Politics & Economy audiobooks

1965: Courage Unleashed

By: Ian Cardozo

Narrated by: Dev J Haldar

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Did you know that the 1965 Indo–Pak War was initiated by Field Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan in an effort to wrest Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) from India? His failure to achieve his aim led eventually to his overthrow. This account highlights the human dimension of war through the dramatic personal experiences of army and air force officers... Read more

The Prize

By: Daniel Yergin

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

Length: 46 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.

Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts... Read more

Who Is Equal: The Equality Code of the Constitution

By: Saurabh Kirpal

Narrated by: Anuj Datta

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1950, we, the people of India, gave ourselves a constitution that promised justice, liberty and equality to all its citizens. Decades later, as a nation, we still struggle with inequality in various forms—religion, sex, caste, gender. As we forge ahead, it is imperative to ask, ‘who is equal?’, and 'is the idea of equality elusive to... Read more

How The Light Gets In

By: Ashok Alexander

Narrated by: Ashok Alexander

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his memoir of an improbable start-up in public health, Ashok Alaxander writes about an organization with the audacious goal of ending needless deaths and sickness at scale, amongst India's poorest mothers and children. It is a great leap emboldened by an unshakable faith in the 'idea that cannot be denied'. It is a tale of adventure filled... Read more

On Xi Jinping

By: Kevin Rudd

Narrated by: Kevin Rudd

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage—that of President Xi Jinping, who now holds near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that... Read more

Beloved Economies

By: Jess Rimington & Joanna Levitt Cea

Narrated by: Jess Rimington & Joanna Levitt Cea

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year

*****

Let’s create an economy for everyone.

Based on extensive research with organizations and companies that are boldly breaking out of business as usual, Beloved Economies offer readers an imagination-expanding vision of what work could be.

Authors Rimington and Cea explore possibilities for... Read more

Kaput

By: Wolfgang Münchau

Narrated by: Mark Elstob

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success. Angela Merkel was widely seen as the true 'leader of the free world', and Germany's export-driven economic model seemed to deliver prosperity. But recent events - from Germany's dependence on Russian gas to its car industry's delays in the race to electric - have... Read more

The News Quiz 2024: The Complete Series 113, 114 and 115

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Andy Zaltzman & Various

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

All 25 episodes of the award-winning satirical news show from 2024

One of BBC Radio 4’s flagship topical comedies, The News Quiz has been satirising the living daylights out of current events for 47 years. These three series see host Andy Zaltzman skewering the news and passing it to the panellists to be grilled and served up with comic... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Nathan Bolton

Narrated by: Walter Williams

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Trigger Warning is a story of success, triumph, trauma and overcoming. This is the story of a former Special Operations Engineer as he worked relentlessly to rekindle his life after the war. Having worked alongside Australia's Special Forces, he discusses in great detail, the exploits that he was tasked to perform as an engineer during his... Read more

Israel's Black Panthers

By: Asaf Elia-Shalev

Narrated by: Tova Katz

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel.



Israel's Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged their country's political status quo and rebelled against the ethnic hierarchy of Israeli life in the 1970s. Inspired by the American group of the... Read more

Guns Up!

By: Johnnie Clark

Narrated by: John Fehskens

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This gut-wrenching firsthand account of the war is a classic in the annals of Vietnam literature.

"Guns up!" was the battle cry that sent machine gunners racing forward with their M60s to mow down the enemy, hoping that this wasn't the day they would meet their deaths. Marine Johnnie Clark heard that the life expectancy of a machine ... Read more

La sconfitta dell'Occidente

By: Emmanuel Todd

Narrated by: Alberto Onofrietti

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

La sconfitta dell'Occidente, a cui fa riferimento il titolo di questo saggio dello storico e sociologo francese Emmanuel Todd – bestseller in Francia con oltre ottantamila copie vendute –, è duplice. Si tratta infatti di una sconfitta esterna, la guerra in Ucraina, ma soprattutto di una sconfitta interna: il declino demografico, morale ed... Read more

Downfall

By: Nadine Dorries

Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

14 YEARS 5 PRIME MINISTERS THE PARTY IS OVER After decades in the hands of malevolent players and two years of disastrous leadership, the Conservative party stands at the edge of the abyss. From the humiliation of Liz... Read more

The Troublemaker

By: Mark L. Clifford

Narrated by: Kayden Lukakis

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong’s leading activists for democracy and is today China’s most famous political prisoner.

Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled; no work was beneath him,... Read more

Beyond the Call of Duty

By: Stephen L. Moore

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Robert Howard was taught by his Granny Callie to always face his threats head-on. Some thirty years later, he emerged from the Vietnam War as America’s most decorated Green Beret.

For the first time, Robert Howard’s story is being told in full. Respected military historian Stephen L. Moore takes readers into the heart of the Vietnam... Read more

When We Sold God's Eye

By: Alex Cuadros

Narrated by: Alex Cuadros

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston).

Growing up in a remote corner of the world’s largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their... Read more

Weapons of the Weak

By: James C. Scott

Narrated by: Alex Boyles

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that techniques of evasion and resistance may represent the most significant and effective means of class struggle in the long run. Read more

A Concise History of the Middle East, 13th Edition

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi & Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 21 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region.Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various... Read more

Tip of the Spear

By: Orisanmi Burton

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms the Long Attica Revolt, a criminalized tradition of Black radicalism that propelled rebellions in New York prisons during the 1970s. The reaction to this revolt illuminates what... Read more

Unconventional

By: Dave Werklund

Narrated by: Bill Fike

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this biography, Dave Werklund tells how he grew up on a farm, left school in Grade 9, and then built a multi-billion-dollar business in Alberta to clean up oil waste and pollution. As an environmentalist working in the oil business, he argues that Alberta has among the most stringent environmental standards anywhere in the oil world. Yet like... Read more

Die Geschichte der Israelis und Palästinenser

By: Martin Schauble

Narrated by: Mathias Grimm & Sanja Nowara

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Buch der Stunde – hochaktuell und neu überarbeitet. Das Standardwerk zum Nahost-Konflikt von der Staatsgründung bis zum Hamas-AngriffKenntnisreich und vor Ort recherchiert: Wer den Nahost-Konflikt verstehen will, muss die Geschichte der Israelis und Palästinenser kennen – und den Menschen zuhören, die sie erlebt haben. Martin Schäuble hat... Read more

China - Auswege aus einem Dilemma

By: Felix Lee & Finn Mayer-Kuckuk

Narrated by: Carsten Wilhelm

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Felix Lee und Finn Mayer-Kuckuk, langjähriger Handelsblatt-Korrespondent, entwerfen einen Weg aus dem China-Dilemma
Xi Jinping verfolgt knallharte Interessen: die Formung einer Welt mit China an der Spitze. Deutschland spielt derzeit dabei nur eine nützliche Nebenrolle. Das zu erkennen, sollte uns nicht frustrieren,... Read more

Cómo funciona el mundo

By: Vaclav Smil

Narrated by: Carlos Canales

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro. «Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto, por favor, lee este libro».
Paul Collier Vaclav Smil lleva cincuenta años estudiando las posibilidades que tenemos a nuestro alcance para garantizar el futuro energético de... Read more

El triunfo de la estupidez

By: Jano García

Narrated by: Carlos Valdés

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Un original ensayo político sobre cómo la mediocridad ha conquistado el poder, en el que Jano García desmonta con datos el relato establecido sobre la igualdad, la justicia social, la multiculturalidad o la solidaridad intergeneracional. Un audiolibro imprescindible que nos ofrece argumentos para contrarrestar la más dañina de las pandemias: la... Read more