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Read by Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

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Ray Cummings


This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by…

The Athenian Empire

Read by Pamela Nagami


George William Cox


The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…

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'…

Indian Summer (version 2)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Dean Howells


Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of h…

Australia Felix

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Henry Handel Richardson


The story of Richard Mahony, a doctor trained in Edinburgh who comes to Ballarat in the gold rush of the 1850s. At first he runs a shop but …

J. Poindexter, Colored

Read by Grant Hurlock


Irvin S. Cobb


This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…

The Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment

Read by Sue Anderson


Ray Stannard Baker


My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather bin…

The Trevor Case

Read by Roger Melin


Natalie Sumner Lincoln


The nation's capital was astir at the untimely and curious death of the young wife of the Attorney General, Edmund Trevor. She had obviously…

Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman

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Burt L. Standish


Gilbert Patten, writing under the pen name of Burt L. Standish, wrote innumerable novels that were very popular in their time. His Frank Mer…

Hunter Patrol

Read by Phil Chenevert


H. Beam Piper


World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school che…

Capitol Coven

Read by Peter E. Abresch


Peter E. Abresch


Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…

Robert Falconer

Read by Kenneth R. Morefield


George MacDonald


A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

A First Spanish Reader

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A First Spanish Reader


Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Notes of a War Correspondent

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Richard Harding Davis


Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African …

Ben Hecht Spellbound



Spellbound Dramatised by Amanda Dalton from the Alfred Hitchcock film script by Ben Hecht and the original book by Francis Beeding.   C…

The Orange-Yellow Diamond

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J. S. Fletcher


A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle o…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051

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Various


Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spi…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 7: Winning His Way

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


The recent death of Frank Morris' father, Owner and Editor of the Green River Argus, has left his 18 year-old son, Frank to take up the chal…

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