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10 - The Rocker

In Widdershins (Version 2)

Read by Melissa Burns-Price


Oliver Onions


Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…

07 - The Adventure of Mrs. Rockerbilt's Tiara

In Mrs. Raffles

Read by Melissa Burns-Price


John Kendrick Bangs


Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the fa…

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Read by Melissa Green


Henry David Thoreau


A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America's beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau's great love o…

Stories from the History of Rome

Read by Melissa Jane


Emily Beesly


Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science: Panel 3 Part 3

In Open Science

Read by Richard Price


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Zero chance? Aiming for zero in weapons control

In Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

Read by Richard Price


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Chapter 56

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

Read by Jamie Price


Robert Smith Surtees


Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

The magician turned mischief-maker

In Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Read by Kent Price


Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…

Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1801

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1790 - 1816)

Read by Rob Price


Thomas Jefferson


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

The Boy who Overcame the Giants

In Canadian Fairy Tales

Read by Jim Price


Cyrus Macmillan


Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal bot…

A Great Family by Agnes McClelland Daulton

In The Emerald Story Book

Read by Cindy Price


Various


There is no richer theme for children’s stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in “The Emerald Story Book” aim to serve the youn…

From One Who Stays

In American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

Read by Brenda Price


Amy Lowell


This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

The Ascent of Mt. Ararat

In Across Asia on a Bicycle

Read by Jim Price


Thomas Gaskell Allen


In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …

Hasheesh

In Here and Hereafter

Read by M.B. Price


Barry Pain


This is a collection of stories by Barry Pain. While not all of these fall squarely into the genre of ghost and horror story, for which the …