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Literature and State Censorship: A literary perspective

In Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Read by Peter McDonald and Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Intercultural Literary Practices - Theorising Interculturality

In Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT)

Read by Birgit Kaiser, Peter McDonald and Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub

In Indian Traces in Oxford

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Olive Schreiner

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Why should we study Postcolonial Literature?

In Challenging the Canon

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Sarah Wilkin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Kipling, the Elton John of his age?

In Interviews on Great Writers

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The World of Unicellular

Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edwin Benson


A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

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…