty), but also give you a HUGE incite into restoration England and the aristocracy of the time.

It was gripping! The story weaved a web of deceit, betrayal and life of the time.

A most enjoyable "read"!

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Title: Elizabeth's Bedfellows

Subtitle: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court

Author: Anna Whitelock

Narrator: Susannah Tyrrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-14

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay Elizabeth's bedchamber, closely guarded by the favoured women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels and shared her bed. Elizabeths private life was of public, political concern. Her bedfellows were witnesses to the face and body beneath the make-up and elaborate clothes, as well as to rumoured illicit dalliances with such figures as Robert Dudley. Their presence was for security as well as propriety, as the kingdom was haunted by fears of assassination plots and other Catholic subterfuge. For such was the significance of the queen's body: it represented the very state itself. This riveting, revealing history of the politics of intimacy uncovers the feminized world of the Elizabethan court. Between the scandal and intrigue the women who attended the queen were the guardians of the truth about her health, chastity and fertility. Their stories offer extraordinary insight into the daily life of the Elizabethans, the fragility of royal favour and the price of disloyalty.

Members Reviews:

Women in Elizabeth's life.

I found this book hard going. The overall research was good BUT it was narrated in a very dull monotone voice. I'm sure I will listen to it again, but not for a long, long time. This is very sad as I was looking forward to listening to this title very much.

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Title: Remembrance Day: The Collection

Author: Mike Hally

Narrator: Mike Whitaker

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-13

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Includes two programmes: Poppies are Red, Cornflowers are Blue and The Art of Remembrance.

Poppies are Red, Cornflowers are Blue: It's not just about how the Poppy became the symbol of remembrance in Britain - though that is a fascinating story, rarely told in full - this is also a deeper analysis of why it rapidly became such a strong and enduring symbol, to the point where some fear it is becoming over-exploited. Plus we look at France's rather less ubiquitous flower of remembrance, the blue cornflower...

The Art of Remembrance: Mark Whitaker looks at some of the more unusual ways that artists remembered the Great War, through the works of a painter, an architect, a film-maker, a sculptor and a poet.

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Title: Blood Work

Subtitle: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Author: Holly Tucker

Narrator: Julia Farhat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calfs blood into one of Pariss most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expos of the fierce debates, deadly politics, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first transfusion experiments, Blood Work takes us from dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris, providing an unforgettable portrait of an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical science today.

Critic Reviews:

Excellent.... Tuckers chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating. (The Economist)

Members Reviews:

Sounds like text-to-speech not narration

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Can't even give an honest review of the story because the sound is so bad I can't stand to listen to it.

Would you be willing to try another book from Holly Tucker? Why or why not?

Sure, if I could hear a real narrator read it.

What didnt you like about Julia Farhats performance?

Sounds like text-to-speech, over-enunciates, choppy, terrible!

Is that even a human narrator?

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

After listening to the authors interview on Stuff You Missed in History Class, I was keen to read Blood Work. Unfortunately I could not find it locally and it isn't available on kindle, so I purchased the audio book. I wish I had looked at the reviews first!!!

The narration sounds like a text to speech computer programme. After 2 minutes I couldn't cope any more and turned it off. I'm sure the book is great, but the audiobook should be avoided.

Ok Book, Awful Narrator -- Warning

What made the experience of listening to Blood Work the most enjoyable?

Interesting medical history for period about which little is commonly known.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Narrator does not appear to have professional voice -- my wife and I both felt that her inflection and tone were incredibly "grating". Attempts at dramatic inflection just made things worse. Almost painful to listen to.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

While enjoyable, it was not such a compelling narrative that I felt the need to get through it in one sitting. Part of the problem was the poor narrator. Listening for too long was just painful.

Any additional comments?

I will exercise care never to order a book with this narrator. Audible should not use this narrator again -- at least for any kind of non-fiction (which is genrally all I listen do).

Couldn't finish it

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I couldn't finish this book as I found it sensationalized the gory and dragged out the story

What didnt you like about Julia Farhats performance?

Quality of her voice

A great book about history and science

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This is one of the best science books I have listened to on audible. Well researched and engagingly written.

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Title: Perilous Question

Subtitle: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832

Author: Antonia Fraser

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-13

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Internationally best-selling historian Antonia Fraser's new audiobook brilliantly evokes one year of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its rotten boroughs of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its lines of most resistance to reform.

This audiobook is character-driven - on the one hand, the reforming heroes are the Whig aristocrats Lord Grey, Lord Althorp and Lord John Russell, and the Irish orator Daniel O'Connell. They included members of the richest and most landed Cabinet in history, yet they were determined to bring liberty, which whittled away their own power, to the country. The all-too-conservative opposition comprised Lord Londonderry, the Duke of Wellington, the intransigent Duchess of Kent and the consort of the Tory King William IV, Queen Adelaide. Finally, there were revolutionaries and reformers, like William Cobbett, the author of Rural Rides.

This is a audiobook that features one eventful year, much of it violent. There were riots in Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham, and wider themes of Irish and negro emancipation underscore the narrative. The time-span of the audiobook is from Wellington's intractable declaration in November 1830 that 'The beginning of reform is the beginning of revolution', to 7th June 1832, the date of the extremely reluctant royal assent by William IV to the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of 60 new peers in the House of Lords and the threat of revolution throughout the country. These events led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings to vivid dramatic life.

Read by Sean Barrett. Sean Barrett has narrated many television documentaries for the BBC and Discovery Channel, notably The Peoples Century, Walking With Beasts, and Great Lives. As a member of the BBC Radio Rep, he has appeared in hundreds of radio plays, and played Father Gillespie in the BBC Worldservice / BBC7 serial Westway throughout its eight year-run. As a film and television actor he has appeared in pieces as diverse as Twelfth Night and Father Ted, and he is a doyen of audiobook reading, with acclaimed recordings of authors ranging from Chaucer to Beckett and in 2012 recorded Antony Beevor's The Second World War.

Read by Sean Barrett. Sean Barrett has narrated many television documentaries for the BBC and Discovery Channel, notably The People's Century, Walking with Beasts, and Great Lives. As a member of the BBC Radio Rep, he has appeared in hundreds of radio plays, and played Father Gillespie in the BBC Worldservice / BBC7 serial Westway throughout its eight year-run.

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Title: The Ultimate Family

Author: John Pearson

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars, their adventures and personalities transmitted round the globe like episodes in the world's most popular soap opera.

The process began with Queen Mary's transformation of the family into symbols of middle-class morality, but accelerated greatly with the televising of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation and the euphoric sense of a 'new Elizabethan age' about to begin in gloomy postwar Britain. Prince Charles's Investiture in 1969 was the springboard of a major PR campaign to provide royalty with a human face and helped shape the contemporary image of the royal family as both 'special' and 'ordinary'.

With its account of the shaping of the 'ultimate dream princess', Diana, and in the wake of Prince Andrew's wedding, this fascinating and unique book defines the Royal Family. It is the most timely and relevant book about the British monarchy ever published.

Members Reviews:

Remember this book was originally published in the 1980s

The book was very informative up to, maybe, the investiture of the Prince of Wales. The remainder, for the most part, has been too impacted by more recent events. It does not invalidate what is there, but the perspective, in many instances, would be very different. Too bad the author, or the owner of the title, did not publish an updated version. It would be helpful if book descriptions listed the original publication date.

Three Stars

O.K.

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Title: The Kent Castles

Subtitle: The First Line of Defence

Author: Stephanie Forward

Narrator: Elizabeth Ryder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-25-13

Publisher: The Lindsay Players

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Throughout the centuries, the castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer, in Kent, have been of prime strategic importance to England, protecting the south-east tip of the country from invasion.

This is an authoritative account of their British importance and includes fascinating stories of historical characters associated with them, from King Henry VIII through to the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

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Title: Russian History, Volume 12 [Russian Edition]

Author: Nikolay Kostomarov

Narrator: Ilya Bobylev

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-12

Publisher: IDDK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Russian history in the lives of its most important figures

Here, the classic work by prominent Russian historian Nikolai Kostomarov, one of the founders of Russian historical thought.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: Russian History, Vol. 13 [Russian Edition]

Author: Nikolay Kostomarov

Narrator: Ilya Bobylev

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-12

Publisher: IDDK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, European

Publisher's Summary:

Russian history as told through the lives of its most important figures. This classic work was written by prominent Russian historian Nikolai Kostomarov, one of the founders of Russian historical thought.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.