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Slime Moulds to run the railways?

In Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Read by Mark Fricker


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Complex systems in a Nutshell

In Entrepreneurship

Read by Felix Reed-Tsochas, Mark Fricker and Jukka-Pekka Onnela


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Time Machine (Version 3)

Read by Mark Nelson


H. G. Wells


H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time Traveller” tells the tale of his journey to …

The City at World's End

Read by Mark Nelson


Edmond Hamilton


A surprise nuclear war may cause the End of the World, but not the way anyone could have imagined. A classic science fiction tale from Galax…

As a Man Thinketh

Read by Mark Cawley


James Allen


Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase personal capabilities. Although he never achieved great fame or wealth,…

Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper.

My Man Jeeves

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeve…

Right Ho, Jeeves

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Bertram Wooster's manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie's fri…

Space Viking

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the w…

Four-Day Planet

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing …

Love Among the Chickens

Read by Mark Nelson


P. G. Wodehouse


Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start …

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Read by Mark Nelson


Victor Hugo


One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of ficti…

The Dunwich Horror

Read by Mark Nelson


H. P. Lovecraft


In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purp…

The Time Traders, (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Andre Norton


If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were …

Plague Ship

Read by Mark Nelson


Andre Norton


Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Com…

The Cosmic Computer

Read by Mark Nelson


H. Beam Piper


Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, "The Junkyard Planet", with news of the possible…

The Hour of the Dragon

Read by Mark Nelson


Robert E. Howard


The Hour of the Dragon, also known as Conan the Conqueror, is a fantasy novel by American writer Robert E. Howard featuring his sword and so…

Islands of Space

Read by Mark Nelson


John Wood Campbell Jr. and John Wood Campbell, Jr.


As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast sh…

The People of the Black Circle

Read by Mark Nelson


Robert E. Howard


"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. H…

A Princess of Mars (version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Edgar Rice Burroughs


John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, …

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