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History & Criticism Audiobooks

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    Monsters of the Week

    The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files

    by Zack Handlen, Todd VanDerWerff ...
    Narrated by Joe Hempel ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 2 min

    In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits-and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's twenty-fifth anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    David Jason: My Life

    by David Jason ...
    Narrated by Michael Fenton Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 16 min

    David Jason: My Life**, now available as an unabridged audiobook.**National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year 2013.Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing. Giving up on an unloved career as an electrician, he turned his attention to acting and soon, through a ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Andy Cohen Diaries

    A Deep Look at a Shallow Year

    by Andy Cohen ...
    Narrated by Andy Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 35 min

    A year in the whirlwind life of the beloved pop icon Andy Cohen, in his own cheeky, candid, and irreverent words**.**As a TV Producer and host of the smash late night show Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen has a front row seat to an exciting world not many get to see. In this dishy, detailed diary of one year in his life, Andy goes out on the town, drops names, hosts a ton of shows, becomes ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Office

    The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History

    by Andy Greene ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham, P.J. Ochlan, Oliver Wyman, Ari Fliakos, Fred Berman, Brittany Pressley, Jonathan Davis, Sean Runnette, Sullivan Jones, Obi Abili, Josh Cohen, Various, Thérèse Plummer ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 20 min

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe untold stories behind The Office, one of the most iconic television shows of the twenty-first century, told by its creators, writers, and actors**When did you last hang out with Jim, Pam, Dwight, Michael, and the rest of Dunder Mifflin? It might have been back in 2013, when the series finale aired . . . or it might have been last night, when you watched ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Late Shift

    Letterman, Leno, & the Network Battle for the Night

    by Bill Carter ...
    Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 43 min

    New York Times bestseller: A "gripping" true story of late-night comedy and behind-the-scenes drama (Los Angeles Times). When beloved host Johnny Carson announced his retirement after thirty years on The Tonight Show, millions of Americans mourned. But inside the television industry, the news ignited a battle between two amazing talents-Jay Leno and David Letterman-who both yearned to occupy the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer, Eva Wilhelm ...
    series Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO's Westworld, a high-concept cerebral television series which explores the emergence of artificial consciousness at a futuristic amusement park, raises numerous questions about the nature of consciousness and its bearing on the divide between authentic and artificial life. Are our choices our own? What is the relationship between the mind and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Family Don't End with Blood

    Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Has Changed Lives

    Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Graham Halstead ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    Supernatural, a three-time People's Choice Award winner for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show and Tumblr's 2015 Most Reblogged "Live Action TV," has made a name for itself by supporting and encouraging its fans to "always keep fighting," and a memorable line from early in the show's run, "Family don't end with blood," became an inspiring mantra for many who found community in the fandom. In twenty ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood

    Return to Collinwood - 50th Anniversary Anthology

    by Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jim Pierson, David Selby, Lara Parker ...
    Narrated by Kathryn Leigh Scott, Jim Pierson, David Selby, Lara Parker ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood presents a look back at four decades of the successful spooky soap opera that made sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins a pop culture phenomenon and prompted the big-budget, big-screen Warner Bros. revival starring longtime fan Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton, that premieres May 11, 2012. With the ongoing fascination for all things vampiric, this audiobook ... Read more

    $48.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Fifty Years of 60 Minutes

    The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

    by Jeff Fager ...
    Narrated by Jeff Fager ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 28 min

    “An illuminating TV show biography” (Kirkus Reviews), the ultimate inside story of 60 Minutes—the program that has tracked and shaped the biggest moments in post-war American history.From its almost accidental birth in 1968, 60 Minutes has set the standard for broadcast journalism. The show has profiled every major leader, artist, and movement of the past five decades, perfecting the news-making ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Melissa Explains It All

    Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life

    by Melissa Joan Hart ...
    Narrated by Melissa Joan Hart ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    Melissa Joan Hart explained it all—from dating to bullies—in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more television viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny behind-the-scenes stories from her extraordinary past and her refreshingly normal present.Melissa has been ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Green Mister Rogers

    Environmentalism in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

    by Sara Lindey, Jason King ...
    Narrated by Kathy Bell Denton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. Rogers' direct, slow, gentle, and empathic approach is supported by his superior emotional strength, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    When Women Invented Television

    The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today

    by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong ...
    Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 40 min

    “Leaps at the throat of television history and takes down the patriarchy with its fervent, inspired prose. When Women Invented Television offers proof that what we watch is a reflection of who we are as a people.” —Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket GirlsNew York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia Jennifer Keishin Armstrongtells the little-... ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Muppets, The

    The early years of the Muppets, with Emmy Award winning Head Writer Jerry Juhl.

    by Patricia L Lawrence ...
    Narrated by JD Streeter ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    In his studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Emmy-award winning head writer, Jerry Juhl (1938-2005), sat down for a casual interview with show host. Juhl reminises about the Muppets' early years and radio roots, and what it was like to work with the founder of the Muppets, Jim Henson (1936-1990). ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Audition

    A Memoir

    by Barbara Walters ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 46 min

    Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, ... Read more

    $47.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Answers in the Form of Questions

    A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!

    by Claire McNear ...
    Narrated by Devon Sorvari ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    What is the smartest, most celebrated game show of all time? In this insider's guide, discover the rich history of Jeopardy! -- the beloved game show that has shaped our culture and entertained audiences for years.Jeopardy! is a lot of things: record-setting game show, beloved family tradition, and proving ground for many of North America's best and brightest. Nearly four decades into its current ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Big Bang Theory

    The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series

    by Jessica Radloff ...
    Narrated by Jessica Radloff, Fleet Cooper, Abhay Ahluwalia, Anna Williford, Suehyla Young, Allan Robertson ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 53 min

    The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the most popular sitcom of the last decade, The Big Bang Theory, packed with all-new, exclusive interviews with the producers and entire cast.The Big Bang Theory is a television phenomenon. To the casual viewer, it’s a seemingly effortless comedy, with relatable characters tackling real-life issues, offering a kind of visual comfort food to its millions of ... Read more

    $77.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fooling with the Amish

    Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV

    by Dirk Eitzen ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...
    series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies

    Unabridged

    10 hours 51 min

    Using Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers of deception in reality TV and popular entertainment. When Amish Mafia was released in 2012, viewers were fascinated by the stories of this secret group of Amish and Mennonite enforcers who used threats, extortion, and violence to keep members of the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Another Pirate's History of Doctor Who

    An unauthorized tour of unauthorized parts of the Who Universe

    by D.G. Valdron ...
    Audiobook 2 - Doctor Who - Pirate Histories

    Abridged

    8 hours 4 min

    An Unauthorized tour of the Unauthorized parts of the Who Universe. Welcome to the hidden histories of Doctor Who, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden. This second volume chronicles the record of Doctor Who stage plays, official and independent, from Curse of the Daleks to the Trials of Davros, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about ... Read more

    $13.00 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Pirate's History of Doctor Who

    an audio tour of the hidden corners of the Whoniverse

    by D.G. Valdron ...
    Audiobook 1 - Doctor Who - the Pirate Histories

    Abridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Welcome to the first (but not the last) Pirate's History of Doctor Who. What's a Pirate's History, you ask? Well, there's the official, sanitized, orderly histories that are approved by and all about the powers that be. Then there are the Pirate's histories, the things that they don't want you to know about, or that they don't care about, things that are great and marvellous and intriguing... but ... Read more

    $13.00 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The World of Sanditon

    The Official Companion to the ITV Series

    by Sara Sheridan ...
    Narrated by Adrian Scarborough ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 36 min

    This Autumn, Jane Austen's final incomplete novel Sanditon will be brought to a primetime television audience on ITV for the very first time by Emmy® and BAFTA-Award winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (War & Peace, Mr Selfridge, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice).Written only months before Austen's death in 1817, Sanditon tells the story of the joyously impulsive, spirited and unconventional ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Stranger Things Psychology

    Life Upside Down

    by Travis Langley ...
    Narrated by Elise Arsenault, Julienne Irons ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    Monsters of the Upside Down, beware! Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to explore these and other questions to shine a light on true human nature through the Netflix series and cultural phenomenon Stranger Things. When do feelings of grief, guilt, depression, fear, and isolation tear us down, and how do we transform them into ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton

    Lady Whistledown's Official Guide

    by Julia Quinn ...
    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor ...
    series Bridgertons

    Unabridged

    2 hours 50 min

    Dear Reader, The Bridgertons are by far the most prolific family in the upper echelons of society, both in deed and word, and now, for the first time, their most indelible quips and barbs have been gathered here for your reading pleasure. From Anthony’s arrogance to Hyacinth’s hijinks, the family has long been fodder for society gossips … and indeed even for This Author, who has come out of ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Andy and Don

    The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show

    by Daniel de Visé ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the 1950s. When Andy moved to Hollywood to film a TV pilot for a comedy ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Fresh Prince Project

    How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America

    by Chris Palmer ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    A “thorough, thoughtful, and immensely entertaining”(Jemele Hill, author of Uphill) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom—The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air—in the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards.More than thirty years have passed since The Fresh Prince of Bel-Ai... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial