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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio DH Lawrence 5. The Alps Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 3. Christianity Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Birth of Romance in England Laura Ashe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio King Lear Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Lamb by William Blake Bryant O'Hara https://soundcloud.com/bryant-ohara/the-lamb-by-william-blake
Audio Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction Candia McWilliam https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 2. Humour Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Babbling a Dialect of France: Loanwords, French, and Johnson's Dictionary Lynda Mugglestone https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio King John Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio J.M. Coetzee Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Olive Schreiner Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine Faith Binckes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot - A Very Large Brain Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio William Blake David Fallon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 18th Century Labouring Class Poetry Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Beowulf Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and the Stage Tiffany Stern https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Pericles, Prince of Tyre Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Richard III Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Cristian Aliaga: Your Virtues Are Your Faults. Poetry Reading (Spanish and English) Ben Bollig, Cristian Aliaga https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Comedy of Errors Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Joys of Cricket Adam Rounce https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 3. Reception History Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio History of English Pronunciation Simon Horobin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Henry IV part 1 Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Tempest Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 1. Intellect and Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Antony and Cleopatra Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Charlotte Brewer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Richard II Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio English and Gender Deborah Cameron https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Twelfth Night Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Titus Andronicus Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry and Tobacco John Clargo, Laurence Williams, Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The King James Bible: The End of the Road? Chris Patten, Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers Terrence Wright https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan Helen Wilcox https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature Paul Eggert https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Scissored and Pasted: readers and writers redoing and undoing King James Valentine Cunningham https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Making of the King James (Authorised) Version of the Bible 1604-1611 Pauline Croft https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments" Athol Fugard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow Nouran Koriem https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley Hoare Nairne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/