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From hairy roots to new medicines

In Botanic Garden

Read by Sarah O'Connor


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 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…

Two Concepts of Emergence

In Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Read by Tim O'Connor


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The language of Shakespeare

In Staging Shakespeare

Read by Kate O'Connor


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

35 - The Crystal Coffin

In The Green Fairy Book

Read by Michaela O'Connor


Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Altho…

34 - Long, Broad, and Quickeye

In The Grey Fairy Book

Read by Michaela O'Connor


Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…

Chapter Nine: What is Slavery?

In The Slavery of Our Times

Read by Michaela O'Connor


Leo Tolstoy (Aylmer Maude, Translator) and Leo Tolstoy


This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so mu…

Sonnet 130 - read by MOC

In Sonnet 130

Read by Michael O'Connor Clarke


William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal…

The Good Bargain

In Household Tales (Version 2)

Read by Patrick T O'Connor


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

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 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…

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 Impact of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions and Turkish Code Reforms Pertaining to the Headscarf on Islamist Women in Turkey: Enabling Emancipation or Legitimizing Discrimination?

In St Antony's College Podcasts

Read by Sarah Ficher


Various


St Antony's College is the most international of the six graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relati…

The British Media - the view from outside

In Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Read by Sarah Lyall


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts