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Sinful Cretans and Sacred Groves

In St Hilda's College Podcasts

Read by Rebecca Armstrong and Landon Newby


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Body and Being Network

Read by Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


Rebecca Leach and Stanely Ulijaszek


University of Oxford Podcasts

The War of the Worlds (version 2)

Read by Rebecca Dittman


H. G. Wells


War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number …

From October to Brest-Litovsk

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Leon Trotsky


This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk tre…

The Adventures of Ulysses

Read by Rebecca Dittman


Charles Lamb


Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…

Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France

In Modern Languages

Read by Helen Swift and Landon Newby


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russe…

Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philos…

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell…

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" detail…

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


'The Philosophy of Logical Atomism' is a series of lectures by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) that touches on numerous topics, including the n…

The Problems of Philosophy (version 2)

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible …

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2)

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Ludwig Wittgenstein


The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - t…

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…

On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thoug…

Philosophical Essays

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind


Bertrand Russell


Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two o…

Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Oscar Wilde


Oscar Wildes Kunstmärchen bieten dem Leser (und Hörer) Zugang zu zauberhaften, filigran gestalteten Welten. Liebe, Leidenschaft, A…

Ferien vom Ich

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


Rezept für eine leicht bekömmliche (Urlaubs-) Lektüre: Man nehme einen Arzt mit originellem Kur-Konzept, einen hiervon begeis…

Das letzte Märchen

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Paul Keller


„Das letzte Märchen“, eine Geschichte, in der ein Journalist in ein unterirdisches Märchenreich eingeladen wird, um dort eine Zeit…

Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude

Read by Rebecca Braunert-Plunkett


Jakob Wassermann


Die Autobiographie "Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude" skizziert die Lebens- und Sinnsuche des Schriftstellers Jakob Wassermanns. Di…