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    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • William Hanson and Jordan North are unlikely best friends. William's a posh etiquette expert, and Jordan's an expert in all things common. In this hit...
    • By: Alan Partridge
    • Narrated by: Alan Partridge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,657 ratings
    • Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder – Alan Partridge – a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future....

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    • My Very Funny Memoir
    • By: Jenny Eclair
    • Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia,...

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    • By: Jarvis Cocker
    • Narrated by: Jarvis Cocker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 862 ratings
    • We all have a random collection of the things that made us—photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer....

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    • By: Chris Broad
    • Narrated by: Chris Broad
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 992 ratings
    • When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

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    • By: Daisy May Cooper
    • Narrated by: Daisy May Cooper, Paul Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,501 ratings
    • Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother, Chaz, she had to work a myriad of low-paid and unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet....

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    • Learning to live again
    • By: Louise Thompson
    • Narrated by: Louise Thompson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • Louise was like any other excited mother-to-be during her first pregnancy, but no one could have predicted what happened when she gave birth. During an emergency c-section, she had severe complications and fought for her life over a number of days, whilst her son was taken into NICU....

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    • A Comedian's Guide to Autism
    • By: Pierre Novellie
    • Narrated by: Pierre Novellie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Comedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck's back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was himself autistic. Second, he turned out to be absolutely right....

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    • By: Rameshwar Das, Ram Dass
    • Narrated by: Rameshwar Das
    • Length: 18 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • From Harvard psychology professor Richard Alpert to psychedelic and spiritual icon, Ram Dass tells here, for the first time, the full arc of his remarkable life....

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    • Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
    • By: Sarah Langford
    • Narrated by: Sarah Langford
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • A beautifully written portrait of 21st-century farming, Rooted is a fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farming....

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    • How an Undercover Unit Infiltrated the Global Drug Trade
    • By: Guy Stanton, Peter Walsh
    • Narrated by: Karl Jenkinson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Guy Stanton was a burly London gangster with a big reputation. For years he operated at the top of the drugs trade, moving huge shipments around the world. He knew the leading players in global organized crime....

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    • Memoirs of a Car Tragic
    • By: Chris Harris
    • Narrated by: Chris Harris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • Chris Harris has driven more cars than most people could ever dream of. His vast knowledge is legendary. And now for the first time, Harris is going all out, taking us down the road of his life-long adventure with the automobile....

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    • How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me for Life
    • By: Josh Widdicombe
    • Narrated by: James Acaster, Josh Widdicombe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,112 ratings
    • In his first memoir, Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Marian Keyes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....

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    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • True Stories, from terrified people. The darkest unexplained stories, direct from the source. Keep one eye open, or you may end up on the show.
    • How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living
    • By: Clare Pooley
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135 ratings
    • Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle, so she left her successful career to look after her family....

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    • Life Lessons on Going Under, Getting Over It, and Getting Through It
    • By: Michael Rosen
    • Narrated by: Michael Rosen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Getting Better is an essential companion for anyone who has loved and lost, or struggled and survived....

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    • How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem
    • By: Max Dickins
    • Narrated by: Max Dickins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that that he wasn’t the only man struggling with friendships....

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    • The No Cravings, No Willpower Way to Get Lean and Happy for Good
    • By: Davinia Taylor
    • Narrated by: Davinia Taylor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Davinia Taylor was overweight, depressed and unmotivated. She couldn't walk around the block, let alone go for a run or do an exercise class, and she struggled to keep up with her four young sons. In desperation she turned to biohacking to sort her head out....

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