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Special Seminar 'The Dangerous Journey: Migration and the Restlessness of Life'

In International Migration Institute

Read by Ruth Padel


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Mental Efficiency

Read by Ruth Golding


Arnold Bennett


In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Read by Ruth Golding


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A collection of twelve short stories featuring Conan Doyle's legendary detective, originally published as single stories in Strand Magazine …

Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

Read by Ruth Golding


Emily Brontë


Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet…

The Human Machine

Read by Ruth Golding


Arnold Bennett


Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…

Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Read by Ruth Golding


Arnold Bennett


Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …

How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst)

Read by Ruth Golding


Lilli Lehmann


Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher.She wrote…

The Magic City

Read by Ruth Golding


E. Nesbit


Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of thei…

The Story of Electricity

Read by Ruth Golding


John Munro


In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …

The Speaking Voice

Read by Ruth Golding


Katherine Jewell Everts


From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training w…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Read by Ruth Golding


Edwin Abbott Abbott


Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flat…

The Magic World

Read by Ruth Golding


E. Nesbit


Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…

Women in Love

Read by Ruth Golding


D. H. Lawrence


Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…

An Iron Will

Read by Ruth Golding


Orison Swett Marden


Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals wi…

The Wonderful Garden

Read by Ruth Golding


E. Nesbit


Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's hou…

A House to Let

Read by Ruth Golding


Charles Dickens


A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…

Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces

Read by Ruth Golding


Thomas W. Hanshew


Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…

The History of London

Read by Ruth Golding


Walter Besant


Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …

Cleek of Scotland Yard

Read by Ruth Golding


Thomas W. Hanshew


Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …

The Seven Poor Travellers

Read by Ruth Golding


Charles Dickens


One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter r…

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