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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio The King James Bible: The End of the Road? Chris Patten, Melvyn Bragg, Diarmaid MacCulloch https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers Terrence Wright https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers Terrence Wright https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan Helen Wilcox 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/
Video Scissored and Pasted: readers and writers redoing and undoing King James Valentine Cunningham 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/
Video 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/
Video 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/
Video 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/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley Henry Cockburn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Jordan Saxby https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life' Hoare Nairne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane' Jordan Saxby https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind Christopher Adams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' Christopher Adams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein Christopher Adams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents Hannah Morrell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley Nouran Koriem https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry Henry Cockburn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin Henry Cockburn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman Henry Cockburn https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin Hannah Morrell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Annabell James https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Winter's Tale Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Macbeth Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Measure for Measure Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Henry V Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Othello Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Who Translates and for Whom? Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Can Poetry be Translated? Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Is there ever a Faithful Translation? Lorna Hardwick, Oliver Taplin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Is there a Core to Translation? Oliver Taplin, Lorna Hardwick https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work Robert Powell, Alan Garner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley Alan Garner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley Alan Garner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation Roy Foster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry Geoffrey Hill https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day Judith Priestman https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford, Bodleian Library Masterclass Philip Pullman, Margaret Kean https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Is Tragedy still Alive? Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Does Tragedy Teach? Oliver Taplin, Joshua Billings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/