Roald Dahl’s wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world’s number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged)
Willy Wonka’s famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

James and the Giant Peach (Abridged)
A little magic can take you a long way
 
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged)
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!
 
The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged)
This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls
 
The Magic Finger (Unabridged)
Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

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The Roald Dahl Audio Collection, written and read by Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Listen to an excerpt of Alex Segura's SECRET IDENTITY, read by Aida Reluzco.

It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book.

That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living.

Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.

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Secret Identity by Alex Segura, audiobook excerpt

Great Ming is having some problems with its border troops who think orders are actually "suggestions." The Jiajing Emperor is having some problems with his ministers being self-serving twits. Meanwhile, there's some strange happenings going on beyond the wild frontiers...

Time Period Covered:
~1510-1540 CE

The History of China

#235 - Ming 25: Some Light Treason

Bookmakers #19 - L’autrice du mois : Jakuta Alikavazovic
Née à Paris en 1979, Jakuta Alikavazovic est une romancière multirécidiviste suspectée à juste titre de détournements d’attention, de trafic d’énigmes et de corruption d’imaginaires. Elle a reçu en 2008 le Goncourt du premier roman pour « Corps volatils » (L’Olivier) et, en 2021, le prix Médicis de l’essai pour « Comme un ciel en nous » (Stock). Elle a aussi publié d’habiles romans pour la jeunesse et une histoire d’amour inoubliable, « L’Avancée de la nuit ». Mais qui est donc cette érudite « d’un naturel inquiet », souvent vêtue d’un imperméable de détective privé, pour qui « internet est l’ennemi juré de l’écriture », par ailleurs chroniqueuse enjouée pour « Libération » et traductrice anglophone d’Eve Babitz ou de David Forster Wallace ? Pour le savoir, y a qu’à écouter Jakuta.

En partenariat avec Babelio.

(1/3) Tombée du ciel
Elle a caché quelque chose au Louvre. Un outil, ou peut-être un insecte. Un mystère de poche introduit en loucedé, au nez et à la barbe des équipes de sécurité, lors de sa nuit au musée dont le récit, intitulé « Comme un ciel en nous », lui a valu le prix Médicis 2021 de l’essai. Vendu à 7300 exemplaires, ce petit livre, son plus personnel à ce jour, est à double fond : Jakuta Alikavazovic y expose ses joyeuses réflexions sur l’art, « cette histoire de fantômes pour grandes personnes », tout en esquissant le portrait pudique de son père monténégrin en « émigré esthétique » venu à Paris pour « s’installer dans la beauté ». 

Ce nouveau forfait méritait une enquête approfondie sur cette admiratrice d’Hercule Poirot et de Philip Marlowe, qui lit dans son bain et se rêve parfois dans la peau de Raskolnikov, armée d’une hache. Comment s’éveilla sa vocation ? C’est ce que nous allons tenter d’élucider dans la première partie de cette garde à vue sonore.

Enregistrement : avril 22 - Texte, voix, entretien, découpage : Richard Gaitet - Prise de son, montage : Sara Monimart - Réalisation, mixage : Charlie Marcelet - Lectures : Chloé Assous-Plunian, Arnaud Forest, Richard Gaitet, Silvain Gire - Musiques originales : Samuel Hirsch - Clavier, chant : Eve Girard - Illustration : Sylvain Cabot - Production : ARTE Radio

Bookmakers

Bookmakers : Jakuta Alikavazovic (1/3)

As a <a href="https://www.economist.com/interactive/next-prime-minister-uk?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">clear lead hardens</a> and the appointment of a new prime minister looms, both contenders are making noises about cutting taxes. But would either have a firm grip on the country’s long-term woes? The <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/06/16/ethiopias-capital-is-a-showcase-for-its-leaders-ambition?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vast makeover</a> of Ethiopia’s capital city—despite a grinding civil war—is an idealised vision of the country’s future. And <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/11/how-thinking-hard-makes-the-brain-tired?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">figuring out</a> why thinking hard is so exhausting. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Tax brakes: Britain’s PM contenders on the economy

After a terrible head injury, Amy Cuddy wakes up in the hospital to find she's a different person.

Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist and Harvard Business School Associate Professor who studies how snap judgments and nonverbal behavior affect people from the classroom to the boardroom. Amy Cuddy's fascinating work on "power posing" reveals how your physical posture affects not only how others see you, but also how you see yourself, your own hormone levels, and your performance and important life outcomes. Researching stereotypes, emotions, nonverbal behaviors, and hormone levels, Amy explains to audiences the role these variables play in shaping our emotions, intentions and behaviors in business and society. Amy's work has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Scientific American Mind, The Wall Street Journal, and even as the theme of a Dilbert comic strip. Business Insider just named Amy as one of 2013's "50 Women Who are Changing the World." Her TED Talk is now the second most viewed of all time. She is also a classically trained (and still practicing) ballet dancer, which informs her research on nonverbal communication.

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Amy Cuddy: Passing As Myself

It's an ALL-SCARY SNAP! Those who think they know things are especially surprised when they hear that scream in the night. From PRX & NPR, we proudly present the most dreaded episode of the year, "Spooked V: Innocence Lost."

Listen to the entire Snap Judgment episode "Spooked V: Innocence Lost"

When a call girl comes to her for help, a Toronto woman agrees to play secretary. [explicit content]

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Meet the Pimp

“Hopefully readers of The Escape will be scared to be in their own home.” 

CL Taylor is the Sunday Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers. Her fourth book, The Escape, publishes in March 2017 and already people are raving about it:

“C.L.Taylor is a class act and The Escape is gem of a book” – SIMON TOYNE
“Absorbing and disturbing” – ALEX MARWOOD
“Definitely CL Taylor’s best yet” – LISA HALL

Here she discusses her fascination with how people respond to fear, why you should never set a book in your own home, and her top tips for aspiring writers.

C L Taylor: "Write the book that makes you cry, fall in love or scares you"

In keeping with his trademark style, Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno, interweaves codes, science, religion, history, art, and architecture into this new novel. Origin thrusts Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon into the dangerous intersection of humankind&rsquo;s two most enduring questions, and the earthshaking discovery that will answer them. From the Compact Disc edition.

Origin by Dan Brown, read by Paul Michael

Extrait de "Le Seigneur des Anneaux 1 - La fraternité de l'anneau" de J.R.R. Tolkien lu par Thierry Janssen. ©Editions Audiolib. Parution le 14 février 2018.

https://www.audiolib.fr/livre-audio/le-seigneur-des-anneaux-1-la-fraternite-de-lanneau-9782356419569

C’est un dangereux héritage que Bilbo Bessac cède à son neveu avant de disparaître : l’anneau de pouvoir forgé par Sauron et dérobé jadis à Gollum. Le mage noir n’aspire qu’à retrouver son arme et sa puissance, et déjà ses cavaliers font route vers le Comté… Pour leur échapper et détruire la menace que représente cet anneau, le jeune Hobbit, Frodo, et ses compagnons commencent la périlleuse traversée de la Terre du Milieu, dans l’espoir d’atteindre la Faille du Destin, au coeur du Mordor.
Chef-d’oeuvre de la fantasy, découverte d’un monde imaginaire, de sa géographie, de son histoire et de ses langues, mais aussi réfl exion sur le pouvoir et la mort, Le Seigneur des Anneaux est sans équivalent par sa puissance d’évocation, son souffle et son ampleur.
Cette nouvelle traduction prend en compte la dernière version du texte anglais, les indications laissées par Tolkien à l’intention des traducteurs et les découvertes permises par les publications posthumes proposées par Christopher Tolkien.

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"Le Seigneur des Anneaux 1 - La fraternité de l'anneau" de J.R.R. Tolkien lu par Thierry Janssen

Welcome to BookD, the podcast that brings you the stories behind your favourite books. Created by your host, Tanya Brennand-Roper, this is your opportunity to listen in and get to know the who's who in one of the biggest London publishing houses, offering a fascinating perspective into the authors, their editors and the all important publishing process.
Tune into our fortnightly program where we exchange ideas with the stars of literature, art, film, music and politics. BookD isn't boring or monotonous and it isn't like any other podcast you've heard before. For culture, ideas, humour and debate - you're BookD.

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