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Vol 03, Ch. 06, part 1

In The Mysteries of Udolpho

Read by Sheila Morton


Ann Radcliffe


Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (…

Chapter 61

In Middlemarch

Read by Sheila Morton


George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

Adrian Hill on Vaccination Research

In Vaccine Research at Oxford

Read by Adrian Hill and Richard Morton


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bill Nye on the Cow Industry

In Bill Nye's Cordwood

Read by John


Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Chapter 24

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

Read by John


Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Ch.4 Tales of the Resurrectionists—Professional Body-Snatchers

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by John


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

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