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In Oxford Martin School: Interviews and Commentaries

Read by Sarah Harper


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The ageing society and its implications

In Entrepreneurship

Read by Sarah Harper, Lynne Cox and Julian Savulescu


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Is the Planet Full?

In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Blazing World

Read by Sarah Terry


Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle and Margaret Lucas Cavendish


The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a …

How to Camp Out

Read by Sarah Jennings


John Mead Gould


Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

The Spirit of the Curé of Ars

Read by Sarah Cain


Alfred Monnin


St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…

The Black art, fully exposed and laid bare part 2

In Herrmann's Book of Magic

Read by Ellie Harper


Alexander Herrmann


Black Art Fully Exposed.A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs, including a complete …

Creativity Lecture 2: Creative Selves, Creative Expression

In Keble College

Read by Richard Harper


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

BOOK I. The Way to Winchester. Chapter VII

In Uther and Igraine

Read by Rachel Harper


Warwick Deeping


This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)

The Ship's Last Battle

In The Ship of Ishtar

Read by Micaela Harper


Abraham Merritt


Imaginative, sensual, gory.John Kenton, WWI veteran and wealthy archaeologist, receives stone artifact from a friend in Babylon. Surprisingl…

The Tell-Tale Heart

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

Read by Sarah


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Burghers' Gathering

In The Poetry of South Africa

Read by Sarah


Alexander Wilmot


Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…

The Storyteller

In Ballads of Peace in War

Read by Sarah


Michael Earls


This is a collection of poetry by Michael Earls, a Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and administrator. This collection of poetry concer…

The Pearl Necklace, part 2

In Deeds of Daring done by Girls

Read by Sarah


Hannah Hudson Moore


Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts…

47 - Snow-white and Rose-red

In The Fairy Ring

Read by Sarah Jennings


Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Section 6

In Write it Right

Read by Sarah Jennings


Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

08 - The Plains of Abraham September 13, 1759

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 11 - The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe

Read by Sarah Jennings


William Wood


Any life of Wolfe can be artificially simplified by treating his purely military work as something complete in itself and not as a part of a…