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Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!

by Tony Park, Peter Whitehead ...

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money.Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals.After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a ... Read more

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Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money.Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Peter learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals.After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a gunner on a
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Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!

by Peter Whitehead, Tony Park ...

Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

Unabridged

11 hours 51 min

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Whitehead learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals. After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and working in near slave-like conditions as a farm labourer, Whitehead learned the art of breaking wild horses and so began a lifelong love affair with animals. After wartime service as a horse breaker for the army and a
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The Great World War 1914–1945

1. Lightning Strikes Twice

by Peter Liddle, John Bourne, Ian Whitehead ...

Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From frontline combat to civilian experience, women and children in wartime, genocide etc.The Face of BattleLeadership in the warsCivilians in the warsNational ... Read more

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Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From frontline combat to civilian experience, women and children in wartime, genocide etc.The Face of BattleLeadership in the warsCivilians in the warsNational
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Smokey Pete and the Festival Fiasco

by Peter W Whitehead ...

A true story set in the 1970's. Do you remember when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous?A young aspiring hash dealer moves to London and is recruited to help organise the well fundedGREAT WESTERN FESTIVAL. It's not long before he realises the Rock and Roll festival is headed for disaster but he could never imagine what a huge disaster it would turn out to be. While working on the festival ... Read more

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A true story set in the 1970's. Do you remember when sex was safe and motorcycles were dangerous?A young aspiring hash dealer moves to London and is recruited to help organise the well fundedGREAT WESTERN FESTIVAL. It's not long before he realises the Rock and Roll festival is headed for disaster but he could never imagine what a huge disaster it would turn out to be. While working on the festival
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Hamlet

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser, Edward de Souza, Susan Engel, Emma Fielding, Peter Jeffrey, Sean Baker, Jamie Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead, Gavin Muir, Peter Yapp, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Richard Pearce, Paul Panting ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth ... Read more

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Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively reinvented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years we have to go back to the Greek dramatists of fifth-century Athens to find anything of comparable depth
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The Intuitionist

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the ... Read more

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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the
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The Eagle has landed, The Eagle has Flown and Exocet

Three BBC Radio Full-Cast Thrillers

by Jack Higgins ...

Narrated by Michael Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Whitehead, Peter Jeffrey, Moir Leslie, Peter Acre, David Bamber, Frank Grimes, Graham Padden, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Full-cast dramatisations of three of Jack Higgins’ best-known novelsJack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands
... Read more
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Pam Ayres In Potting On

by Christoper Thompson, Pam Ayres, Peter Reynolds ...

Narrated by Pam Ayres, Full Cast, Geoffrey Whitehead ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was something in her peroxide head apart from boob jobs, alco ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam’s ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was something in her peroxide head apart from boob jobs, alco
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Apex Hides the Hurt

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...

Unabridged

5 hours 49 min

Best-selling author Colson Whitehead has been a finalist for numerous prestigious honors, including the Pulitzer Prize. His works are lauded for their insight into the state of race in America. Here, a small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis-should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in a ... Read more

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Best-selling author Colson Whitehead has been a finalist for numerous prestigious honors, including the Pulitzer Prize. His works are lauded for their insight into the state of race in America. Here, a small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis-should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in a
... Read more

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John Henry Days

by Colson Whitehead ...

Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez ...

Unabridged

17 hours 41 min

J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer--a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer--a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J. continues his nearly record-setting, three-month junket
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Crown Papers

The sequel to BBC Radio 4 Regal Drama Crown House

by Peter Ling, Juliet Ace ...

Narrated by Dinah Sheridan, Geoffrey Whitehead, Deborah Makepeace, Helena Breck, Margaret Rawlings, Brett Usher, Colin McFarlane, Susan Sheridan, Shelley Thompson, Melinda Walker, Mark Straker, Phillip Sully, Full Cast ...

Series series Crown
Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

The dramatic sequel to Crown HouseIt's 1933 and we are back at Crown House where the Minster family are gathering to enjoy the Easter holiday. However, Crown House isn't the idyll it first appears, and a brutal murder disrupts the genial gathering. There's a secret that's been buried for years and the Honourable Mrs Jenny Gaunt is determined to uncover the truth but is she prepared to lose ... Read more

$18.99 USD

The dramatic sequel to Crown HouseIt's 1933 and we are back at Crown House where the Minster family are gathering to enjoy the Easter holiday. However, Crown House isn't the idyll it first appears, and a brutal murder disrupts the genial gathering. There's a secret that's been buried for years and the Honourable Mrs Jenny Gaunt is determined to uncover the truth but is she prepared to lose
... Read more
Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas

Rekindling the Wurrk Tradition

Edited by Jeremy Russell-Smith, Peter Whitehead, Peter Cooke ...

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas ... Read more

$64.99 USD

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually. Impacts have been particularly severe in the Arnhem Land Plateau, a centre of plant and animal diversity on Indigenous land. Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas
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The Intuitionist

The Eagle has landed, The Eagle has Flown and Exocet

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