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The ageing society and its implications

In Entrepreneurship

Read by Sarah Harper, Lynne Cox and Julian Savulescu


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Showcase: Ethics of the New Biosciences

In Oxford Martin School: Interviews and Commentaries

Read by Julian Savulescu


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Uehiro Seminar: The Ethics of Creating Designer Babies

In Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Read by Julian Savulescu


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Designer Babies

In Bio-Ethics Bites

Read by Julian Savulescu


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Eirik the Red's Saga

Read by Julian Jamison


Anonymoustranslated Byjohn Sephton


In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland…

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 Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)

Read by Sarah Hill


E. Nesbit


This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius, on their adventures to help their widowe…

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…

Exploring the demographic transition in the 21st Century

In Is the planet full? Seminar Series 2011

Read by Sarah Harper


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Read by Lynne Carroll


Elinore Pruitt Stewart


The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

A Little Country Girl

Read by Lynne T


Susan Coolidge


Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

Wyllard's Weird

Read by Lynne T


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic la…

The Valiant Runaways

Read by Lynne T


Gertrude Atherton


Savage bears, a river rescue, capture by Indians, escape on wild mustangs and a revolutionary battle await the protagonists of this suspense…

Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave

Read by Lynne T


Isaac Mason


Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures o…

Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society

Read by Lynne T


L. Frank Baum


Written under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in …

Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John

Read by Lynne T


L. Frank Baum


Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and thei…

Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch

Read by Lynne T


L. Frank Baum


Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch sees the reappearance of Louise and Arthur Weldon after the birth of their first child, Jane. The family liv…