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Sir Edmund Orme

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

How serious is our exposure to dangerous infections?

In Big Questions For The Future

Read by Adrian Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Vaccines for Malaria and Ebola

In Weatherall lecture

Read by Adrian Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Geoffrey Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Malaria Vaccines

In Malaria

Read by Adrian Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Boko Haram: A Threat To The US Homeland?

In Merton College

Read by Jonathan Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Malaria Vaccines

In Translational Medicine

Read by Adrian Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Vaccines for Global Health

In Alumni Weekend

Read by Adrian Hill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Three-halfpenny Bit

In The Pleasures of Ignorance

Read by Annyiee Hill


Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as c…

The One That Eats Grass in the Sea

In Wilderness Babies

Read by Annyiee Hill


Julia Augusta Schwartz


This book tells the stories of some of the baby mammals of the wilderness,—how they grow and learn day by day to take care of themselves. In…

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