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What is the role of NGOs in the assisted voluntary returns of asylum seekers and…

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Read by Derek McGhee and Claire Bennett


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Among the Farmyard People

Read by Claire Schreuder


Clara Dillingham Pierson


A wonderful children's book filled with engaging stories about various farmyard animals. Each book ending with a moral which gently encourag…

Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms

Read by Claire Schreuder


Harriet Lummis Smith


Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adve…

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Read by Claire Goget


Edith Howes


A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goge…

Quick Silver

Read by Derek Mathias


Derek Mathias


What does a reformed cat burglar do when he has only months left to live? Sylvester "Silver" Larcini decides to test his skills on…

Iron Dragons

Read by Derek Gilbert


Derek Gilbert


Book 1 of The Saramond Quests Dragon pee really stinks. With that bit of cautionary advice, master dragonslayer Davian begins his tale. Davi…

Soulburner

Read by Derek Mathias


Derek Mathias


Alan joins his brother Dan’s private investigation agency in the hopes of reconnecting with his older sibling. Although he doesn’t know the …

The God Conspiracy

Read by Derek Gilbert


Derek Gilbert


One e-mail. Five lines. 4,000 dead. And it is only just beginning… When a small boy in Iowa forwards a mysterious email from ‘God’ to a smal…

The Ghost Kings

Read by Derek Trial


H. Rider Haggard


Rachel Dove is a British missionary's daughter in the wilds of Africa. Her life is turned around when fellow teenager Richard Darrien rescue…

Maiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand

Read by Derek Trial


H. Rider Haggard


While hunting elephants in the country of Wambe, big game Hunter Allan Quartermain gets word that an old friend, John Every, is a captive of…

Heu-Heu, or the Monster

Read by Derek Trial


H. Rider Haggard


At the instigation of the witch doctor Zikal, hunter Allan Quartermain and his faithful servant Hans journey to the remote civilization of t…

Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque Volume 1

Read by Mike Bennett


Mike Bennett


A second helping of podcast fiction from 'One Among the Sleepless' author, Mike Bennett. 'Hall of Mirrors' is a short story collection featu…

The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Read by Aaron Bennett


James Mcandrew


The “Roswell Incident” has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. In Jul…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc fromFormosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans,Japanese, B…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett


Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


"Tarawa Atoll is 2085 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and 540 miles southeast of Kwajalein in the Marshalls. Betio is the principal isl…

Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th,…

First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal

Read by Aaron Bennett


Henry I. Shaw, Jr.


In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon …

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