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Mode und andere Neurosen - Essays (Ungekürzt)
By: Katja Eichinger
Narrated by: Katja Eichinger
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Was ist Mode? Was erzählen wir über uns, wenn wir uns anziehen? Und woher kommt die Lust an Inszenierung und Selbstausdruck? In ihren persönlichen, hellsichtigen Essays schreibt Katja Eichinger über Handtaschen, Hermès und Habermas. Sie denkt über Fast Fashion und Nachhaltigkeit nach, über die Träume und Hoffnungen, die wir mit unserem Äußeren... Read more
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Lotgenoten
By: Arne Van der Linden
Narrated by: Sam D'Hondt
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Duik mee in deze razend spannende jeugdboekenserie! Dit is het tweede deel van 'Het project'.Alans puike prestatie tijdens de dropping krijgt een bittere nasmaak wanneer hij zijn eerste missie ontvangt. Thomas en Lauren, twee vroegere klasgenoten, zijn ontvoerd. Samen met Eli en Sam begeeft hij zich opnieuw in het rijk der levenden en in een... Read more
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Foreign Bodies
By: Mark Lawson
Narrated by: Mark Lawson & Various
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Mark Lawson takes an international look at celebrated literary detectives, talking to their creators to explore how mystery fiction reflects society's trends and tensions
'Masterly'' Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph
Throughout its long history, crime fiction has broadened our horizons, introducing us to unfamiliar places, people and cultures... Read more
The Hyacinth Girl
By: Lyndall Gordon
Narrated by: Buffy Davis
Length: 18 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T. S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. But there was another side to Eliot, as acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon reveals in her new biography, The Hyacinth Girl. While married twice, Eliot had an almost lifelong love for Emily Hale, an American drama teacher to... Read more
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Snape
By: Lorrie Kim
Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
While the Harry Potter series may follow the journey of the Boy Who Lived, if you want to know the whole story, keep your eyes fixed on Severus Snape. This greasy-haired, grumpy genius, one of J. K. Rowling's most enduring gifts to English literature, is the archetypal ill-tempered teacher: demanding, acerbic, and impossible to ignore. Over the... Read more
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Origins of The Wheel of Time
By: Michael Livingston
Narrated by: Harriet McDougal, Kate Reading, Michael Kramer ...
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus interview with Rosamund Pike.
“Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal.” —The New York Times on The Wheel of Time® series
Explore never-before-seen insights into the Wheel of Time, including:
—An alternate scene from an early draft of The Eye of the World
—The long-awaited backstory of Nakomi
Take a... Read more
Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you... Read more
The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
By: E. M. Berens
Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover Ancient Greece and Rome like never before with this compendium that begins with creation myth of Uranus and Gaea and includes descriptions and tales of gods both major and minor, as well as mythical creatures and other divinities. Author and scholar E.M. Berens also details how the people of ancient Greece and Rome worshiped, covering... Read more
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Świat bez grzechu i jego obraz w filmie
By: Krzysztof Toeplitz
Narrated by: Jędrzej Fulara
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Powieść autora scenariusza do ikonicznego serialu "Czterdziestolatek"!Jakie możliwości ukazania ludzkiej cielesności daje reżyserom dzieło filmowe? Czym byłaby historia kina bez ,,scen łóżkowych"? Kiedy aktorzy powinni odmawiać występowania w rozbieranych scenach? Odpowiedzi na te i podobne pytania związane z seksualnością i erotyką w... Read more
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What Writers Read
By: Pandora Sykes
Narrated by: Pandora Sykes, Elizabeth Day, Nick Hornby, Dian...
Length: 3 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM :
NICK... Read more
On Writing (and Writers)
By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other revered classics.Featuring... Read more
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Book Madness
By: Denise Gigante
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in... Read more
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Partus
By: Benedict Matysik
Narrated by: Achim Rundholz, Simone Silberzahn, Heike Matysi...
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Dorothea Sawatzki liegt in ihren Wehen und erwartet in Kürze ihr Neugeborenes. Die Schmerzen sind entgegen aller Beschreibungen in einer unvorstellbaren Intensität. "Der Junge kratzt sich durch meine Gebärmutter…"schreit die werdende Mutter schmerzverzerrt, kurz bevor sie notoperiert werden muss und der Schrecken beginnt. Read more
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Aladdin
By: Various Artists
Narrated by: Sebastian Lohse
Length: 1 hour 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Aladdin ist ein junger Taugenichts, dessen Vater, ein Schneider, verstorben ist und eine arme Witwe hinterlassen hat. Ein Zauberer hat davon Kenntnis, dass nur Aladdin imstande ist, eine mit Zauberkräften ausgestattete Öllampe aus einer Höhle zu holen. Daher sucht er den Jungen auf, gibt sich als dessen Onkel aus und führt ihn zur Höhle. Aladdin... Read more
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Däumelinchen
By: Hans Christian Andersen
Narrated by: Sebastian Lohse
Length: 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Däumelinchen ist winzig klein, kaum größer als ein Daumen. Dafür kennt ihre Schönheit keine Grenzen. Das bemerkt auch eine alte Kröte, die sie als Frau für ihren hässlichen Sohn will – und das kleine Wesen stiehlt. Däumelinchen ist verzweifelt und allein. Kann sie es dennoch schaffen, der Düsternis zu entkommen und ihr Schicksal in die eigenen... Read more
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Terapia literaria el libro
By: Valentina Trava & Maura Gómez
Narrated by: Maura Gómez & Valentina Trava
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
En este libro aprenderás cómo: Disfrutar los libros Hacerte tiempo para leer Encontrar a tu comunidad lectora Comprender mejor lo que lees Y, básicamente, ¡amar la lectura! “ValentinaTrava y Maura Gómez son dos leyendas del mundo de los libros, sus recomendaciones literarias pesan y, me consta, basta una mención suya de un título para agotarlo... Read more
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Shakespeare
By: Leslie Dunton-Downer & Alan Riding
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 19 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautiful guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works remain fresh and relevant today. Shakespeare: his life and works is... Read more
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Am I Alone Here?
By: Peter Orner
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned... Read more
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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
By: Christopher Prendergast
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time.
One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless narratives of great expectations and... Read more
Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep
By: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Narrated by: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the eighteenth century. A precocious child, he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition while he was still very young. He wrote in both Urdu and Persian and was also a great prose stylist. He was a careful, even strict, editor of his work who took to... Read more
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The Mysterious Romance of Murder
By: David Lehman
Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Why do we keep returning to Agatha Christie's ingenious puzzles and Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled murder mysteries? What do spy thrillers teach us, and what accounts for the renewed popularity of morally ambiguous noirs? In The Mysterious Romance of Murder, the poet and critic David Lehman explores a wide variety of outstanding books and... Read more
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The Point of Honor
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the beginning, Feraud is the one who jealously guards... Read more
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In Our Time: 25 Key Figures in Ancient History
By: Melvyn Bragg
Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various
Length: 18 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 major leaders, thinkers and writers of the classical world
'The best thing on Radio 4, possibly the best thing on the radio full stop'
The Spectator
In Our Time is one of BBC Radio's most successful and best-loved programmes, with a weekly listenership of over two million. Since 1998, it has 'transformed the... Read more
In Our Time: 25 Classic Novels
By: Melvyn Bragg
Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg & Various
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Melvyn Bragg and guests tell the story of the novel over 400 years, via key literary works and movements
'One of Radio 4's quiet jewels in its crown' The Guardian
In 1998, a brand new culture show was launched on Radio 4, featuring Melvyn Bragg and a panel of leading academics discussing the ideas, individuals and events that have... Read more
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