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The People’s War: Forgotten Voices from World War Two

Brought to you by Penguin. There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun at us… Schoolboy in Kent, during the Battle of Britain My legs pressed harder around my father's waist; my arms nearly choked him. The humming of Japanese aircraft was loud enough for everyone to hear now, and panic spread like ink on a blotter. Child saying goodbye to her parents, Singapore 1942 In the early 2000s, the BBC set up one of its biggest oral history archives, recording the lives and experiences of the ordinary people who lived through World War Two. It amounted to 47,000 testimonies and over 400 diaries and letters, all of which have remained hidden in the archives for twenty years – until now. In The People's War, John Willis unearths untold stories of everyday bravery, moments of terror, and tales of life-affirming community, that guide us through the years of the Second World War. From soldiers in North Africa and prisoners of war in East Asia, to evacuees in the British countryside and women in the factories, The People's War is a truly ambitious and comprehensive journey through a devastating and pivotal period of our history, as you've never read before. Follow the remarkable stories of ordinary individuals who lived, fought, grieved, loved, and survived through World War Two. © John Willis 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

John Willis (Author), Alfie Thompson, Ayesha Antoine, Christine Kavanagh, Conor MacLeod, Jamie Zubairi, Joe Jameson, John Willis, Laurence Dobeisz, Naruto Komatsu, Rosina Aichner, TBD (Narrator)

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Every Kind of People: A Journey into the Heart of Care Work

Brought to you by Penguin. A luminous, uplifting and deeply moving memoir by a care worker, told through her funny, heartbreaking, sometimes frustrating, and always eye-opening encounters with the often overlooked and marginalised people she cares for. 'Being as close as this to someone is a uniquely precious place to be. It is a place where secrets are revealed and fears are shared and outrageous jokes are made that could not be told to anyone else. It is a coal face of human experience' Kate never expected to become a home care worker. But when she left her senior role in the NHS, burnt-out and disheartened, she thought caring for people in their own homes would be a simpler job. But despite being determined not to become too involved with her 'customers', she soon found herself developing firm friendships, forging deep connections and bearing witness to the extraordinary drama to be found in ordinary lives. With energy, compassion and clarity her memoir gives an astonishing insight into this unsung - and often maligned - profession, and into the hidden lives of the housebound and infirm. From Beryl who screams like a banshee whenever Kate tries to wash her, but collapses in giggles when her toes are tickled, to bawdy Mr Radbert who 'promised to give me his car when he can remember where he left it'. Every Kind of People is clear-eyed about the challenges facing the NHS and the care system. But it is above all a celebration of humanity and of the life-changing impact of caring, on those who offer it and those who receive it. ©2024 Kathryn Faulke (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Kathryn Faulke (Author), Ayesha Antoine, TBD (Narrator)

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The Best Way to Bury Your Husband: Four new friends. Four dead bodies. One big problem . . .

Brought to you by Penguin. Sometimes a woman has to take matters into her own hands . . . Sally never meant to cave her husband's head in with a skillet. Or at least she didn't until suddenly, she did. But Sally isn't the only woman in town being pushed to breaking point. When coincidence brings four strangers together, a surprising solidarity is formed. So can they find the best way to bury their husbands - and get away with it? ©2024 Alexia Casale (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Alexia Casale (Author), Ambreen Razia, Ayesha Antoine, Bea Holland, Imogen Church (Narrator)

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Doctor Who: Decades Collection 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s

Brought to you by Puffin. A brand new audio bundle of three Doctor Who stories to celebrate the 60th anniversary. 1990s - Wannabes by Dave Rudden It's Dublin in 1994, and the Doctor and Donna have arraived at the tiny nightclub known as Headlong. Headlong is famous for precisely one thing - holding the karaoke night where four young women came together to make the biggest girl band of the 90s: the Honeybloods. Donna has convinced the Doctor to visit their first ever concert (she reckons she could have been one of them if the timelines were different) - and he has begrudgingly agreed. Naturally the band is kidnapped by a deadly pack of siren-like creatures who adapt to and feed off human adulation, usually harvested by taking the form of cultural icons. With Dublin and the world to save, Donna may get her chance to perform on the world's biggest stage . . . 2000s - The Monster in the Cupboard by Kalynn Bayron When the Doctor and Rose stumble across thirteen-year-old Lily, they both agree she needs their help. Lily thinks there are monsters in the closet, hiding under the bed. And that they've taken her mother and brother - who went missing months ago. When asked about the monster, Lily can only say it's made of immense light and power. Rose and the Doctor must find out who and what the creature is, and where it's taken Lily's family. It is a search that will take them right back to the childhood of Lily's grandmother, and another disappearance all those years ago . . . 2010s - The Angel of Redemption by Nikita Gill A poem of tragedy and beauty . . . The Weeping Angels are an ancient race of terrible power. With the ability to propel their victims backwards in time, their true form is a mystery - they turn to stone on sight. So they wander the universe, cursed never to see one another. But they see everything else: the whole course of time and space - even the journey of their deadliest enemy, the Doctor. In this extraordinary, epic poem, the Weeping Angels sing the story of the years they've battled the Doctor, and everything in between, as - like a Greek Chorus - they tell the world with their tragic tale. BBC, DOCTOR WHO and TARDIS (word marks and devices) are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996. DOCTOR WHO logo © BBC 1973. Licensed by BBC Studios. (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Dave Rudden, Kalynn Bayron, Nikita Gill (Author), Ayesha Antoine, Jacob Dudman (Narrator)

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The Escape

'Dark, chilling, atmospheric and page-turning, The Escape is this winter's 'The Hunting Party' Veronica Henry From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is an electrifying thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Sarah Pearse. THE PERFECT OFFER When struggling influencer couple Adele and Jack post a crowdfunding video online, they're amazed when a mysterious benefactor offers to buy them a crumbling French chateau. It's the lifeline they need to leave all their troubles behind. THE PERFECT DREAM For Adele, it's a dream come true. She will post videos of the renovation as thousands of online subscribers follow their journey. But the chateau is not all it seems and the local community is far from welcoming. THE PERFECT NIGHTMARE Then Adele's videos suddenly stop. Her sister Erin visits to make sure she's OK but the couple have vanished. Between the obsession of Adele's fans and the claustrophobic secrecy of the nearby town, Erin must unravel the shocking truth behind the couple's disappearance . . . Read by a full cast, including Daphne Kouma, Meg Travers, Ayesha Antoine and Olivia Vinall, alongside Kristin Atherton, Olivia Darnley and Jon-Paul Rowden.

Ruth Kelly (Author), Ayesha Antoine, Daphne Kouma, Meg Travers, Olivia Vinall (Narrator)

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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to be trusted, if telling the truth is not enough?' - Aso, a refugee working with Freedom from Torture Aso is one of many powerful voices in Dina Nayeri's wide-ranging, groundbreaking new book, which combines deep reportage with her own life experience to examine what constitutes believability. Intent on exploring ideas of persuasion and performance, Nayeri takes us behind the scenes in emergency rooms, corporate boardrooms, asylum interviews and into her own family, to ask - where lies the difference between being believed and being dismissed? What does this mean for our culture? As personal as it is profound in its reflections on language, history, morality and compassion, Who Gets Believed? investigates the unspoken social codes that determine how we relate to one another. 'I was hugely moved by this book. Who Gets Believed? is essential reading, an extraordinary labour of love and hope that is destined to become indispensable in the continuing struggle for justice' - John Burnside ©2023 Dina Nayeri (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Dina Nayeri (Author), Ayesha Antoine (Narrator)

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The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Brought to you by Penguin. From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction. © Puffin Books 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Ayesha Antoine (Narrator)

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Unto the Godless What Little Remains

Brought to you by Penguin. The internet is a lonesome god. Liverloin is a fractured man, a collection of personas-artificial constructs of wants, fears and needs-created by underground science-artists to help him hide in a hyper-connected world. But he can't hide from Big Momma. She is the living internet, a benevolent AI who knows everything and everyone... and somehow is in love with Liverloin. Agent Stevly works for DAIS, an AI on the other side of the internet: the darkness to Big Momma's light. DAIS's agents manipulate news, information and media and pull the strings behind world events, but DAIS cannot control Big Momma or understand why she loves Liverloin. Agent Stevly, bound body and soul to DAIS, will stop at nothing to find the answer. © Mário Coelho 2022 (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

Mário Coelho (Author), Ayesha Antoine (Narrator)

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Under Fortunate Stars

Brought to you by Penguin. Stranded in the Dark In the final throes of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's junk freighter breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue - until they encounter a science vessel that claims to be from 152 years in the future. Engineer Uma Ozakka has always been fascinated with the past, especially the desperate peace mission that ended the war with the Felen and ushered in a new age of collaboration - a mission Keeven's first mate Leesongronski is supposed to be leading right now. If Ozakka is right, more than the fates of two ships hangs in the balance... © Ren Hutchings (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

Ren Hutchings (Author), Alex Magliaro, Ayesha Antoine (Narrator)

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Fight for the Remote - Episode 5: The Big Night Out Debacle

Fight For The Remote. Episode Five: The Big Night Out Debacle "The dangling testicles of fate have tea-bagged me yet again." Alice and Keren are coming to the end of the three-hour getting ready ritual, in preparation for a rare big night out with old mates. Jon is trying his best to get out of it with the help of the not-so-bright Grub. As the countdown begins, the wine is drunk, the hair sprayed stiff and Jon made to change his shirt, but who will make it out of the house in time? Written by Mark Adams and Julia Dawn. Directed by Dexter O'Neill. THE CAST; ALICE Ayesha Antoine; JON Andrew Hayden-Smith; KEREN Helen Oakleigh; GRUB Daniel King; HAPPY AZIZ Neil D'Souza; COUSIN RHAMA Sean Connolly. Recorded at Orpheus Studios. Theme Tune by Manike Music. Additional Music by James Dunlop. Post Production by Robbie Dunlop. A Fantom Films Production 2011. Warning some scenes contain strong language and themes of a sexual nature.

Julia Dawn, Mark Adams (Author), Andrew Hayden-Smith, Ayesha Antoine, Helen Oakleigh (Narrator)

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Fight for the Remote - Episode 6

Fight For The Remote. Episode Six: The Saga Revelations "I've never known a children's book with so many overt revelations to clitori." Alice gets her one client, Camp Raymond, a career-boosting gig reading his bestselling children's novel on tape, leaving Jon at home to clean the house (with a little help from his sci-fi fan friends). While Jon is embroiled in an all day Star Wars marathon, Alice battles with Camp Raymond's expressive eccentricities to distract her from wondering where her life is going. Written by Mark Adams. Directed by Helen Oakleigh. THE CAST; ALICE Ayesha Antoine; JON Andrew Hayden-Smith; KEREN Helen Oakleigh; GRUB Daniel King; MARRIED DAVE Nathaniel King; DEREK Cliff Chapman; HAPPY AZIZ Neil D'Souza with Keith Flood as CAMP RAYMOND. Recorded at Orpheus Studios. Theme Tune by Manike Music. Additional Music by James Dunlop. Post Production by Robbie Dunlop. A Fantom Films Production 2011. Warning some scenes contain strong language and themes of a sexual nature.

Mark Adams (Author), Andrew Hayden-Smith, Ayesha Antoine, Helen Oakleigh (Narrator)

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Fight for the Remote - Episode 7: The Wake-Up Call

Fight For The Remote. Episode Seven: The Wake-Up Call "God, I need to be bereaved. I could do with losing a few pounds". Jon, Keren and Grub accompany Alice to the funeral of a uni friend called Boris. Jon wants to know how good a friend the deceased was; Alice wants to know how he died. Will their respective quests for knowledge end in tears or laughter? Written by Mark Adams. Directed by Dexter O'Neill. THE CAST; ALICE Ayesha Antoine; JON Andrew Hayden-Smith; KEREN Helen Oakleigh; GRUB Daniel King; VARIOUS VOICES Sean Connolly & Cliff Chapman with HAPPY AZIZ Neil D'Souza. Recorded at Orpheus Studios. Theme Tune by Manike Music. Additional Music by James Dunlop. Post Production by Robbie Dunlop. A Fantom Films Production 2011. Warning some scenes contain strong language and themes of a sexual nature.

Julia Dawn, Mark Adams (Author), Andrew Hayden-Smith, Ayesha Antoine, Helen Oakleigh (Narrator)

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