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University of Oxford Podcasts

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales

Hugh Walpole

A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Story of Wool

Read by David Olson

Sara Ware Bassett

Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)

The Manchester Man

Read by Phil Benson

Isabella Varley Banks

Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…

Quilt, Book and Bard

Read by Bryna Chalmer

Bryna Chalmer

For years the picture of the man with the oxcart has hung on the wall of her Aunt and Uncle's house. It never occurred to Tory that one day …

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Read by Simon Evers

Anthony Trollope

Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…

Emma (version 5)

Read by Moira Fogarty

Jane Austen

A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

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…

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…

The Story of London

Read by Paul Lawley-Jones

Henry B. Wheatley

A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

Nightmare

Read by Ben Tucker

Cornell Woolrich

Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

Read by Elijah Fisher

Joseph Addison

The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

Mary Barton

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

Babbitt

Read by John W. Michaels

Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises …

The Gray Mills of Farley

Read by Bellona Times

Sarah Orne Jewett

As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…

A Mating in the Wilds

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)

Ottwell Binns

An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods.…

Wulf the Saxon

Read by Peter John Keeble

G. A. Henty

Wulf the Saxon is a classic George Henty tale of nobility, loyalty and courage set in 11th century Britain. It relates the adventures of Wul…

Of All Things

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Robert C. Benchley

A collection of amusing essays satirizing serious consideration of topics including natural history, social etiquette, or indeed, civilized …

Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Read by Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill

Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill

University of Oxford Podcasts

Pride and Prejudice (version 2)

Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg

Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s classic novel chronicles the events in the lives of the Bennet family. Take a family with five unmarried daughters and a lack…

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