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Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Blindfolded

Read by Roger Melin


Earle Ashley Walcott


Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. D…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Welsh And Their Literature

Read by Eric Metzler


George Borrow


Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginni…

Michael Davies An Offshore Wind


SANWAL


Saturday-Night Theatre: An Offshore Wind Sat 17th Jul 1982, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM Mano, a Greek working for an oil com…

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919

Read by David Wales


Various


Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

Fame and Fortune Weekly No. 7: Winning His Way

Read by Keith Salis


Frank Tousey


The recent death of Frank Morris' father, Owner and Editor of the Green River Argus, has left his 18 year-old son, Frank to take up the chal…

The Gamekeeper at Home

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Richard Jefferies


Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet


SANWAL


A Study in Scarlet  By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick   With: Carleton Hobb…

Michael Davies Who, Me


SANWAL


Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 15th Apr 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Who, Me? by Michael Davies Maggy finds another woman's…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Astrophysics: An Introduction

Read by Roger Davies


Roger Davies


University of Oxford Podcasts

Just William

Read by David Wales


Richmal Crompton


William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasin…

A Changed Man And Other Tales

Read by David Wales


Thomas Hardy


Eleven short stories. - Summary by david wales

An Eye For An Eye

Read by Tom Weiss


William Le Queux


Frank Urwin and Richard Cleugh are two bachelor journalists sharing a flat in London. One evening while chatting, Urwin receives a telegram …

Foliage: Various Poems

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William Henry Davies


W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom and United States, becoming one …

Companionable Books

Read by MaryAnn


Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Pipefuls

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Christopher Morley


A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…

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