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01 - Jean Bouchon

In The Book of Ghosts

Read by Tim Quinn


Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

To Stand, or Not to Stand

In The Three Clerks

Read by Tim Quinn


Anthony Trollope


The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

Cheating the Gallows

In Grotesques and Fantasies

Read by Tim Quinn


Israel Zangwill


A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, …

Chapter 12

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

Read by Tim Quinn


Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Mrs. Blencarrow's Confession

In The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow

Read by Tim Quinn


Margaret O. Oliphant


The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control…

14 - Count Pateroff

In The Claverings

Read by Tim Quinn


Anthony Trollope


"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author T…

Chapter 15

In The Countess of Rudolstadt

Read by Tim Quinn


George Sand


This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…

A Letter from Ethelred's Mamma

In Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer

Read by Tim Quinn


Francis J. Finn, S.J.


Ethelred Preston is a story for boys written by Fr. Finn, SJ. The hero, Ethelred, while on his way to college, meets Packy Jarloe, a peddler…

The Cyclone

In When the World Shook

Read by Tim Quinn


H. Rider Haggard


A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with…

The Story of Medhans Lea

In Ghosts, Being The Experiences of Flaxman Low

Read by Tim Quinn


Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard


A collection of ghost stories featuring Flaxman Low, the first psychic detective of fiction. The stories were first written for Pearson's Ma…

21 - Book 2, Chapter 10 - A Light-Giving Word

In The Mermaid

Read by Tim Quinn


Lily Dougall


"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid …

Christmas Chemistry Show 2010

In So you want to study Chemistry?

Read by Hugh Cartwright and Malcolm Stewart


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Another case of heart trouble

In Oxford Sparks: adventures in science

Read by Hugh Watkins and Anna Michell


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Media Law after Leveson: Opening Remarks

In Foundation for Law, Justice and Society

Read by Denis Galligan and Hugh Tomlinson


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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