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On Stage and Screen: Defining Moments in Entertainment Since 1962

In St Catherine's College

Read by Michael Billington, Sara Ramsden, Libby Purves, Thelma Holt and Roger Ainsworth


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Agnes Grey (Version 3)

Read by Libby Gohn


Anne Brontë


Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…

Emily Dickinson on Death

Read by Libby Gohn


Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…

Sappho: A New Rendering

Read by Libby Gohn


Sappho


Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…

Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

Read by Libby Gohn


Talbot Hughes


Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart

Read by Libby Gohn


Chrétien De Troyes


This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face…

A Group of Noble Dames

Read by Libby Gohn


Thomas Hardy


The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Wessex Poems

Read by Libby Gohn


Thomas Hardy


A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn

Implant

Read by Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices…

The Zaharoff Lecture

Read by Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


Dominique Rabaté and Michael Sheringham


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bible (KJV) 20: Proverbs

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The book of Proverbs is referred to as wisdom literature along with several others: the book of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and …

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Read by Michael Armenta


Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

Read by Michael Yard


P. G. Wodehouse


The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on …

Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew

Read by Michael Packard


King James Version


The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testa…

The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

Read by Michael Armenta


Homer


"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…

The Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

Read by Michael Armenta


Charles Darwin


This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive…

Typee

Read by Michael Scherer


Herman Melville


Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …

Bible (KJV), Complete

Read by Michael Armenta


King James Version


The 1769 Oxford Edition. The King James Bible is one of the most important books in the English speaking world, so influential that its lang…

United States Historical Documents

Read by Michael Scherer


Various


The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Read by Michael Yard


Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

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