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Lover or Friend

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Rosa Nouchette Carey


An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…

Bizarre (version 2)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Lawton Mackall


A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam

In Colonial Days

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Nathaniel Hawthorne


A collection of British aristocrats, soldiers, gentlemen and ladies gather at the Province House inn, as the American imperial possessions c…

The Heart of Hyacinth

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Onoto Watanna


An abandoned young white woman dies with a baby in her arms in rural Japan. The child is raised by a Japanese woman. This child sees herself…

Mists of Mars

Read by Edmund Bloxam


George A. Whittington


The Wild West, reimagined as the Martian landscape, where law is defined by whoever has the biggest weapons, be they guns, ships, or things …

Retief: Intergalactic Diplomat in Space, (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. V)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Keith Laumer


'Retief of the Red-Tape Mountain'Retief knew the importance of sealedorders—and the need to keep them that way!'The Desert and the Stars'The…

Scientists Do Science in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VII)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Various


'The Cyberene' by Rog PhillipsSomewhere in the far future a diabolical brain plotted the enslavement of mankind. But to do that a history ha…

Essays Before a Sonata

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Charles Ives


Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this…

Masterpieces of Mystery: Ghost Stories

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Robert Louis Stevenson


'The Listener'First, it was a strange array of cats, then an increasingly mysterious, and then terrifying increase in...happenstances and...…

The Furthest Reaches of Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. VIII)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Mack Reynolds, Roger Dee Aycock, Allen Kim Lang, Stephen Marlowe, Alan E. Nourse, Lester del Rey, Ross Rocklynne, Clifford D. Simak and Harl Vincent


'Wanderlust' by Alan E. NourseBefore the great journey comes the hope, the dream, the familial disappointment...and the truth. ‘The Sense of…

First Love And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life (Version 2)

Read by Edmund Bloxam


Pedro Antonio De Alarcón Y Ariza


'First Love'Think of the most beautiful picture you've ever seen...'An Andalusian Duel'Two men, destined to die over a woman. But what does …

Darwin 200

Read by Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries and Jeremy Paxman


Richard Dawkins, Richard Harries and Jeremy Paxman


University of Oxford Podcasts

On Liberty

Read by John Stuart Mill


John Stuart Mill


"On Liberty," a seminal work by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill felt there were no definite standards for defining what societ…

Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas


University of Oxford Podcasts

"Wan, dim, and pale": the OED and Tolkien

In Merton College

Read by Edmund Weiner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

A German Deserter's War Experience

Read by Lee Smalley


Anonymoustranslated Byjulius Koettgen


The author of this 1917 narrative, who escaped from Germany and military service after 14 months of fighting in France, did not wish to have…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

The Angel of Terror

Read by Lee Elliott


Edgar Wallace


When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended …

The Golden Dream

Read by Lee Elliott


R. M. Ballantyne


Thoroughly engaging, at times even harrowing, adventure tale set in the San Francisco gold rush. Detailed depiction of its time and place, c…

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass


These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…

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