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The Exploits of Juve (version 2)

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Marcel Allain


The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas no…

The Track of the "Typhoon"

Read by Alan Dove


William Washburn Nutting


In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…

The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Tannhäuser

Read by Alan Mapstone


Richard Wagner


The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, re…

Selection from Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Alexander Pushkin


Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Southey


Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

The King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

Read by Alan Chant


Frederick William Bourne


Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Poems of Pilgrimage

Read by Alan Mapstone


Thomas Hardy


A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

Poems (Version 2)

Read by Alan Mapstone


Wilfred Owen


The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…

Admirals All

Read by Alan Mapstone


Sir Henry Newbolt


A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…

Childe Roland and Other Poems

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Browning


The title poem was inspired by various images which Browning saw while living in Italy, an old tower in the Carrara Mountains, a painting in…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Star Surgeon

Read by Alan E. Nourse


Alan E. Nourse


Dal Timgar always wanted to be a doctor. As a Garvian and the first non-human to study medicine on Hospital Earth, he must face enormous ad…

The Communion of the Saint

Read by Alan David Justice


Alan David Justice


Clio Griffin, an out-of-work academic with an attitude and a tendency toward sarcasm, travels to England to interview for a last-chance job-…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

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