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Introduction (4) to the Pitt Rivers Museum

In Pitt Rivers Museum

Read by Andrew McLellan and Kate White


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Ghost Girl

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…

The Whispering Man

Read by Kate Follis


Henry Kitchell Webster


New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'l…

City of Endless Night

Read by Kate Follis


Milo Hastings


An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a …

A Far Country

Read by Kate Follis


Winston Churchill


The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values…

Prodigal Daughters

Read by Kate Follis


Joseph Hocking


A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …

The Begum's Fortune

Read by Kate Follis


Jules Verne


A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…

Honey-Bee

Read by Kate Follis


Anatole France


A sweet fairy-tale, Honey-Bee tells the story of two children raised as brother and sister, but who are not. One day they venture out to fin…

In the Clutch of the War-God

Read by Kate Follis


Milo Hastings


In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. In this story, the author warns of the coming of a world war between…

Euthyphro

Read by Andrew Miller


Plato


Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …

Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger


The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Invisible Man (Version 3)

Read by Andrew Gaunce


H. G. Wells


A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of…

Recruit for Andromeda

Read by Andrew Huguelet


Stephen Marlowe


No one comes back from the Nowhere Journey, whatever they say about some “rotation.” When Kit Temple's drafted, he figures he's leaving his …

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Read by Andrew Gaunce


Ralph Adams Cram


A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…

White Trash Land

Read by Andrew Beatty


Andrew Beatty


Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the …

Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…