Politics & Economy audiobooks

Lady Susan's - Wintergeschichten

By: Lady Susan

Narrated by: Lady Susan

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Susan liest ihre eigenen Geschichten für Groß und Klein, für Jung und Alt. Diese Wintergeschichten sind der Auftakt zu einer Reihe von Geschichten für jede Jahreszeit. Read more

Lady Susan's - Sommergeschichten

By: Lady Susan

Narrated by: Lady Susan

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Susan liest ihre eigenen Geschichten für Groß und Klein, für Jung und Alt. Diese Sommergeschichten sind Teil einer Reihe von Geschichten für jede Jahreszeit. Read more

Der Staat & Das Gesetz

By: Frédéric Bastiat

Narrated by: Oliver Rohloff

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bastiats Aufsatz "Der Staat" und der mit ihm verwandte Artikel "Das Gesetz" zeigen sein Misstrauen gegenüber kollektiven Entscheidungs- und Umverteilungsmechanismen sowie gegenüber der irrigen Auffassung, der Staat sei eine Art Organ, eine "geheimnisvolle Persönlichkeit". Er warnt davor, dass "diese Personifizierung ... eine reiche Quelle von... Read more

How Not To Be Wrong

By: James O'Brien

Narrated by: James O'Brien

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's no point having a mind if you never change it

In his bestselling How To Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is 'If you're so sure about everything, haven't you ever changed your mind?'

In an age of us vs. them, tribal... Read more

The Unit

By: Adam Gamal & Kelly Kennedy

Narrated by: Adam Gamal & Peter Ganim

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an introduction narrated by the author. It has been modified to maintain the author's anonymity.

The first and only audiobook by a member of America's most secret military unit―an explosive and unlikely story of immigration, service, and sacrifice.

Inside our military is a team of operators whose work is so secretive that the... Read more

No Way Out

By: Tim Shipman

Narrated by: Rupert Farley

Length: 36 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost' FINANCIAL TIMES The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit... Read more

Gaffs

By: Rory Hearne

Narrated by: Rory Hearne

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette, stuck living at home as adults, and... Read more

SAS

By: Joshua Levine

Narrated by: Dan Morgan

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The authorised history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a lie, a story of a British parachute unit in the North African desert, to convince the Axis they... Read more

How to Be a Patriot

By: Sunder Katwala

Narrated by: Sunder Katwala

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we define patriotism in a diverse society? What divides us and what brings us together? Why do we feel uncomfortable celebrating our country’s history? How to be a Patriot offers a new way of understanding our collective identity in a country wracked by division and brimming with markers of... Read more

Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023 *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation... Read more

The Activist Leader

By: Lucy Parker & Jon Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Boxer

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist. If you want to be a successful leader in today’s business world, you need to think like an activist. This urgent and essential book shows how to do just that. The Activist Leader argues that the world needs a new... Read more

Social Capital

By: Aoife Barry

Narrated by: Aoife Barry

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores. Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest cities, became... Read more

Free Your Mind

By: Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan

Narrated by: Henry Nott

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind. There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’ ... Read more

Max Hastings On War

By: Max Hastings

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From Max Hastings comes a collection of talks and lectures exploring the wars of the 20th century with the verve, insight and originality that has made him a number one bestselling historian. What is war like to live through, for civilian victims, especially women, as well as soldiers, sailors and... Read more

Lawfare

By: Geoffrey Robertson

Narrated by: Geoffrey Robertson

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. ‘ESSENTIAL’ Amal Clooney‘AUTHORITATIVE’ Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC‘IMPORTANT ’Baroness Helena Kennedy KC‘COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY’ Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of “free speech” is a myth. From... Read more

Critical

By: Dr Julia Grace Patterson

Narrated by: Dr Julia Patterson

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for the past 75 years. It’s a burden to some and a potent vote-winner for others. It’s a... Read more

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors

By: Matt Chorley

Narrated by: Matt Chorley

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

‘’F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts – moreish and fabulously salty’ JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors is an entertaining and original romp through the highs and lows of British political history and the... Read more

Aung San Suu Kyi

By: Wendy Law-Yone

Narrated by: Ragini Kapil

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

POLITICIAN • PRISONER • PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars. Her resounding victory at the polls, and re-election to office as civilian head of state,... Read more

These Walls

By: Eva Fedderly

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing

In the tradition of Locking Up Our Own and The New Jim Crow, a rarely seen, thought-provoking journey into Rikers Island and the American justice system that... Read more

Not so Black and White

By: Kenan Malik

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars.

Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?

The ‘culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view,... Read more

The Great Crashes

By: Linda Yueh

Narrated by: Linda Yueh

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Since America's Wall Street Crash of 1929, the global economy has weathered the most tumultuous century in financial history. From the currency crises of the 1980s, to Japan's housing meltdown, the dot com boom and bust, the global financial crash and the COVID pandemic, crash after crash have sent shockwaves through our world.

The Great Crashes... Read more

The News Quiz: Another Vintage Collection

By: BBC Radio Comedy

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have an appetite for sharp satirical comedy blended with vintage news items, be sure to sample these 14 archive episodes of BBC Radio 4's long-running panel show, chaired by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart and Sandi Toksvig.

This latest smorgasbord of editions, all first broadcast between 1980 and 2012, has for its subjects such delicacies as... Read more

Controligarchs

By: Seamus Bruner

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Controligarchs peers into the future and provides a haunting and revelatory exposé of the globalist elite’s playbook for the next five years.”
- Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed, Clinton Cash, and Profiles in Corruption

Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs. You are not... Read more

Jenseits von Putin

By: Gesine Dornblüth & Thomas Franke

Narrated by: Klaus B. Wolf

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Russland am 24. Februar 2022 die Ukraine angriff, schien das großen Teilen der russischen Gesellschaft egal zu sein. Das ist nicht überraschend. Seit Jahren wird das russische Expansionsstreben davon begleitet, dass gesellschaftlich das Recht des Stärkeren gilt. Gewalt wird von vielen als Mittel der Politik akzeptiert.
Gesine Dornblüth und... Read more