Under Every Leaf: How Britain Played the Greater Game From Afghanistan to Africa
Written by William Beaver
Read by Peter Owen
This is the story of the shadowy Intelligence Division of the British War Office and its unsung role in the formation of the Victorian Empire and imperial policy-making from Asia to Africa.
Dur: 11hrs 13minsMONO
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The Man Who Would Be Jack: The Hunt For The Real Ripper
Written by David Bullock
Read by Peter Owen
London, 1891. Less than three weeks after the last Whitechapel murder, 25-year-old Thomas Cutbush is committed to Broadmoor for savage knife attacks on two girls. The arresting officer, Inspector William Race, intrigued by the wealth of connections with the infamous unsolved murders in the East End, starts to wonder whether he has, in fact, arrested Jack the Ripper himself.
Dur: 6hrs 36minsSTEREO
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Written by MRD Foot & JM Langley
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
Forged passports, secret maps, ingenious disguises, underground networks – in times of war, tales of escape and evasion can be even more spectacular and heroic than those of victory in battle.
Dur: 12hrs 46minsMONO
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Red Dusk and The Morrow: Adventures & Investigations In Soviet Russia
Written by Paul Dukes
Read by Peter Owen
Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, by ‘C’ (the mysterious head of the British secret service). His mission: to pull together the British spy networks operating against the new regime.
Dur: 9hrs 43minsMONO
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Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
Written by Charles Loft
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
During the course of the 1950s England lost confidence in its rulers and convinced itself to modernise. The bankrupt steam-powered railway, run by a retired general, symbolised everything that was wrong with the country; the future lay in motorways and high speed electric – or even atomic – express trains. But plans for a gleaming new railway system ended in failure and on the roads traffic ground to a halt.
Dur: 9hrs 32minsMONO
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Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry
Written by Douglas Murray
Read by Michael Fenton Stevens
Bloody Sunday was the worst massacre of British citizens by British troops since Peterloo in 1819 – a potent distillation of the rage and anguish of a bitter conflict that spanned decades and claimed three and a half thousand lives.
Dur: 10hrs 43minsMONO
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A Spy Like No Other: The Cuban Missile Crisis, The KGB and the Kennedy Assassination
Written by Robert Holmes
Read by John Banks
The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US President John F. Kennedy’s willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Holmes, a British diplomat in Moscow during the early 1960s, provides an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the Cold War. Kennedy’s confidence in his brinkmanship hung on the evidence provided by Oleg Penkovsky, the MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence.
Dur: 9hrs 4minsSTEREO
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