Resultados Editorial "audible originals" en Biografías y memorias

You know her voice. Now hear her story.

Audible has teamed up with Rolling Stone to produce an uncompromisingly honest Audible Original that honors the life and legacy of the incomparable Aretha Franklin. Aretha’s universal appeal was evident from the release of her first album at age 14 through her nearly 50 Top 40 hits. Yet this intimate biography reminds us that Aretha knew pain as much as she knew glory. It was the blues, residing deep within her soul, that gave way to a voice able to lift millions with a profound sense of freedom, self-worth, and undeniable talent to rise above sorrow.

"Grandi menti a confronto" è la nuova serie audio originale firmata Audible, dedicata alla divulgazione scientifica. La voce di Piergiorgio Odifreddi, matematico e scrittore, racconta e confronta le idee dei grandi pensatori che hanno segnato la Storia. Ogni episodio è dedicato a una disciplina scientifica o artistica e a due grandi protagonisti.

Moglie di Karl Otto Koch, comandante del campo di concentramento di Buchenwald dal 1937 al 1941, Ilse è una ragazza modello, non fosse per quella passione morbosa per i soldati delle SS. Nel 1936 viene nominata sorvegliante e segretaria presso il campo di concentramento di Sachsenhausen Ispirata dalle pratiche del marito, sviluppa una macabra pratica: scuoia la pelle dei detenuti e utilizza i tatuaggi delle vittime per fare paralumi, quadri e tavoli decorativi e imbandisce le tavole con teschi umani.

For generations of fans, the Playboy Interview was revered as the gold standard in American journalism.

La sanguinosa epopea del Mostro di Firenze accompagna l'Italia dal 1968 per quasi vent'anni. È una storia dai tratti misteriosi e raccapriccianti, che mette a nudo le contraddizioni e gli orrori di un Paese che cambia volto. Nelle campagne toscane un serial killer assale e distrugge la vita di diverse coppiette, scatenando interrogativi e terrore.

With an entirely fresh take on presidential history, James Swanson, author of the New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer, shares the story of his lifelong obsession with the murder of America’s most revered president and the frantic hunt for his assassin. The renowned Lincoln scholar treats listeners to an audible “walking tour” of the people, places, events, and artifacts that tell the story of those horrible days in April 1865.

Who am I? Who were these people who made me who I am? And, what was this place? Was it ever what I thought it was? For celebrated journalist and author Julie Salamon, these recently became central questions. Salamon spent the first 18 years of her life Seaman, Ohio, a town that is part of the American heartland, a repository of mythology and misunderstanding.

Rupert Murdoch is known as the media magnate who, over the course of 70 years, turned a small family newspaper company into the most powerful conservative media empire in history.

From the Demon Dog of American literature comes James Ellroy’s Hollywood Death Trip. Dig into a quintet of highly stylized true crime that delves into some of the most notorious, unsolved, midcentury-Hollywood murders. Ellroy’s wicked baritone draws listeners into a series of hellacious crimes; beginning with the heartbreaking and gruesome murder of his own mother. Next, it’s the Karen Kupcinet Killing - her body, found strangled just days after JFK’s assassination. Beautiful Stephanie Gorman, a debutante killed by a stranger, made Los Angeles lock its doors at night. The series concludes with the salacious snuff of actor Sal Mineo, whose death is a fitting epigraph for a series set in “Hollyweird”.

In 2006, reporter Jamie Fullerton flew to Ohio to wrestle a bear named Caesar for a quirky magazine article. It was a strange day, and after the wrestle-induced adrenalin wore off, Fullerton noticed even stranger things about Caesar’s handler, hulking Ohio native, Sam Mazzola.

The entire 12 episode series of Death By Unknown Event will release on Oct 21.

Qui est Gianfranco Franciosi ? Personne. Un homme au quotidien banal qui, grâce à son talent de mécanicien nautique, s’est retrouvé du jour au lendemain plongé dans le trafic de cocaïne international. Approché par la police, il deviendra le premier indic de toute l'histoire italienne de la lutte contre le trafic de drogue. Comédiens et comédiennes ayant participé, par ordre alphabétique : Myrtille Bakouche, Mathieu Buscatto, Alexandre Donders, Pierre Junières, Jérôme Keen, Isabelle Miller, Philippe Roullier, Pierre Tissot.

Irma Grese, dopo un'infanzia difficile e il suicidio della madre, a 15 anni scappa di casa, attratta dalle idee nazionalsocialiste e si arruola nella Lega delle ragazze tedesche iniziando presto la sua carriera come comandante del campo di Ravensbrück. È considerata la più bella e giovane direttrice del campo e ne diviene anche la più crudele, iniziando a curare i simboli del suo potere: la divisa, gli stivali, la frusta.

"Certamente non siamo gli unici animali che vivono l'esperienza del dolore e della sofferenza. In altre parole, non c'è una linea netta tra l'animale uomo e il resto del regno animale. È una linea indistinta e lo sarà sempre". (Jane Goddall) Jane Goodall è un'etologa e un'antropologa che lotta da oltre quarant'anni a favore di un maggior rispetto dell'ambiente e degli animali. A soli 26 anni ha lasciato l'Inghilterra per partire per l'Africa e iniziare a studiare il comportamento degli scimpanzé.

Dermot O'Leary interviews a range of people he greatly admires from the worlds of sport, fashion, politics and entertainment.

Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, they ask us to question our own humanity. Nowhere is this truer than in stories of serial killers. What are the origins of this monstrous archetype? Why are we so fascinated with such gruesome terror? What do they reveal about our fears and anxieties? Explore these and other questions in Serial Killers: Real and Imagined, where public scholar Emily Zarka looks at the serial-killer trope across history, from murky 17th-century legends to 21st-century true-crime obsessions.

In this wild, genre-bending audio documentary, New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow dives deep into the strange and storied life of high-society socialite and former Miss Arizona Celia (Cece) Doane.

The house was like something out of a Jane Austen novel, but the truth of what lay in the shadows was more terrifying than any fictional imagining. Shane Dunphy recalls the experience of his darkest nightmares: a young girl describing missing children as playthings at house parties, but no one was listening; a malevolent, threatening presence looming in the residence they called the Bad Place, and Shane was forced to flee. And now, 20 years later, a mother pleads with him to find her son who vanished at age five.

Some stories are too sensitive, painful or potentially damaging to share publicly - unless they can be shared anonymously. TED and Audible present, Sincerely, X, featuring speakers whose ideas deserve to be heard but whose identities must remain hidden.

Cosa hanno in comune il fotoreporter spagnolo naturalizzato francese assassinato dalle gang salvadoregne che stava provando a raccontare, la giornalista maltese che aveva accusato il potere politico di gestire affari criminali, il prete di Casal di Principe che per amore del suo popolo aveva deciso di ribellarsi alla camorra, i giudici di Palermo che hanno continuato a fare il proprio lavoro sapendo che sulle loro vite pendeva una condanna a morte, l'agente italo americano sotto copertura che ha sacrificato sei anni della sua vita per smantellare la mafia newyorchese?