This is volume 1 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning "BBC Radio 4" series.
The original ground-breaking series of This Sceptred Isle was a compelling, continuous narrative, from the arrival of the Romans to the end of the twentieth century. This new series explains how Britain, through trading in such commodities as sugar, spice - and slaves - built the biggest empire the world had ever known.
At one time a quarter of the global land mass was under British rule; so whatever the day, whatever the hour, the sun never set on the Empire.
Christopher Lee begins Volume 1 with the colonisation of Ireland by Henry II in 1155. Following the growth of Elizabethan exploration with John Cabot, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, outposts in North America and the West Indies gradually became established and successful, while the East India Company was gaining an even firmer foothold in India.
Juliet Stevenson, as narrator, takes us through triumphs and disasters - to the British defeat at Yorktown in 1783 and the independence of the United States of America.
Using a range of contemporary documents read by Rob Brydon, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Anna Massey and Robert Powell, this is an informative, engaging and fascinating insight into the rise - and eventual fall - of the British Empire.
Christopher Lee
Narrator : Anna Massey
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 3 hours
Categories : Non Fiction British Pre 1900
Price : $22.25
Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of the events and personalities that have shaped our nation. From foreign invasions and war to economic crises and social revolution... View...
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Richard Benson
Narrator : Richard Benson
Published By : Orion Publishing Group
Length : 4 hours 15 minutes
Categories : Autobiography Biographical British 20th Century
Price : $14.25
A delight, superb. An engaging, tender and uplifting story of a family and its struggle to eke a living from the land... View...
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Simon Schama
Narrator : Timothy West
Published By : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Length : 10 hours 55 minutes
Categories : British History Pre 1900 20th Century
Price : $39.25
Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic. View...
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by A Lady of Distinction
Narrator : Nadia May
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 4 hours
Categories : British Social & Economic Pre 1900
Price : $25.95 $12.95
In the flowery language of its era, this book details English customs and manners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including women's dress, propriety, and beauty aids, with ad... View...
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Philipa Gregory
Narrator : Emilia Fox
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Length : 7 hours
Categories : Pre 1900 British Biographical
Price : $20.99
Fabulous historical novel set in the court of King Henry VIII. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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