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Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)

Read by Rob Marland


Oscar Wilde


This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter abo…

Oscar Wilde from Purgatory

Read by Rob Marland


Hester Travers Smith


Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the sp…

The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture

Read by Rob Marland


Benvenuto Cellini


Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, is perhaps better known for his colorful autobiography than his works o…

In Excelsis

Read by Rob Marland


Lord Alfred Douglas


In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy …

Zero chance? Aiming for zero in weapons control

In Getting to Zero: Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2009

Read by Richard Price


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rigour and Openness in 21st Century Science: Panel 3 Part 3

In Open Science

Read by Richard Price


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Boy who Overcame the Giants

In Canadian Fairy Tales

Read by Jim Price


Cyrus Macmillan


Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal bot…

The Sword-Fish

In The Ocean Waifs

Read by Jim Price


Thomas Mayne Reid


"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

The magician turned mischief-maker

In Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Read by Kent Price


Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imag…

Chapter 56

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

Read by Jamie Price


Robert Smith Surtees


Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

Picciola (Adapted) by St. Saintine

In The Emerald Story Book

Read by Cindy Price


Various


There is no richer theme for children’s stories than the miracle of Spring. The selections in “The Emerald Story Book” aim to serve the youn…

The Ascent of Mt. Ararat

In Across Asia on a Bicycle

Read by Jim Price


Thomas Gaskell Allen


In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …

From One Who Stays

In American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

Read by Brenda Price


Amy Lowell


This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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