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Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation

In The Isaiah Berlin Lecture

Read by Roy Foster


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Senia Paseta, Tara Stubbs, Desmond King and Roy Foster


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora

Read by Roy Schreiber


George Hamilton


George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …

The Calvary Road

Read by Roy Hession


Roy Hession


A Christian Holiness Collection presentation. This public domain book by Roy Hession made a great impact on my life because it gets to the m…

The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu)

Read by Roy Schreiber


Voltaire


L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to…

History and Fiction

Read by Roy Schreiber


Roy Schreiber


Why don't writers who fictionalize history just write fiction? Why did Shakespeare call his character Richard III or King John? Why not ca…

Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1

Read by Roy Schreiber


William Jackson


Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…

Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 2: Of the Rights of Things.

Read by Roy Haines


William Blackstone


The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…

Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 4: Of Public Wrongs

Read by Roy Haines


William Blackstone


The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…

Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 3: Of Private Wrongs

Read by Roy Haines


William Blackstone


The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…

The Invisible Man

Read by Alex Foster


H. G. Wells


The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story…

Poetics

Read by Robert Foster


Aristotle


Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

The Rainbow (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

The Lost Girl

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Read by Tony Foster


Charles Watts Whistler


Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…