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Hidden Worlds: Art within Science

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Katalin Hausel, Mirja Koponen, Lizzie Burns, Paul Matthews, Angela Palmer and Henrietta Bowden-Jones


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University of Oxford Podcasts

A Man and His Unicorn

Read by Anthony Matthews


Anthony Matthews


Vern was an ordinary college instructor and looking forward to spring break. But on the last day of classes and dreaming about a gorgeous ga…

The Story of London

Read by Paul Lawley-Jones


Henry B. Wheatley


A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

Gulliver's Travels

Read by Lizzie Driver


Jonathan Swift


Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is b…

Alexander the Great

Read by Lizzie Driver


Jacob Abbott


Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, h…

The Princess and the Goblin

Read by Lizzie Driver


George MacDonald


The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a hous…

The Princess and Curdie

Read by Lizzie Driver


George MacDonald


The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. It's been a year since the Princess Irene and Curd…

The Talisman

Read by Lizzie Driver


Sir Walter Scott


The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the …

The Iliad for Boys and Girls

Read by Lizzie Driver


Alfred John Church


Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a sty…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 2…

The Art of War (version 2)

Read by Paul Sze


Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devote…

Sidelights on Relativity

Read by Paul Adams


Albert Einstein


Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Read by Paul Harvey


L. Frank Baum


The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of the Oz books. It follows the adventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Tip. The Emerald Ci…

The Prince (Version 2)

Read by Paul Adams


Niccolò Machiavelli


The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…

Red Shadows

Read by Paul Siegel


Robert E. Howard


Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard's puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, en…

Heart of the World

Read by Paul Hansen


H. Rider Haggard


H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long los…

History of the Kings of Britain

Read by Paul Mazumdar


Geoffrey Of Monmouth


More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …

The Soul of Prayer

Read by Paul Mazumdar


P. T. Forsyth


"The worst sin is prayerlessness," states P.T. Forsyth at the start of this work on prayer but follows this up with the suggestion…

The Silk Code

Read by Paul Levinson


Paul Levinson


Phil D'Amato, New York City forensic detective, is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on eart…

Star Ship

Read by Paul Harvey


Poul William Anderson


The strangest space-castaways of all! The Terrans left their great interstellar ship unmanned in a tight orbit around Khazak—descended, all …

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