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A History of Modern Britain
By Andrew Marr
Narrated By Andrew Marr

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Length: 7 hours and 14 min.
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Audiobook Summary:

Castlibrary UK is proud to present A History of Modern Britain. This audiobook is available for download for our UK based customers.

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 have thought they knew what they were doing, but found themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted.

Throughout this audiobook, 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, '60s anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies, and the true heroes of British theatre.

Audiobook Keywords: History, European, History, World, Nonfiction, Politics

Tags: History Politics World European Nonfiction