The Maya Angelou Autobiographies
By: Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Indie Gjesdal, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Full Cast ...
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Six BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Maya Angelou's evocative, extraordinary memoirs, starring Adjoa Andoh and Pippa Bennett-Warner
The books that make up the life and times of Maya Angelou are among the most beautiful and haunting pieces of autobiography ever written. Joyous, direct and searingly honest, they run the gamut from life-affirming to... Read more
Water in Plain Sight
By: Judith D. Schwartz
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Water scarcity is on everyone’s mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and people’s food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts—and even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow, and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to... Read more
View audiobookA Dark Secret
By: Casey Watson
Narrated by: Kate Lock
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case. Determined to get to the root of Sam’s behaviour, Casey is committed to... Read more
View audiobookClear Bright Future
By: Paul Mason
Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Clear Bright Future by Paul Mason, read by Finlay Robertson.
Our world order is under pressure as never before. From new authoritarian regimes in the US, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of the European Union and a social media awash with intolerance, things look set to fall apart just as... Read more
Extra Time
By: Camilla Cavendish
Narrated by: Camilla Cavendish
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL ‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear’ THE TIMES ‘A... Read more
View audiobookThe Smart Neanderthal
By: Clive Finlayson
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species, ultimately leading to the superiority of modern humans. Or so we... Read more
View audiobookMy Caesarean
By: Amanda Fields & Rachel Moritz
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-one vivid, moving essays on caesarean birth.
"No one talks about C-sections as surgery," writes SooJin Pate. "They talk about it as if it's just another way—albeit more convenient way—of giving birth." The twenty-one essays in My Caesarean add back to the conversation the missing voices of a vast, invisible sisterhood.
Robin... Read more
Éloge du mariage, de l'engagement et autres folies
By: Christiane Singer
Length: 2 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
« Entre le désir profond de se lier, de s’engager corps et âme, et le désir tout aussi profond de préserver sa liberté, d’échapper à tout lien, quel tohu-bohu ! Or, pour vivre ces exigences contradictoires et d’égale dignité sans être écartelé, il n’y a aucun secours à attendre ni de la philosophie, ni de la morale, ni d’aucun savoir... Read more
View audiobookGetting Gamers
By: Jamie Madigan
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting Gamers will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games can help us develop skills, make friends, succeed at work, form good habits, and be happy. Taking the time to learn what's happening in our heads as we play and shop allows us to approach games and gaming communities on our own terms and get more out of them. With... Read more
View audiobookTalking Back, Talking Black
By: John McWhorter
Narrated by: John McWhorter
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound "black." In his first book devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black... Read more
View audiobookFeminism for the 99%
By: Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser
Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This is a manifesto for the 99 percent
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren't they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?
Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that... Read more
Custer Died for Your Sins
By: Vine Deloria, Jr.
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This "manifesto" provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture,... Read more
View audiobookOur History Is the Future
By: Nick Estes
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life"
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water... Read more
El cerebro de mi hermano
By: Rafael Pérez Gay
Narrated by: Bernardo Ezeta
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
El cerebro de mi hermano es un relato de la evolución de un padecimiento degenerativo en el seno de una familia. Recuerdos, emociones, temores y expectativas, el singular proceso de adaptación a lo impensable, el dolor de atestiguar la extinción de un ser querido, pero también la historia compartida, los años, los lugares, las pasiones... Read more
View audiobookGentleman Jack (Movie Tie-In)
By: Anne Choma
Narrated by: Eva Pope & Erin Shanager
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The official companion book to the HBO series Gentleman Jack created by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones
In 1834, Anne Lister made history by celebrating and recording the first ever known marriage to another woman. This is her remarkable, true story.
Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her... Read more
Lean Impact
By: Ann Mei Chang
Narrated by: Kristina Horan
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits, for meaningful purpose. But, unlike business, few social interventions have achieved significant impact at scale. Inspired by the modern innovation practices popularized by bestseller The Lean Startup that have fueled technology breakthroughs touching every aspect of our lives,... Read more
View audiobookWith Child
By: Phyllis Chesler
Narrated by: Tanya Eby & Michael Braun
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This diary of acclaimed psychologist and radical feminist icon Phyllis Chesler was a pioneering work when it was first published in 1979. A look into the second wave of feminism and the era’s changing attitudes toward motherhood and pregnancy, With Child—now with an updated preface from her son—remains relevant for mothers today. Read more
View audiobookSacred Instructions
By: Sherri Mitchell
Narrated by: Sherri Mitchell
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A “profound and inspiring” collection of ancient indigenous wisdom for “anyone wanting the healing of self, society, and of our shared planet” (Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma).
A Penobscot Indian draws on the experiences and wisdom of the First Nations to address environmental justice, water protection, generational... Read more
Beeline
By: Shalini Shankar
Narrated by: Farah Merani
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for success
At first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on social media. One would think that competitors in the... Read more
Inside an Honor Killing
By: Lene Wold
Narrated by: Victoria Verzosa
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrator and the victim. What drives a person to murder their sister, mother, or daughter? What is life like in a society in which women are imprisoned for their own “protection,” while their potential killers walk free? In this powerful and... Read more
View audiobookThe Business of Changing the World
By: Raj Kumar
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The new world of results-driven aid that could put an end to extreme poverty
Drawing on 2 decades covering global development as editor in chief of Devex, Raj Kumar explores how nontraditional models of philanthropy and aid are empowering the world’s poorest people to make progress. Old aid was driven by good intentions and relied on big-budget... Read more
The Privileged Poor
By: Anthony Abraham Jack
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to... Read more
Blind Injustice
By: Mark Godsey
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges, police, lawyers, and juries coupled with a "tough on crime" environment can cause investigations to go awry, leading to the convictions of innocent people.
Godsey explores distinct psychological human weaknesses inherent in the criminal justice... Read more
All the Ghosts in the Machine
By: Elaine Kasket
Narrated by: Elaine Kasket
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
'As charming and touching as it is astute and insightful'
Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
'This a very useful book, even perhaps for people who have never been near a computer in their lives'
Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
Seen any ghosts on your smartphone lately?
As we're compelled to capture,... Read more