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Europe in the World

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Chris Patten, Anne Deighton, Barbara Harris-White, Alan Wolfe and Linda Yueh


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

De l'esprit des lois, livres 01-13

Read by Anne


Montesquieu


« Cet ouvrage a pour objet les lois, les coutumes et les divers usages de tous les peuples de la terre. On peut dire que le sujet est …

Bibel (LB 1912) 17: Esther

Read by Anne


Lutherbibel


Esther wurde von ihrem Onkel aufgezogen. Sie leben in Susa; das weit weg von Israel liegt. Esther wird Königin. Eine Intrige wird verhi…

Selected Short Stories

Read by Mike Harris


P. G. Wodehouse


A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being W…

The Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

The Tiger of Mysore

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…

At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

Plain Tales from the Hills

Read by Mike Harris


Rudyard Kipling


Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the cl…

On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the num…

Certified - The True Story of David Harris

Read by David Harris


David Harris


Certified is the pacey, true life account of David Harris; how he went from typical Aussie kid to mentally deranged criminal, then experienc…

War, Law and the Cold War: Making the European Convention on Human Rights

In Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Read by Anne Deighton


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Creating Formula

Read by Barbara Joye


Barbara Joye


You have been told that you create your own reality …You have read all about the Law of Attraction …You have heard and seen how some individ…

Discourses: Biological and Geological

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Henry Hux­ley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evoluti…

The English Language

Read by Barbara Baker


Logan Pearsall Smith


A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …

The Novels of Jane Austen

Read by Barbara Baker


George Henry Lewes


An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)

Read by Barbara Baker


James Boswell


This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…

Hieroglyphic Tales

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Babington Macaulay


An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

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