Politics & Economy audiobooks

S'en sortir !

By: Jacques Nantel

Narrated by: Robert Blondin

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Un tableau passionnant des tendances émergeant depuis l’apparition de la COVID-19 Durant la pandémie, plusieurs n’ont cessé de répéter que « plus rien n’allait être comme avant ». Si le retour à la normal semble leur donner tort à bien des égards, la formule s’avère néanmoins véridique quant à notre consommation : flambée du prix des aliments,... Read more

Creating the KGB and CIA: The Establishment of the World’s Most Famous Intelligence Agencies

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The KGB is one of the most famous abbreviations of the 20th century, and it has become synonymous with the shadowy and often violent actions of the Soviet Union’s secret police and internal security agencies. In fact, it is often used to refer to the Soviet state security agencies throughout its history, from the inception of the inception of... Read more

The News Quiz 2009

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hami...

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Three series of the satirical radio panel show chaired by Sandi Toksvig

Ever since 1977, The News Quiz has been finding the hilarity in the headlines and providing witty commentary on stories big and small. In these 25 episodes from 2009, the inimitable Sandi Toksvig is in the hot seat, presiding over an all-star panel of journalists and... Read more

The News Quiz 2012

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Michael Buerk, Barry Cr...

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandi Toksvig chairs the satirical radio panel show in this trio of series from 2012

2012 was full of historic milestones - London hosted the Olympics, the Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee, and The News Quiz marked its 35th anniversary. Sandi Toksvig is in the chair for these three series, as the team debate these and other top stories of the... Read more

The News Quiz 2013

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Rory Bremner, Jeremy Ha...

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandi Toksvig is in the chair for this sparkling quartet of series from 2013

Hosted once again by the incomparable Sandi Toksvig, these four series of the satirical radio panel game take us through all the big stories of 2013, the year of Obama's inaugaration, Margaret Thatcher's funeral, Prince George's birth and Andy Murray's first Wimbledon... Read more

The News Quiz 2015: Sandi Toksvig's Final Shows

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Cal...

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandi Toksvig is at the helm for two final series of the satirical radio panel game

After nine years, 28 series and over 220 episodes in the hot seat, Sandi Toksvig stepped down from The News Quiz at the end of Series 87. These two superlative series are her last hurrah - and our last chance to enjoy her unique blend of wit, warmth and... Read more

Hidalgo

By: Carlos Herrejón

Narrated by: Raúl Boxer

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

De joven prodigio a desastre militar. De bon vivant a encadenado. De rector a seductor de masas. De párroco celoso a excomulgado. Y —ahora, 200 años después— de héroe mítico a hombre de carne y hueso. Al señor Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor le bastaron seis meses para convertirse en el mayor... Read more

El pastor de masas

By: José Gil Olmos

Narrated by: Alfredo Huereca

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Al verlo en el centro del Salón de Tesorería, un magno espacio construido para la realeza española del siglo XVI, me di cuenta de que no hablaba como presidente, político o siquiera líder social, sino como un pastor espiritual que se dirige a su grey. La primera vez que fui a la mañanera, vi a Andrés Manuel López Obrador de una manera distinta.... Read more

The News Quiz 2011

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Roisin Conaty, Dominic ...

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Three more series of the satirical radio panel show chaired by Sandi Toksvig

Sandi Toksvig, 'probably the funniest person in the English-speaking world' (The Guardian), is our host for these 25 episodes of the perennially popular comedy news quiz, first broadcast between New Year's Eve 2010 and 4 November 2011.

Joining her to poke fun at stories... Read more

The News Quiz 2014

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Susan Calman, David Mit...

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Three fantastic series of the satirical radio panel game from 2014

In these 26 episodes, we turn the clock back to 2014 - the year when Scotland said 'no' to independence, Ukrainians ousted their pro-Russia president in the Maidan Revolution, and the European Space Agency's Philae probe made its historic first landing on a comet.

Sandi Toksvig is... Read more

The News Quiz 2010

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig, Various, Micky Flanagan, Armando...

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandi Toksvig hosts these three sensational series of 'the finest topical panel game known to radio'

For over 40 years, The News Quiz has been scrutinising the headlines to give us its unique, sardonic take on the stories that are making a splash. In these 25 episodes, we raid the archives from 2010 to rediscover the highs, lows and mediums of... Read more

Dick Bong: The Life and Legacy of America’s Greatest Combat Ace during World War II

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Jim Walsh

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

During World War II, greatly increased engine power allowed these aircraft to slice through the sky at speeds of 200 miles per hour (mph), 300 mph, or even in excess of 400 mph when flying flat-out. Service ceilings jumped to 30,000 feet, altitudes unthinkable to World War I’s aviators. pilots had to adapt to countless technological... Read more

The Love Jones Cohort

By: Kris Marsh

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray... Read more

The Injustice of Place

By: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. N...

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling... Read more

Small Victories in a Great Big War

By: John H. Canfield

Narrated by: Eric Smies

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible journey of traumatic near-death moments, day to day drudgery, amusing situations, and brushes with greatness in World War II.

Life for a World War II paratrooper was grave and perilous; John H. Canfield's experience was no different. However, this young man found himself in so many crazy—sometimes humorous—situations that he... Read more

Brothers in the Beloved Community

By: Marc Andrus

Narrated by: Marc Andrus

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The never-before-told story of the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world
The day after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. He said: "I did not sleep last night. . . . They killed Martin... Read more

American Playbook

By: Clay Travis

Narrated by: Clay Travis

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular radio host and bestselling author Clay Travis offers a unique playbook approach to politics, outlining how Republicans can win elections and win back the country through the lens of sports metaphors.

Republicans are in a losing period. The last election should have been a wake-up call for the current moment. If the GOP wants to turn its... Read more

Share the Dream: Audio Bible Studies

By: Matthew Daniels & Chris Broussard

Narrated by: Matthew Daniels & Chris Broussard

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

EMBRACE A LIFE OF LOVE FOR ALL HUMANITYShare the Dream® is a six-session audio Bible study based on the life and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. You will look at six biblical principles that shaped Dr. King’s life and motivated him to speak on behalf of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement: love, conscience, freedom, justice,... Read more

Ever Wonder Why?

By: Thomas Sowell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Sowell takes aim at a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues in this latest collection of his controversial, never boring, always thought-provoking essays. From "gun control myths" to "mealy mouth media" to "free lunch medicine," Sowell gets to the heart of the matters we all care about with his... Read more

The Bone Woman

By: Clea Koff

Narrated by: Clea Koff

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the... Read more

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

By: Helen Shiller

Narrated by: Helen Shiller

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.

Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in... Read more

Liberty's Dawn

By: Emma Griffin

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).



This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the... Read more

From the Beginning to Almost to the End: A Tale of Both Hardship and Success: The Life Story of Orbie L. Mays ENCM (E-9) S/W USN RET.

By: Orbie Lee Mays USN Retired

Narrated by: Edward Hermann

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Orbie Lee Mays USN Retired was born and raised on a farm in the northwest corner of Alabama. His life is one of many hardships and setbacks, and the success he achieved in overcoming them. From the Beginning to Almost to the End shares his journey, from beginning his military career at seventeen to his final rank of E-9 master chief petty... Read more

The Great American Transit Disaster

By: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.

A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.
 
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth... Read more