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Researching Soviet Social History in the 1920s

In Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction

Read by Andy Willimot


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

Read by Andy Harrington


Maurice Leblanc


The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from th…

Visible and Invisible

Read by Andy Sames


E. F. Benson


The second collection of short stories from the pen of E.F. Benson. Found within are stories with a touch of the authors penchant for melodr…

The Lonely House

Read by Andy Sames


Marie Belloc Lowndes


A mystery in the 'old fashioned' romantic genre, introducing characters that inspired another famous writer of detective mystery fiction.The…

The Four Just Men

Read by Andy Sames


Edgar Wallace


In the atmosphere of political turmoil before the First World War it seemed there were villains, spies and anarchists around every corner. S…

Orjien vapauttaminen Pohjois-Amerikassa

Read by Andy Bay


Alexandra Gripenberg


Tämä lyhyt esitys orjien vapauttamisesta Pohjois-Amerikan Yhdysvalloissaon kirjoitettu siinä toivossa, että se voisi oll…

The Virgin of the Sun

Read by Andy Sames


H. Rider Haggard


A great adventure following the exploits of a hero who's blood runs red, and Viking in nature. A mysterious chest with faded parchments prov…

The Princess and the Goblin (version 2)

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


George MacDonald


George MacDonald's fairy stories and fantasy have inspired a number of writers including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and of this popular f…

The Prisoner of Zenda

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Anthony Hope


The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles fro…

The Old Wives' Tale

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance …

The Wrong Box

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Robert Louis Stevenson


The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund wh…

The Card

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…

The Lancashire Witches

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


William Harrison Ainsworth


The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, t…

Four Max Carrados Detective Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Ernest Bramah


Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

Rupert of Hentzau

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Anthony Hope


This is the sequel to 'The Prisoner of Zenda'. Five years have passed. The King has become jealous of Rudolf Rassendyll and suspicious of th…

The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the Englis…

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Edith Œnone Somerville


This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…

The Gamekeeper at Home

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Richard Jefferies


Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …

Bladys of the Stewponey

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Sabine Baring-Gould


The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other wel…

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