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The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells


War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky


This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

Selections from Josephus

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


Flavius Josephus


Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Emp…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker


John Muir


Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

In In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Read by Rebecca


Olive Beaupre Miller, Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…

Das tapfere Schneiderlein

In Märchen 5

Read by Rebecca


grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

Little Brother and Little Sister

In Household Tales (Version 2)

Read by rebeccayoder05


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

Fuzzy and the Weasel

In Fuzzy Wuzz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras

Read by RebeccaTruestone


Allen Chaffee


"A LITTLE brown bear, no bigger than a house cat, that the Ranger found near drowning, is brought up with the orphaned fawn his childre…

Cash and Credit

In The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Read by Rebecca N


Henry Festing Jones and Samuel Butler


Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

Jack and Jill

In Puss in Boots, Jr., in New Mother Goose Land

Read by Rebecca Lindsey


David Cory


Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…

Fables LXI and LXII

In The Fables of La Fontaine

Read by Rebecca Bourque


Jean de la Fontaine


Jean de la Fontaine's fables were very well-known all over Europe during his life, and are now slowly being rediscovered. This edition conta…

Learning, Education and the Internet

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by Rebecca Eynon


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Trees and The Axe

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)

Read by Rebecca Brown


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…