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7 Keys to the Future

In Interviews with Oxonians

Read by Ray Hammond and Veronica Sartore


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Story of My Childhood

Read by Veronica Jenkins


Clara Barton


Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, recalls growing up in early 19th Century Massachusetts. (Introduction by Veronica Jenkins)

Starved Rock: A Historical Sketch

Read by Veronica Jenkins


Eaton G. Osman


This book is an early history of the Starved Rock Area in Northern Illinois. In the pre-Columbian era, the Starved Rock area was home to Nat…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 4)

Read by Veronica Maresh Mead


H. G. Wells


The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells follows shipwreck victim, Edward Prendick, as he explores a strange island his rescuer, Montgomer…

Facebook: The Strength of Weak Ties

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by Bernie Hogan and Veronica Sartore


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Heretics

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

A Short History of England

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interac…

What I Saw in America

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and wh…

The Superstition of Divorce

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending ma…

The French Revolution

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…

Eugenics and Other Evils

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of …

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beau…

All Things Considered

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…

The New Jerusalem

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox.Dale A…

Manalive

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round a…

The Servile State

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary ut…

Tremendous Trifles

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…

The Crimes of England

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…

Utopia of Usurers

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capi…

The Defendant

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

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