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Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, …

In Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

Read by Lorraine Daston, Simon Werrett, Rhodri Lewis, Sachiko Kusukawa, Martin Mulsow and Laurence Brockliss


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)

Read by Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis


Bryan Ward-Perkins and Oliver Lewis


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Wolf of Man

Read by Shawn Lewis


Shawn Lewis


Man is the wolf of man -- Roman adage After being bitten by a werewolf and killing his best friend, college student Caden Lawson flees--des…

Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand

Read by Lewis Fletcher


Charlotte Evans


One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Ot…

Frostiana: or a history of the River Thames in a frozen state

Read by Lewis Fletcher


George Davis


The frost fair of 1814 began on 1 February, and lasted four days. A printer named George Davis published a 124-page book, "Frostiana; o…

Louwes Lectures

Read by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes


Laurence Boisson de Chazournes


University of Oxford Podcasts

La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered

Read by Martin Kemp, Kathryn Barush and Maya Corry


Martin Kemp, Kathryn Barush and Maya Corry


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Read by Martin Clifton


G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet a…

El Libro de la Vida

Read by Marian Martin


St. Teresa of Avila


El Libro de la Vida se redactó en periodos sucesivos y con finalidades distintas, aunque el periodo de redacción definitivo su…

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Read by Martin Clifton


G. K. Chesterton


This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a s…

The Idiot (Part 01 and 02)

Read by Martin Geeson


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…

The Soul of Man

Read by Martin Geeson


Oscar Wilde


“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …

Relatos y Cuentos 001

Read by Marian Martin


Various


Recopilación de relatos y y cuentos de temas variados: humor, fantasía, y temas sociales, entre otros. (Resumen: Marian Martin…

The Greek View of Life

Read by Martin Geeson


Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson


“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Phaedrus

Read by Martin Geeson


Plato


“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…

Confessions, volumes 1 and 2

Read by Martin Geeson


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

The Diary of a Nobody

Read by Martin Clifton


George Grossmith


The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acqu…

Crome Yellow

Read by Martin Clifton


Aldous Huxley


Crome Yellow, published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story…

The Witness

Read by Scarlett Martin


Grace Livingston Hill


Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …