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Narrator

Joan Walker

Joan has 30 years of experience as an actress, enjoying all aspects of work including audiobooks, commercials, radio drama, TV, theatre and film. Recent theatre work includes a world tour of Mamma Mia! playing the man-eating Tanya; Lady Fancyfull, the ditzy schemer in The Provok'd Wife at Greenwich Theatre; and Ingrid in The Tide at the Soho Theatre. Favourite roles for BBC Radio Drama include Dorothy Parker in Regret is No Part of My Plan for Radio 4, Madame Beck in Villette for Radio 4 and the Voice of God in The Piper Alpha Disaster for Radio 3.

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Title:

In Their Own Words 2: More letters from history (MP3)

Written by:

The National Archives 

Read by:

Jonathan Keeble; Joan Walker 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours  

MP3 size:

249 MB 

Published:

December 01 2019 

Available Date:

December 01 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655627043 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Biography; Historical; History 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 29.95

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A new collection of letters, notes and other documents from people who made history.

Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction.

[On In Their Own Words 1] 'Fascinating.'
Sunday Times