reader:"Kent B. P. Ferguson"

Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide - recently back from a 'seven stretch' - as they take you on a tour…

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)

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James Weldon Johnson

The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …

The Future of the American Negro

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Booker T. Washington

The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by ki…

Mandela at Oxford

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Nelson Mandela

University of Oxford Podcasts

Thirty Years A Slave

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Louis Hughes

Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

Biltmore Oswald

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J. Thorne Smith, Jr.

The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)

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Charles Dickens

A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

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Alice Dunbar Nelson

It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …

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)

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman

"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076

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Various

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…

In Kent with Charles Dickens

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Thomas Frost

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

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Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…

Psmith in the City

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P. G. Wodehouse

Mike’s dream of studying and playing cricket at Cambridge are thwarted as his father runs into financial difficulties. Instead, Mike takes o…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet 1978

Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick  An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yar…

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 Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford

'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour

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Mortimer Menpes

A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…

Bat Wing

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Sax Rohmer

Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The fir…

My Southern Home or, The South and Its People

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William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…

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