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Love at Second Sight

Read by Helen Taylor


Ada Leverson


In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse.…

Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination

Read by Helen Taylor


Catherine Grace Frances Gore


Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her …

Tension

Read by Helen Taylor


E. M. Delafield


When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capabl…

The Value of Humanities

Read by Helen Small


Helen Small


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bleak House (version 3)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disput…

King Solomon's Mines

Read by John Nicholson


H. Rider Haggard


King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a jou…

Little Dorrit (Version 2)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is…

Our Mutual Friend, Version 3

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold an…

The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Tr…

Allan Quatermain

Read by John Nicholson


H. Rider Haggard


Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Qua…

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the …

Dombey and Son

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848…

Great Expectations (Version 3)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years.Pip…

Oliver Twist (version 6)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …

Barnaby Rudge (version 2)

Read by Mil Nicholson


Charles Dickens


One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…

Bible (KJV) NT 23: 1 John

Read by Joshua Nicholson


King James Version


The First Epistle of John, often referred to as First John and written 1 John, is a book of the New Testament. This fourth catholic or "…

Euthyphro

Read by Andrew Miller


Plato


Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …

Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger


The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Invisible Man (Version 3)

Read by Andrew Gaunce


H. G. Wells


A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of…

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