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University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman

H. G. Wells

War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman

Charles Lamb

Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Selections from Josephus

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker

Flavius Josephus

Jewish historian, military leader and Roman citizen, Titus Flavius Josephus, provides the most thorough history of the 1st century Roman Emp…

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman

Leon Trotsky

This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The Grand Cañon of the Colorado

Read by Rebecca Eden Walker

John Muir

Nothing is ordinary in the world of John Muir, naturalist and author known as the Father of the US National Parks. In this short work, writ…

Little Brother and Little Sister

In Household Tales (Version 2)

Read by rebeccayoder05

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

In In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Read by Rebecca

Olive Beaupre Miller, Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookh…

Das tapfere Schneiderlein

In Märchen 5

Read by Rebecca

grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

Fuzzy and the Weasel

In Fuzzy Wuzz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras

Read by RebeccaTruestone

Allen Chaffee

"A LITTLE brown bear, no bigger than a house cat, that the Ranger found near drowning, is brought up with the orphaned fawn his childre…

Cash and Credit

In The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Henry Festing Jones and Samuel Butler

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …

Jack and Jill

In Puss in Boots, Jr., in New Mother Goose Land

Read by Rebecca Lindsey

David Cory

Children’s story author, David Cory, who gave us the series of Little Jack Rabbit, Billy Bunny, Little Journeys to Happy Land, and the Littl…

03 - Life And Ways In An-cient Ja-pan

In History of Japan In Words of One Syllable

Read by RebeccaTruestone

Helen Ainslie Smith

A simplified history of the country of Japan, from ancient Prehistoric times to the late 19th century, written chiefly in words of one sylla…

Fables LXI and LXII

In Cutlass and Cudgel

Read by Rebecca Dittman

George Manville Fenn

Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipma…

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In Household Tales (Version 2)

In In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Olive Beaupre Miller, Walter de la Mare and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller

In Märchen 5

grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

In Fuzzy Wuzz - A Little Brown Bear of the Sierras

In The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Henry Festing Jones and Samuel Butler

In Puss in Boots, Jr., in New Mother Goose Land

In History of Japan In Words of One Syllable

In The Fables of La Fontaine

In Cutlass and Cudgel