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7th CSS: Inhabiting Infrastructure: How Architectures, Rhythms and Crowds Affect…

In Transport Studies Unit Podcasts

Read by Peter Wood


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

'New Wars' and the Horn of Africa

In Changing Character of War

Read by Peter Woodward


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Primitive

Read by David Wood


David Wood


Some legends are true. It is a myth out of history, spawned by Native American lore and the stories of Spanish Explorers. But what if the le…

Into the Woods

Read by David Wood


David Wood


Set against the backdrop of colonial America, Into the Woods is the story of pioneer and patriot Jonathan Wood. Straining against the bonds …

Nameless

Read by D.C. Wood


D.C. Wood


“Nameless.” So what do you call DEATH? Modern society is plagued by crime and despair. And the solution to the problem…is even worse. A myst…

Queen of Swords: Riding Toward Sunset

Read by D.C. Wood


D.C. Wood


“These hills…in late afternoon, they turn a hundred different shades of gold. When I was a little girl, papa would take me riding here. We u…

Bear Spirit

Read by D.C. Wood


D.C. Wood


Arti Ursella is a troubled, bed-tempered teenager from Congleton, Cheshire. One of millions of UK residents living on the dole, Arti's only …

Queen of Swords: Riding Toward Sunset

Read by D.C. Wood


D.C. Wood


“These hills…in late afternoon, they turn a hundred different shades of gold. When I was a little girl, papa would take me riding here. We u…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

Grim Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…

The King in Yellow (part 1)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edwin Benson


A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Read by Peter Kelleher


Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

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