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Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating

In Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Read by Bernie Hogan

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Facebook: The Strength of Weak Ties

In Oxford Internet Institute

Read by Bernie Hogan and Veronica Sartore

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Rain (Version 2)

Read by Linda Hogan

W. Somerset Maugham

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction b…

Canadian Wonder Tales

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Cyrus Macmillan

This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Stephen Leacock

This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill U…

Adrift on an Ice-Pan

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …

Le Petit Nord

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Anne Maclanahan Grenfell

A collection of letters from Anne (MacLanahan) Grenfell, future wife of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, regarding her year of missionary service at th…

Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea

Read by Sean Michael Hogan

Bliss Carman

This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sound…

Dyer D. Lum

In Selected Essays

Read by Heather Hogan

Voltairine de Cleyre and Voltairine De Cleyre

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

Introduction

In French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

Read by Linda Hogan

Marie de France. [Translated by Eugene Mason] and Marie De France

The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess the…