Beth Simone Noveck
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Mother, Neighbor, Russian Spy
- By: BBC Studios
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 337
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 335
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Story5 out of 5 stars 334
Cindy Murphy is the early 2000s poster girl for having it all. A top job in finance in Manhattan, two delightful daughters and a house in the suburbs. But Cindy’s life is built on a lie. She’s really a Russian spy sent to live in deep cover in the US and send intel back to Moscow. Rosamund Pike narrates this true story documentary about an extraordinary woman who deceives her friends, neighbors, boss and even her children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and exciting
- By Anonymous User on 04-21-23
- Mother, Neighbor, Russian Spy
- By: BBC Studios
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
Fantastic performance. Mediocre story at best.
Reviewed: 12-03-23
Great performance of an utterly irrelevant story. It was a shame to devote so much talent to characters who were so inconsequential.
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Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
- By: Peter Gay
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging book, terrible narrator
- By Beth Simone Noveck on 05-08-21
- Weimar Culture
- The Outsider as Insider
- By: Peter Gay
- Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
Engaging book, terrible narrator
Reviewed: 05-08-21
Peter Gay’s book is a concise, highly readable and engaging in history of Germany between the wars. Unfortunately, the narrator is atrocious. He has an awful accent in both French and German. Although the English passages are fine, there are enough references to German and French people, places names and phrases that it really distracted. While the book gets five stars, the performance and the narrator’s ‘s inability to correctly pronounce words really ruins it. I still listened all the way through but I wish someone would re-record this important book with a competent narrator who can pronounce Poincaré or gauche correctly.
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