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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
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Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society. Having travelled to the industrial north of England on assignment from his editor, Orwell's confronting, stark descriptions of the social injustice, cramped slum housing, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment he encounters are written with unblinking honesty, anger and humanity.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-12-2021
- Language: English
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Poor
- By: Caleb Femi
- Narrated by: Caleb Femi
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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In Poor, Caleb Femi explores the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in 21st-century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.
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Poor
- Narrated by: Caleb Femi
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2020
- Language: English
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- By: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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What secrets do the Las Vegas storm drains keep? What discoveries wait in the dark? What's beneath the neon? Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a flood. He parties with naked crack-heads.
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-06-2018
- Language: English
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Street Farm
- Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
- By: Michael Ableman
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the worst urban slums in North America, who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of farming and nourishing others as a way to heal our world and ourselves.
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Street Farm
- Growing Food, Jobs, and Hope on the Urban Frontier
- Narrated by: Michael Canaan
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2016
- Language: English
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- By: Branko Milanovic
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why, beyond the idle curiosity, do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world's leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap that separates them, explains these and other mysteries of how wealth is unevenly spread throughout our world, now and through time.
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The Haves and the Have Nots
- A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 28-12-2010
- Language: English
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- By: Ted Conover
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Riding the rails, Ted Conover tasted the life of a tramp with companions like Pistol Pete, BB, and Sheba Sheila Sheils. From them he learned survival skills - how to "read" a freight train, scavenge for food and clothing, avoid the railroad "bulls." He was initiated into the customs of their unique, shadowy society - men and women bound together by a mutual bond of failure, camaraderie, and distrust.
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Rolling Nowhere
- Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-10-2008
- Language: English
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The Russian Job
- The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine
- By: Douglas Smith
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1921, after six years of unrelenting war and revolution, Russia was in ruins. The economy had collapsed, the country was ravaged by disease and starvation claimed the lives of millions. People were so desperate for food that there were reports of cannibalism, reports that were revealed to be horribly accurate. Remarkably, it was a young American aid worker who uncovered the truth, and, even more remarkably, it was the US-backed charity that had sent him to Russia that would save Lenin’s fledgling government by feeding his people.
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The Russian Job
- The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2019
- Language: English
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Gaffs
- Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
- By: Rory Hearne
- Narrated by: Rory Hearne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
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Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and many on the brink of homelessness, the Irish housing crisis has defined the lives of an entire generation—and it is set to continue. With housing costs in Ireland the highest in the EU, the property ladder has been kicked from under thousands. So how did we get here…and how do we break the cycle?
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Gaffs
- Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Rory Hearne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Myth That Made Us
- How False Beliefs About Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
- By: Jeff Fuhrer
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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The Myth That Made Us exposes how false narratives—of a supposedly post-racist nation, of the self-made man, of the primacy of profit- and shareholder value—maximizing for businesses, and of minimal government interference—have been used to excuse gross inequities and to shape and sustain the US economic system that delivers them. Jeff Fuhrer argues that systemic racism continues to produce vastly disparate outcomes and that our brand of capitalism favors doing little to reduce disparities.
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The Myth That Made Us
- How False Beliefs About Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2024
- Language: English
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con-Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- By: Susan Crabtree, Jedd McFatter, Peter Schweizer
- Length: 8 hrs
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Violent crime is surging, illegal drug use is off the charts, there is a daily invasion occurring at the southern border, the economy is in the toilet, and China and other adversaries are exploiting American weaknesses to bring the U.S. to its knees. How did this happen? And more importantly, why does it continue to get worse? Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize most of them share one thing in common: California.
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Fool's Gold
- The Radicals, Con-Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 29-04-2025
- Language: English
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No Fixed Abode
- Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
- By: Maeve McClenaghan
- Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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This book will finally give a face and a voice to those we so easily forget in our society. It will tell the highly personal, human and sometimes surprisingly uplifting stories of real people struggling in a crumbling system. By telling their stories, we will come to know these people; to know their hopes and fears, their complexities and their contradictions. We will learn a little more about human relationships, in all their messiness.
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A bleeding heart’s guide to homelessness
- By Anonymous User on 18-05-2023
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No Fixed Abode
- Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
- Narrated by: Maeve McClenaghan
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The last acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination. While the American meritocracy officially denounces prejudice based on race and gender, it has spawned a new form of bias against those with less education and income. Millions of working-class Americans have their opportunity blocked by exclusionary snob zoning. These government policies make housing unaffordable, frustrate the goals of the civil rights movement, and lock in inequality in our urban and suburban landscapes.
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- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 11-07-2023
- Language: English
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Lost at Sea
- Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
- By: Joe Kloc
- Length: 12 hrs
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In many ways, the story of the anchor-outs is the story of being poor in America. Examining profit-driven policies that exacerbate the contemporary housing crisis, Lost at Sea weaves together stories from within the anchorage alongside the rich history of the region, spanning from the Gold Rush era to the devastating fire of 1906. From a contemporary vantage point, it delves into the intense conflicts that arise between the anchor-outs and the affluent hillside communities which seek to dismantle the community for financial and recreational purposes.
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Lost at Sea
- Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-2025
- Language: English
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You Only Get What You're Organized to Take
- Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
- By: Liz Theoharis, Noam Sandweiss-Back
- Length: 6 hrs
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As one of the nation’s leading anti-poverty organizers and moral voices, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis explores the largely untold history of poor people’s movements in the United States and traces her own journey through some of the most significant anti-poverty struggles of the past thirty years. In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty.
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You Only Get What You're Organized to Take
- Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 08-04-2025
- Language: English
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Homeless in a Mercedes
- Lost in the Keys
- By: Richard Arsenault, Eva Arsenault
- Narrated by: Richard Arsenault
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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This is the gripping, autobiographical true story of Richard Arsenault, television editor for Ellen and American Idol, and his wife Eva, as they faced this very nightmare. Despite his work making millions for others and helping create profitable popular television series, Richard and Eva found themselves homeless after reporting fraud. “You’ve got to have faith, not fear.” These reality television creators experienced "reality" firsthand as their new job in Florida evaporated, forcing them to survive with no money, no support, and no roof.
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Homeless in a Mercedes
- Lost in the Keys
- Narrated by: Richard Arsenault
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2024
- Language: English
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Sick Society
- Reimagining How We Live Well Together
- By: Andy Knox
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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As we recover through the reality of a global pandemic, we face into a severe cost of living crisis. We live in a time of great uncertainty. More people are being pushed into poverty. The gap between the richest and poorest is growing wider. We are, perhaps, more divided than we have ever been. Our public services are overwhelmed. Citizens are fed up.Our society is sick. What can we do? We must allow ourselves to feel the pain of our reality, be outraged, challenge the inevitability of the status quo and create moral alternative economies of a reimagined future.
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Sick Society
- Reimagining How We Live Well Together
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Lost and the Found
- A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances
- By: Kevin Fagan
- Length: 8 hrs
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Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic. An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades and spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting, Fagan experienced it himself as a young man and brings a deep understanding to the crisis.
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The Lost and the Found
- A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 11-02-2025
- Language: English
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HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3
- I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
- By: John Sutton
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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With a career spanning 10 years inside the walls of Britain's most infamous prisons – Manchester’s Strangeways and London’s Wormwood Scrubs – John Sutton has experienced it all. Attacked by The Soho Vampire an insane killer, assaulted by The Cambridge Rapist, threatened by The IRA, beaten, persecuted and prosecuted by Freemason officers, John Sutton survived to reveal the hard-hitting truth in this jaw-dropping memoir.
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HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3
- I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
- Narrated by: Alan Turton
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- Language: English
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Can You Spare Some Change
- By: M Livingston
- Narrated by: Siobhan Bremer
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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The purpose of the book is to shed light on the pervasive and systemic issue of poverty that plagues societies around the world. Its primary aim is to foster a deep understanding and consciousness among listeners regarding the multifaceted nature of poverty, its far-reaching consequences, and the urgent need for action. By delving into the intricate nuances of poverty, the book endeavors to ignite a spark of empathy and compassion within individuals, compelling them to view poverty not as an abstract concept, but as a tangible reality that demands attention and intervention.
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Can You Spare Some Change
- Narrated by: Siobhan Bremer
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2024
- Language: English
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I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth
- By: Paul London
- Narrated by: Paul London
- Length: 1 hr
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When it comes to Skinheads, I see a lot of people these days re-writing history, whitewashing the youth cult or bending the truth to suit their political narrative. I spent over ten years of my young life as a London Bootboy and became one of the most famous Skinheads in the world. Being a Skinhead had a profound effect on me. Even though I walked away from that life, and left it in the last century, I still feel the shockwaves of my experience and still find people with nefarious agendas trying to tell their version of my story.
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I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth
- Narrated by: Paul London
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 17-06-2024
- Language: English
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