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Peter D McDonald in conversation with Derek Attridge

In Writers in Dialogue

Read by Peter McDonald and Derek Attridge


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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…

Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ethics, Hospitality and Radical Atheism: A Dialogue

In Philosophy Special Lectures

Read by Martin Hägglund and Derek Attridge


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

Grim Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…

The King in Yellow (part 1)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

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