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The Village in the Jungle Roundtable

In The Leonard Woolf Symposium

Read by Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, David Trotter, Susheila Nasta and Nisha Manocha


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

In Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium

Read by Hermione Lee, Anna Snaith, Elleke Boehmer, Nisha Manocha, David Trotter and Susheila Nasta


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Olive Schreiner

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century (Video)

In Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. The Oxford Research Centre in th…

Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub

In Indian Traces in Oxford

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Teddy Talks

Read by Lionel Barber and David Waring


Lionel Barber and David Waring


University of Oxford Podcasts

From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Hermione Lee


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Why should we study Postcolonial Literature?

In Challenging the Canon

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Sarah Wilkin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Literature and State Censorship: A literary perspective

In Censorship in Literature in South Africa

Read by Peter McDonald and Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Kipling, the Elton John of his age?

In Interviews on Great Writers

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies


Various


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The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

Read by Anna Simon


Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

The Return of Alfred

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…

Anarchy

Read by Anna Simon


Errico Malatesta


Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

The Rain-Girl

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…