Showing titles in History & Criticism
-
-
The Golden Hour
- A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
- By: Matthew Specktor
- Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5
-
Performance5
-
Story5
Named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews Named a Notable Book of 2025 by the Washington Post A personal and cultural exploration of the struggles between art and business at the heart of modern Hollywood, through the eyes of the talent that shaped it Matthew Specktor grew up in the film...
-
-
Poor sound editing affected my enjoyment
- By S M Onions on 11-10-25
-
The Golden Hour
- A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
- Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-04-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Paul Newman
- A Life
- By: Shawn Levy
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance0
-
Story0
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived...
-
Paul Newman
- A Life
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-05-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£9.72 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Just a Shot Away
- Martin Scorsese's Life in Film
- By: Mark Binelli
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The first major biography of Martin Scorsese, America’s greatest modern filmmaker, a book as stylish and audacious as the director’s movies, drawing on previously unseen sources, original research, and new interviews to reveal the origins, genius, and influence of his life and work Just a...
-
Just a Shot Away
- Martin Scorsese's Life in Film
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-11-26
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.57 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £8.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Hollywood Legends Series
- By: Carl Rollyson
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance0
-
Story0
From this comprehensive, yet critically measured wealth of material, Rollyson offers a distinctive and insightful portrait of Marilyn Monroe, highlighted by new perspectives that depict the central importance of acting to the authentic aspects of her being.
-
Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress, Revised and Updated
- Hollywood Legends Series
- Narrated by: John Stamper
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-10-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.73 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers
- By: Janine Pipe
- Narrated by: Charlie Albers
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers is a celebration of Neil Marshall’s debut soldiers versus werewolves movie. To coincide with the 20-year anniversary, it takes a deep dive look behind the scenes at the cult classic. As well as a full retrospective, you will find interviews with the cast and crew, original shot list, excerpts from the script and more. Encompassing the tone of Dog Soldiers, Sausages is the perfect companion to this fan-favourite film. Includes a foreword from genre icon Joe Dante and afterword from legendary director John Landis.
-
Sausages: The Making of Dog Soldiers
- Narrated by: Charlie Albers
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-05-25
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.77 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Inception and Philosophy
- Because It's Never Just a Dream
- By: David Kyle Johnson, William Irwin
- Narrated by: Charles Carroll, Ray Chase, Paul Heitsch, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of dreams, and what do they tell us about the boundaries of "self" and "other"?
-
Inception and Philosophy
- Because It's Never Just a Dream
- Narrated by: Charles Carroll, Ray Chase, Paul Heitsch, Christine Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.28 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
You're Only as Good as Your Next One
- 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for which I Should Be Shot
- By: Mike Medavoy, Josh Young
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall78
-
Performance70
-
Story71
Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, remained loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. He helped bring to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning films of our time, including Apocalypse Now, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and Sleepless in Seattle.
-
-
Interesting
- By Trebor on 19-09-15
-
You're Only as Good as Your Next One
- 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for which I Should Be Shot
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-04-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£16.08 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
- The Story of Black Hollywood
- By: Donald Bogle
- Narrated by: Flynn Earl Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance1
-
Story1
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells - for the first time - the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning 60 years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many Blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day.
-
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
- The Story of Black Hollywood
- Narrated by: Flynn Earl Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£17.83 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Game of Thrones and Philosophy
- Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords
- By: William Irwin, Henry Jacoby
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
George R. R. Martin's New York Times best-selling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspired fanatic devotion. This book delves into the many philosophical questions that arise in this complex, character-driven series, including: Is it right for a "good" king to usurp the throne of a "bad" one and murder his family? How far should you go to protect your family and its secrets?
-
Game of Thrones and Philosophy
- Logic Cuts Deeper than Swords
- Narrated by: Robin Sachs
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.10 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
La bella confusione
- By: Francesco Piccolo
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Il 1963 è stato l’anno di Fellini e di Visconti. Un anno decisivo per il cinema italiano, che ha visto la nascita di Otto e mezzo e Il Gattopardo. Ma prima di diventare i capolavori che ben sappiamo erano due incredibili scommesse, nonché il campo di battaglia tra due artisti rivali e profondamente diversi: mentre Claudia Cardinale cambiava il colore dei capelli secondo il capriccio di chi la dirigeva, l’intero contesto culturale italiano si stava preparando a sposare l’una o l’altra visione del cinema e del mondo.
-
La bella confusione
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-09-23
- Language: Italian
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.71 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Audition
- A Memoir
- By: Barbara Walters
- Narrated by: Barbara Walters
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and...
-
Audition
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Barbara Walters
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-08-08
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£9.72 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
- Pop Classics
- By: Andrea Warner
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In The Time of My Life, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner excavates the layers of Dirty Dancing, from its anachronistic, chart-topping soundtrack, to Baby and Johnny’s chemistry, to Bergstein’s political intentions, to the abortion subplot that is more relevant today than ever. The film’s remarkable longevity would never have been possible if it was just a throwaway summer fling story. It is precisely because of its themes—deeply feminist, sensitively written—that we, over 30 years later, are still holding our breath during that last, exhilarating lift.
-
The Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing
- Pop Classics
- Narrated by: Stephanie Németh Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.69 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Blade Runner [Blade Runner]
- Audiofilm. La guida in audio al capolavoro di Ridley Scott [Audiofilm. The Audio Guide to the Masterpiece by Ridley Scott]
- By: Piero Di Domenico
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
"Io ho viste cose che voi umani non potreste immaginare: navi da combattimento in fiamme al largo dei bastioni di Orione, e ho visto i raggi B balenare nel buio vicino alle porte di Tannhäuser. E tutti quei momenti andranno perduti nel tempo, come lacrime nella pioggia. È tempo di morire."
-
Blade Runner [Blade Runner]
- Audiofilm. La guida in audio al capolavoro di Ridley Scott [Audiofilm. The Audio Guide to the Masterpiece by Ridley Scott]
- Narrated by: Piero Di Domenico
- Length: 28 mins
- Release date: 10-11-15
- Language: Italian
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£3.01 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Reading the Silver Screen
- A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
- By: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance1
-
Story1
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film. No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked...
-
Reading the Silver Screen
- A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£12.20 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- By: Scott Balcerzak
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas.
-
Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.12 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Killin' Generals
- The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WWII Movie of All Time
- By: Dwayne Epstein
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Based on exclusive interviews with the surviving cast and crew, friends and families of the stars, and other Hollywood insiders, Killin' Generals is a riveting must-listen for film buffs, military fans, and anyone who loves a down-and-dirty adventure tale. Detailed, insightful, and gossipy, Epstein's homage spotlights the movie's endless barrage of cinematic gold.
-
Killin' Generals
- The Making of The Dirty Dozen, the Most Iconic WWII Movie of All Time
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.02 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Murder and the Movies
- By: David Thomson
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5
-
Performance4
-
Story4
Film historian David Thomson, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process. Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls "a warped triangle": the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.
-
-
For love of the movies
- By Crockerharris on 19-11-24
-
Murder and the Movies
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-08-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.91 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Bachelor Nation
- Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
- By: Amy Kaufman
- Narrated by: Amy Kaufman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall10
-
Performance10
-
Story10
*A New York Times Bestseller* The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure. For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Since it...
-
-
Cool read
- By Camilla Luise on 17-12-20
-
Bachelor Nation
- Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure
- Narrated by: Amy Kaufman
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-03-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£11.34 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Director's Cut
- My Life in Film
- By: Ted Kotcheff, Josh Young
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance2
-
Story2
Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills with actors and production, Kotcheff went on to direct some of the greatest films of the freewheeling 1970s, including The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Wake in Fright, and North Dallas Forty.
-
Director's Cut
- My Life in Film
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.74 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
24 and Philosophy
- The World According to Jack
- By: Richard Brian Davis, Jennifer Hart Weed, Ronald Weed
- Narrated by: John Warren
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall2
-
Performance2
-
Story2
24 and Philosophy is a book you just can't do without. It's all here, folks: the reason presidents trust him; how Jack cuts through the lies and ambiguities; why he puts his life on the line for others; and how he knows which knee cap to blow out to get that all-important next lead. With the help of 20 "24 crazed" philosophers, you'll figure out what makes this guy tick, and much much more.
-
24 and Philosophy
- The World According to Jack
- Narrated by: John Warren
- Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.52 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-