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Jeremy Paxman - Great Britain's Great War - Audiobook extract

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Mary Berry's autobiography, Recipe for Life, read by the actress Patricia Hodge.

About the book:

From Queen of Tarts to the nation's heart, Mary Berry shares her Recipe for Life.

'In the words of my father, my birth caused no end of trouble...'

From the moment she came into the world - two weeks early, throwing her parents' lives into disarray - Mary has gracefully but firmly done things her own way.

Born in 1935, in the city of Bath, Mary's childhood was a curious mix of idyllic picnics and ramblings, and alarming air raids; of a spirited and outdoorsy home life and a dreaded school existence. All nearly cut horribly short by an almost fatal bout of polio when she was thirteen, which isolated Mary in hospital, away from beloved family and friends for months.

Recovery saw her turn to her one true passion - cookery. And so began a love affair that has - so far - spanned six remarkable decades; from demonstrating ovens in the early 1950s to producing glossy food magazines in the 60s and 70s, gradually becoming the country's most prolific and - many would say - best loved cookery writer. Until her emergence in the 21st century as a TV sensation and style icon on the Great British Bake Off.

As a working mother, at the heart of a busy household, Mary became an expert at the art of juggling, even bringing her working life into her home with her Aga school. And there have been challenges, one terrible tragedy and many joys along the way. 

In this touching, evocative and fascinating memoir, we accompany Mary on her journey of nearly eighty years; a life lived to the full, with a wicked sense of fun and an eye for the absurd, it is the life of a delightfully traditional but thoroughly modern woman.

Fans of The Great British Bake Off can't wait to get their hands on Mary Berry's Recipe for Life.

Born in 1935, Mary has been teaching Britain how to cook for over half a century. Her far-reaching culinary career has taken her from recipe tester, cookery editor, author and entrepreneur to TV personality. Mary lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband Paul.

Mary Berry: Recipe for Life (Audiobook Extract) read by Patricia Hodge

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One of our absolute favorite places on earth to play…Here is the Audio/Visual Set we performed in the Fractal Forest at the 2013 Shambhala Music Festival!

Originally performed LIVE on 4-turntables alongside our Sax and Guitar players, we've gone back and re-recorded the Saxophone just for this mix!

Thanks to all the amazing people who have shown us such incredible love every year at Shambhala, and in all corners of the globe. This is our labour of love for you! So download, enjoy, and share away :-)

Much love, 

Nick & Dunks

P.S. Our set time this year was cut short as one of our laptops died right before the set, so we started 25 min late... Back your shit up people!
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TRACKLIST:

Cervendos & Freakvent Flote - Downtown Groove (Funk Hunters Shambs Intro Edit)
Double Trouble - At the Dixie Stoop (Acapella)
Jungle Brothers - Grand Central (Acapella)
It Takes Two To Tango - Return Of The Funk
Mos Def - Doc 99 (Acapella)
Cervendos & Freakvent Flote - Dafunq
Kero One - Keep It Alive (Acapella)
Ohmega Watts - Get In The Scene (Acapella)
Orphic & BuchNasty - Groove Boots
Black Machine - How Gee (The Funk Hunters Re-Rub)
Slynk & SkiiTour - Figure It Out
DJ Vadim - Got To Rock (Acapella)
Dr. Dre - Next Episode (Neon Steve VIP)
The Funk Hunters and CMC&Silenta - Glitch It
Sitckybuds - Clean Air (Acapella)
Delhi 2 Dublin - Turn Up The Stereo (The Funk Hunters Remix)
Wondercult - Interdimensional Disco
Delhi 2 Dublin - Turn Up The Stereo (Funk Hunters Acapella)
N.A.S.A. - Hide (A.Skillz Remix)
Coolio - 1, 2, 3, 4 (Acapella)
Boogrov - Desert
William Breakspear - Mash Up The Scene (CMC&Silenta Remix)
Rose Royce - It Makes You Feel Like Dancing (Valique Edit)
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (Acapella)
Chali 2na - Lock Shit Down (Acapella)
The Funk Hunters and CMC&Silenta - Swagger Bounce
Uncle Louie - Full Tilt Boogie (Slynk & Stickybuds Remix)
Opiuo - Wiggle Sticks (Fort Knox Five Remix)
Coolio - Ghetto Square Dance (Acapella)
Parov Stelar - The Invisible Girl
CMC&Silenta - Chicks For Free
SkiiTour - Going Fast
Beastie Boys - All Lifestyles (Acapella)
Taiki & Nulight - Take Me Up
Wilkinson - Heartbeat (Calyx & TeeBee Remix)
The Funk Hunters & Scotty D - Ghetto Dance
Grizmatik - My People (The Funk Hunters Edit)
Maestro Fresh Wes - Certs Wid Out Da Retsyn (Acapella)
The Funk Hunters & SkiiTour - Where Were You
Durante - Challenger
Souls Of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity (Acapella)
Parker - Western Soul (Acapella)
Pretty Lights - Around The Block (The Funk Hunters vs Datsik Remix)

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

http://www.dbhdesign.co.uk/ for the always amazing artwork!

Smoothie for slaying it on the Saxophone with us all summer long! And Steven Beddall for shredding on the Guitar!

Rich E Rich and the Fractal Forest and the entire http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com/ team!

And Maestro Fresh Wes, Randy & Mr Lahey, Mic Smith, Shamik, Smoothie, Steve Beddall, MC 420,  Amp'l Beats, CMC & Silenta, JFB, & everyone who crammed into the Fractal Forest with us on Sunday night this year!
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The Funk Hunters - 2013 SHAMBHALA A/V MIX

We present the latest track from The Allergies - 'Here I Am'.

It's a bluesy/boom bap style stomper and now available for free download - All you have to do it *LIKE* our Facebook page and it's all yours. Just hit the Free Download link on the player. 

Check out the music video here, shot live from Bestival 2013
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The Allergies - Here I Am (Free Download)

Puffin Audiobooks presents two volumes of beastly poetry by Roald Dahl, complete and unabridged and raucously read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, and Tamsin Greig.  The audiobook contains original music.

In Revolting Rhymes, you can think again if you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the best known retold, with more than a twist or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling.

Download the phizz-whizzing Roald Dahl Audiobooks App!
With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl audiobooks app is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.


Roald Dahl: Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts read by Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig & Miriam Margolyes

Bonkers: My Life in Laughs, written and read by Jennifer Saunders, is the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure. 

Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names.

But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, friends and occasional heartache - but never misery.

BONKERS is full of riotous adventures: accidentally enrolling on a teacher training course with a young Dawn French, bluffing her way to each BBC series, shooting Lulu, trading wild faxes with Joanna Lumley, touring India with Ruby Wax and Goldie Hawn.

There's cancer, too, when she becomes 'Brave Jen'. But her biggest battle is with the bane of her life: the Laws of Procrastination. As she admits, 'There has never been a Plan. Everything has been fairly random, happened by accident or just fallen into place. I'm off now, to do some sweeping...'
Prepare to chuckle, whoop, and go BONKERS.

Jennifer Saunders: Bonkers (Audiobook Extract) read by Jennifer Saunders

Jack and Michael Whitehall perform their laugh-out-loud autobiography Him & Me as a unique dual voiced comedy audiobook, filled with ad-libs, asides, and comic dialogue to create a uniquely funny listen.

Jack and Michael open up the rich and plentiful family lore archives on topics such as Jack's nanny's enormous feet, Michael's lifetime touchline ban from Jack's prep-school and the Whitehall collection of downright weird and eccentric relatives. With family photographs and sketches by Jack himself, the result is a hugely entertaining insight into a hilarious and sometimes bumpy journey of self-discovery and into the unique relationship between a father and a son.

The devotees that adore and worship Jack are already embracing his lovably grumpy father, who is rather enjoying his newfound fame. Watch out, fans of Reeves & Mortimer, Walliams & Lucas, Morecambe & Wise, there's a new comedy duo in town.


Jack and Michael Whitehall: Him & Me (Audiobook Extract) read by the authors

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Slynk & Crazy Daylight - Funk Bandito [ARD144]

An audiobook extract of the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Book of Souls by James Oswald. Read by the actor Ian Hanmore.

Every year for ten years, a young woman's body was found in Edinburgh at Christmas time: naked, throat slit, body washed clean. 

The final victim, Kirsty Summers, was Detective Constable Tony McLean's fiancée. But the Christmas Killer made a mistake and McLean put an end to the brutal killing spree.

Twelve years later, and a fellow prisoner has murdered the Christmas Killer. But with the festive season comes a body; naked, washed, her throat cut. 

Is this a copycat killer?
Was the wrong man behind bars all this time?
Or is there a more sinister explanation?

McLean must revisit his most disturbing case and discover what he missed before the killer strikes again . . .

James Oswald: Book of Souls (Audiobook extract) Read by Ian Hanmore

Marina Kemp interviews Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts, just in time for Halloween.

About the book:

'Is there anybody out there?' No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. The subject of whether ghosts exist has fascinated some of the finest minds in history and it remains a subject of overwhelming (if slightly embarrassed) interest today.  

This is the first comprehensive, authoritative and readable history of the evolution of the ghost in the west, examining as every good natural history should, the behaviour of the subject in its preferred environment. What did the haunted see? What did they believe?  What happened next? Taking us through the famous hauntings that have obsessed the world from the poltergeist of Cock Lane and the dark events of Borley Rectory right up to the present day, Roger Clarke unfolds a colourful story of charlatans and true believers. His surprising castlist ranges from Samuel Johnson to John Wesley, and from Harry Houdini to Adolf Hitler, his chapters cover everything from the technology of ghost-hunting to the emergence of the Victorian ghost flash mob. Inspired by a childhood spent in two haunted houses, surrounded by people who believed in spirits, Roger Clarke has spent much of his life trying to see a ghost.  Written as grippingly as the best ghost fiction, A Natural History of Ghosts takes us on a unforgettable hunt through the most haunted houses of the last four hundred years.

Author Interview: Roger Clarke on A Natural History of Ghosts

Donna Tartt reads the audiobook edition of her cult thriller The Secret History.

About the book:
A misfit at an exclusive New  England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return ...

The smartest murder-mystery you will ever hear

Donna Tartt: The Secret History (Audiobook Extract) read by Donna Tartt

The fifth novella in a 12-book series from THE master of teen horror, Darren Shan.

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B has spent the last few months bunking with the Angels, a group of teens dedicated to eradicating the evil dead from the face of the earth, beginning with the undead roaming the abandoned wreckage that was once London. But the Angels' mission is a bit more complicated than that, and B takes to the streets of a very changed London to decide: is it a mission really to be believed? But instead of answers, B finds a horror beyond imagining.

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Zom-B Baby by Darren Shan, Read by Emma Galvin - Audiobook Excerpt

Starhawk by Jack McDevitt on Audible: 
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Summary:

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure.… 

Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s license. 

Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life-forms, outraging people on Earth.So there’s not a lot of demand for space pilots. 

Priscilla thinks her career may be over before it has begun. But her ambition won’t be denied, and soon she is on the bridge of an interstellar ship, working for the corporation that is responsible for the terraforming. 

Her working conditions include bomb threats, sabotage, clashes with her employers - and a mission to a world, adrift between the stars, that harbors a life-form unlike anything humanity has ever seen. Ultimately, she will be part of a life-and-death struggle that will test both her capabilities and her character....



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Starhawk by Jack McDevitt, Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Cobra Starship - Hollaback Boy

Bow Down / I Been On

Penguin Books publishes blockbusting, prize-winning, celebrated, controversial, heart-warming, thought-provoking and inspiring books by a range of authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson to Jeremy Paxman and Jamie Oliver to Oliver Goldsmith.

James Oswald: Book of Souls (Audiobook extract) Read by Ian Hanmore

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