The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long) 30.09.2009 13:14 ↓

Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy.

Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows 11.09.2008 2:29 ↓

A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willows letters.

Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening' 30.04.2008 2:11 ↓

Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'.

The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer' 30.04.2008 8:47 ↓

Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'.

A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian) 30.04.2008 9:36 ↓

An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian).

Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic 30.04.2008 5:59 ↓

Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.

Reading from his poem 'Flood' 30.04.2008 8:59 ↓

Reading from his poem 'Flood'.

Reading from his poem 'Muck' 30.04.2008 4:46 ↓

Reading from his poem 'Muck'.

Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions 29.04.2008 1:57 ↓

Milton's ambitions as a poet.

Paradise Lost Book Four 29.04.2008 2:17 ↓

Satan first spies Adam and Eve.

Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech 29.04.2008 2:43 ↓

Satan's first speech.

Samson Agonistes 29.04.2008 2:41 ↓

The Biblical hero Samson bewailing his political and personal state.

Aeropagitica 29.04.2008 3:16 ↓

Milton's defense of the freedom of the press written to Parliament.

Magna Carta at Oxford 29.04.2008 21:03 ↓

Richard Sharpe explains that the seventeen surviving manuscripts on the Magna Carta are engrossments, not copies: official documents from Royal Chancery bearing the ruler's seal. Prof. Sharpe also reveals why so many examples of the Magna Carta survive.

The origins of 'Archipelago' 29.04.2008 7:16 ↓

The origins of 'Archipelago'.

Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening 29.04.2008 2:00 ↓

Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening.

Seamus Heaney reading two contributions 29.04.2008 11:58 ↓

Two contributions to the first issue of "Archipelago".

Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk 29.04.2008 13:13 ↓

Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk

The Creation as told in the Qu'ran 29.04.2008 8:49 ↓

World Book Day 2008 Talk.

The Creation as told in the Bible 29.04.2008 7:20 ↓

World Book Day 2008 Talk.

The Creation as told in the Torah 29.04.2008 9:31 ↓

World Book Day 2008 Talk.