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Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
- 50 Places That Changed British Politics
- De: Matt Chorley
- Narrado por: Matt Chorley
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events that have shaped modern British politics happened not in the cloisters of parliament or Downing Street’s many corridors of power, but in car parks, village halls and seaside resorts where the mundane have played host to the mighty. Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors is an entertaining and original romp through the highs and lows of British political history and the unlikely locations that have decided our national fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The stories behind the news
- De Dad / Husband (who rarely reviews) en 07-30-24
- Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors
- 50 Places That Changed British Politics
- De: Matt Chorley
- Narrado por: Matt Chorley
The stories behind the news
Revisado: 07-30-24
Presenter of The Times essential podcast Politics Without The Boring Bits, Matt Chorley is passionate about politics. His passion and enthusiasm shines brightly as he reads from his own book.
Pulling 50 different stories from a quarter of a millennium of political history, Matt takes you on a whistle stop tour of many famous and obscure locations of political interest.
From 1773 through to 2022 Matt delivers fascinating insights into the stories behind the news stories of the day. These are stories filled with laughter, tears, hubris, haplessness, and happenstance.
As a Brit who now lives in the US some of the stories here are more familiar than others, but I found them all interesting.
Highly recommended for lovers of all things British or all things political.
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The Weaponisation of Everything
- A Field Guide to the New Way of War
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: Mark Galeotti
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Hybrid war, grey-zone warfare, unrestricted war: Today, traditional conflict - fought with guns, bombs, and drones - has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clear, concise, and thought provoking
- De Dad / Husband (who rarely reviews) en 03-08-22
- The Weaponisation of Everything
- A Field Guide to the New Way of War
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: Mark Galeotti
Clear, concise, and thought provoking
Revisado: 03-08-22
Mark Galiotti’s ‘The Weaponisation of Everything’ clearly show that while new and shiny war technology may make our current times seem more dangerous than ever before, behind the drama and the hype it is truly just business (as usual) and there is nothing new under the sun.
War, be it kinetic (physical) or non-kinetic (psychological, economic, cyber-anything, espionage, culture) has been with us forever.
This book details how the binary world of right or left, right or wrong, red or blue, black hats or white hats, the just or the unjust, friend or foe, is a world that we believe in because it makes things easier for us to understand and deal with, but is a world that does not really exist in such simple terms.
The author is a perfect narrator of his own work, adding humor, pauses, and emphasis in all the right places.
This work is so packed with details, and suggestions for further reading, that it will require multiple visits. Fresh from a first listen, I am immediately starting again. Highly recommended.
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The Candidate
- Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
- De: Alex Nunns
- Narrado por: Pete Nottage
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
In June 2017, an earthquake shook the very foundations of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn instead achieved a stunning upset - a hung parliament, the humiliation of Theresa May's government, and more than 40 percent of the vote. A lifelong and uncompromising socialist, Corbyn had, against all expectations, been dramatically elected leader of the party in September 2015. How these events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns' highly listenable and richly researched account.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Revealing and well written.
- De Dad / Husband (who rarely reviews) en 12-07-21
- The Candidate
- Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power
- De: Alex Nunns
- Narrado por: Pete Nottage
Revealing and well written.
Revisado: 12-07-21
A refreshing review of recent history. Great narration by Pete Nottage. Looking forward to Alex Nunn's next book, Sabotage. Same cast of characters, brought up to date.
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Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: H. G. Wells, Jeff Wayne
- Narrado por: Michael Sheen, Taron Egerton, Theo James, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 528
When H. G. Wells first published The War of The Worlds in 1898, the novel quickly became a sci-fi classic. The story of extraterrestrials from Mars invading Earth captured the public’s imagination, inspiring a famed 1938 radio broadcast with Orson Welles, several feature films, countless video games, and a best-selling musical concept album by Jeff Wayne in 1978, among others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and Amazing
- De Charles Duncan en 11-30-18
- Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds: The Musical Drama
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: H. G. Wells, Jeff Wayne
- Narrado por: Michael Sheen, Taron Egerton, Theo James, Adrian Edmondson, Anna-Marie Wayne
It's different...
Revisado: 11-29-18
Less music and more story make for something different with plenty of callbacks. Still great.
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