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This is the BBC

Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022

by Simon J. Potter ...

In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation, historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history, asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes next for British public broadcasting. 2022 marks the centenary year of the British Broadcasting Corporation. As Britain's most famous and influential broadcaster, the BBC faces a range of significant ... Read more

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In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation, historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history, asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes next for British public broadcasting. 2022 marks the centenary year of the British Broadcasting Corporation. As Britain's most famous and influential broadcaster, the BBC faces a range of significant
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Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening

Britain, Propaganda, and the Invention of Global Radio, 1920-1939

by Simon J. Potter ...

During the 1920s and 1930s the new medium of radio broadcasting promised to transform society by fostering national unity and strengthening and popularising national cultures. However, many hoped that 'wireless' would also encourage international understanding and world peace. Intentionally or otherwise, wireless signals crossed borders, bringing talk, music, and news to enthusiastic 'distant ... Read more

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During the 1920s and 1930s the new medium of radio broadcasting promised to transform society by fostering national unity and strengthening and popularising national cultures. However, many hoped that 'wireless' would also encourage international understanding and world peace. Intentionally or otherwise, wireless signals crossed borders, bringing talk, music, and news to enthusiastic 'distant
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This Is the BBC

Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022

by Simon J. Potter ...

Narrated by Gideon Emery ...

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11 hours 13 min

As the British Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its centenary, historian Simon J. Potter assesses its achievements and failures. He explores the programmes that audiences have often loved, and sometimes hated, and the turbulent relationship between broadcaster and government.Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain’s most influential broadcaster. Its programmes have ... Read more

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As the British Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its centenary, historian Simon J. Potter assesses its achievements and failures. He explores the programmes that audiences have often loved, and sometimes hated, and the turbulent relationship between broadcaster and government.Founded in 1922, over the last century the BBC has become Britain’s most influential broadcaster. Its programmes have
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The Wireless World

Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting

by Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, Andrea Stanton ...

The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a co-written book, the result of more than five ... Read more

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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a co-written book, the result of more than five
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The Wireless World

Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting

by Simon J. Potter, David Clayton, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Nelson Ribeiro, Rebecca Scales, Andrea Stanton ...

Narrated by Alex Wyndham ...

Unabridged

11 hours

The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a cowritten book, the result of more than five ... Read more

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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a cowritten book, the result of more than five
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Borderline Personality Disorder

New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis

by Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Brent Potter ...

Series series Practical and Applied Psychology
This book is an ideal resource for general readers who want a clear understanding of people suffering with chaotic emotions, and for clinicians treating patients for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).The patterns of behavior of those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often frustrating and mystifying to both clinicians and family members, despite several decades of study and ... Read more

$46.99 USD

This book is an ideal resource for general readers who want a clear understanding of people suffering with chaotic emotions, and for clinicians treating patients for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).The patterns of behavior of those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often frustrating and mystifying to both clinicians and family members, despite several decades of study and
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North Woods

A Novel

by Daniel Mason ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter, Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD****A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD****A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring
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Cognition Switch #8

by Pat Long, Sujata Gupta, Lyra McKee, Henry Nicholls, Carrie Arnold, Vanessa Potter, Simon Usborne, Gaia Vince, Catherine Carver ...

Series Book 8 - Cognition Switch
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #8: August 2019Featuring Ideas by:Sujata Gupta, Lyra McKee, Henry Nicholls, Carrie Arnold, Vanessa Potter, Will Storr, Simon Usborne, Gaia Vince, Pat Long, and Catherine Carver ... Read more

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Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #8: August 2019Featuring Ideas by:Sujata Gupta, Lyra McKee, Henry Nicholls, Carrie Arnold, Vanessa Potter, Will Storr, Simon Usborne, Gaia Vince, Pat Long, and Catherine Carver
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Connected Empires, Connected Worlds

Essays in Honour of John Darwin

Edited by Robert S.G. Fletcher, Benjamin Mountford, Simon J. Potter ...

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.While each ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John Darwin’s contribution to the study of empire and its endings. Written by his former students and colleagues, the book’s chapters discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.While each
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The Storytellers

Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors

by Mark Rubinstein ...

Narrated by various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance, Kirsten Potter, Robert Fass, Keith Szarabajka, Richard Poe, Marc Vietor, Karen White0, George Newbern1, Carrington MacDuffie2, John Lescault3, Malcolm Hillgartner4, Susan Ericksen5, Chris Abell6, Patrick Lawlor7, Eileen Stevens8, Derek Perkins9, Tim Campbell0, Hillary Huber1, Ralph Lister2, Marguerite Gavin3, John Rubinstein4, Ann Richardson5, Scott Brick6, John Lee7, Mirron Willis8, Nancy Wu9, Pam Ward0, Joe Hempel1, Kathleen Early2, Paul Heitsch3, Andrew Eiden4, Suzanne Toren5, John McLain6, Mark Bramhall7, Andi Arndt8, Stefan Rudnicki9, Bernadette Dunne0, Michael Kramer1, Suzie Althens2, David de Vries3, Natalie Ross4, Lloyd James5 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post ... Read more

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Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post
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Pyg

The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig

by Russell Potter ...

Narrated by Simon Callow ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

A heartwarming debut introduces readers to the adventures of its overachieving porcine narratorBlending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife, Toby tours the ... Read more

$17.50 USD

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A heartwarming debut introduces readers to the adventures of its overachieving porcine narratorBlending the sophisticated satire of Jonathan Swift with the charming exuberance of a Pixar film, Pyg tells the story of Toby, a truly exceptional pig who lived in late eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife, Toby tours the
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