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Enacting the Ethical Consumer

In Certification and Sustainability

Read by Clive Barnett


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The White Company

Read by Clive Catterall


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a kni…

Sir Nigel

Read by Clive Catterall


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales

Read by Clive Catterall


George MacDonald


George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adult…

The Prince (Version 4)

Read by Clive Catterall


Niccolò Machiavelli


This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "Th…

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

Read by Clive Catterall


Nathaniel Hawthorne


A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: …

The Art of War (Neville Translation)

Read by Clive Catterall


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Art of War (1521) is the only book published by Niccolo Machiavelli during his lifetime, and he saw it as one of his finest achievements…

Studies in the Art of Rat-Catching

Read by Clive Catterall


Henry C. Barkley


This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets…

Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front

Read by Clive Catterall


E. W. Hornung


In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…

Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Read by Clive Catterall


Samuel Smiles


Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution.…

The Book of Tea (Version 2)

Read by Clive Catterall


Kakuzō Okakura


The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …

Toxophilus

Read by Clive Catterall


Roger Ascham


Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…

Chapter 18

In Sense and Sensibility

Read by Heather Barnett


Jane Austen


The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…

The Quality of Mercy

In Short Poetry Collection 008

Read by Heather Barnett


William Shakespeare


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 3 – The Playmates

In Villette

Read by Heather Barnett


Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

We Visit Cousin Mattie’s

In The Golden Road

Read by Heather Barnett


L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…