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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? Catriona Pennell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Dickens' Railways Stephen Gill https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Hamlet Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio As You Like It Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Kipling, the Elton John of his age? Dominic Davies, Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Postcolonial Women Writers Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poems: Series One, by Emily Dickinson (reading) https://archive.org/details/poems_series1_dickinson_stl_librivox
Audio Oscar Wilde's Women Sophie Duncan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Great Writers Inspire Great Writing Alex Pryce https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling Julian Thompson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer? Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 2: Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Joseph Conrad and Postcoloniality - Part 1: Conrad and Chinua Achebe Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott Dominic Davies, Jason Allen-Paisant https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julian Thompson on Sir Walter Scott Julian Thompson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and Voice Linda Gates https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 Helena Kennedy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 Judith Luna https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 Ankhi Mukherjee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing Cecilia Bennett https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White Erin Nyborg https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Olive Schreiner Dominic Davies https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare Lectures Dr. Ralph W. Schlosser https://archive.org/details/ShakespeareLectures
Audio A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. Sally Bayley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Romance of the Middle Ages Nicholas Perkins https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Dickens's Points of View Jon Mee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 2: Chapters Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discussion. Rebecca Beasley, Ankhi Mukherjee, Peter McDonald, Margaret Kean, Seamus Perry https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Dons, Deaths and Detectives: Oxford in Crime Fiction Colin Bundy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Julian Thompson on Wilkie Collins Julian Thompson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture) Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-life-and-times-of-wilfred-owen
Audio Beggar's Opera - Overture (music) Frederick Austin https://archive.org/details/JohnGayTheBeggarsOpera
Audio Chaucer Daniel Wakelin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and Medieval Romance Helen Cooper https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Anthem for Doomed Youth (readings) https://librivox.org/anthem-for-doomed-youth-by-wilfred-owen/
Audio The Lady’s Dressing Room (reading) https://librivox.org/
Audio Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Leapor Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 7. Reception History Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio John Milton Anna Beer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Lure of the East: the Oriental and Philosophical Tale in Eighteenth-Century England Ros Ballaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio "Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation Michèle Roberts https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why Dickens? Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/