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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- By: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance40
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.
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An annoying book but with some merit
- By Megan on 23-12-21
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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This is the Life
- Days and Nights in the GAA
- By: Ciarán Murphy
- Narrated by: Ciarán Murphy
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall36
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Performance35
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Brought to you by Penguin. A provocative look at how grassroots GAA interacts with life in Ireland, from the wittiest Gaelic games pundit at work today The GAA is Ireland's largest civil society organisation, woven into the fabric of families and communities - and yet most books about Gaelic...
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Relatable
- By John M. on 19-08-24
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This is the Life
- Days and Nights in the GAA
- Narrated by: Ciarán Murphy
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 21-09-23
- Language: English
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance57
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, read by Finlay Robertson. Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child...
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Thoughtful, challenging
- By Ed Freshwater on 04-12-18
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The Inner Level
- How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-08-18
- Language: English
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- By: Rachel Sherman
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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From TV's Real Housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with 50 affluent New Yorkers - including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers - to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege.
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Uneasy Street
- The Anxieties of Affluence
- Narrated by: Liz Thompson
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-09-17
- Language: English
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- By: Heather McGhee
- Narrated by: Heather McGhee
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can't win unless somebody else loses. But this is a lie.
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Well Researched, Written & Presented
- By Another Satisfied Customer on 11-01-22
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The Sum of Us
- What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
- Narrated by: Heather McGhee
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Six Degrees of Separation
- By: John Guare
- Narrated by: Chuma Hunter-Gault, Alan Alda, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall8
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Performance5
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In a Fifth Avenue apartment high above Central Park, a weathy art dealer and his wife are trying to interest a moneyed friend in a $2 million investment when an unexpected young guest arrives - and changes their lives forever. Performed by a full cast starring Alan Alda, Swoosie Kurtz, and Chuma Hunter-Gault.
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Six Degrees of Separation
- Narrated by: Chuma Hunter-Gault, Alan Alda, full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 01-03-01
- Language: English
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Escape From Capitalism
- Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths
- By: Clara E. Mattei
- Narrated by: Deborah McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Brought to you by Penguin. Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its true role: to convince us there’s no alternative to capitalism. We live in a world dominated by the dogma that austerity is necessary, unemployment natural, endless...
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Proof that capitalism is bad for us and the environment.
- By Fritz on 20-03-26
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Escape From Capitalism
- Economics is Political, and Other Liberating Truths
- Narrated by: Deborah McBride
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 22-01-26
- Language: English
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- By: Grace Blakeley
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall168
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Performance143
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Story140
For decades, it has been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. In the decade leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, booming banks, rising house prices, and cheap consumer goods propped up living standards in the rich world. Thirty years of rocketing debt and financial wizardry had masked the deep underlying fragility of finance-led growth, and in 2008 we were forced to pay up.
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Nice listen with lots of real world factss
- By Gary S. on 16-10-19
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Stolen
- How to Save the World from Financialisation
- Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 13-09-19
- Language: English
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Hillbilly Elegy
- The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States
- By: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,279
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Performance1,170
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the...
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SUPERB, insightful and addictive - a must listen
- By Miss on 15-11-16
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Hillbilly Elegy
- The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 22-09-16
- Language: English
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Women, Race & Class
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance106
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Story105
Brought to you by Penguin. Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories...
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Powerful, Articulate and Relevant
- By LadyV on 21-06-21
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Women, Race & Class
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- By: Michael J. Sandel
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall379
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Performance312
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Brought to you by Penguin. These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the...
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a unified theory of discourse as we know it
- By Stuart Robertson on 05-11-20
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 10-09-20
- Language: English
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall516
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Performance454
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives...
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Brilliant book that should be required reading
- By Amazon Customer on 27-08-20
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- By: Darren McGarvey
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall153
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Performance142
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From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most. There is arguably one unifying theme that links all these afflictions: proximity. Proximity is how close we are to the action and how that affects how we assess, relate to and address whatever that action happens to be. Almost every job requires a level of experience and training with the notable exception of the most powerful people in the country—our political class.
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Should be read by all
- By iman on 18-07-22
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The Social Distance Between Us
- How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Poverty Safari
- Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
- By: Darren McGarvey
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall826
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Performance738
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Story734
The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Winner of the Orwell Prize. Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll. Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty. Darren...
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Stunning. Essential reading.
- By Miss on 15-08-18
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Poverty Safari
- Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
- Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-08-18
- Language: English
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- By: Peter Apps
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance107
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Story107
On 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames. The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put'. Many did–and they died. It was a disaster decades in the making. Peter Apps exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused this tragedy. It is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for change.
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Outstanding
- By SHANE CANNING on 07-06-25
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Show Me the Bodies
- How We Let Grenfell Happen
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- By: David Goodhart
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall176
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Performance155
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Story152
Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Goodhart shows us how people have come to be divided into two camps: the 'Anywheres', who have 'achieved' identities, derived from their careers and education, and the 'Somewheres', who get their identity from a sense of place and from the people around them, and who feel a sense of loss due to mass immigration and rapid social change.
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Excellent analysis of a split UK society
- By G. M. Page on 28-08-19
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The Road to Somewhere
- The New Tribes Shaping British Politics
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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Angel Meadow
- Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
- By: Dean Kirby
- Narrated by: Nigel Gair
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Performance29
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Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world's first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs.
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Great book, poor audio
- By laura on 23-08-20
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Angel Meadow
- Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum
- Narrated by: Nigel Gair
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-06-20
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell, Richard Hoggart - introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Obiora
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance18
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Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time Orwell's graphically...
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How Little Things Change!
- By MR GARY J MANDER on 22-02-21
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Michael Obiora
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- By: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ‘animal spirits’ capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better. But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we – should we be – thinking about? What happens when one person’s freedom comes at the expense of another’s?
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Voice of sanity
- By PMB on 05-02-25
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The Road to Freedom
- Economics and the Good Society
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 23-04-24
- Language: English
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