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Joseph Volpe: Whither Opera in the 21st Century?

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Joseph Volpe


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to o…

The Return of the Mucker

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Aven…

The Man-Eater

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading local…

The Girl from Farris's

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Ever want to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, only to have the whole world fight to keep you down? Ever been upstanding and righteous, o…

The Castle of the Carpathians

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


The Castle stood above the quiet little town for as long as folks remembered: barren, deserted, lonely and frightening to the townsfolk. Unt…

The Survivors of the Chancellor

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hun…

The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; tw…

The Raider's Lament

Read by Joseph Jaquinta


Joseph Jaquinta


No honest business is ever conducted at an L3 point. But the crew of the Raider's Lament make a living doing jobs that don't fall into norma…

The Girl From Hollywood

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe a…

Captain Antifer

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Jules Verne


“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the locatio…

The Lost Art of Reading

Read by Joseph Tabler


Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

The Celebrity

Read by Joseph Tabler


Winston Churchill


Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler

The Master Mind of Mars

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Across the the vast reaches of space went he: another man of Earth (Ulysses Paxton) finds himself transported to Mars ("Barsoom"),…

The Pirates

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Morgan Robertson


A dozen men jailbreak from a naval prison, and steal the newest destroyer tied up at the docks to escape in: the fastest ship in the navy. …

Bunker Bean

Read by Joseph Tabler


Harry Leon Wilson


Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…

The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility

Read by Joseph DeNoia


Morgan Robertson


The Titan: the latest and most awesome industrial feat of modern luxury ocean liner, holding two thousand passengers, is set to sail the Nor…

Infinity Machine

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


Sally's job as UN Space Commissioner gets quite interesting when a ship full of time-displaced people is discovered in the Atlantic. This a…

Splashdown

Read by Paul J. Joseph


Paul J. Joseph


Sally's life on Earth becomes boring when she turns to politics, but not for long. As UN space commissioner, Sally finds herself presiding …