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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

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University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapters

Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest!

26:28

Read by Stuart Lee

New Sappho and new libraries

36:43

Read by Dirk Obbink

Four centuries of Chinese book collecting

31:11

Read by David Helliwell

The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western Wor…

46:40

Read by Christina Dondi

Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784–)

58:41

Read by Michael Suarez

Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson’s Cæsar (1712)

54:56

Read by Michael Suarez

Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754–86)

1:02:22

Read by Michael Suarez

Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789)

49:48

Read by Michael Suarez

True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard’s Poissons (1719)

54:03

Read by Michael Suarez

Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object

58:28

Read by Michael Suarez

Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences

38:29

Read by Robin Wilson

The Lives of Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins

1:00:33

Read by D R Thorpe, John Campbell and Chris Patten

Conscription and Conscientious Objection

33:52

Read by Martin Ceadel

The Problem with Propaganda

22:18

Read by Adrian Gregory

The Meaning of 1914

45:30

Read by Hew Strachan, Margaret MacMillan and Patricia Clavin

Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London

43:39

Read by Marie-Claude Felton

How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology create…

31:13

Read by Joshua Silver

Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford

32:43

Read by Eric Sidebottom

Oxford Medical Firsts: Celebrating 800 Years of Oxford Medicine.

33:01

Read by Conrad Keating

Embodying song in Early Modern England

22:16

Read by Katherine Larson and Matthew Faulk

Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature

27:24

Read by Carolyne Larrington

Stoicism and its Legacy

27:23

Read by John Sellars

Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children

31:31

Read by Anna Caughey

Richard Wagner: 200 Today

34:50

Read by Paul Coones

The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010

11:43

Read by Judith Priestman

Dr Lawrence Goldman introduces the commemoration, 'Jim Callaghan Remembered'

6:00

Read by Lawrence Goldman

Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan

5:40

Read by Andrew Smith

Michael Callaghan remembers his father Jim Callaghan

6:16

Read by Michael Callaghan

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington remembers her father, Jim Callaghan

3:40

Read by Margaret Jay

Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan

16:31

Read by David Owen

Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan

22:33

Read by Kenneth Morgan

Lord Donoughue remembers Jim Callaghan

12:21

Read by Bernard Donoughue

Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am

46:24

Read by Xu Bing

Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture

23:22

Read by Gabriele Balbi

Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell Self-portrait as a Young Man

50:19

Read by Brian Sewell and Roy Strong

Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections

19:46

Read by Giles Bergel, Andrew Zisserman and Relja Arandjelovic

Dickens' Railways

30:00

Read by Stephen Gill

The Romance of the Middle Ages

30:18

Read by Nicholas Perkins

Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored

9:31

Read by Kathryn Sutherland

The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising

27:07

Read by Kathryn Sutherland

Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster

22:27

Read by Michael Hughes

The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution

28:21

Read by William Poole

Shakespeare and Medieval Romance

28:17

Read by Helen Cooper

The Birth of Romance in England

28:18

Read by Laura Ashe

The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research

42:00

Read by Sir Mark Walport

Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature

1:00:57

Read by Paul Eggert

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

4:26

Read by Nouran Koriem

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

3:34

Read by Hoare Nairne

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

3:23

Read by Henry Cockburn

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

8:20

Read by Jordan Saxby

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'

2:02

Read by Hoare Nairne

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'

3:42

Read by Jordan Saxby

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind

3:51

Read by Christopher Adams

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'

0:51

Read by Christopher Adams

Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein

4:23

Read by Christopher Adams

Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents

3:16

Read by Hannah Morrell

Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley

1:38

Read by Nouran Koriem

Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry

5:05

Read by Henry Cockburn

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin

1:30

Read by Henry Cockburn

William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

8:05

Read by Henry Cockburn

Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin

1:39

Read by Hannah Morrell

Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

3:38

Read by Annabell James

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Bris…

49:26

Read by Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work

49:38

Read by Robert Powell and Alan Garner

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the …

55:37

Read by Alan Garner

Pre-1500 Printed Books

12:33

Read by Paul Nash

BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)

4:39

Read by P. D. James and Colin Dexter

BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)

13:14

Read by P. D. James and Colin Dexter

Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows

2:36

Read by Bodleian Library

Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions

1:57

Read by Sam Dastor

Paradise Lost Book Four

2:17

Read by Sam Dastor

Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech

2:43

Read by Sam Dastor

Samson Agonistes

2:41

Read by Sam Dastor

Aeropagitica

3:16

Read by Sam Dastor

Magna Carta at Oxford

21:03

Read by Richard Sharpe