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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

Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It

Read by Roger Melin


William Walker Atkinson


An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to trai…

History of Billy the Kid

Read by Roger Melin


Charles A. Siringo


A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history.When a bullet pierced his heart he was less …

Can Such Things Be?

Read by Roger Melin


Ambrose Bierce


24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling…

Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Read by Roger Melin


William R. Lighton


In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missou…

The Mystery of the Hidden Room

Read by Roger Melin


Christopher Harvey and Marion Harvey


A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a my…

The Flying Saucers are Real

Read by Roger Melin


Donald Keyhoe


The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs b…

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Read by Roger Melin


Bram Stoker


The Jewel of Seven Stars (also published under the name: The Jewel of the Seven Stars) is a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1…

The Lone Ranger Rides

Read by Roger Melin


Fran Striker


Fans of the old radio shows and the TV series The Lone Ranger will recognize the characters in this book - the Lone Ranger, his faithful Ind…

Fathers and Sons

Read by Roger Melin


Ivan Turgenev


The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazaro…

The Mad Planet

Read by Roger Melin


Murray Leinster


It is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the…

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