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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio Why should we study Old English Literature? Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader Michael Whitworth https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Translations as Literature Matthew Reynolds https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 3. Art and Morality Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Smallpox in poetry Elizabeth Atkinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The poetry of war Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Ladle: a comic poem Louise Curran https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Music in miscellanies Giles Lewin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Pastoral Poetry Kathleen Lawton-Trask https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Politics in poetry John McTague https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The life of epigrams Dianne Mitchell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Petticoats and fashion Elizabeth Atkinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Information about Great Writers Inspire Sarah Wilkin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre? Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study medieval romance? Sarah Wilkin, Nicholas Perkins https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research. Giles Bergel. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion. Emma Smith, José Pérez Díez, Peter Kirwan, Cassandra Ash https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 06.Writing for New Audiences. Max Kinnings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study the humanities? Helen Small, Ilana Lassman https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Johnson? Sarah Wilkin, Ros Ballaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Chaucer? Ilana Lassman, Laura Ashe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Shakespeare? Ilana Lassman, Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Dickens? Ilana Lassman, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 03 Lire Sade avec Rousseau Mladen Kozul https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 08 Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le Boudoir John Phillips https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 07 Sade, homme de lettres Stéphanie Genand https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" Gregory Doran, Sam Leith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' Gregory Doran https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Oriental Tales and Their Influence Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth Jean Moorcroft Wilson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio From Mametz Wood to The General Jean Moorcroft Wilson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Last Phase Max Egremont https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio "Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture Stella Tillyard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The real Jane Austen: A life in small things Paula Byrne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation Dr Paul Miller https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Popular fiction in World War One Jane Potter https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Wartime Art and Grief Claudia Siebrecht https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio W.B. Yeats and the Ghost Club Tara Stubbs https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shedding light on the dark ages Janina Ramirez https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Merchant of Venice Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Taming of the Shrew Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio A Midsummer Night's Dream Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Language and History Simon Horobin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Much Ado About Nothing Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Better Part of Valour Edward Madigan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/