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The Adventure of English
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In Our Time: The Written World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Melvyn Bragg fronts The Written World, a BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history....
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Enjoyable and informative audio book
- By Daryl on 01-30-15
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In Our Time: The Written World
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-14-12
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 pivotal concepts, theorists and developments that have advanced the science of mathematics....
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In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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Many Of Course monments
- By Leigh A on 10-21-05
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-25-05
- Language: English
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A History of Ideas
- Key Philosophers and Their Theories
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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A major 60-part BBC radio series exploring the questions that have preoccupied philosophers through the ages, presented by Melvyn Bragg....
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loved it!
- By ekaterine on 11-18-22
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A History of Ideas
- Key Philosophers and Their Theories
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 03-18-21
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests analyse 25 key poets and literary works, tracing the evolution of poetry over 550 years....
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In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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Twelve Books That Changed the World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political, and personal revolution....
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Learn a few new things
- By Hjane on 04-15-07
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Twelve Books That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell, Bill Bingham
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 05-11-06
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Concepts and Theories in the History of Physics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses....
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In Our Time: 25 Concepts and Theories in the History of Physics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Defining Ideas of Christianity
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests chart the development of Christian thought, looking at 25 fundamental concepts that emerged throughout history....
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In Our Time: 25 Defining Ideas of Christianity
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 03-28-24
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world....
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Nothing
- By JOHN on 01-15-24
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Back in the Day
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-25-22
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cosmos, from the origins of the universe to dark matter and dark energy....
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In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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A Time to Dance
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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A Time to Dance charts the consequences of a relationship between a man of 54 and a girl of 18....
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A touching story that is beautifully narrated
- By Dreamsmith on 02-01-11
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A Time to Dance
- Narrated by: James Faulkner
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-01-09
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful....
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An Extraordinary Period in History Brought to Life
- By Susan on 11-24-15
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Now Is the Time
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-08-15
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists....
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-12-23
- Language: English
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The Soldier's Return
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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In the spring of 1946, ex-corporal Sam Richardson returns home from the "forgotten war" in Burma to his hometown of Wigton in Cumbria, England....
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Couldn’t finish
- By Tamara on 04-13-23
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The Soldier's Return
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-07-15
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Miracle
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
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In the seventh century, at the dawn of Christianity, Bega, a bewitching Irish princess bestowed with miraculous powers, and Padric, a charismatic British prince gifted with the fiery power of the sword...
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I couldn't....I tried!....but I just couldn't!
- By Heidi on 06-19-03
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The Sword and the Miracle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 11-23-00
- Language: English
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A Son of War
- A Novel
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-14-13
- Language: English
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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The King James Bible has often been called ‘the Book of Books’ both in itself and in what it stands for....
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The Bibles cultural influence on our lives
- By david on 11-25-11
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-20-11
- Language: English
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Crossing the Lines
- A Novel
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives....
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Crossing the Lines
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 02-23-13
- Language: English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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Educational
- By Debra on 01-28-10
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-26-07
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor....
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-07-19
- Language: English
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