Audiobooks Narrated by Dana Haqjoo

One Aladdin Two Lamps

"Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal new questions and answers we are still thinking about today. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy? In her guise as Aladdin – the orphan who changes his world – Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realised through the power of books that she could read herself as fiction as well as fact. Weaving together fiction, magic and memoir, this remarkable book is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future – an invitation to look more closely at our own stories, and to imagine the world anew. © Jeanette Winterson 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Jeanette Winterson (Author), Dana Haqjoo, Jeanette Winterson (Narrator)

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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran

"A captivating, polyphonic tale of one family’s flight from and return to Iran. 1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power. 1999. Laleh returns to Iran with her mother, Nahid. Between beauty rituals and family secrets, she gets to know a Tehran that hardly matches her childhood memories. 2009. Laleh’s brother Mo is more concerned with a friend’s heartbreak than with student demonstrations in Germany. But then the Green Revolution breaks out in Iran and turns the world upside down … A topical, moving story about revolution, oppression, resistance, and the absolute desire for freedom."

Shida Bazyar (Author), Anoushka Rava, Dana Haqjoo (Narrator)

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Fall of the Shah: A BBC Radio full cast drama

"A gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the 1970's Iranian Revolution Something is coming. What is on the horizon for the people of Iran? Can America's friendship with Iran survive? From Jimmy Carter's optimistic visit to Tehran in December 1977 to the trial of the state's enemies in 1979, this nine-part drama tells the story of the Iranian Revolution, where protestors took to the streets in support of the exiled religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Shah requested help from an America already torn apart by its own conflicts. In a time of hope, of tyranny, of change, of oppression, in a tale of power, betrayal and fear, this true story will transport you to the 1970s, when the Iranian Revolution would change the world - forever. Featuring Dame Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones, All Creatures Great and Small), Bijan Daneshmand (The Night Manager, The Boy from Aleppo that Painted the War) and Carolyn Pickles (Broadchurch, Land Girls). Cast Narrator - Diana Rigg The Shah - Bijan Daneshmand President Carter - Nathan Osgood The Ayatollah Khomeini - Selva Rasalingam Zbigniew Brzezinski - Sam Dale William Sullivan - Tony Turner Farah Pahlavi - Nathalie Armin Rosalynn Carter- Carolyn Pickles Nassiri - Peter Polycarpou Mehdi - Moe Bar-El Haikaz / Sadegh Ghotbzadeh - Philip Arditti Gary Sick - David Seddon Warren Christopher - Don Gilet Molly - Saffron Coomber Sharpour Bakhtiar - Peter Polycarpou General Gharabaghi / General Oveissi - Vincent Ebrahim Carole Bauman - Clare Corbett Sadegh Khalkhali - Bhasker Patel Ebrahim Yazdi - Paul Chahidi Hassan - Amir El-Masry Joan - Alexandra Constantinidi Iraj - Ashley Kumar Ahmad - Ronny Jhutti Amir - Dana Haqjoo Shirin - Afsaneh Dehrouyeh Nargess - Sara Zeymour Production credits Written by Steve Waters Composer- Ghanvar Khaleghi Sound Design - Caleb Knightley Produced and Directed by Marc Beeby 'Exactly the type of drama at which the BBC excels' Guardian Originally broadcast January-March 2019 ©2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Steve Waters (Author), Afsaneh Dehrouyeh, Amir El-Masry, Dana Haqjoo, Diana Rigg, Full Cast, Moe Bar-El, Paul Chahidi, Peter Polycarpou, Philip Arditti, Vincent Ebrahim (Narrator)

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