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Cold War: Series 1 and 2
By: Bridget Kendall
Narrated by: Bridget Kendall
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Bridget Kendall presents an oral history tracing decisive moments of the Cold War.
The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical... Read more
Tsar: An epic chronicle of the Russian leaders
By: Mike Walker
Narrated by: David Threlfall, Hugo Speer, Samantha Spiro, An...
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven compelling BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas telling the stories of the Russian tsars
Broadcast to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this extraordinary drama cycle by Mike Walker comprises eleven ambitious plays spanning over 400 years, exploring the lives of Russia’s key rulers from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin.
Ivan the... Read more
Arvet - Romaani sotavuodesta 1941
By: Eeva Vuorenpää
Narrated by: Erja Manto
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Kun Aiju ja Nina kohtaavat laivalla, alkaa matka menneisyyteen. Naisia yhdistää sama lapsuuden synkkä varjo, sota. Vuoden 1941 tapahtumat ovat jättäneet jälkensä molempiin. Toinen koki ne suomalaisessa sotasairaalassa, toinen Ravensbruckin keskitysleirillä Saksassa."Elämän totuutta etsi", lukee sotasairaalan seinällä. Kappale totuutta paljastuu... Read more
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill... Read more
The Power of Protest
By: Brenda Griffing
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Times of great change did not occur by man's desire for change, but through protest and persistence. Across the globe, it seems we are in an era of protest and drive. Not since the '60s have we seen political divides and awareness of this magnitude and it is shaping all aspects of our day to day life. While some feel lost in despair and fear, we... Read more
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Jesus Revolution
By: Greg Laurie & Ellen Vaughn
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
God has always been interested in turning unlikely people into his most fervent followers. Prostitutes and pagans, tax collectors and tricksters. The more unlikely, the more it seemed to please God and to demonstrate his power, might, and mercy. America in the 1960s and 1970s was full of unlikely people--men and women who had rejected the stuffy... Read more
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The Secret World
By: Christopher Andrew
Narrated by: Clive Chafer
Length: 37 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the... Read more
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How Do We Look
By: Mary Beard
Narrated by: Mary Beard
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this... Read more
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Adrift
By: Brian Murphy
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death
The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats... Read more
The Mueller Report
By: Jason O. Gilbert
Narrated by: Michael Ian Black, James Adomian & Laura Benanti
Length: 4 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The president has gotten himself into a bit of trouble.
Maybe you heard?
The entire country is waiting to see what former FBI director and current special counsel Robert Mueller has dug up on former mail-order steak salesman and current US president Donald Trump. The wait is over—sort of—with the publication of The Mueller Report by Jason O.... Read more
How Fascism Works
By: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
“One of the defining books of the decade.”—Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale... Read more
Chasing Utopia (Booktrack Edition)
By: David Leach
Narrated by: Richard Clarkin
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So... Read more
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Rush
By: Stephen Fried
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration of Independence, edited Common Sense, toured Europe as... Read more
The Fifties
By: David Halberstam
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 34 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick... Read more
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The Royal Art of Poison
By: Eleanor Herman
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns, and antidotes tested on condemned prisoners. Servants licked the royal family’s spoons, tried on their... Read more
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
By: Adam Smith
Narrated by: Michael Lunts
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
‘How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.'
So begins The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), the first major text by Adam Smith, who, seven... Read more
American Discontent
By: John L. Campbell
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike were left scratching their... Read more
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The Penguin Book of Hell
By: Scott G. Bruce
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river... Read more
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Aerial Warfare
By: Frank Ledwidge
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Aerial warfare has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping look at the history of air warfare, introducing the major battles, crises, and controversies where air power has taken center stage, and the changes in... Read more
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1517
By: Peter Marshall
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of... Read more
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Abolitionism
By: Richard S. Newman
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From early slave rebels to radical reformers of the Civil War era and beyond, the struggle to end slavery was a diverse, dynamic, and ramifying social movement. In this succinct narrative, Richard S. Newman examines the key people, themes, and ideas that animated abolitionism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries in the United States and... Read more
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Political Debates
By: the Speech Resource Company
Narrated by: Robert Wikstrom
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1960 the first televised presidential debate was broadcast featuring Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy. It instantly turned television into an important national political tool. Included are some of the classic encounters between political rivals—Reagan vs. Carter, Bill Clinton vs. George H. W. Bush vs. Ross Perot,... Read more
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Drink Beer, Think Beer
By: John Holl
Narrated by: John Holl
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beer
Right here, right now is the best time in the history of mankind to be a beer drinker. America now has more breweries than at any time since prohibition, and globally, beer culture is thriving and constantly innovating. Drinkers can... Read more
Reckless
By: Robert K. Brigham
Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam
The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were effectively identical to what had been offered to the Nixon administration... Read more