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Christopher Eccleston

‘A beautiful book’ Zoë Ball‘My father was an “ordinary man”, which of course means he was extraordinary.'Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, One man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father, Ronnie. In I Love the Bones of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship ...

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Christopher Eccleston

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences of the sense being invest...

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Simon Armitage

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Ian Mckellen, Samuel West, Maxine Peake, Lily Cole, Rachael Stirling, Christopher Eccleston, Kirsty Wark, Full Cast, Stephen Dillane

Canonical stories, reimagined for a modern audience, by poet Laureate Simon Armitage, with stellar casts including Sir Ian McKellen, Samuel West, Maxine Peake and Christopher EcclestonPoet Laureate Simon Armitage is known and loved for his witty, accessible and profound original poetry, offering an innovative perspective on contemporary society. Yet he has also retold numerous classical tales, including Ancient Greek myths and Arthurian legends, which have been ada...

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Alex North

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Christopher Eccleston

Penguin present****s the audiobook edition of The Whisper Man by Alex North, read by Christopher Eccleston.If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken...Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh start.But Featherbank has a dark past. Fifteen years ago a twisted serial killer ...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Christopher Eccleston

Brought to you by Penguin.As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to me...

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Homer

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Derek Jacobi, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Eccleston, Iain Glen, Imogen Stubbs, Clive Mantle, Amanda Redman, Bertie Carvel, Mary Wimbush, Frances Barber, Adjoa Andoh, Tim McInnerney, Full Cast

The ultimate, full-cast dramatisations of Homer’s two epic Greek masterpieces, with exceptional casts including Derek Jacobi, Christopher Eccleston, Tim McInnerny and Benedict CumberbatchREDISCOVER THE EPIC MYTHS BEFORE YOU SEE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAttributed to the Greek poet Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey are among the greatest and most influential works of the past 3000 years, often claimed as the cornerstones of We...

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Christopher Lee

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Juliet Stevenson, Anna Massey, Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Robert Powell, Christopher Eccleston, Denis Lawson

Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, the empire worked and play...

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Christopher Eccleston

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Christopher Eccleston

‘A beautiful book’ Zoë Ball‘My father was an “ordinary man”, which of course means he was extraordinary.'Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, One man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father, Ronnie. In I Love the Bones of You, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship ...

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George Orwell, Mike Walker, Jonathan Holloway

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Christopher Eccleston, Full Cast, Joseph Milson, Nicky Henson, Pippa Nixon, Tamsin Greig, Tim Pigott-Smith, Toby Jones, Clive Merrison, Lyndsey Marshal, Samuel Barnett

A radio anthology of George Orwell's finest novels, memoirs and essays, plus four biographical dramas and a bonus documentary, The Road to Nineteen Eighty-FourVisionary author and journalist George Orwell was the man behind two of the best-loved and most influential novels of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. This collection celebrating his life and work features dramatisations of both these classic books, with stell...

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John Lennon, Hunter Davies

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Allan Corduner, Christopher Eccleston, Yoko Ono

John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate.He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all of his life; to his friends, family, strangers, newspapers, organisations, lawyers and the laundry - most of which were funny, informative, campaigning, wise, mad, poetic, anguished a...

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David Peace

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Christopher Eccleston

**A TIMES, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent book. ' MIKE ATHERTON'Tender, atmospheric - and hopeful.' iNEWS'A masterpiece.' IRISH TIMES'Electrifying.' GUARDIANFrom the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an ext...

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Mary Norton

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Christopher Eccleston

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A Puffin Book

Penguin presents for the first time the complete, unabridged audio edition of Mary Norton's The Borrowers, read by Christopher Eccelston.The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale curtains using a hat...