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Evaluating Transitional Justice

In Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars

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University of Oxford Podcasts

Anna Karenina, Book 1

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

The Doctor's Wife

Read by Kirsten Wever


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…

The Practice of the Presence of God

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Brother Lawrence


The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawren…

On Loving God

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux


On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the card…

The Leavenworth Case

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, …

Whose Body? (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Dorothy L. Sayers


Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fello…

The Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Anton Chekhov


This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor w…

Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

The Awful German Language (version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Mark Twain


This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, compl…

The Belton Estate

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…

Trent's Last Case (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edmund Clerihew Bentley


This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent.In it, Trent is sent…

The Lifted Veil (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


George Eliot


George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…

The Charing Cross Mystery

Read by Kirsten Wever


J. S. Fletcher


Here's another intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher, centering on why a former high-level police official was murdered, and on whether - and…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged)

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Lewis Carroll


Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge D…

A Passage to India

Read by Kirsten Wever


E. M. Forster


E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates…

The Green Rust (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edgar Wallace


Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…

Martin Hewitt, Investigator

Read by Kirsten Wever


Arthur Morrison


Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…

The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


G. K. Chesterton


These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wi…