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The Shadow-Line (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …

Victory (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…

The Book of the Cheese

Read by Peter Yearsley


Thomas Wilson Reid


"Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" is a pub on Fleet Street, London. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, and has been frequented …

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 1

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes a journey of self-realization. The story centers upon Wilhelm's attempt to escape …

Last Post

Read by Peter Dann


Ford Madox Ford


This is the last novel in Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End" tetralogy. Its predecessors "Some Do Not", "No More Para…

The Improvement of Human Reason

Read by Peter Tucker


Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail


The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …

Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

Read by Peter Dann


George Borrow


This unusual narrative by eccentric self-taught English linguist, traveller and one-time bible salesman George Borrow combines elements of a…

The Rover (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…

Notes on Life and Letters

Read by Peter Dann


Joseph Conrad


Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…

Begbroke Science Park, Site Activities

Read by Peter Dobson


Peter Dobson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Volume 2

Read by Peter Tucker


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


This is the second half of the novel by Goethe (the first half, Volume 1, has been recorded separately).It describes the completion of Meist…

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)

Read by Peter Dann


Henry Fielding


"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…

Experimental Psychology Department

Read by Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


University of Oxford Podcasts

Implant

Read by Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Michael Wallace and Jefferey Anderson


Neurosurgeon Julia Nolan places cortical implants into the brains of field operatives to record data from their auditory and visual cortices…

What is Tragedy?

Read by Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings


Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ancient Egypt

Read by Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


Richard Parkinson and Barbara Ewing


University of Oxford Podcasts

The World of Art

Read by Donna Kurtz and Sebastian Rahtz


Donna Kurtz and Sebastian Rahtz


University of Oxford Podcasts

What is Translation?

Read by Oliver Taplin and Lorna Hardwick


Oliver Taplin and Lorna Hardwick


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


University of Oxford Podcasts

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

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