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    The Story of India , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    A companion to the major six-part BBC TV series, written by Michael Wood and read by Sam Dastor. Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India. Home today to more than a fifth of the world's population, the subcontinent gave birth to the oldest and most influential civilization on Earth, to four world religions, and to the world's largest democracy. Now, as India bids to become a global giant, Michael sets out to trace the roots of India's present in the incredible riches of her past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/001818/bk_bbcw_001818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Bats Fly Up for Inspector Ghote , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 396min
    Inspector Ghote of the Bombay police has been regulated to antipickpocket patrol, where he promptly gets himself into one of those fearful fixes which are equally the product of his faults and his virtues. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018343/bk_adbl_018343_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Inspector Ghote Draws a Line , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 416min
    Sent to a remote part of India to find out who could benefit from Judge Asif's death, Ghote can get no cooperation from the judge until it becomes evident that the anonymous threats are coming from someone in the judge's household. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018341/bk_adbl_018341_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Filmi, Filmi, Inspector Ghote , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 397min
    A grisly murder has plunged Bollywood, the film capital of India, into chaos. Ghote gets so caught up with giving an Academy Award-winning performance as a sleuth that the curtain almost comes down on his own life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018340/bk_adbl_018340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Silver Locomotive Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 472min
    An exquisite silver coffee-pot in the shape of a locomotive is on its way to Cardiff in the care of silversmith, Hugh Kellow. When the coffee-pot is stolen and a murder is committed, Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called in to investigate. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003948/bk_bbcw_003948_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Strangler Vine , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 719min
    Longlisted – Baileys Women’s Prize 2014 Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of M. J. Carter's The Strangler Vine, read by the actor Sam Dastor. India, 1837: William Avery, a fresh young officer in the East India Company, arrives in Calcutta expecting to be seduced by its ancient traditions. Nine months later he hasn't learnt a word of Hindoostani, is in terrible debt, and longs to return home before the cholera epidemic finishes him off. A few months earlier, so rumour has it, the infamous and disgraced poet Xavier Mountstuart leaves Calcutta in order to track down the last of the remaining Thugs, a sinister secret fraternity notorious for strangling thousands of travellers. But after reaching the kingdom of Jubbulpore, Mountstuart mysteriously disappears.Then the Company leads Avery to Jeremiah Blake, an unruly ex-Captain who has embraced native life. Their mission? To cover 700 miles of treacherous road in three weeks and find Mountstuart. A more unlikely duo couldn't be imagined, but they must bury their differences if they wish to succeed - for all is not as it seems, and at the rotten heart of everything lies the secret of the macabre Thugs.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000460/bk_pauk_000460_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Kim , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 714min
    Exclusively from Audible Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment. The pilgrimage will take them across the vast continent, across rivers, and up the Himalayas. While Kim wishes to take part in the imperialistic Great Game, learning espionage from the British secret service, he feels spiritually bound to the lama. Kim has a difficult choice to make: his companion or his country? A rich and colourful depiction of India's exotic landscape and culture in the imperialistic world of the late 19th century, this audiobook celebrates their friendship and explores a young man's quest for identity. Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist who was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most memorable works include The Jungle Book and Just So Stories. In 1998 Kim was ranked at Number 78 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 it was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 'best-loved novel'. Narrator Biography A Cambridge graduate who trained at RADA under the direction of Sir Laurence Olivier, Sam Dastor has long featured on screen and stage. He is best known for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) and for twice portraying Gandhi in both Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986), and Jinnah (1998).Sam Dastor has starred in many West End productions with roles such as Ariel in The Tempest, and Orlando in As You Like It. His most recent work ha ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/001867/bk_bbcw_001867_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Origins of Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 709min
    In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted - until she was born with a fatal illness. Thousands of miles away in London, Kate and Ben are desperate for a baby. As Kate suffers another miscarriage, she knows something has to change. But will her desire for a baby stop at nothing...? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Vayu Naidu, Penelope Rawlins, Lyndam Gregory, Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/001860/bk_howe_001860_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Tales of Fosterganj , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 191min
    I forget what took me to Fosterganj in the first place. Destiny, perhaps, although I'm not sure why destiny would have bothered to guide an itinerant writer to an obscure little hamlet in the hills. Chance would be a better word. For chance plays a great part in all our lives. And it was just by chance that I found myself in the Fosterganj bazaar one fine morning early in May.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029045/bk_adbl_029045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Railway to the Grave , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    Yorkshire 1855. When Colonel Aubrey Tarleton walks into the path of a speeding train, he is crushed to death on the track. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, is immediately put on the case to determine why such a well-respected man would have resorted to suicide. Tarleton's wife had recently gone missing, but was the colonel responsible for her disappearance? It's up to Colbeck and his trusty sergeant Victor Leeming to uncover the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Dastor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/005469/bk_bbcw_005469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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