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Darwin 200
Read by Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries and Jeremy Paxman
Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries and Jeremy Paxman
University of Oxford Podcasts
Origins of Nature
Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny
Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny
University of Oxford Podcasts
Mr. Nix
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
In The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
On the Death of Lord Hastings
Read by Peter Tucker
John Dryden
In The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
The Madness of John Harned
Read by Kurt
Jack London
In The Night-Born
Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre.The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change h…
The Coming of Hagar
Read by Grant Hurlock
Fergus Hume
In Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
Richard's Dilemma
Read by Holly
George MacDonald
In There and Back
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …
Chapter 53
Read by Martin Geeson
Tobias Smollett
In The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I)
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and …
The Difficult Task of Loving Atheists
Read by Vic Zarley
Vic Zarley
In 2006, the author found the newly released Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion at the library. Shaking his head in disbelief that anyo…
Debate: Non-Resistance P.2
Read by William Allan Jones
Clarence Darrow
In Clarence Darrow, Selected Works: 1893-1917
This is a collection of 8 works by Clarence Darrow written between 1893 and 1917. Clarence Darrow was most noted in his time as an enormousl…
Chapter 6
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
In Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is on…
Chapter 11
Read by Winston Tharp
John D MacDonald, John D Macdonald and John Dann Macdonald
In A Bullet for Cinderella
HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ...But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.I watc…
Boris of Britain
Read by Christopher Fried
John Crowe Ransom
In Chills and Fever
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.
Dawtie
Read by aydrogekistky
George MacDonald
In The Elect Lady
Two farmer's sons and a cotter's daughter, though on different rungs of the social scale, formed a close bond in childhood as they learned t…
25 - By Deputy, Chapter 1
Read by Pascal Ramseier
Richard Marsh
In Amusement Only
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)
Sir Abraham Haphazard
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Anthony Trollope
In The Warden
Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, …
On the Heath
Read by MaryAnn
David Whitelaw
In The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London
A journalist just back from a year covering the simmering, not-yet-revolution in Russia, a dissident (or is he a spy?) with a stolen gem, a …
The Homes of London
Read by Slyma12
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Chapter XXVI. King Richard's Return To England
Read by JeffReynolds21
G. A. Henty
In The Boy Knight: A Tale Of The Crusades
Follow young Cuthbert on his adventures which lead him on a crusade to the Holy Land and back. - Summary by Sonia
Section 3
Read by Peter Yearsley
Hargrave Jennings
In Phallic Worship
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…