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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio Out of Silence 4: William Cowper Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-4-william-cowper
Audio Out of Silence 3: D.H. Lawrence Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-3-dh-lawrence
Audio Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-2-virginia-woolf
Audio Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-1-william-shakespeare
Audio Literary Allusion in Harry Potter Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Edmund Blunden Margi Blunden https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Impact of the 1914 – 1918 Poets Adrian Barlow https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 'Earth Voices Whispering’: Reading Ireland’s Poetry of WWI: An Introduction Gerald Dawe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio David Jones Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Isaac Rosenberg: ‘Fierce Imaginings’ – the Private and the Poet Jean Liddiard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Ivor Gurney: A Poet born out of War Philip Lancaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Manuscripts Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Edward Thomas: Edwardian War Poet Guy Cuthbertson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Popular Poetry Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio ‘On your lips my life is hung’: Robert Graves and War Charles Mundye https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry vs. History Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Georgians and Others Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Early Poets Alisa Miller https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry of the Empire Simon Featherstone https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Siegfried Sassoon Meg Crane https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Women Poets Jane Potter https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio War Poetry Mark Rawlinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writings Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker
Audio Male memory, female subject: the case of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft Janet Todd https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance Patricia Duncker https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse Sowon Park, Laura Salisbury, Ben Morgan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 1594: Shakespeare's most important year Bart van Es https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Magic of Shakespeare Jonathan Bate https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Modernist Prefaces Dennis Duncan, Sarah Copland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Modernist Marginalia Amanda Golden, Dennis Duncan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and the Victorians Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Two Gentlemen of Verona Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Henry VI, Part 2 Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Merry Wives of Windsor Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio All's Well That Ends Well Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Cymbeline Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Witch Of Edmonton Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Alchemist: Ben Jonson Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Timon of Athens Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Love's Labour's Lost Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julius Caesar Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Romeo and Juliet Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Coriolanus Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 5. Wilde's Plays Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 4. Wilde and Sexuality Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/