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A former United States Navy admiral with a distinguished and extraordinary career, Admiral William McRaven retired from the Navy in 2014 after more than 37 years of service. During the last few years of his career he was also 'Bull Frog', the longest serving Navy SEAL still on duty. Admiral McRaven has written a book which shares the most important principles he learned during his career - it's called Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life...and maybe the world.

Rutger Bregman joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest best-selling publication, Utopia for Realists. Rutger Bregman is one of Europe's most prominent young thinkers. At 29, he is a historian and an author with four books already under his belt, not to mention a regular spot on the revered online journalism platform The Correspondent and publications in The Washington Post and The Guardian.

Ben Collins, the championship winning racing driver, Hollywood stuntman, best-selling author and the legend that is The Stig from Top Gear visits the Audible Studios to chat about his new book How To Drive.

The much-loved actor, presenter and author, Tony Robinson, joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss his autobiography, No Cunning Plan. Sir Tony Robinson is most famous for playing the role of Baldrick in Blackadder and presenting the Channel 4 show, Time Team, for 20 years. However, he began his career at the age of 13 in the original stage version of Oliver!

Sci-fi author Miles Cameron joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios in the UK to discuss his work. Exclusive interview.

Hollie McNish visits the Audible Studios to talk about her book Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood. The book uses stories and poems to create a snapshot of motherhood, in which Hollie talks about everything from morning sickness and breastfeeding in public to the impossibility of ever finishing a hot cup of tea. Hollie has been performing poetry since 2005 and has gone viral on YouTube for her slick, poignant, political rhymes. She won the UK Slam Poetry Competition in 2009.

Bettany Hughes is a historian, an author and a broadcaster whose many TV and radio documentaries have toured ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. Her critically acclaimed writing has explored the lives and worlds of Helen of Troy and Socrates, and today she visits the Audible Studios to tell us more about her new book, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities.

Jane Corry joins Gabriel Fleming to talk about her latest novel, My Husband's Wife.

Sarah Ockell-Smith visits the Audible Studios to talk about her new book The Gentle Discipline Book: How to raise co-operative, polite and helpful children. Sarah is a well-known parenting expert and a highly regarded popular parenting author who specialises in the psychology and science of parenting, 'gentle parenting' and attachment theory. She talks to Gabriel Fleming about the latest instalment in her 'Gentle' series....

Best-selling crime writer Peter May joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest chiller.

Kae Tempest joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss the audiobook version of her book, The Brick that Built the Houses.

Ayobami Adebayo joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to talk about her debut novel, Stay With Me.

Julia Samuel joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book, Grief Works.

J. P. Delaney's crime novel The Girl Before has taken the world by storm. He joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to tell us about the writing process and the upcoming film adaptation.

Raoul Martinez joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss his new book, Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future.

Sci-fi writer Elizabeth Bear joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to talk about her work.

Author Simon Lelic visits the Audible Studios. He is the author of three brilliant and gripping novels - Rupture, The Facility and The Child Who - and here he discusses his fourth, The House.

In 2015, Laura Marshall decided to have a crack at her lifelong dream of becoming a novelist and enrolled on the Curtis Brown novel-writing course. Two years later, here she is with her debut novel Friend Request. Laura visits the Audible Studios discuss more about that journey and, of course, the novel itself.

Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful historical fiction authors writing today. His Wars of the Roses series is a perennial favourite with Audible listeners, and his highly anticipated stand-alone novel Dunstan came out this month. He joins Gabriel Fleming to discuss his work.

Best-selling author of The Letter and The Secret Kathryn Hughes joins Audible for a second time to discuss her third novel, The Key. With a dual time line, listeners are transported between scenes of a 1950s operational insane asylum and those taking place in the aged and now abandoned building 50 years on in a story about forgotten tragedy, lost love and the pursuit of justice. Kathryn discusses her new thrilling instalment and her hopes for future works.