The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

Professor Joshua Silver talks about his invention of the self adjusting spectacles.

Dr Eric Sidebottom, Retired University Lecturer in Experimental Pathology, gives a lunch time talk to accompany the exhibition 'Great Medical Discoveries: 800 Years of Oxford Innovation'.

Conrad Keating, Writer-In-Residence, The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, gives a lecture about the remarkable contribution Oxford has made to the art and science of medicine. For more than 800 years Oxford has made a remarkable contribution to the art and science of medicine. Scientists, philosophers and physicians have made the city an outstanding scientific centre from the med...

Katherine Larson (University of Toronto) gives a talk on music in Early Modern England accompanied by Lutenist Matthew Faulk Katherine Larson (University of Toronto) describes the ephemeral soundscapes of early modern England. She considers how literary critics and musicologists can recapture the physical and social experience of singing and hearing songs, through traces in musical songbooks, lite...

Dr Carolyne Larrington, Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in English, St John's College, gives a talk to accompany the exhibition 'Magical Books: From The Middle Ages to Middle Earth'.

A lecture given by Dr John Sellars, lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, about Stoicism to accompany the display at the Bodleian Library.

Anna Caughey gives a lecture at the Bodleian Library looking at the varying spectrum of literature about King Arthur written for children.

Lecturer and conductor Dr Paul Coones delivers a lecture celebrating the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. The talk is preceded by Siegried's Horn Call played by Sophie Dillon and includes the rarely performed Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosel's Geburtstag.

Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public.

Dr Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, introduces and chairs the seminar to commemorate the centenary of Jim Callaghan's birth.

Member of Parliament for Oxford East, Andrew Smith gives his view of Jim Callaghan.

Jim Callaghan's son Michael gives a talk about his memories of his fathers political life.

The daughter of Jim Callaghan, Margaret Jay, gives the closing speech for the event.

British politician Lord Owen talks about his experiences of Jim Callaghan.

Historian and author Lord Morgan speaks about the Jim Callaghan papers deposited in the Bodleian.

British politician, businessman and author Baron Donoughue of Ashton speaks about his view as special advisor to Jim Callaghan.

Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.

Held on Marconi day, 20th April, Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano) gives a talk about Marconi, co-inventor of the radio.

Art critic Brian Sewell talks to Sir Roy Strong as part of the Times Literary Festival 2013. Art historian, writer and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed half a century as one of the leading figures in Britain's art world. The former director of the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum talks to art critic Brian Sewell about his early years before he rose to fame, which he d...

Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.

Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature.

Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family life but also her writing style and techniques.

Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel 'The Watsons' and what we can learn about her from these.

Michael Hughes (Bodleian Libraries) gives a talk about the final wireless communications from the Titanic.

Dr Poole presents the Bodleian and the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution in terms of its contributions to Oxford and to British science in the period. He discusses the Bodleian as its repository of other Oxford institutional libraries central to this movement, namely the Savile and Ashmole collections.