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The Limits of Science

In The Romanes Lecture

Read by Martin Rees


Various


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 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 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 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 …

The Mabinogion, Volume 1

Read by Martin Geeson


Anonymoustranslated Bycharlotte Guest


Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…

The Secret World Chronicle, Book Five: Waiting On

Read by Cody Martin


Cody Martin


The heroes of Echo and the villains of the Thule Society continue the battle in the fifth book of The Secret World Chronicle, Waiting On. In…

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Read by Martin Geeson


Thomas De Quincey


“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!”Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memori…

The Diary of a Superfluous Man

Read by Martin Geeson


Ivan Turgenev


Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet no…

First Love

Read by Martin Geeson


Ivan Turgenev


The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …

Queen Lucia

Read by Martin Clifton


E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was th…

A Problem in Modern Ethics

Read by Martin Geeson


John Addington Symonds


“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

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