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Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Hugh Walpole Mr. Perrin And Mr. Traill


SANWAL


Saturday-Night Theatre: Mr Perrin and Mr Traill by Hugh Walpole, adapted for radio by Val Gielgud Sat 30th Dec 1978, 20:30 on…

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

The Portent

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George MacDonald


Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highl…

The Agony Column

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Earl Derr Biggers


English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…

The British Barbarians

Read by Ruth Golding


Grant Allen


After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and …

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Read by Karen Savage


Baroness Emma Orczy


The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summ…

Jeremy

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


With affectionate humor, Mr. Walpole tells the story of Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen and Mary Cole, who grow up in Polchester, a quiet …

Red Men And White

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …

Sir Gibbie

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George MacDonald


These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…

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.…

The Wind in the Willows (version 3)

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Kenneth Grahame


The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…

The Way of an Eagle

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Ethel M. Dell


Muriel Roscoe has come to India to live with her father, a general. When the fort where they are staying comes under attack, General Roscoe …

The Splendid Outcast

Read by Tony Oliva


George Gibbs


_What else?_—What else had happened? Something to do with the remarkable likeness between himself and Harry? The likeness,—so strong that on…

The Forest Lovers

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Something New

Read by Debra Lynn


P. G. Wodehouse


When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willi…

The Best Man

Read by Gail Mattern


Grace Livingston Hill


Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out…

Der Spiegel des Cyprianus

Read by Hokuspokus


Theodor Storm


Eine traurige Geschichte über böse und gute Stiefmütter und einen magischen Spiegel. (Summary by Hokuspokus)

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