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A unique collection of accounts brought to life on audiobook with music of the period They Saw It Happen contains more than sixty eyewitness accounts from history. Many are notable events: the battle of Thermopylae, the black death in 1341, the great fire of London, the execution of Louis XVI, the death of Nelson, the American Civil War, and the bombing of Hiroshima. But there are also snapshots of more ordinary life--no less memorable for that--including working conditions during the Industrial Revolution, views of slave owners and slaves, Paul Gaugin choosing a bride in Tahiti, and the arrest of Dr. Crippen. It is a fascinating and absorbing collection, bringing the past alive as only direct memories like these can.

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Tim Pigott-Smith is a British classical stage and television actor. He has narrated everything from Wilbur Smith's adventure works, Triumph of the Sun and Blue Horizon to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic The Brothers Karamazov, for which he received an AudioFile Earphones Award. He was an Audie finalist for Professor Joanna Burke's 2006 original works Eyewitness: 1940-1949, Eyewitness: 1950-1959 and Eyewitness: 1960-1969. Pigott-Smith performed in Broadway in Sherlock Holmes as well as opposite such British stars as Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Geraldine James, and Patrick Stewart. He has appeared in a host of Shakespearean classics on television including Henry IV, Part I and Measure for Measure as well as in Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, Downton Abbey, and The Hour. His many film credits include Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Bloody Sunday, and Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York. Steve Hodson trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama before joining Michael Elliot at the Exchange in Manchester for A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peer Gynt, and Catch my Soul. The next stop was Yorkshire Television for a three-and-a-half year stint on Follyfoot followed by television series such as Angels, The Legend of King Arthur, and All Creatures Great and Small, all interspersed with hundreds of radio plays. He has directed plays by John Crowen, Schiller, and Bulgakov. On stage he has appeared in Death and the Maiden, The Railway Children, and as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He also read the part of Curan in King Lear, and Plutarch: Greek Lives for Naxos AudioBooks. Kerry Shale is a Sony Radio Academy Award winner, a narrator of dozens of audio books, and an actor in films as diverse as Yentl and Welcome to Sarajevo. He won an Audie Award for his narration of Q&A. Tom George trained at London's Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, winning the PMA Bursary and the Laurence Olivier Bursary in his second year. He was also a winner of the Carleton Hobbs competition which awarded him a contract with the BBC Radio Department with whom he continues to work frequently. Notable credits include Absolute Power with Stephen Fry and John Bird, Titanic Enquiry, The Mill on the Floss, and The Remains of the Day with Ian McDiarmid. Screen credits include Band of Brothers directed by Tom Hanks and Buffalo Soldier directed by Gregory Jordan. Teresa Gallagher has performed in many leading roles in both plays and musicals across the country, London's West End, and Broadway. In addition, she is a well-known voice to listeners of BBC Radio Drama. Her work on film includes The Misadventures of Margaret and Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy. She has read numerous audiobooks throughout her career, including the Biography of Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins and selections from The Decameron by Boccaccio, and has earned two AudioFile Earphones Awards. Coming soon...

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