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Histories of the Self

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

Read by Lynn Hunt, Lyndal Roper and Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Olive Schreiner

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century (Video)

In Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. The Oxford Research Centre in th…

Indian imperial crossings and the Oxford hub

In Indian Traces in Oxford

Read by Elleke Boehmer


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Something New

Read by Debra Lynn


P. G. Wodehouse


When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willi…

The Way We Live Now

Read by Debra Lynn


Anthony Trollope


The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. It was reg…

Mike: A Public School Story

Read by Debra Lynn


P. G. Wodehouse


This novel introduces the characters Mike Jackson and Psmith, who are featured in several of Wodehouse’s later works. It shows how the two c…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Read by Debra Lynn


Thomas Hardy


The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character&…

Not George Washington

Read by Debra Lynn


P. G. Wodehouse


It has been said that behind every successful man is a good woman. This is certainly true in the case of James Orlebar Cloyster. However, so…

Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…

The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …

The Rainbow

Read by Debra Lynn


D. H. Lawrence


The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on t…

They and I

Read by Debra Lynn


Jerome K. Jerome


A man and his three children leave the “Little Mother” at home in the city and set up temporary housekeeping in a country cottage to supervi…

Barnaby Rudge

Read by Debra Lynn


Charles Dickens


A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven…

Frenzied Fiction

Read by Debra Lynn


Stephen Leacock


From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacock’s special brand of humor. He touches o…

Chimes From A Jester’s Bells

Read by Debra Lynn


Robert Jones Burdette


Part I. The Story of Rollo; Mr. Holliday knows all there is to know about raising children, or at least he thinks he does. His attempts to t…

The Eye Of The Storm

Read by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard


Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard


Dante Dre, a 38 year old single gay man, awakens one morning to a terrifying discovery that implicates him in a horrendous crime. But that's…

Serpentine Street

Read by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard


Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard


Boo Boisie is a patient in the Barmy Mental Asylum. Sure, the place is air conditioned and clean and the food is occasionally actually palat…

Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts