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Is Obesity a Disease?

In Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars

Read by Paul Griffiths


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Anna Karenina, Book 5

Read by Phil Griffiths


Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the

The Adventures of Gerard

Read by Phil Griffiths


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrec…

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Read by Phil Griffiths


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is u…

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 1

Read by Phil Griffiths


Archibald Forbes


The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…

The Duel

Read by Phil Griffiths


Anton Chekhov


The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

The Art of War (version 2)

Read by Paul Sze


Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devote…

Sidelights on Relativity

Read by Paul Adams


Albert Einstein


Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Read by Paul Harvey


L. Frank Baum


The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of the Oz books. It follows the adventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Tip. The Emerald Ci…

The Prince (Version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Red Shadows

Read by Paul Siegel


Robert E. Howard


Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, en…

Heart of the World

Read by Paul Hansen


H. Rider Haggard


H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long los…

History of the Kings of Britain

Read by Paul Mazumdar


Geoffrey Of Monmouth


More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …

The Soul of Prayer

Read by Paul Mazumdar


P. T. Forsyth


"The worst sin is prayerlessness," states P.T. Forsyth at the start of this work on prayer but follows this up with the suggestion…

The Silk Code

Read by Paul Levinson


Paul Levinson


Phil D'Amato, New York City forensic detective, is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on eart…

Star Ship

Read by Paul Harvey


Poul William Anderson


The strangest space-castaways of all! The Terrans left their great interstellar ship unmanned in a tight orbit around Khazak—descended, all …

Rookwood

Read by Paul Curran


William Harrison Ainsworth


A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…

A Confession (Version 2)

Read by Paul Rizik


Leo Tolstoy


Leo Tolstoy's "A Confession," written in 1882 shortly after a life-altering spiritual crisis, is a brutally sincere reflection on …

Out of the Iron Womb!

Read by Paul Harvey


Poul William Anderson


Behind a pale Venusian mask lay hidden the arch-humanist, the anti-tech killer ... one of those who needlessly had strewn Malone blood acros…

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