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The Gamesmakers: Oxonians Preparing for London 2012

In The Olympics at Oxford

Read by Andrew Thomas, Roger Mosey, Ed Warner, Paul Williamson, Godric Smith and Nikki Emerson


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University of Oxford Podcasts

The Georgics: A Poem of the Land

Read by George Emerson


Virgil


A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…

The Female American

Read by Nikki Cain


Unca Eliza Winkfield


“The Female American; Or The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, Written by Herself in Two Volumes” was anonymously published under the pseu…

The Sea Mystery

Read by Steven Warner


Freeman Wills Crofts


During a seemingly innocent fishing trip, a sunken crate with an unidentified body is accidentally discovered. Inspector French must employ …

Around the Wicket Gate (Version 2)

Read by Steven Warner


Charles H. Spurgeon


Millions of men are in the outlying regions, far off from God and peace; for these we pray, and to these we give warning. But just now we ha…

A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity

Read by Steven Warner


Ethan Allen


Ethan Allen's account of his military exploits and subsequent captivity, riven with drama, adventure and humor. - Summary by Steven Warner

The Sins of Hollywood

Read by Chuck Williamson


Ed Roberts


Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners

Read by Chuck Williamson


Theodore Dreiser


Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…

My Trip Abroad

Read by Chuck Williamson


Charlie Chaplin


"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The Eyes of the Movie

Read by Chuck Williamson


Harry Alan Potamkin


"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America

Read by Chuck Williamson


D. W. Griffith


The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation. In it he played…

The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Read by Chuck Williamson


Walt Whitman


Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A…

Told Under a White Oak Tree

Read by Chuck Williamson


William S. Hart


An inside look into the wild world of silent movie cowboy William S. Hart... as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionaliz…

Ornaments in Jade

Read by Chuck Williamson


Arthur Machen


Ornaments in Jade is a collection of short narrative experiments from Arthur Machen, with ten dreamlike tales that are equal parts enigmatic…

Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole

Read by Chuck Williamson


Anna Adolph


Described by author Liza Daly as a "strange masterpiece of outsider art," Arqtiq is a bizarre, borderline hallucinatory work of fe…

Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a Star

Read by Chuck Williamson


Florence Carpenter Dieudonné


A bizarre and exuberant work of pure imagination, Rondah, or, Thirty-Three Years in a Star tells the story of a ragtag group of space explor…

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Read by Chuck Williamson


Edward Carpenter


Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys

Read by Chuck Williamson


Forrest Reid


The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoeroti…

The Golden Book of Springfield

Read by Chuck Williamson


Vachel Lindsay


The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, whe…

An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future

Read by Chuck Williamson


Gregory Casparian


Described by io9 as “the first lesbian science fiction novel,” An Anglo-American Alliance is a quasi-farcical tale of love, transformation, …

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