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Poverty Measurement and the Distribution of Deprivations among the Poor

In Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Read by James Foster


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Invisible Man

Read by Alex Foster


H. G. Wells


The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story…

Poetics

Read by Robert Foster


Aristotle


Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal o…

The Rainbow (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…

Sons and Lovers (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…

The Lost Girl

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."In this most under-valued …

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Read by Tony Foster


Charles Watts Whistler


Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…

The Beasts of Tarzan

Read by James Christopher


Edgar Rice Burroughs


This is the third of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published i…

Quantum Mechanics

Read by James Binney


James Binney


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Shadow of Black Wings

Read by James Calbraith


James Calbraith


It is the Sixteenth Year of Queen Victoria. In the powerful empire of Dracaland, Bran, a young dragon rider, joins his father on a military …

The Zombie Chronicles: Escape

Read by James Melzer


James Melzer


When an asteroid passes by our planet and leaves a trail of death in its wake, a quarter of the population have become the living dead. Twen…

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Read by James Christopher


United States Office Of Strategic Services


Formed during World War II, the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS), was organized for special operations and intelligence gath…

The Scarlet Plague

Read by James Christopher


Jack London


Known mainly for his tales of adventure, this work of science fiction by Jack London is set in a post-apocalyptic future. It's 2072, sixty y…

A Story of the Stone Age

Read by James Christopher


H. G. Wells


This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . .(Summary from the text)

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures

Read by James Grant


James Grant


University of Oxford Podcasts

I Am Adam

Read by James Twerell


James Twerell


This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…

Gulliver of Mars

Read by James Christopher


Sir Edwin Arnold and Edwin Lester Arnold


This escapist novel first published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation follows the exploits of American Navy Lieutenant Gull…

Five Children and It (version 4)

Read by James Pyle


E. Nesbit


When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then, Sand-Fairy) in a…