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Brushes 3 - Creating a visual masterpiece on an iPad

In Digital Sketchbooks: Using tablets to support a museum art visit

Read by Adrian Brooks


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Digital Sketchbooks: using tablets to support a museum art trip

In Illuminating the Museums conference 2014

Read by Adrian Brooks and Helen Ward


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist

Read by Cynthia Brooks


Marjorie Bowen


Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this…

Master and Man

Read by Brooks Jensen


Leo Tolstoy


A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town …

Siddhartha

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Hermann Hesse


Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha…

Treasure Island (version 2)

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Robert Louis Stevenson


A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him…

The Wind in the Willows (version 3)

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Kenneth Grahame


The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…

The Thirty-nine Steps

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


John Buchan


Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve …

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Thomas Hardy


One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…

Kim

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Rudyard Kipling


Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling…

My First Summer in the Sierra

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


John Muir


The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…

Through the Looking-Glass (version 2)

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Lewis Carroll


The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderfu…

The History of Mr. Polly

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


H. G. Wells


A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…

Mr. Midshipman Easy

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Frederick Marryat


One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of J…

The Big Bow Mystery

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Israel Zangwill


It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is…

The Blue Lagoon

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


H. De Vere Stacpoole


Two shipwrecked children grow up on a South Pacific island. This beautiful story of adventure and innocent love was H.D. Stacpoole’s most po…