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The 40 Best Audio books comment: Andrew Marr is a virtuoso performer even when not in full animated telly mode. He performs rather than reads, with wit and energy and a tongue placed perpetually in cheek. His impressions of old politicos are hilarious and it is a joy to hear this wonderful eyebrow-raised take on Britain from the man himself.
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Audio Length: 7 hours and 14 min.
If you like Andrew Marr you might also like to read books by Tim Glencross.
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A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders thought they knew what they were doing, but find themselves confounded.
Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.
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18th May 2007Author
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Pan MacmillanFormat
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