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Icons of England
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.
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A Curates Egg
- By Mike on 25-11-20
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Icons of England
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, Terence Wilton, Homer Todiwa, Leda Hodgson, Sara Poyzer, Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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The Place of Tides
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on. Back at home, Rebanks couldn’t stop thinking about the woman on the rocks. She was fierce and otherworldly – and yet strangely familiar. Years passed. Then, one day, he wrote her a letter, asking if he could return.
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Tradition and Nature
- By Ann Van Eetvelt on 19-10-24
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The Place of Tides
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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The Lie of the Land
- Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
- By: Guy Shrubsole
- Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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For centuries we’ve been sold a lie: that you need to own the land to care for it. Just 1% of the population own half of England, and this tiny landowning elite like to present themselves as the rightful custodians of the countryside. They’re even paid billions of pounds of public money to be good stewards. But what happens when they just don’t care?
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Another great listen
- By Mr Bug on 19-09-24
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The Lie of the Land
- Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
- Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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On the Marsh
- A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
- By: Simon Barnes
- Narrated by: Simon Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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When writer Simon Barnes heard a Cetti's warbler sing out as he turned up to look at a house for sale, he knew immediately that he had found his new home. The fact that his garden backed onto an area of marshy land only increased the possibilities, but there was always the fear that it might end up in the wrong hands and be lost to development or intensive farming.
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Delightful, informative and gives me hope!
- By JPA on 17-10-20
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On the Marsh
- A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet
- Narrated by: Simon Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-06-19
- Language: English
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Rural Rides
- By: William Cobbett
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
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Between 1821 and 1826, the prolific writer and journalist William Cobbett travelled the countryside of the South of England on foot and horseback. Rural Rides is a fascinating account of his journeys, and depicts a way of life in transition, juxtaposing lyrical descriptions of the countryside with criticism of the poverty of agricultural workers. A man of radical politics who encouraged the rural rising of 1830, Cobbett went on to become MP for Oldham and sought to represent the interests of both industrial and agricultural workers. Above all, Rural Rides celebrates agrarian England.
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Excellent
- By Zadzaczadlin on 05-07-22
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Rural Rides
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 22 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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Noble Ambitions
- The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
- By: Adrian Tinniswood
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
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As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation's stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense that they had no place in 20th-century Britain, hundreds of ancestral piles were dismantled and demolished. Perhaps even more surprising was the fact that so many of these great houses survived, as dukes and duchesses clung desperately to their ancestral seats and tenants' balls gave way to rock concerts, safari parks and day trippers.
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Country Houses
- By marilynpask on 19-09-23
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Noble Ambitions
- The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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The Power and the Glory
- The Country House Before the Great War
- By: Adrian Tinniswood
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side-by-side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses who had learned to dance in the chorus line and self-made millionaires who had been raised in the slums of Manchester and Birmingham.
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The Power and the Glory
- The Country House Before the Great War
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 17-10-24
- Language: English
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English Pastoral
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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The author of the beloved number one best seller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm. James Rebanks was taught by his grandfather to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, that landscape had profoundly changed.
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One of the most important books I’ve ever read
- By hannah kenway on 20-09-20
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English Pastoral
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-09-20
- Language: English
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The Lightning Thread
- Fishological Moments and the Pursuit of Paradise
- By: David Profumo
- Narrated by: David Profumo
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
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The Lightning Thread takes the listener on a journey of unexpected delight, personal pleasure and profound discovery. From angling with his father on a spating burn at the height of the Profumo Affair to knocking back mojitos while hunting for Permit, ‘the Robocop of the sea’, off the coast of Cuba. Much more than just another book about fishing, The Lightning Thread is an exploration of joy and a celebration of simple pleasures in a too complicated world.
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Perfect Piscatorial Prose
- By Safaribry on 18-07-22
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The Lightning Thread
- Fishological Moments and the Pursuit of Paradise
- Narrated by: David Profumo
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 27-05-21
- Language: English
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- By: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.
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Insightful and Terrifying
- By S. Dagg on 07-07-24
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-02-24
- Language: English
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo
- Life in the Wilds of Wales
- By: Kiran Sidhu
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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After Kiran loses her mother, she escapes to the Welsh countryside—to allow herself to grieve away from turbulent city life in London, to leave her toxic family behind, and to find solace in the purity of the natural world. I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth. This is a reflective book about finding friendship in the most unexpected places—and what nature and a small community in the Welsh Valleys can teach us about life.
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Absolutely loved it
- By C.L.MARTIN on 20-09-24
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I Can Hear the Cuckoo
- Life in the Wilds of Wales
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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The Chief Shepherdess
- Lessons in Life, Love and Farming
- By: Zoe Colville
- Narrated by: Zoe Colville
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Zoë Colville spent years in a fancy hair salon with a long list of clients, living on cigarettes, croissants, and a shoestring. It was everything she'd ever wanted. But when an unexpected and overwhelming loss caused her life to shift unexpectedly, she found herself on a different path. One where the only use for a hairdryer is warming new-born lambs; where the cycle of life on a farm gives new meaning on purpose, and where nature is both a strict teacher and a balm to soothe the pressures of everyday life.
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Excellent biography
- By Dr. N. WOODRUFF on 14-05-24
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The Chief Shepherdess
- Lessons in Life, Love and Farming
- Narrated by: Zoe Colville
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Trespasser's Companion
- By: Nick Hayes
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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We may be excluded from the majority of our land, no less than 92 per cent in England, but best-selling nature writer and trespasser Nick Hayes shows how we can reclaim our lost connection. By engaging with the land through craft and learning and by caring for it, our relationship with the countryside will be better for us, and better for nature. Interwoven are testimonials from expert contributors—farmers and land workers, activists and authors—each with deeply personal stories of what a connection to nature means for them.
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Meandering tirade
- By Mr A Wedgwood on 26-02-23
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The Trespasser's Companion
- Narrated by: Nick Hayes
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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The Parish
- By: Alice Taylor
- Narrated by: Patricia Leventon
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Alice Taylor's parish, like others in rural Ireland today, faces many challenges. As once-small towns and villages turn into suburban sprawls, can the original heart still pump life into its extended limbs? With her unique ability to capture everyday things, Alice Taylor brings us into her own parish.
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The Parish
- Narrated by: Patricia Leventon
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-08-09
- Language: English
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village on which the book was based. He sought out locals who appeared in the original book to learn how their lives had changed, met newcomers, and interviewed Ronald Blythe himself.
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Uncomfortable
- By K. Logan on 02-04-24
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft
- By: Lynn Cassells, Sandra Baer
- Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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As seen on the BBC’s This Farming Life. The inspirational story of Lynbreck Croft - a regenerative Scottish farm rooted in local food, community, and the dreams of two women. Lynn and Sandra left their friends, family, and jobs in England to travel north to Scotland to find a bit of land that they could call their own. They had in mind keeping a few chickens, a kitchen garden, and renting out some camping space; instead, they fell in love with Lynbreck Croft - 150 acres of opportunity and beauty, shrouded by the Cairngorms and deep in the Highlands of Scotland.
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Crofting in 2024, working with nature
- By Amazon Customer on 08-08-24
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Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft
- Narrated by: Lynn Cassells
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-03-22
- Language: English
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- By: Patrick Joyce
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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A way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the rural world by the urban. In this new history of peasantry, Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people. In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes, we discover a rich and complex culture: traditions, songs, celebrations, and revolts, across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland, through the 19th century to the present day.
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Masterful
- By PETER S WARING on 08-04-24
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Remembering Peasants
- A Personal History of a Vanished World
- Narrated by: Philip Bird
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 15-02-24
- Language: English
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The Shepherd's Life
- By: James Rebanks
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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These modern dispatches from an ancient landscape tell the story of a deep-rooted attachment to place, describing a way of life that is little noticed and yet has profoundly shaped this landscape. In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost.
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It's good being a shepheard
- By Rose on 10-07-15
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The Shepherd's Life
- Narrated by: Bryan Dick
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-06-15
- Language: English
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- By: Rebecca Smith
- Narrated by: Rebecca Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Starting with Rebecca Smith’s own family history – foresters in Cumbria, miners in Derbyshire, millworkers in Nottinghamshire, builders of reservoirs and the Manchester Ship Canal – Rural is an exploration of our green and pleasant land, and the people whose labour has shaped it. Beautifully observed, these are the stories of professions and communities that often go overlooked. Smith shows the precarity for those whose lives are entangled in the natural landscape. And she traces how these rural working-class worlds have changed.
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Thoroughly interesting, enjoyable and absorbing.
- By Anonymous User on 15-06-23
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Rural
- The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
- Narrated by: Rebecca Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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