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Epistles of Cyprian

Read by David Ronald


Saint Cyprian Of Carthage


Little is known of the early history of Thascius Cyprian (born probably about 200 A.D.) until the period of his intimacy with the Carthagini…

Joseph Haydn; Servant And Master

Read by David Wales


Herbert Francis Peyser


Haydn, barring a few hardships in his youth, lived an extraordinarily fortunate life and had abundant reason for the optimism which marked e…

Reminiscences Of A Workhouse Medical Officer

Read by David Wales


Joseph Rogers


Joseph Rogers (1821-1889) was an English physician, medical officer, and health care reformer in London. The system of poor-law dispensarie…

Two American Slavery Documents

Read by David Wales


James Mars


This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Bu…

Read by David Wales


Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Around The Yule Log

Read by David Wales


Willis Boyd Allen


Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)

The Causes Of The American Civil War

Read by David Wales


John Lothrop Motley


John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…

An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

Read by David Wales


John Gregory Bourke


An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…

Bransford Of Rainbow Range

Read by David Wales


Eugene Manlove Rhodes


A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…

Against Celsus Book 2

Read by David Ronald


Origen Of Alexandria


Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…

Cecilia de Noël

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker


Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different v…

The Human Boy Again

Read by David Wales


Eden Phillpotts


Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other book…

The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An A…

Read by David Wales


Ellen Newbold La Motte


Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …

A Christmas Miscellany

Read by David Wales


Various


A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. - Summary by david wales

Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World

Read by David Coleman


David Coleman


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Picture Book Of Merry Tales

Read by David Wales


Anonymous


Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the n…

Resurrecting Randi

Read by David Shepherd


David Shepherd


When college professor Travis Harrison meets the copper-headed seductress, Layla Sommers, the two are drawn together with a fierce attractio…

Phillips Brooks

Read by David Wales


Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe


Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …

Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas

Read by David Wales


Various


St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…

Pope Adrian IV; An Historical Sketch

Read by David Wales


Richard Raby


Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…

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