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Helen Mirren

Dame Helen Lydia Mirren (born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Mirren has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards. In 2003, she was made a Dame for services to the performing arts at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the latter half of the 1960s. From her very first film appearance (playing the young muse to a middle-aged artist in 1969’s Age of Consent), Mirren displayed the overtly sensual screen persona that would become her trademark. Other early movies included O Lucky Man! (1973), Excalibur (1981) and The Long Good Friday (1982). During her career, she has portrayed three British queens in different films and television series: Elizabeth I in the television series Elizabeth I (2005), for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress, Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), which won her the Academy and BAFTA Award for Best Actress, and Queen Charlotte in The Madness of King George (1994), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She is the only actress ever to have portrayed both Queen Elizabeths on the screen. Mirren has played the no-nonsense police detective Jane Tennison on the ITV series Prime Suspect for a total of seven seasons from 1991 to 2006, and won numerous awards for the role, including BAFTA and Emmy awards. Making her West End stage debut in the 1970s, Mirren is set to return to the London stage in 2013, taking up the role of Queen Elizabeth II for the second time. Mirren is to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.

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Title:

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history (MP3)

Written by:

Annabelle Hirsch 

Read by:

Juliet Stevenson; Miriam Margolyes; Kate Winslet; Helen Mirren; Helena Bonham Carter; Jacqueline Wilson; Sandi Toksvig; Julia Gillard; Harriet Walter; Adjoa Andoh; Joanna Lumley; Jeanette Winterson; Louise Brealey; Margaret Atwood; Celia Imrie; Alison Steadman; Meera Syal; Dolly Alderton; Olivia Colman; Rebecca Solnit; Noma Dumezweni; Sinéad Gleeson; Natascha McElhone; Sally Phillips; Crystal Clarke; Elizabeth Acevedo; Salena Godden; Ruth Ozeki; Gillian Anderson; Kate Mosse; Daisy Ridley; Cynthia Erivo; Anita Rani; Katy Hessel; Jackie Kay; Len Pennie; Annabelle Hirsch; Shirley Manson; Marina Hyde; Naomi Shimada; Kate Manne; Janina Ramirez; Doon Mackichan; Elif Shafak; Val McDermid; Caitlin Moran; Sasha Lane; Sue Perkins; Ece Temelkuran ; Mary Ann Sieghart; Rebecca Hall ; Krista Tippett; Patience Agbabi; Michelle Newell ; Geraldine James; Sinéad Cusack; Tiya Miles; Helena Kennedy; Samin Nosrat; Anna Holmes; Michelle Gomez; India Knight; Lauren Elkin ; Sylvia Whitman; Denise Gough; Siri Hustvedt; Gaby Wood; Sophie Hunter; Lisa-Kaindé Diaz; Annabel Mullion; Sharleen Spiteri; Jennifer Clement; Jude Kelly; Kerry Fox; Ruthie Rogers; Maggie Smith; Hanna Schygulla; Kübra Gümüsay; Erica Wagner; Sandra Hüller; Jodie Whittaker; Nicola Sturgeon; Anjelica Huston ; Lisa Dwan; Eleanor Updegraff; Lili Taylor; Mariella Frostrup; Katie Kitamura; Saffron Hocking; Tahmima Anam; Shirin Neshat; Martha Wainwright; Christiane Amanpour; Georgia Byng; Helena Gonda; Juno Dawson; Kathryn Hunter; Rakie Ayola; Virginie Efira; Vivian Oparah; Niamh McGrady; Leïla Slimani 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

13 hours 8 minutes 

MP3 size:

570 MB 

Published:

March 28 2024 

Available Date:

March 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038669155 

Genres:

Non-fiction; History 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 44.95

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From a hunger strike medal to a bidet, the Amazon rainforest to the plantations of South Carolina, Simone de Beauvoir to Beyoncé, this is the story of women as never seen before.

This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed – even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations – and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a 16th century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived. Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history – teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.

'A reminder, lest we forget, that women are and have always been, whether quietly or vociferously, on the periphery or centre stage, the engine, the glue, the inspiration behind it all.'
Gillian Anderson

'An ambitious project, wide in scope, idiosyncratic in approach ... At its heart it is about female pain, female bravery and female creativity.'
Sunday Times