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OxPeace 2012: Challenging traditional attitudes in Parliament towards conflict

In Building Peace

Read by Simon Hughes


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Jungle Book

Read by Meredith Hughes


Rudyard Kipling


This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with h…

Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2)

Read by Chris Hughes


William Shakespeare


Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal wit…

Youth, a Narrative

Read by Chris Hughes


Joseph Conrad


An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories…

Borrowed Time

Read by Keith Hughes


Keith Hughes


Ness Relevant is living on borrowed time. Molecular implosion, cellular degeneration, and dangerous men are but a few of the perils faced by…

Stolen Time

Read by Keith Hughes


Keith Hughes


Ness Relevant has traveled through time before. Now he must once again use his time machine to confront a determined foe. Only this time his…

The Guerrilla Poet

Read by Keith Hughes


Keith Hughes


What if by simply Writing a Word you could build a wall, light a fire, or cloud someone’s mind? In an environment like this Alan Porter stru…

The Red House Mystery

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


A. A. Milne


Antony Gillingham arrives at the Red House moments after a gunshot is heard. The room is locked, the murderer has disappeared and, in Antony…

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2)

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Robert Louis Stevenson


After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is con…

The Swoop!

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


P. G. Wodehouse


The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…

The Amateur Cracksman

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


E. W. Hornung


"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…

Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


E. W. Hornung


Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles s…

The Story of Mary MacLane

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Mary Maclane


At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was pop…

A Few Figs from Thistles

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Edna St. Vincent Millay


A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Second April

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Edna St. Vincent Millay


A collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Ballads of a Bohemian

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Robert W. Service


Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bo…

Huntingtower

Read by Simon Evers


John Buchan


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

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