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The Adventure of English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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an excellent history
- By Kindle Customer on 02-09-2019
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2005
- Language: English
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A History of Ideas
- Key Philosophers and Their Theories
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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A major 60-part BBC radio series exploring the questions that have preoccupied philosophers through the ages, presented by Melvyn Bragg....
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A History of Ideas
- Key Philosophers and Their Theories
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2021
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 pivotal concepts, theorists and developments that have advanced the science of mathematics....
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In Our Time: 25 Theories and Thinkers in the History of Mathematics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The King James Bible has often been called ‘the Book of Books’ both in itself and in what it stands for....
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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2011
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the cosmos, from the origins of the universe to dark matter and dark energy....
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In Our Time: 25 Explorations of Space
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Defining Ideas of Christianity
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests chart the development of Christian thought, looking at 25 fundamental concepts that emerged throughout history....
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In Our Time: 25 Defining Ideas of Christianity
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2024
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests analyse 25 key poets and literary works, tracing the evolution of poetry over 550 years....
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In Our Time: 25 Iconic Poets and Poems in English
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 25 explorations of the visual arts, including artistic and architectural styles, historic movements, notable artworks and visual artists....
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In Our Time: 25 Perspectives on the Visual Arts
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language, from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....
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5 out of 5 stars
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get the Unabridged version
- By irtapil on 12-03-2020
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The Adventure of English
- The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 26-06-2007
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world....
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A lost world
- By ELIZABETH on 21-09-2022
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Back in the Day
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2022
- Language: English
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Twelve Books That Changed the World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Melvyn Bragg presents a vivid reminder of the book as agent of social, political, and personal revolution....
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Twelve Books That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge, Hugh Ross, Robert Powell, Bill Bingham
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-05-2006
- Language: English
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Grace and Mary
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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A profoundly moving story spanning three generations. Could he not put together a memory for her? Perhaps he could become her memory....
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Grace and Mary
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Sandra Duncan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2013
- Language: English
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A Place in England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him, he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot....
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A Place in England
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2015
- Language: English
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Crossing the Lines
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Continuing the story of Joe from A Son of War, this is the story of the rapid changes in his life....
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Crossing the Lines
- Narrated by: Mark McGann
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2007
- Language: English
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Now Is the Time
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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At the end of May 1381, the 14-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful....
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Now Is the Time
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2015
- Language: English
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In Our Time: The Written World
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Melvyn Bragg fronts The Written World, a BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how it has shaped the world's intellectual history....
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In Our Time: The Written World
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 14-01-2012
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Miracle
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In the seventh century, at the dawn of Christianity, Bega, a bewitching Irish princess bestowed with miraculous powers, and Padric, a charismatic British prince gifted with the fiery power of the sword...
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The Sword and the Miracle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-11-2000
- Language: English
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In Our Time: 25 Concepts and Theories in the History of Physics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses....
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In Our Time: 25 Concepts and Theories in the History of Physics
- A BBC Radio 4 Collection
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg, Various
- Series: In Our Time
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor....
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2019
- Language: English
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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From Cumbria to the frenetic whirl of sophisticated life in New York and London, Douglas, like all the Tallentires, must come to terms with private uncertainty and pain....
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Kingdom Come
- The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Narrated by: Malcolm Sinclair
- Series: The Cumbrian Trilogy, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2015
- Language: English
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