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Fantasy Literature
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The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?

Stuart Lee talks on 'The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?'
Fantasy Literature
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C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings

Michael Ward talks on 'C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings'
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan

Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston

Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye.
The Hertford Bookshelf

Emma Smith interviews Louisa Reid

Louisa Reid's Young Adult novels in verse have been widely praised: join Emma Smith for a discussion of the challenges and responsibilities of writing for teens, as well as Louisa's experience as a teacher.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan

Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods).
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Anya Glazer

This week’s guest is children’s picture book author and illustrator Anya Glazer. We talk dinosaurs, sisters, merchandizing and how she riffed on her Modern Languages degree for her first book, Thesaurus has a Secret.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews James Hawes

James Hawes, novelist and micro-historian of The Shortest History of England and The Shortest History of Germany, talks about agents and editors, his role in the worst film ever made, and playing the French horn on the roof of Hertford’s library.
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 2019 21: Latin Palaeography 2 (Irish and beyond)

Anne McLaughlin (Cambridge) speaks at the 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquium on 'Many Books and Certain Books: Irish Manuscripts'.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Middle English

This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, St John's College, Oxford gives the first talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

Teach us how we may pray

AElfric of Eynsham teaches the congregation to recite the Lord’s Prayer in English, 'Thu ure faeder'. MS. Hatton 115, fol. 10r. Composed 990-995, copied in the second half of the 1000s. Read by Andy Orchard.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

Come and dance with me in Ireland

The lyrics of dance songs about love and longing, jotted down without music. MS. Rawl. D. 913, fol. 1r-v. Copied in the early 1300s. Read by Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

First entereth Wisdom

In the play Wisdom, the devil tempts three godly people into sins – lust and other ‘French fashions’. MS. Digby 133, fol. 158r. Copied in the late 1400s. Read by Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

Listeneth now and beth not deaf!

A travelling preacher recites a poem, warning about the horrors of death. MS. Add. E. 6 (R). Copied in the late 1200s. Read by Daniel Wakelin.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

English Grammar Day 2016

English Grammar Day, with talks by Prof Deborah Cameron, Prof Simon Horobin, Prof Charlotte Brewer and others
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

How English Became English

A Book at Lunchtime discussion looking at the English language and how it is developing with Simon Horobin, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Martin Wynne, Philip Durkin and Susie Dent.
Poetry with Simon Armitage

The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

Simon Armitage, professor of poetry, University of Oxford delivers his inaugural lecture.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Alchemist: Ben Jonson

Written in the context of plague in London, The Alchemist’s plot and language are deeply concerned with speed and speculation.
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

My lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the play, and whether we should think about James Bond in its final minutes.
Approaching Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play. This podcast is suitable for school and college students.

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