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“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Rebecca Bell


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Alumni Voices

Read by Bethany Bell


Bethany Bell


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…

The Silent Barrier

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Louis Tracy


Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Rose Garden Husband

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


Margaret Widdemer


This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…

Indiana

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


George Sand


This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…

Dolly and I: Story for Little Folks

Read by Victoria Alice Bell


Oliver Optic


Katherine Green an envious girl is given a pretty doll by her Aunt Jane. Christmastime is approaching... Nellie Green her sister who is quit…

Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wildes Kunstmärchen bieten dem Leser (und Hörer) Zugang zu zauberhaften, filigran gestalteten Welten. Liebe, Leidenschaft, A…

Ferien vom Ich

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


Rezept für eine leicht bekömmliche (Urlaubs-) Lektüre: Man nehme einen Arzt mit originellem Kur-Konzept, einen hiervon begeis…

Das letzte Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


„Das letzte Märchen“, eine Geschichte, in der ein Journalist in ein unterirdisches Märchenreich eingeladen wird, um dort eine Zeit…

Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Jakob Wassermann


Die Autobiographie "Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude" skizziert die Lebens- und Sinnsuche des Schriftstellers Jakob Wassermanns. Di…

Selections from Josephus

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


Flavius Josephus


Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Emp…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


John Muir


Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

Das tapfere Schneiderlein

In Märchen 5

Read by Rebecca


grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

The Daring Prince

In In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Read by Rebecca


Olive Beaupre Miller, Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…