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Wolfson College Podcasts

"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation

The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. The lecture is introduced by Professor Hermione Lee.
Great Writers Inspire

Why Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made his works so popular.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 5. The Alps

Catherine Brown gives the fifth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large

Catherine Brown gives the fourth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 3. Christianity

Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Birth of Romance in England

Dr Laura Ashe delivers a lecture on the birth of romance in England in the 12th Century, part of a series of lectures to accompany The Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition at the Bodleian Library.
Approaching Shakespeare

King Lear

Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.
Wolfson College Podcasts

Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction

The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction and biography in the third lecture in the Weinrebe series from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 2. Humour

Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series.
D.H. Lawrence

DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness

Catherine Brown gives her first lecture in the D.H. Lawrence series.
Samuel Johnson

Babbling a Dialect of France: Loanwords, French, and Johnson's Dictionary

Professor Mugglestone discusses the concept of loanwords in relationship to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language.
Approaching Shakespeare

King John

At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline.
Wolfson College Podcasts

What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography

Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation with Hermione Lee at Wolfson College's Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).
Great Writers Inspire

J.M. Coetzee

Professor Peter McDonald gives a talk on the work of South African Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee.
Great Writers Inspire

Olive Schreiner

Professor Elleke Boehmer gives a talk on Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), the South African novelist, pioneering feminist, and anti-imperialist polemicist.
Great Writers Inspire

Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine

Dr Faith Binckes explains why modernist short story writer and critic Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is a great writer, highlighting her involvement with the 1911-1913 periodical Rhythm, edited by her second husband John Middleton Murry.
Great Writers Inspire

George Eliot - A Very Large Brain

Dr Catherine Brown gives a talk on George Eliot and her influences.
Great Writers Inspire

William Blake

Dr David Fallon introduces the poetry, painting, and engraving of William Blake, focusing on the imaginative and visionary aspects of Blake's work and his desire to break the publics 'mind-forg'd manacles'.
Great Writers Inspire

18th Century Labouring Class Poetry

Dr Jennifer Batt gives a talk on Stephen Duck, one of the 18th Century labouring-class poets.
Great Writers Inspire

Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing

Dr Abigail Williams gives a talk on Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing.

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