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In Running a Community Collection Online

Read by Alun Edwards, Frances Dunkley and Rebecca Henderson


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories

Read by Carolyn Frances


Louisa May Alcott


Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection…

Little Bear

Read by Carolyn Frances


Laura Rountree Smith


A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…

Oxford Physics Research

Read by Chris Lintott, Roger Davies, Jo Dunkley and katherine blundell


Chris Lintott, Roger Davies, Jo Dunkley and katherine blundell


University of Oxford Podcasts

Europeana 1914-1918: Community Collection

In Case Studies In Innovative Practice

Read by Alun Edwards


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells


War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky


This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Metaphysics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


Metaphysics (Ancient Greek: ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΚΑ; Latin: METAPHYSICA; English: After the Physics) discusses topics including substance, accident, …

Laws

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…

The Symposium

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…

Rhetoric

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to …

The Nicomachean Ethics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


The work consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes said to be from his lectures at the Lyce…

Physics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite…

On Generation and Corruption

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be a…

On the Heavens

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argue…

Economics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


Economics (Greek: ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ; Latin: Oeconomica) may not have been written by Aristotle. The author provides examples of methods used by the…

On the Nature of the Gods

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Marcus Tullius Cicero


De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…