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Can the West Live with Islam?

In Keble College

Read by Nigel Biggar, Timothy Winter and Jonathan Phillips


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

1914–1918: Was Britain Right to Fight?

In Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

Read by Nigel Biggar


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Horror or the Glory?: Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line

In Oriel College Chapel Services

Read by Nigel Biggar


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Goddess of Atvatabar

Read by Nigel Fisher


William Richard Bradshaw


An accident during a polar expedition leads the crew of the Polar King to the discovery of an entire world within the earth. Within the inte…

Marge Askinforit

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

Eliza

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…

Bob the Castaway

Read by Nigel Boydell


Frank V. Webster


Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym …

Biltmore Oswald

Read by Nigel Boydell


J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

The Lost Kafoozalum

Read by Nigel Fisher


Pauline Ashwell


"Lizzie" Lee and her best friend "B" have just finished their finals in Cultural Engineering at Russett College and are …

If Winter Don't

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decl…

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One

Read by Timothy Ferguson


William Matthew Flinders Petrie


Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 1

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Lord Thomas Cochrane


This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…

On War (Volume 1)

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Carl Von Clausewitz


A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…

On War (Volumes 2 and 3)

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Carl Von Clausewitz


Perhaps the most famous work on the philosophy of war, and the effective use of military force, by a European author. (Summary by Timothy Fe…

Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Lacy Collison-Morley


A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy …

Plants and People

Read by Timothy Walker


Timothy Walker


University of Oxford Podcasts

Literary Taste: How to Form It

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…

Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Gaston Maspero


A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…

Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series Two : XVIIIth to XIXth Dynas…

Read by Timothy Ferguson


William Matthew Flinders Petrie


Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson

Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Lord Thomas Cochrane


This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…

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