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A Child of the East End
- By: Jean Fullerton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through the dark times with humour and heart. Drawing on both family history and her own memories of growing up in the 1950s and '60s, as well as her working life as a district nurse and local police officer, Jean Fullerton vividly depicts this fascinating part of London.
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writers life
- By Frances on 09-09-24
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A Child of the East End
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-08-22
- Language: English
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- By: James Bridle
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: The belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Author James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.
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Fifth-form leftist tosh, narrated by a lunatic
- By Olly Buxton on 21-07-19
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New Dark Age
- Technology and the End of the Future
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 22-01-19
- Language: English
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Iconicon
- A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
- By: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: John Grindrod
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
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The buildings designed in our lifetimes encapsulate the dreams and aspirations of our culture, while also revealing the sobering realities. Whether modest or monumental, they offer a living history of Britain, symbols of the forces that have shaped our modern landscape and icons in their own right. Iconicon is an enthralling journey around the Britain we have created since 1980: the horrors and delights, the triumphs and failures.
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Required reading/listening for urbanists.
- By Andrew Wood on 20-03-22
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Iconicon
- A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
- Narrated by: John Grindrod
- Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- By: Dennis Romano
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
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No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.
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Venice
- The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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Affluenza
- By: Oliver James
- Narrated by: Oliver James
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading.
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Inspiring, puzzling, obvious, paradoxical
- By Glenn cornish on 29-09-13
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Affluenza
- Narrated by: Oliver James
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 12-05-09
- Language: English
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- By: Ben Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history.
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A Highly Recommended Listen
- By Andrew on 23-09-22
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Metropolis
- A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it". To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
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City of Quartz
- Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-04-18
- Language: English
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The Sugar Girls
- Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
- By: Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End Factories. On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle’s refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been preparing for this moment all her life. She smoothed down her frizzy hair, scraped a bit of dirt off the corner of her shoe and strode through. She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her eyes …
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Authentic and true to life escapism
- By Kitty Kat on 16-06-16
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The Sugar Girls
- Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End
- Narrated by: Penny McDonald
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 29-03-12
- Language: English
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Battle Scars
- By: Jason Fox
- Narrated by: Jason Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Jason Fox served with the SBS for over a decade, thriving on the close bonds of the Special Forces brotherhood and the ‘death or glory’ nature of their missions. Battle Scars tells the story of his career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service to a battle of a very different kind: the psychological devastation of combat that ultimately forced him to leave the military and the hard reality of what takes place in the mind of a man once a career of imagined invincibility has come to an end.
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Life changing
- By Paul on 05-11-18
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Battle Scars
- Narrated by: Jason Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- By: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- By: Carlos Moreno, Martha Thorne - afterword, Jan Gehl - foreword
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.
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The 15-Minute City
- A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
- Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- By: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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Gang-fighters! Drug addicts. Teenage runaways and prostitutes! The toughest and most hopeless kids that New York's ghettos had to offer. Then a young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills arrived on their turf and began preaching a message of renewal, miracles, and God's love. This is one of the century's great true stories. Over 14 million copies in print!
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God is Awesome!
- By J on 15-12-11
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 17-01-11
- Language: English
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Serious Money
- Walking Plutocratic London
- By: Caroline Knowles
- Narrated by: Caroline Knowles
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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London is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London's super rich, and the lives they lead? To find out more about this secretive, security-heavy elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey, via Kensington, Notting Hill, Mayfair and elsewhere.
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An Outsider’s Opinions
- By Jonathan on 27-05-24
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Serious Money
- Walking Plutocratic London
- Narrated by: Caroline Knowles
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-05-22
- Language: English
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City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994
- The Modern South
- By: Seth A. Weitz
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
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City of Hope, City of Rage gives a fascinating account of three turbulent and transformative decades in the history of Miami. Marked by mass immigration, racially motivated uprisings, economic inequity, rising crime, and social change, Miami's history from 1968 to 1994 saw the city evolve rapidly from a predominantly white city and vacation spot into a global, Hispanic-majority metropolis with an international tourist base. And yet Miami remains highly segregated today.
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City of Hope, City of Rage: Miami, 1968-1994
- The Modern South
- Narrated by: Graham Rowat
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: English
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Inside Studio 54
- By: Mark Fleischman, Denise Chatman, Mimi Fleischman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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In the early 80s, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail. Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections that lead him to Studio 54.
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Giving up on this book...
- By Fatima on 20-01-22
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Inside Studio 54
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-02-18
- Language: English
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- By: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Roman Mars and co-author Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments and the unsung marvels of the world around them. You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.
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A good intro to the regular podcast
- By NERDSAPIEN on 28-07-21
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The 99% Invisible City
- A Field Guide to the Wonders of the Modern Metropolis
- Narrated by: Roman Mars
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- By: Richard Rothstein
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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Should be required reading for all schools kids
- By Mr. Cja Carr on 22-02-24
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Narrated by: Adam Grupper
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-07-17
- Language: English
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The Phoenix
- St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
- By: Leo Hollis
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement. Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, The Phoenix charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener and virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scientist, Robert Hooke; the radical philosopher, John Locke; and the builder, Nicholas Barbon.
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Leo Hollis, The Phoenix
- By Jane on 18-10-23
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The Phoenix
- St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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England's Villages
- An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
- By: Dr Ben Robinson
- Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
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England's villages have survived, developed and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village, and how has that changed over time? Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist.
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Interesting but...
- By Grace on 18-04-24
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England's Villages
- An Extraordinary Journey Through Time
- Narrated by: Paul J. Rose
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- By: Leslie Kern
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Feminist City: A Field Guide combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing on gendered experiences of the city, the books grapples with the challenge of claiming urban space amongst barriers designed to keep women “in their place”. From the geography of rape culture to the politics of snow removal, the city is an ongoing site of gendered struggle. Yet the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping new social relations....
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Ruined by 'notes'
- By Miriam on 02-04-21
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Feminist City
- A Field Guide
- Narrated by: Nathalie Toriel
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-09-20
- Language: English
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