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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Video Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Making Oscar Wilde Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Hermione Lee, Charles Foster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Virginia Woolf on Sickert's Ennui Hermione Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Oscar Wilde's Love Beyond the Grave Michèle Mendelssohn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Shakespeare, Mind and World Tom MacFaul https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Shakespeare's Animals Tom MacFaul https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Making Oscar Wilde Michèle Mendelssohn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Venus and Adonis Katherine Duncan-Jones https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Why Read Frankenstein in 2018? Nick Groom https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Vision Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Weeping Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Disgust Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Wonder Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Edward Lear's Feelings: Introduction Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research. Giles Bergel https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion. Emma Smith, José Pérez Díez, Peter Kirwan, Cassandra Ash https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 06.Writing for New Audiences. Max Kinnings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" Gregory Doran, Sam Leith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' Gregory Doran https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation Dr Paul Miller https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Popular fiction in World War One Jane Potter https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Wartime Art and Grief Claudia Siebrecht https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Shedding light on the dark ages Janina Ramirez https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Conflict Culture Matthew Leonard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? Catriona Pennell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video ‘This ain’t the shop for justice’: Crime in Dickens’s London (lecture) Tony Williams https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/this-aint-the-shop-for-justice-cr…
Video London Theatre: Past Glories, Today’s Success and Tomorrow’s Opportunities (lecture) Julian Bird https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-theatre-past-glories-today…
Video London 1616: a snapshot of London early in James 1's reign (lecture) Ann Saunders https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-1616-a-snapshot-of-london-…
Video Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot cont. (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-11
Video Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-10
Video Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore cont. (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-18
Video Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-17
Video Modern Poetry - Imagism (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-8
Video The language of Shakespeare Kate O'Connor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Understanding Shakespeare Nick Lyons https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Two Gentlemen of Verona: The view from the Director Kate O'Connor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: For you am I this patient log-man Dylan Townley, Archie Cornish https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Our revels now are ended Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Conveying Shakespeare's meaning Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Prospero Dylan Townley, Archie Cornish https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Tempest: Direction and interpretation Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Teaching Shakespeare in Schools Joyti Chandegra https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Victorians: Life and Death (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-life-and-death
Video The Victorians: Religion and Science (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-religion-and-scien…
Video The Victorians: Time and Space (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-time-and-space