Interviews Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Letters from Serial Killers

Christopher Berry-Dee (Author), Stephen Perring (Narrator)

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Yuri Bezmenov (1939 - January 5, 1993), was a Soviet journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant who defected to Canada. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and the culture of India. At the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned repression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies and he decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his anti-communist lectures and books published in the 1980s under the alias of Tomas David Schuman.

Yuri Bezmenov (Author), Yuri Bezmenov (Narrator)

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A Rare Recording of Philippe Henriot

Philippe Henriot (January 7, 1889 - June 28,1944) was a French poet, journalist, and politician. In 1940, after the surrender of France to Germany, Henriot became active as a journalist working for the French government headed by Philippe Pétain which had moved to Vichy. In December 1943, he was appointed Secretary of State for Information, broadcasting war propaganda through Radio Paris warning the French people about any association with the Allies or "terrorists" (resistance groups), and countered the arguments of the Free French Forces broadcasting from the BBC. With mesmerizing rhetoric and delivery, Henriot reportedly became an influential media star with a large and diverse audience. It was said that Henriot was listened to by both enemies and supporters. Consequently, Henriot was a target for the Résistance. On June 28, 1944, in the Ministry building where he lived, Henriot was assassinated by an anti-Vichy group. Henriot was afforded a state funeral in Paris in Notre Dame Cathedral where thousands filed past his coffin, surrounded by French flags and flowers, to mourn him--less than two months before the Liberation of Paris. This recording is in Henriot's native French language.

Philippe Henriot (Author), Philippe Henriot (Narrator)

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Thought Economics

Since 2007, entrepreneur and philanthropist Vikas Shah MBE has been on a mission to interview the people shaping our century. Including conversations with world leaders, Nobel prizewinners, business leaders, artists and Olympians, he quizzes the minds that matter on the big questions that concern us all. We often talk of war and conflict, the economy, culture, technology and revolutions as if they are something other than us. But all these things are a product of us - people like you, who have ideas that matter. We live in fast-moving and extraordinary times, and the changes we're experiencing now, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, feel particularly poignant as decisions are made that will inform our existence for decades to come. Vikas Shah is not a journalist. But he is curious and persistent - two things that have driven his business success, but have also been instrumental in getting him access to some of the most extraordinary people on the planet. In Thought Economics, Vikas presents some of his most emotive and insightful interviews to date.

Vikas Shah (Author), Raj Ghatak (Narrator)

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Bridey Murphy Recordings

In 1952, Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey Bernstein put housewife Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance, using a technique called hypnotic regression, that sparked off startling revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman, Bridey Murphy, and her rebirth in the United States 59 years later. Bernstein wrote a book in 1956, "The Search for Bridey Murphy," which became a NY Times bestseller, eventually being published in 30 languages in 34 countries, and was later made into a movie. In this recording you will hear one of the actual hypnotism sessions.

Morey Bernstein, Virginia Tighe (Author), Morey Bernstein, Virginia Tighe (Narrator)

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A Rare Recording of Navajo Code Talker Dan Akee

Created in 1942, the Navajo code talker units of the US Marine Corps relayed radio and phone messages in their native dialect during World War II combat operations. The method was fast and indecipherable to enemy eavesdroppers, as Navajo is an unwritten language of extreme complexity--with its syntax, tonal qualities and various dialects--making it unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the Navajo lands of the American Southwest. By one estimate, at the time of World War II, the Navajo language was understood by fewer than 30 non-Navajos. Approximately 400 Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions, Marine Raider battalions and Marine parachute units, transmitting messages by telephone and radio in their native language. The code was never broken by the Japanese, and its security has been credited with contributing significantly to the capture of Iwo Jima in 1945. The following are two recordings from code talker Dan Akee.

Dan Akee (Author), Dan Akee (Narrator)

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Faina Ranevskaya. Quotes [Russian Edition]

Faina Ranevskaya was called to be an actress by God. However, the mass audience remember her mainly episodic roles in film and aphorisms. This book contains the best aphorisms Faina Ranevskaya and stories about her, so that you can once again experience the wisdom and eccentricity of the great actress.

Faina Ranevskaja (Author), Gennady Zaitsev (Narrator)

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Voices of All-Time Tennis Greats

Althea Gibson, Bill Tilden, Don Budge (Author), Althea Gibson, Bill Tilden, Don Budge (Narrator)

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Voices of Baseball's Shot Heard Round The World

On October 3, 1951, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit a dramatic ninth inning game-winning home run off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in the decisive third game of a three-game playoff to win the National League pennant. It would be known in baseball lore as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." The game-the first ever televised nationally-was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions more, including thousands of American servicemen stationed in Korea, listening on Armed Forces Radio.

Bobby Thompson, Duke Snider, Eddie Stankey, Ralph Branca, Roy Campanella (Author), Bobby Thompson, Duke Snider, Eddie Stankey, Ralph Branca, Roy Campanella (Narrator)

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Voices of Old-Time Boxing Greats, Volume 2

Al Mayer, Benny Leonard, Bill Corum, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Joe Louis, Luis Firpo, Max Schmeling, Nat Fleisher, Tony Galento (Author), Al Mayer, Benny Leonard, Bill Corum, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries, Joe Louis, Luis Firpo, Max Schmeling, Nat Fleisher, Tony Galento (Narrator)

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Voices From Hollywood's Golden Age

Stan Laurel, was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous as Laurel of comedic duo Laurel and Hardy. Laurel’s career stretched between 1917 and 1951, and included a starring role in the 1932 film The Music Box. Buster Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression. Keaton's most enduring feature-length film was the 1927 The General. Lillian Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress, director and writer whose film acting career spanned from 1912 to 1987. She was particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in one of the highest grossing films of the Silent era, Birth of a Nation in 1915. Ethel Barrymore was the sister of actors John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore, the aunt of actor John Drew Barrymore, and the grand-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore. Barrymore won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1944 film None but the Lonely Heart opposite Cary Grant. John Barrymore was a member of the Drew and Barrymore theatrical dynasties. He began his career in 1903 and first gained attention as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama, culminating in productions of Justice, Richard III and Hamlet. Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 1931’s A Free Soul, and remains perhaps best known for the role of the villainous Mr. Potter character in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.

Buster Keaton, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Stan Laurel (Author), Buster Keaton, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Lionel Barrymore, Stan Laurel (Narrator)

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Voices of Hollywood's Early Film Stars

Blanche Sweet was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood. As the Roaring Twenties wound down, Sweet's career faltered with the advent of talkies. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930's Show Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year. Bronco Billy Anderson was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre. Anderson played three roles in Edwin Porter's 1903 motion picture The Great Train Robbery. D. W. Griffith was an American film director, mostly remembered as the director of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance in 1916. The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States. Harold Lloyd was an American actor, comedian, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer who is most famous for his silent comedy films. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Jackie Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on the 1960s sitcom The Addams Family. In the interim, he sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, widely known as the Coogan Act. Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

Blanche Sweet, Bronco Billy Anderson, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Harold Lloyd, Jackie Coogan (Author), Blanche Sweet, Bronco Billy Anderson, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Harold Lloyd, Jackie Coogan (Narrator)

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